How are @henrymcmaster@GovRonDeSantis & @GregAbbott_TX going to have their lawyers stand up in Court and say that they're doing their number one job, protecting the safety and health of the People, and argue against mask mandates that protect the safety & health of the People?
All children under 12 are unvaccinated. All children with immunity issues are unvaccinated. Teachers and school staff with health issues are unvaccinated. Parents and live in grandparents or others with health issues are unvaccinated.
No parent in their right mind would send their child into a human petri dish without protection. No child is going to be unaffected by trying to protect the People they love who are unvaccinated.
What these 3 Governors are doing amounts to psychological torture of parents and children. It's also attempted murder or manslaughter of those who have managed to keep themselves & their children alive despite all of the roadblocks these Governors have thrown up against them.
To claim that mask mandates are a govt intrusion instead of the life saving tools that they are, is beyond stupidity. If they win on this in Court they will open themselves up to fights on health & safety measures that have been on the books for years.
Seatbelts
Childhood vaccine requirements
Drinking & Driving, driving impaired
Smoking
Drug use/possession
Those are the obvious ones. How about laws that regulate hazardous activities such as speed limits?
There are innumerable laws that came into existence because people were being harmed from the lack of regulation. Republicans want to go backwards, calling regulations infringements on "freedom".
What they aren't considering are the detrimental affects on other People that were so devastating that regulation was needed. They are taking away the freedom of the majority so they don't "infringe" on the freedom of the minority.
The application of the "greater good" seems to be outside of their comprehension wheelhouse.
The end result of their deregulation efforts would be catastrophic.
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55 days on a ventilator. Lung transplant. All paid for with the tax dollars of the Tennessee People.
Did David Byrd leave the hospital vowing to save the Tennessee People from having to endure his fate? No. What David Byrd did is despicable, heinous.
#DavidByrd showed up in the State's Legislative Chambers to sign his name on a letter Tennessee Republicans addressed to the Governor. A letter demanding that mask mandates be prohibited in schools. That businesses be prohibited from asking for your vaxx card.
That's how easy it is to take information and provide no context to the way you present it to People who are looking for confirmation for their fears, biases, racisms, bigotries.
In reality, she sits in her California McMansion spreading misinformation from the CDC's adverse reaction self reporting site that was set up to provide the CDC data on physical reactions to covid vaccines,
Biden doesn't set the price of crude, and that's the majority factor, about 70%, of the cost per gallon of gas at the pump. The only part of gas prices controlled by govt is taxes. Biden said he's not in favor of raising the gas tax from the current rate of 18.4 cents.
That's what it's been since 1993. But the GOP & some Dems in Congress are in favor of a hike, not only to raise revenue needed due to the GOP giving the rich a free ride, but also because the tax isn't generating enough revenue to do what it's intended to do.
"No one I know is vaccinated."
As if that's a badge of honor, or a show of strength, rather than being the dumbest thing you could actually be even before deciding to go party shoulder to shoulder with 700,000 bikers.
We will all be seeing the results of their stupidity when they return home with their death virus and the hospitals start filling up.
Send those bills to @govkristinoem.
There are refrigerated trailer morgues outside of hospitals. They're asking Feds for ventilators, but @GovRonDeSantis knows nothing about either.
His policies are killing the People of Florida, including children, and he thinks President Biden gives a damn about his threats. No one gives a damn about your threats #DeathSantis.
Unless you impose mask mandates, Texas isn't safe for anyone to enter.
Our healthcare providers have been saving the lives of covid patients for over a year. They've lost more than they care to remember. They've lost colleagues too.
But here you are, arrogantly asking that they continue to put their lives at risk & on hold to care for those that you intentionally sickened.