New in PJ Media:
Nowhere did the COVID hysteria blight the land as remorselessly as it did in Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan, and now that the Left’s lockdown narrative has thoroughly unraveled, the embattled governor will need a new fake FBI kidnapping plot to divert attention from how she drove her once-thriving state into a ditch and revealed a disturbing taste for authoritarianism. Now, Whitmer is backpedaling furiously, even admitting on CNN Sunday night that many of her COVID measures “in retrospect, don’t make a lot of sense.” Uh, yeah. We could have told you that several years ago, Governor, but you would have dismissed us as purveyors of “disinformation.”
Even in the midst of making this concession, however, Whitmer tried to cover her tracks and justify her COVID measures. Michigan Capitol Confidential ( “Michigan’s Watchdog,” a publication of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy) noted Tuesday that during her conversation with Chris Wallace, Whitmer “misrepresented her COVID-19 record and used a false talking point to question Florida’s COVID data.” Wallace asked her what she would do differently if the COVID insanity began today. He pressed the governor — who forced people to remain in their homes, forcibly closed businesses and schools, and even prohibited people from buying seeds for their gardens and toys for their children — for specifics on how she might handle the same situation now.
That was when Whitmer actually displayed, for just a moment, a reaction one almost never sees from Leftist politicians, even when confronted with the bitter fruit of their actions: regret. It was, of course, tempered with defiance and self-justification, but nonetheless, Whitmer showed a modicum of regret when she said:
There were moments where we s–, you know, had to make some decisions that, in retrospects [sic], don’t make a lot of sense, right? Um, if you went into the hardware store, you could go in the hardware store, but we s–, we didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. People said, “Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.” It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway. But, um, that being said, you know, some of those policies I look back and think, you know, that, w– maybe was a little, was a little more than we needed to do.”
Actually, it wasn’t February in Michigan at all. Whitmer imposed a lockdown in mid-March 2020 and didn’t outlaw the buying of seeds until April. Michigan Capitol Confidential also notes that her statements were illogical anyway: “If people aren’t planting, why would they be congregating at the seed section?” Indeed.
Whitmer also played fast and loose with the facts when Wallace “asked why Florida, whose lockdowns were much shorter than Michigan’s, had fewer deaths per capita: 39.6 per 100,000 versus 97.3 per 100,000 in Michigan between June 2020 and 2021.” Whitmer responded in characteristic Leftist fashion, by offering her own facts: she “answered by questioning the data, even though the numbers came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, Michiganians did vote for her over Dixon, so I guess they have the government they deserve!
Walter Sieruk says
Some brave scientists have come right out and contradicted Anthony Fauci by explaining that the mask advisory mandates for the public heath are at its very best a nothing but a placebo measure.
For a typical mask that people wear is completely useless as a form that protection from the coronavirus because that virus so very small , much smaller than the fibers that make up the cloth of that mask that COVID -19 can easily pass through that mask and enter the person wearing it.
To illustrate this is that wearing a mask to stop the coronavirus is like trying to stop a BB shot out of a BB gun with a tennis net.
David M says
Fauci contradicted himself on many occasions. There are multiple examples of Fauci saying masks don’t work, then shortly after telling people to wear one, or even multiple masks. You only have to look at China to see masks don’t stop covid 19. Everyone you see in China wears a mask, yet it raced through China & most people still caught it.
Walter Sieruk says
All this “Sudden death” might connected with that “This vaccine that was supposed to protect people from the coronavirus is a is a tragic example of what is known as ‘The law of unintended consequences.’ “ Such people do have a good valid point.
Furthermore, it was revealed in THE EPOCH TIMES, 10/26/22 “While there’s no sound scientific support for the effectiveness of face mask mandates in the community…state governments invested in the availability of free masks for all citizens. Two published randomized controlled trials of face mask during COVID -19 showed minimal or no impact, while meta- analyses of previous studies showed no significant efficacy.”
Walter Sieruk says
On day during the month of November 2020 when at the local drug store I asked the pharmacist
“Is the mask wearing really an effective protection ,at all, against the coronavirus ?”
In response to that question indignantly replied that the mask is very effective and he sets an example of for mask , by always wearing a mask then he’s not in him home. “
Later during the month of January 2021 he became infected the COVID-19 and died within the very same week that he discovered that he had the coronaviruses.
In the year, 2022, a man I have known for over fifty years had taken all the COVID -19 vaccinations and always wore a mask outside on his home, even while driving , Nevertheless , became infected with that horrible China virus , Yet unlike that pharmacist, he survived it .
Walter Sieruk says
As for the best way to handle the terrible problem of the coronavirus.
Be it by gaining natural hard immunity or by the COVID -19 vaccine.
Well one ancient wise man, Aristotle, had written “If one way be better than another, we may be sure that it’s nature’s way.”
Furthermore. A senior scholar of the Brownstone Institute, David Bell and is a public health physician based in the US wrote “It’s no biological surprise that immunity gained from whole-virus respiratory tract infections reduces the severity more effectively than injection with spike- protein or it’s mRNA precursors.” [1]
Furthermore, two appropriate terms for the coronavirus would be the “China virus” or the “Wuhan virus.”
somehistory says
Her “regret” is tempered with a “maybe” we…sharing the blame…overreacted,, etc.
and the use of the word “right” after a statement is meant to elicit agreement with what she said, so the blame…again…is shared.
People were made to stay home. Grocery stores in many places were limiting the number of shoppers at any given time and stocks were in short supply.
But this ghoul didn’t want people growing any food in their back yards. It had nothing to do with a crowd in the hardware store.
Famine is a way to get a populace under tyranny control.
David M says
Exactly. Covid 19 & the response to it was only ever a control exercise to train us to submit to the coming restrictions we are going to be living under.