The strangest part of the events of the past week were not the riots and protests but the abrupt shift of the MSM and the Left concerning the coronavirus. We have been told for months that we must, by law, stay home to stay safe…or else. Governor Whitmer, by executive fiat, ordered all churches, businesses, and gatherings illegal putting the state on effective house arrest. All who disobeyed were unscientific misanthropes who were culpable in killing granny and probably racist to boot.
If you didn’t get the memo that’s all changed. Mass gatherings are completely legitimate and necessary if — and here’s the important part — they’re being done for the right reasons.
The CDC just came out with the infection mortality rate for the virus. It’s 0.26%. The seasonal flu is 0.12%. Not exactly ten times more deadly as Fauci claimed back on March 11th, scaring the American people into shredding the Constitution. But who cares, that’s all down the memory hole, we’re moving on.
We now know that roughly 42 percent of deaths around the country were in nursing homes. In Michigan, Whitmer ordered nursing homes to take in not only the elderly who tested positive but people of all ages; she used active nursing homes as quarantine facilities! But she won’t release the mortality data, probably because she has better things to do like violate her own order by marching shoulder to shoulder with protesters.
The hypocrisy is glaring and the consequences infuriating. What the hell is going on?
Printed in the Leelanau Enterprise June 18th, 2020