re: #347 Targetpractice

It is a cynical play, but it’s part of an overall scheme to go into next year insisting that Dems have “failed” to deal with the pandemic, in the hope of playing upon exhaustion and cynicism to sell “common sense” ideas like doing away with masks and protecting the “right” to be unvaccinated.

They’ve already done those things where they have power.

We never had a statewide mask mandate here, and the governor prohibited any municipality which did not have a public health board from imposing mask mandates (he lost in court to the Omaha/Douglas County Health Board). He prohibited any government building from imposing mask mandates, social distancing, or limited hours (including schools).

Other Republican-run states have been far worse than us (cough Wyoming, South Dakota).

All their cynical ploy is doing is enraging the overwhelming portion of the populace who are not conservative religious cultists to become angry with them (and we outnumber them).