Democrats retreat on masking mania
Democrats, facing a bloodbath in the November midterm elections, have turned to focus groups and polls to see what the best pandemic policy is. If you're wondering what they saw, just look at what Democratic governors suddenly started doing about their states' mask mandates.
When we first saw New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Delaware Gov. John Carney announce they were dropping their mandates both inside and outside of schools, we marveled at what seemed like extraordinary, if very belated, courage. After all, their fellow Democratic partisans had been demonizing Republican governors for doing exactly the same thing, even calling them murderers. But subsequently, many more Democrats abruptly, and without any visible explanation, similarly changed course on pandemic restrictions.
They were all clearly singing from the same hymnal. It turns out that Carney, Murphy, and all the others are not so brave after all — they are just scared of what their own polling is telling them: that people overwhelmingly want to return to normal and move past the pandemic — that they are far more annoyed by the restrictions than they are scared of the virus. As far as they are concerned, it's over. Democratic politicians are just the last ones to figure it out.
In most Republican states, people stopped wearing masks last spring, when vaccines became widely available. It took a full year for Democrats to realize they could all be thrown out of office by voters angrily demanding their lives back after two years of pandemic restrictions that were psychologically traumatic, economically damaging, and accomplished nothing anyway. A new study out last week shows that the lockdown procedures adopted near the beginning of the pandemic served no purpose and may have even been counterproductive. As for the masking of children in schools, there was never any scientific basis for it in the first place. Children are not at a serious risk to catch or spread the novel coronavirus. Mask mandates should have been abandoned before the current school year began in fall 2021, but Democrats insisted and angrily attacked everyone who disagreed.
...
The kids cheered when they heard the mask mandate was over. Kids in states like Texas and Florida have been mask-free for months without any outbreaks of the virus. It is pretty clear that many were fed up with the Democrat control freaks. Maybe Biden will start seeing the same polling.
Comments
Post a Comment