The 'Liberate Trio', Infection Spikes and Stopping the Count

This April, when all of America had caught up to the early shelter-in-place cities and implemented their own "lockdown" rules to fend off the new coronavirus, our president tweeted a trio of "LIBERATE" commands to three states, then stopped. Two of those states' governors have since been talked about as kidnapping targets before their would-be abductors were foiled. (SNL had a really funny sketch about this two nights ago that I cannot find now.)

Moreover, mask mandates have become not only partisan, but recently so. Republican state legislators in Wisconsin on Oct 5 went to court to stop their Governor from issuing tiered lockdown measures to flatten their Fall curve of novel coronavirus infections. Mississippi's governor ended that state's mask mandate on Sept. 30 and infections have risen.

Political operatives, oddly, were mocking contact tracing and calling it "communist" on cable news this August and September.

It all appears to be some sort of magical thinking on behalf of one political party. *The virus makes us feel bad so let's pretend. Don't contain it, dominate it.*

Anyhow, we just got a new Supreme Court justice, and the days on which ballots can be counted -- none counted before election day in some states, none counted after election day if some justices have anything to say about that -- is also a chatter subject of late.

Can you say, "aye ya ya"?







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