Mandating no mandates
Georgia’s damn fool governor Brian Kemp has banned mask mandates.
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order Wednesday night, which outright banned cities and counties in the state from issuing mask orders to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Because freedom! Freedom freedom freedom. Our ancestors came here to get away from mandates to help slow the spread of plague and we must honor that proud tradition.
The move, despite neighboring states like Alabama requiring masks in public, voided mask mandates in 15 local jurisdictions in the Peach State where they had been implemented.
Peaches won’t do you much good once you get the covid.
While outlawing mask mandates, Kemp’s executive order “strongly” encourages all residents and visitors in Georgia to “wear face coverings as practicable while outside their homes or place of residence, except when eating, drinking or exercising outdoors.”
Also Kemp “strongly” encourages drivers not to run over pedestrians but he’s not going to mandate it. Freedom freedom freedom.
Kemp’s order comes after Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottom issued an executive order requiring masks or face coverings in the city on July 8.
I don’t suppose the Mayor is at all not white is she?
Georgia has had more than 127,838 diagnosed cases of coronavirus, with at least 3,091 deaths.
Well…ok yes but…um…freedom freedom freedom?
Our governor (Nebraska) issued an order a couple of weeks ago allowing cities and counties to mandate face masks in the government buildings…but said they would lose state funding if they did so.
There must be a competition between Southern governors for who can cause the highest infection rates per 100000 in their state.
Yesterday, South Carolina had a slightly higher number than Georgia, so this executive order to increase virus transmission comes out in Georgia.
Your move, Henry McMaster.
JESUS FUCK! This is the same idiot who only clued into the concept of asymptomatic spread WEEKS into the outbreak. Why not just ban fire departments, traffic lights and handrails on stairs?
“I don’t suppose the Mayor is at all not white is she?” Or male, or Republican, obviously.
These people are accurately distilled into a single cartoonishly silly sitcom character: Ron Swanson. In particular, the clip starting at 1:55. Except unlike heart attacks, covid is contagious and so one person’s irresponsibility will kill further people.
Kemp has now sued Atlanta Mayor Bottoms and the city council over mask mandates. Most of the retailers here require them, including grocery stores, and virtually all medical related (including veterinary) facilities require them. There is nothing he can do about private businesses, so I don’t know what he hopes to accomplish. This might be a political mistake, but we have no problem electing stupid assholes in this country, so who knows.
Seriously???
So next let’s sue cruise lines for having safety drills, let’s sue car manufacturers for including seat belts, let’s sue car manufacturers for including brakes – there must be NO SAFETY of any kind anywhere.
At least when Dick Cheney suggested we could build nuclear plants cheap and fast by removing the safety regulations, he never actually made it happen.
Kemp, so far, has unsurprisingly not sued the mayors of either Savannah or Athens GA, who have similar mandates. Both of them happen to be white males. I hope he burns his political career to the ground.
Oh is that right, how interesting.
After Kemp’s big photo op with Donnie Dipshit at the CDC back in March, then touting the CDC guidelines in April, he’s completely reversed his approach, following the White House lead. Probably has something to do with Donnie’s endorsement of him in 2018, and his narrow and highly questionable win against Stacy Abrams, who (coincidentally?) is also neither white nor male.
I’m not going to say Kemp is a racist or a misogynist, but if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck? What I will say is that he’s a stupid asshole like Donnie Dipshit, of that I have no doubt.