{"id":52960,"date":"2020-05-03T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52960"},"modified":"2020-05-03T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:55:15","slug":"lockdowns-ending-but-their-politics-still-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52960","title":{"rendered":"Lockdowns Ending but Their Politics Still Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2020\/05\/01\/lockdowns-ending-politics-rule-desantis\/\">Lockdowns Ending but Their Politics Still Rule<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dollar-tide-liberty-apes.jpg?fit=816%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"dollar-tide-apes-trump\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it looks like the worm is turning against the draconian economic shutdowns decreed by governments, so much damage has already been done it likely won\u2019t matter now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I began the week hopeful that my home state of Florida would lead the way towards challenging the anti-human and thoroughly intolerable lock down mentality imposed on us by officials at the WHO, NAIAD, Johns Hopkins and the IHME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That hope continued earlier this week while watching Governor Ron DeSantis give a half-hour presentation of why Florida not only outperformed all of the grossly negligent predictive models but nearly every other state in the union in nearly every metric relevant to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It, however, vanished completely when he finally unveiled his new plan, which was to graciously allow the private economy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2020\/04\/27\/ron-desantis-florida-reopen-coronavirus-shutdown-baby-steps\/\">to get back to 25% capacity<\/a>, following the same tyrannical guidelines of those now discredited members of President Trump\u2019s Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I need to remind myself of why&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/07\/09\/hope-plan-geopolitics-q\/\">hope is the most negative of all emotions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>\u201cPhase One is a baby step<\/strong>,\u201d DeSantis said during a news conference at Tampa General Hospital. \u201c<strong>We are deliberately going to be very methodical, slow and data-driven on this because I think people want to have confidence things are going in a good direction.<\/strong>\u201d He said a slow approach would also give the state an opportunity to step in to handle any spikes in the disease that might occur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this is typical political double-speak. Because the political pressure on DeSantis, Trump and other \u2018Red State\u2019 Governors to not open things back up has been enormous. If it wasn\u2019t he would have shown more spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, the numbers don\u2019t support DeSantis\u2019 decsion at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockdowns Ending but Their Politics Still Rule While it looks like the worm is turning against the draconian economic shutdowns decreed by governments, so much damage has already been done it likely won\u2019t matter now. I began the week hopeful that my home state of Florida would lead the way towards challenging the anti-human and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[21273,379,29590,16963],"class_list":["post-52960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-government","tag-lockdwons","tag-tom-luongo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52961,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52960\/revisions\/52961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}