Did He Really Say That? – 2GreenEnergy.com

When you come across Tweets like this one, ostensibly from La Mesa, California lawyer Scott McMillan, isn’t your first reaction to call it BS? Isn’t it impossible that someone with a JD degree, regardless of how far to the political right, could believe that it might be a good idea for 8,275,066 Americans to be sent to their deaths by the coronavirus in order to save the economy? This is an idea that would make a Nazi blush.

Impossible? Well, no, this one is real. It seems like just yesterday that conservatives stood against Obama’s “death panels.” How times have changed.

In his defense, we have to be fair and admit that McMillan is really just echoing what he’s hearing from the White House and the Republican governors.

Check out this piece of related news, where….

Some Mississippi mayors had put controls in place to help fight the spread of coronavirus—until Gov. Tate Reeves issued an order overruling mayors and reopening many businesses. Reeves has made his choice about what’s important, at least in the short term.

“There’s no question that the purpose of the order was to keep businesses open, which is good for the economy,” Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton told the Mississippi Free Press. “It’s definitely putting protections in place for the state’s economy. The flipside is that it’s doing that at the expense of human lives.”

Moss Point Mayor Mario King described Reeves’ action as “complete foolishness and foolery” that makes him “embarrassed not just as a mayor, but as a citizen of Mississippi. We are the laughingstock of the country because our governor has enacted an order that does not only protect the safety and welfare of the people, but puts Mississippians in harm’s way.”

Mayors, don’t feel bad. In the first place, it’s not like Mississippi has never been the “laughingstock of the nation,” consistently ranking, as it does, near the bottom of the 50 states in terms of education, healthcare, income, and racial harmony.

More to the point, reopening businesses that attract crowds, revoking social distancing, thumbing its nose to science, and putting millions of lives at risk are all de rigueur for Republicans at this point.