Governors in three Sun Belt states who previously had fought bravely against the tyranny of government anti-Coronavirus measures have suddenly and inexplicably caved into political correctness and imposed the heavy hand of the state on their freedom-loving peoples.
Using the pretense of record-breaking daily Coronavirus infection rates in their respective states, Republican governors Greg Abbott of Texas, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Doug Ducey of Arizona have all reversed their reopenings and ruthlessly crushed their citizens’ freedom to exchange microbes in bars, restaurants, tattoo parlors, gyms and hair salons.
The leap in daily infection rates, which began about two weeks after the three states began reopening and is coincidentally the rough incubation period for COVID-19, in fact has nothing to do with the reopening, according to DeSantis. The Florida Governor, who boasted that “We’ve succeeded” on May 20th but whose state racked up 8,942 new cases on Friday, June 26th, blamed the rise in new infections on young people who flocked to beaches that he refused to close before his abrupt metamorphosis into Chairman Mao.
The governors’ baffling shift to Stalinism is difficult to reconcile with their previous commitment to individual liberty. Both Abbott and Ducey, who had earlier forbidden local officials from mandating mask usage in their states, have now given them the green light to snuff out their citizens’ barefaced freedom. Arizona Governor Ducey, whose state faces more per capita cases than were recorded by any country in Europe during the pandemic and is rapidly running out of hospital beds, appeared at a press conference on Thursday wearing a face mask, signaling his capitulation to the Deep State.