Remember when jokes started out as: “…THREE PEOPLE WALKED INTO A BAR…” We laughed, or made that face which included rolling our eyes, or pretended that we really did not know the relative or friend telling the joke! How about this sad, sick, sorrowful joke: “Three Republicans, DeSantis/Abbott/Cruz, on their journey towards the lowest denominator of the Republican Base of Voters, stopped into an ICU at an already overly taxed hospital due to anti-vaxxers using up ALL the Incubators, Beds and Medical Equipment, hoping to pick up a few more absentee votes (before this plethora of peons pass-on) intended for their certain run for the GQP nomination for Presidency in 2024…”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's COVID-19 expert Jay Bhattacharya was asked in a trial about school mask mandates, "What would be an acceptable death rate for children?" "What would be an acceptable death rate for children?" Gallagher asked Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya responded, "I reject the premise of the question. The question is not what's an acceptable death rate. The question is: What are the trade-offs?" (Newsweek)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning the use of vaccine mandates in the public sector and for businesses that contract with the state. Abbott insisted he was putting “personal responsibility” ahead of “government mandates.” But, as the American Enterprise Institute’s Michael R. Strain noted for Bloomberg, Abbott has it backward. His order, Strain wrote, “is heavy-handed government stopping private entities from exercising their own understanding of what is responsible and what their customers and employees want.” (MSNBC)
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is proposing federal legislation that would ban both mask and vaccine mandates — and prohibit vaccine passports — even in the private sector. “My legislation also provides civil rights protections for employees from their employers,” Cruz, a Republican, announced, “to stop discrimination based on vaccination status.” (NBC News)
