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The Betsy DeVos connection to the protests against Covid-19 precautions in Michigan | Eclectablog

The Betsy DeVos connection to the protests against Covid-19 precautions in Michigan | Eclectablog

Another billionaire-approved ‘movement’ is pushing for massive human sacrifice in order to save Trump’s presidency


On April 15, Michigan reported 1,058 new cases of COVID-19 and 153 new deaths. That put the total number of Michiganders who had tested positive for the novel Coronaivirus 28,059 and the number confirmed dead from the virus at 1,921.
And this is how some right wingers in our state chose to mark the preventable deaths of our neighbors nearing the thousands — by purposely creating a traffic jam near a hospital.
The scene on Grand Ave. in downtown Lansing about 15 minutes ago where conservatives have jammed streets around the Capitol to protest Gov. Whitmer's stay-at-home order. It took about 10 minutes for this ambulance to evade traffic by turning the wrong way down a one-way street. https://twitter.com/ZachGorchow/status/1250452278944899072 

The arguments against the restrictions Governor Whitmer has put into place in an attempt to contain this plague are as flimsy as you might expect. Prohibiting travel to second homes, for instance, was actually requested by some elected officials in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the hospitals could quickly be overrun by a Covid outbreak. And while there is definitely a place for frustration given the Trump administration disastrous response to Covid-19 and the growing economic destruction accompanying this massive failure, this protest mocked the horrendous suffering our state is enduring.
“Under the guise of our American right to assembly, a mob gathered, not only endangering themselves, but jeopardizing thousands of others throughout Michigan,” Jeff Timmer, Former Director Michigan GOP, wrote.


It also stank of the billionaire-sponsored tea party movement that exploited right-wing failures to attack anything the government might do to help workers out of the financial crisis. And like the CONTINUE READING: The Betsy DeVos connection to the protests against Covid-19 precautions in Michigan | Eclectablog