LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer admits in a recently published video that the “science” she repeatedly relied upon during the infancy of the COVID-19 pandemic was based at that time on “very bad information.”
Michigan Forward, a conservative activist website, published the video this week in which the Democrat governor sat down for an interview on Caleb Hammer’s podcast.
When pressed about some of the logic behind some of her 2020 decisions made during the pandemic, Whitmer says, “Listen, Caleb, none of us wants to go back and relive that. We were doing the best we could with very little or very bad information.”
Five years have passed since Whitmer’s edicts.
There was a chorus of protests five years ago over the lack of logic in many of Whitmer’s executive orders that the governor ignored.
According to Whitmer’s executive order, it was a misdemeanor for a business to sell hand sanitizer that contains less than 60% alcohol.
When residents were allowed to sit indoors at a table to eat at a restaurant, they were only allowed to remove their mask to ingest food. The mask had to go back on while chewing.
Under Whitmer’s rules, people could walk on a golf course, but they were not allowed to bring along golf clubs to play.
No paint, no seeds.
The conservative media made note of Whitmer’s nonsensical edicts.
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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board criticized Whitmer on April 13, 2020 writing: “Under Gov. Whitmer’s order a Michigander can buy a bag of candy or a lottery ticket, but not a pack of seeds or a can of paint. He can enjoy a boat ride by himself or with his dog—but not if his boat has a motor. The logic of these seemingly arbitrary distinctions must elude most Americans.”
On April 18, 2020, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called Whitmer “a dangerous ideologue who knows nothing about science and doesn’t care to learn.”
The conservative American Spectator magazine wrote on April 13, 2020, “Gretchen Whitmer imposes insane policies on Michigan.”
Masks and social distancing.
But Whitmer was defended by a complicit mainstream media that often attacked the conservative push back.
In 2020, Royal Oak Mayor Mike Fournier, a Democrat, was angry that Royal Oak City Commissioner Kim Gibbs attended the rally protesting Whitmer’s stay-at-home order and was seen not wearing a mask or keeping social distance at the rally.
The Detroit Free Press reported on April 21, 2020 Fournier’s claim that Gibbs had Royal Oak’s residents “at risk of death.”
Lansing State Journal sports writer Graham Couch blamed people who contracted the virus for not taking Whitmer’s rules more seriously.
“It’s time to stop shrugging off foolish and dangerous behavior. It’s either based in callousness or ignorance and it deserves to be countered and shamed relentlessly until even those without shame begin to feel it,” Couch wrote. ” … Have you let too many people inside your bubble? Had five or six friends in your living room lately? … Have you ordered your meal from a waiter without your mask on?”
