{"id":122768,"date":"2022-02-11T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122768"},"modified":"2022-02-11T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T21:16:48","slug":"regarding-those-idiot-stick-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122768","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Those Idiot-Stick Mandates&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-69871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Roses-2014-2-20-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Roses-2014-2-20-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Roses-2014-2-20-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Roses-2014-2-20-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Roses-2014-2-20-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This should really piss off the mumblegum birdbrains in the general area of The Swamp:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/public-safety\/2022\/02\/dem-mask-mandate\/361730\/\">https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/public-safety\/2022\/02\/dem-mask-mandate\/361730\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the omicron variant of Covid-19 fades, at least five states with Democratic governors this week moved to roll back mask mandates.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sign that even states that took\u00a0a more cautious approach to battling the virus are looking to relax pandemic-era public health restrictions as Americans learn to live long-term with Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a roundup of some of the states that have taken action so far. Feel free to add your own state, if something like that is in your news feeds.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, it\u2019s \u00a0<strong>New Jersey: <\/strong>Governor Phil Murphy on Monday announced that the state&#8217;s universal school mask mandates will be lifted, effective March 7. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>Several other states (Connecticut, Oregon, California and Delaware) and now Illinois (Gov. Pritzker ends mask mandate on Feb. 28) and New York are dumping the mandate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/morning-breakout\/many-states-dump-mask-mandates\/\">https:\/\/khn.org\/morning-breakout\/many-states-dump-mask-mandates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some are starting to ease the restrictions as a slower pace, which seems to work for them. And none of these decisions have any approval from the White House\u2019s Inner Mysteries. Gee whiz, people, it&#8217;s almost as though the States have declared States&#8217; Rights exceed the mandates of the White House, doesn&#8217;t it? Remember that from history class, way back in the long-ago? How the States have certain rights that the Federal government can&#8217;t set aside? Something like that, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/governors-dropping-mask-mandates-preempts-white-house-efforts\/story?id=82772644\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/governors-dropping-mask-mandates-preempts-white-house-efforts\/story?id=82772644<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was really only a matter of time, you know. If your state has announced either a reduction in the mask mandate or a complete dumping of it, please let us all know.<\/p>\n<p>This does, of course, take the wind out of the sails of the White House\u2019s pre-eminence and potential generosity, which is fine by me. It\u2019s what independence and freedom are all about, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Still, just for fun, hang onto those blue snoot boots as they are something you can wear for Hallowe\u2019en when it comes around again. I was thinking of putting stickers on some of mine to doll them up just a little bit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while I&#8217;m at it, the truckers&#8217; parade up in Ontario is partly a protest against the inanities of Trudeau&#8217;s ineptitude and poor administration, and partly because the truckers up there are just as independent a bunch of Yahoos as we are down here. In fact, some Merricuns went up there to support them. I&#8217;m waiting for the other shoes to drop on the West Coast, too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-71180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Flag-horizontal2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Flag-horizontal2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Flag-horizontal2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Flag-horizontal2-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should really piss off the mumblegum birdbrains in the general area of The Swamp:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/public-safety\/2022\/02\/dem-mask-mandate\/361730\/ &hellip; <a title=\"Regarding Those Idiot-Stick Mandates&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122768\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regarding Those Idiot-Stick Mandates&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,430,16,442,518,83,631,89,484,224,472,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-2020-election","category-administrative","category-america","category-biden","category-breaking-news","category-canada","category-congress-sucks","category-covid-19","category-darwin-awards","category-democrats","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122769,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122768\/revisions\/122769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}