Friday, May 21, 2021

National media finally looking at our moron-gov?-----James Freeman--Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ

Passenger Appears to Survive Unregulated Flight - WSJ
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) has taken a back seat to no one in regulating the daily lives of citizens during the era of Covid-19. 
She’s even trying to make some emergency workplace rules permanent in the Wolverine State. 
But for her own life, it seems Gov. Whitmer is not exactly a fanatic about following rules when she’s in the passenger seat.
Recently this column noted Ms. Whitmer’s decision to ignore her own warnings against out-of-state travel. 
Now there are more questions about her mode of transportation. Paul Egan reports for the Detroit Free Press from Lansing...
...There’s also more news on Ms. Whitmer’s rejection of her own government’s travel advisory. 
It’s not just an issue of deciding to fly to Florida—which she has singled out as a travel risk—but also her government’s guidance on what to do in the event of such travel.
  • Rod Meloni and Natasha Dado of NBC affiliate WDIV report that a few weeks before her trip, Michigan’s health department leased guidance saying, “get tested with a PCR viral test one to three days before you travel.” The WDIV report continues:
  • Then upon your return to Michigan the guidelines read, “Get tested again with a viral test three to five days after your trip and stay home and self-quarantine for a full seven days after travel, even if your test is negative.”
  • “If you don’t get tested, stay home and self-quarantine for 10 days after travel,” the guidelines continued.
Yet [three days after her return]... Local 4 News cameras rolled as the governor bypassed the self quarantine and attended a vaccination press conference at Ford Field...
Local 4 News asked the governor’s office why she did not follow her own health department’s guidance and the response was it wasn’t an executive order and she followed all orders...Read all

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