Democratic Governors who completely effed up their state's preparedness for an emergency are doing the usual thing Democrats do when their incompetence & bad priorities get exposed:

they are vastly overreacting & overcompensating.
You are seeing these zero tolerance stay at home lockdown orders banning church services and arresting people for jogging alone on the beach because the health care systems in these states aren't ready for this. And the governor's know it.
Total shelter-in-place-or-else draconian policies are being implemented to avoid the spread of a highly contagious virus.

IF the state emergency & health care systems had been ready for an increased # of people needing ICU care, they wouldn't be doing this.
Well here's the brutal truth: NO state's emergency & healthcare systems were ready for this.

But some governors are PANICKING and others see a chance to expand control and some are doing BOTH.
Others are handling this just fine. Texas is a very good example; the virus is here and we have more than a few cases, a few hot spots, but Governor Abbott did not panic and lock the entire state down and institute draconian policies.

He **trusts** his citizens.
When Trump reopens the economy in about a week there will be Democratic governors still panicking or trying to expand their state's powers over their citizen's lives.

People have Constitutional rights.

If a state gov. starts flagrantly violating them, the feds step in.
This has happened before in America's history.

If it must be, it will happen again.
This is America.

And it's gonna stay America.

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