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DAVID DEMILO's avatar

Thank you, both for bringing this particular story to our attention and your sober and empathetic reporting of it. I agree with your note on the expertise of doctors, which is why it is such a deep betrayal when the trust we place in expertise is used to hurt us. I say "us" because most suffered not only from the pandemic, but from the state's response to it. To some extent, one can understand that fear and panic induces people with responsibility to make mistakes, but the zeal with which the Whitmers, Bakers, Newsom's, Cuomos, Walzes, Bidens (there are far too many to name) abrogated our rights, cheered by the media and their supporters, was repulsive. I will never forget it and I hope that nobody does.

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William Otis's avatar

Thank you for this thoughtful if unsettling comment, with which I agree in toto.

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Doug Israel's avatar

Its shocking to me how easily the Democrats have embraced authoritarianism for things they favor while accusing their opponents of the same for things they oppose. They are entirely transactional.

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William Otis's avatar

I think "transactional" is putting it very diplomatically.

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Jim Dueholm's avatar

Great. And it strikes me that what's involved here is criminal assault and battery, and I suspect it might be against public policy to indemnify against that even if the statute could be read to cover it. Jim Dueholm

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