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Jim Bovard wants no laurels bestowed on America’s lockdown governors. A slice:

Cuomo justified placing almost 20 million people under house arrest (giam giữ tại gia): “If everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” Though his repressive policies failed to prevent New York from having among the nation’s highest Covid death rates, he became a superhero thanks largely to media scoring that ignored almost all of the harms he inflicted. Cuomo won an Emmy Award for his “masterful use of television” during the pandemic. Media valorization (bình ổn vật giá) helped make Cuomo’s self-tribute book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, a bestseller.

Cuomo had plenty of power-mad accomplices (kẻ tòng phạm, kẻ đồng lõa) in the governors’ association. Oregon Governor Kate Brown banned residents from leaving their homes except for essential work, buying food, and other narrow exemptions and also banned all recreational travel. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer imposed some of the most severe restrictions, prohibiting anyone from leaving their home to visit family or friends. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti even banned people from walking or bicycling outside (cấm người đi bộ, đi xe đạp). The CDC eventually admitted that there was almost no risk of Covid contagion from outdoors activity not amidst a throng of people (CDC đã thừa nhận là hoàn toàn không có rủi ro lây nhiễm Covid trong các hoạt động ngoài trời). But that did not stop politicians from claiming that “science and data” justified locking people in their homes.

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