Good day all. One of the things that the Great Panicdemic of 2020 showed people was just how much power that state and federal health departments had assumed. On the federal level, the Centers for Disease Control issued an order blocking evictions for nonpayment of rent.
There are several cases regarding this moving through the courts, and generally, the courts have been siding with the landlords. (Basically this comes under the “Takings” clause of the Constitution) The various health departments are also responsible for trashing the best economy we’ve had in decades. Now some of the states have had it and are beginning the process of stripping these powers from the Health Departments. Here are the details from the Foundation for Economic Freedom:
Mike Fratantuono grew up in a restaurant. Literally. For decades, Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, was the family business. Over the years, he’d done seemingly every job imaginable: busboy, bartender, and butcher; prep cook and plumber; handyman and manager. Fratantuono says that’s what made it so hard to watch the family’s legacy become a COVID casualty in 2020.
“It kills me. We were supposed to be getting ready to celebrate our 60th anniversary this year, and instead we’re packing up and closing at the end of this month,” Fratantuono told the Washington Post last year. “I try not to get too sentimental about it, because it won’t change a damn thing, but sometimes the stress hits me and my heart starts going like crazy. I get frustrated. It makes me angry.”
Thanks to the lock-downs, a large number of previously successful small businesses went under. Right around the corner from the Anger Central Primary Dwelling was a small diner style restaurant that had been there for decades. It closed down and has for sale signs on it. All around the area are empty stores and restaurants that were run out of business by the various health departments orders. We now know that the “Experts” were flat out dead wrong too.
Fratantuono is just one of the countless business owners across America who saw their dreams vanish before their eyes in the wake of government lockdowns that crushed their businesses. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, states across the country are advancing legislation to curb the powers of public health departments following one of the most destructive and contentious years in American history.
In May, the Network for Public Health Law published a report showing that in recent months no fewer than 15 state legislatures have passed or are considering passing measures that would restrict the legal authority of public health departments.
The list of items being removed from the Health Agencies is rather extensive, including forcing people to wear masks, closing businesses, closing schools, forcing healthy people to be locked up in a quarantine, and forcing people to be vaccinated against their will. (The vaccines now being used have NOT gone through the standard testing regimes) Needless to say, the Network for Public Health law is not happy with these developments.
The report concludes that opposition to “reasonable” public health measures poses serious dangers to life and health.
“Legislation to stop expert public health agencies from leading the response to health emergencies creates unforeseen, serious risks to life and health,” the report states. “These laws could make it harder to advance health equity during a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Indigenous Americans.”
Not mentioned in the report, however, are the unintended consequences of the actions taken by public health agencies across the country in 2020. The collateral damage of lockdowns included business closures, job losses, supply disruptions, mass protests, surging violence, increased mental health problems, unprecedented drug overdoses, and a collapse in cancer screenings.
I looked up this organization, the Network for Public Health Law. They’ve been around for 10 years, (Which means they were founded under the Obama maladministration), And their mission statement is, in my opinion, worrying.
We believe in the power of public health law and policy to improve lives and make our communities safer, healthier, stronger and more equitable. We know that understanding, navigating and using law and policy can transform our communities so we work to help public health professionals, policymakers, researchers and educators, advocates and health care professionals do just that.
These aren’t doctors, they are a pack of rampaging lawyers and bureaucrats. I expect that the Biden vote among them was 100%. I haven’t gone through their site to any great extent, but putting medical professionals into place to aid the sick doesn’t appear to be something they do. No, I think they’re nothing more then a pack of ambulance chasing sharks with a not to firm of a grasp on the real world. No, they’re just a bunch of yahoos who like governmental control over all aspects of people’s lives, and like any progressive group, they aren’t going to let the fact get in the way of their “Truth.”
Public health agencies, meanwhile, proved incapable of taming the coronavirus through the use of lockdowns. And these struggles were not confined to the United States.
“A new study by German scientists claims to have found evidence that lockdowns may have had little effect on controlling the coronavirus pandemic,” The Telegraph reported last week. “Statisticians at Munich University found ‘no direct connection’ between the German lockdown and falling infection rates in the country.”
This is the “Science” that the Followers of Faucism want to ignore, that all their ideas, orders and instructions were nothing more then a pile of horse manure. This is why States are now moving to strip power away from these “Professionals.”
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s the danger of unchecked executive power. Using emergency powers, governors and public health bureaucrats across the country took unilateral, sweeping, and indefinite measures that massively damaged livelihoods and infringed on the rights of millions of Americans. People were fined and arrested for simply gathering privately or exercising outside, walking a pet, paddling a boat on the water (alone), or taking a child to the park—even though most transmissions took place in homes and the coronavirus is rarely transmitted outdoors.
The violations of the civil rights of Americans and lawful resident aliens was massive, and now the courts are finally getting involved. Already, Wisconsin’s Govno, Tony Evers, a true Moonbat’s Moonbat, couldn’t wait to lock down the state and basically declared martial law. The courts stripped him of most of that authority, but that hasn’t deterred him much.
Americans may disagree on the precise role public health departments should play in society today. But the pandemic reminded us why checks and balances on concentrated power are so important. The American constitutional system was deliberately designed to avoid concentrated power because the Framers feared it above all else.
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty,” wrote John Adams.
The authors of the Network for Public Health Law report express concern that public health agencies are being stripped of the power to act by dangerous radicals. The truth is that dangerously radical government agencies are being put in check.
Considering that, in my opinion, the Network for Public Health Law, is made up of hard left Progressive Totalitarian radicals who probably think the Constitution is a dead letter that can be ignored, I’m not surprised that they oppose the changes states are making. Most of the changes being instituted limits the length of time an emergency order of one sort or another can be maintained. Don’t forget, the original reason to lock everyone up in their homes was to “Bend the curve” and allow hospitals to prepare for the tens of millions of people critically ill due to the China Virus.
That rush of sick people never happened. Hospitals were not overrun, in fact, emergency hospitals went unused. People still got sick, mostly due to being trapped in their homes, but guess what? With very few exceptions, they recovered. I recovered. She Who Must Be Obeyed recovered. Many people never knew they actually had the Wuhan Flu. It was never about public health, it was all about absolute power.
The preservation of liberty, protected by separating and checking power, is the ideal on which the American system was founded. Following a year that saw Americans’ rights, dreams, and health trampled by central planners wielding vast power with little restraint and few checks, it’s a vision Americans are right to rekindle.
It’s now time to take back our rights, and I hope that it won’t require the “By any means necessary” clause. We need to hit all these tyrannical thugs right where it hurts, in their budgets. The states moving to restrict their authority should have done so long ago. I would say better lat then never, but it should never have been allowed to reach this point in the first place.
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