First, the article was written in fall 2021, so no clue where your 2022 statement comes from.
Second, Florida was not the first state to reopen, it was the largest early on with TX right around it. GA and SC fully reopened before FL and many states never shut down or had no meaningful shutdowns beyond concerts and restaurants.
The lockdowns didn’t go into effect until April - playing semantics gymnastics to clsim FL reopened “in the second half of 2022” is silly - it was on semi-lockdown less than three months.
I was hanging out with the family at a fully open resort in Hilton Head SC the first week of June 2020, going out to eat for dinner everyday, m when the BLM protests lead to curfews and riots. In July 2020 we were in FL. By 2021 we were in the Caribbean. We went all the time to the NC mountains and rural VA. I can count on my hands how many times I’ve worn a mask, and so can my kids who were back in school interacting normally by August 17, 2020 (I vote for all kids to have access to the private schools we can provide our kids). I saw with my own eyes the vast lack of compliance. In places with guns Covid ended summer 2020. Where there are fewer guns in urban blue cities in the south people kept poor kids in public school at home and played mask games, but that doesn’t mean even there a “majority” did.
Comparing a couple months of soft restrictions to years long lockdowns - and failing to differentiate between where you couldn’t go on the beach and where the lockdowns were not at all enforced - shows intellectual laziness and failure to see nuance. In doing so you miss the entire point of my 2A argument.
Other than concerts, and briefly some restaurants, the “lockdown” was not at all in my state, and basically all of the southeast. We left the house to socialize often, and go do activities at wide open businesses, even in our woke urban area of NC, even in April 2020.
In places it’s hard to own guns legally, people complied. I traveled throughout, including internationally on planes, with my unvaccinated husband and kids, before 2022.
You make an assertion most people go along with what the government says, but the data shows very clearly where more people own guns the government tried to control them less, and people ignored the government more.
If you exclude the over 65 crew that’s actually at risk, despite the coercion, less than 50% of Americans aged 5-64 have been faux vaccinated. Only half of those who got the first 2 useless shots went on to get number 3.
There has never been a requirement for Americans to be vaccinated to leave or re-enter the country or get on a plane domestic or international. Never. Not once. There were more tyrannical places we couldn’t go visit, but never at our government’s demands.
First, the article was written in fall 2021, so no clue where your 2022 statement comes from.
Second, Florida was not the first state to reopen, it was the largest early on with TX right around it. GA and SC fully reopened before FL and many states never shut down or had no meaningful shutdowns beyond concerts and restaurants.
The lockdowns didn’t go into effect until April - playing semantics gymnastics to clsim FL reopened “in the second half of 2022” is silly - it was on semi-lockdown less than three months.
I was hanging out with the family at a fully open resort in Hilton Head SC the first week of June 2020, going out to eat for dinner everyday, m when the BLM protests lead to curfews and riots. In July 2020 we were in FL. By 2021 we were in the Caribbean. We went all the time to the NC mountains and rural VA. I can count on my hands how many times I’ve worn a mask, and so can my kids who were back in school interacting normally by August 17, 2020 (I vote for all kids to have access to the private schools we can provide our kids). I saw with my own eyes the vast lack of compliance. In places with guns Covid ended summer 2020. Where there are fewer guns in urban blue cities in the south people kept poor kids in public school at home and played mask games, but that doesn’t mean even there a “majority” did.
Comparing a couple months of soft restrictions to years long lockdowns - and failing to differentiate between where you couldn’t go on the beach and where the lockdowns were not at all enforced - shows intellectual laziness and failure to see nuance. In doing so you miss the entire point of my 2A argument.
Other than concerts, and briefly some restaurants, the “lockdown” was not at all in my state, and basically all of the southeast. We left the house to socialize often, and go do activities at wide open businesses, even in our woke urban area of NC, even in April 2020.
In places it’s hard to own guns legally, people complied. I traveled throughout, including internationally on planes, with my unvaccinated husband and kids, before 2022.
You make an assertion most people go along with what the government says, but the data shows very clearly where more people own guns the government tried to control them less, and people ignored the government more.
If you exclude the over 65 crew that’s actually at risk, despite the coercion, less than 50% of Americans aged 5-64 have been faux vaccinated. Only half of those who got the first 2 useless shots went on to get number 3.
There has never been a requirement for Americans to be vaccinated to leave or re-enter the country or get on a plane domestic or international. Never. Not once. There were more tyrannical places we couldn’t go visit, but never at our government’s demands.