The Long Version
Yesterday, April 17 th , I went to the Liberate Minnesota protest at Governor Walz mansion. There were easily 2,000 people there with one message, “Open up Minnesota!” I live streamed on social media and posted pictures. Frequent questions and statements on social media were: Why? The Governor told us to stay home, where was your social distance? Why were there no masks? Your going to get other people sick. I hope you idiots get sick and die. I gave a few short answers, with many typos from my cell phone. Here’s the long version. We will agree a terrible disease is infecting many of our fellow citizens. We all want it to stop. There are varying ideas on how to do that. The Government good or bad has a lot of control over the response. That is where many of us part ways. In my State of Minnesota, like many others, the Governor, by Executive Order, closed what he deemed non-essential businesses. The reason originally given by Governor Walz was t...