Why these 8 Republican governors are holding out on statewide stay-at-home orders

[BadGimp]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/politics/republican-governors-stay-at-home-orders-coronavirus/index.html

I mistakenly posted this in LBN, but it should have been posted here. I hope ...


(CNN)Just eight US governors have decided against issuing statewide directives urging their residents to stay at home as the outbreak of the coronavirus escalates and spreads across the country, the last holdouts in the nation.

The governors, all of whom are Republican, have offered a variety of explanations for why they have not followed the lead of their colleagues from coast-to-coast -- along with countries across the world -- by ordering people to restrict their movement in hopes of slowing the pandemic.

In doing so, they've collectively ignored the stay-at-home pleas of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, who said in a CNN interview: "If you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that."

[S.E. TN Liberal]

1. republican'ts can't accept reality...nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I am going to need a real DOJ to arrest these assholes and indict for voluntary manslaughter.

[magicarpet]

11. Jeez,.. don't hold your breath for that,..

First you'll turn blue,...

Then you'll turn purple,..

Then finally you'll turn black.

Billy barr's DOJ dispenses only Just Us, free pass for them,... but nobody else.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Ideology trumps reality for them.

[magicarpet]

4. Religious dogma has caused them to believe that they can out run or out smarten the Coronavirus.

With the strength of their prayers the virus stands no chance and the economy can get back to the top of the charts if people were just willing to ignore and forget about the virus. Just crank up the economy to gang buster levels and the conservatives will be rewarded at the polls. The virus should not bring America to a grinding halt. The Will of God and his Divine Provenance are all we require, he will watch over us and protect.

[RussBLib]

6. No matter what happens, HE is in control

One of my friends stated this on FB the other day. It took all I had not to ask, " So how many deaths do you think HE will be satisfied with, this time?"

[magicarpet]

10. trDumpie is like a mini dick the prick chaney.

[meadowlander]

5. I'll take "Which 8 governors are most in the pocket of the local business community for $200, Alex."

[no_hypocrisy]

7. And as a result, Trump will give ventilators needed in New York to those eight states for their

improvidence.

[Metatask]

8. IS THIS WHY?

Could it be that those red states still open did the same thing that florida did and sabotaged their unemployment systems too?

So if they close they will get flooded with complaints and bad polls once people realize what they did?

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Many "Red" states have "Blue" cities

Is that a factor in some of these states where they see it as an "Urban" disease?

[octoberlib]

12. My mom lives in SC, so I can only speak for that state.

McMaster has closed down bars, restaurants, gyms, hair salons and parks and he's allowing counties to lock down like Charleston recently did. But SC is mostly rural ; the biggest cities are Charleston and Columbia and they're only a little over 130,000 pop. Oddly enough, the first big outbreaks were in rural communities not the two cities. I think this is all about local and state business leaders and money.