No process is fool proof when fools are in charge.
On July 30th, with just one day left in July, Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin, put out a new edict. Beginning August 1st, face masks will now be required indoors throughout the state, except in residences.
A new Executive Order (EO) under the ruse of a Public Health Emergency will require face coverings are to be worn by citizens above 5 years indoors and statewide. Dane County, the location of the state’s capitol, has already tested this order on its population, while other counties have gone mask-free. Until now.
Infection Rates Going Down
On July 24th, less than one week before Governor Evers latest order, Dane County reported that they had finally caught up on the Covid testing backlog. The backlog added 17,000 negative results, skewing its reported infection rates. Over that week, this addition adjusted the positive Covid rate down to 2.1 percent from 6.1 percent daily positive rate and a weekly average of 13.4 percent. See the Dane County Covid testing dashboard here.
WKOW News
According to WKOW Channel 27 news:
Public health uses the percent positive rate as one of its metrics in the Forward Dane reopening plan governing how and when certain social distancing measures, including many imposed on businesses, can be relaxed or eliminated.
The reported numbers gave the impression that the county was continuously seeing greater spread of COVID-19, when the opposite is true. If this process is true for Wisconsin’s Capitol, is it also true for the rest of the country?
How do numbers skew so dramatically?
Believe it or not, the answer was found in a public health Facebook post:
This is because each negative test has to be processed manually by a staff person. Our staff prioritize processing positive results, and as the amount of testing has increased, we have had a backlog of negative tests to process.
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When Fools Are In Charge
….there are more questions than answers.
With infection rates decreasing, why are restrictions increasing?
With restrictions increasing, when is it safe to fly?
When will schools reopen?
Will the U.S. Canada border reopen?
Do we trust the Departments of Health to provide accurate results? Do we trust the news to report it?
Are we ready to sue rogue politicians, by name, for misdirecting and misleading people?
Do Americans remember that the United States Constitution protects freedoms?
On May 2020, the Wisconsin state legislature challenged the executive branch order from the WI Dept. of Health Services, that ordered all people within Wisconsin to remain in their homes, not to travel, and to close all businesses that were not “essential”. The legislature prevailed. The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned the Executive Order, order no. 28, stating:
As the United States Department of Justice has recently written in a COVID-19-related case raising constitutional issues, “There is no pandemic exception . . . to the fundamental liberties the Constitution safeguards. Indeed, ‘individual rights secured by the Constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.’ These individual rights, including the protections in the Bill of Rights made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, are always in force and restrain government action.” Statement of Interest, Temple Baptist Church v. City of Greenville, No. 4:20-cv-64-DMB-JMV (N.D. Miss., April 14, 2020), ECF No. 6 (quoting In re Abbott, 954 F.3d 772 (5th Cir. 2020)).
On June 30, 2020, Florida citizens filed a legal challenge against Palm Beach County opposing its mask mandate. The case was heard on July 21, 2020, and parties are awaiting judicial review. The case cited Florida’s Constitution that: “Every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from government intrusion in to the person’s private life”. Art. I, § 23, Fla. Const.
And cited case law stating that:
Florida’s Right of Privacy also includes the right to liberty. State v. J.P., 907 So. 2d 1101, 1115 (Fla. 2004) (holding that the Florida constitutional right to privacy includes the right to liberty and self-determination). An integral component of self-determination is the right to make choices pertaining to one’s health and to determine what shall be done with one’s own body. In re Guardianship of Browning, 568 So. 2d 4, 9-12 (Fla. 1990) (“Recognizing that one has the inherent right to make choices about medical treatment, we necessarily conclude that this right encompasses all medical choices.”).
Despite the court rulings against lockdowns in Wisconsin and masking in Florida, Governors issue EOs and mandates without evidence of rising infection. It’s high time for a reminder: EOs are not laws.
The May 5th Washington Times reminded its readers:
They (EOs) should be challenged by the people. They should be held to constitutional muster. They should be challenged and debated and fought over because they threaten the very foundation of America’s free society.
America is not a kingdom but rather a system of limited government where rule of law, meaning, the Constitution, guides — not mob mentality, or worse, fear — and public servants are just that: beholden to the citizenry.
Constitutionally Speaking
Is the Constitution null and void?
Hint: The Constitution must be embodied to protect freedom since freedom lives inside each of us. The key (tone) to the Constitution is its frequency, which is sparked by your essence and action.
Are we the people ready to take action and to call out the ruse of Executive Orders and Public Health Emergencies?
In Florida, two mayors are now urging people to wear masks in their homes!
When up is down, tyranny is freedom, and politicians go rogue, that is when you know that fools are in charge.
