Absolutely — hang her high

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After it was announced as under consideration but before it was imposed, many — including here on this inconsequential blog — were denouncing the Wuhan Flu lockdown as, not ily useless, but predicting it would cause devastating harm to the country.. But “The science” prevailed.

Who was right, who was wrong? South Carolina’s governor took the lead in rejecting this invented panic by ending the lockdown, reopening the schools, and rejecting the “expert’s” demand for the mandatory wearing of useless paper face masks and the, as Fauci later admitted, based-on-nothing’ 6’ spacing rule.

Gov. McMaster refuses call for state mask rule, pushes reopening as SC ‘hot spot’ surges

On Wednesday, the Columbia Republican — who shut down the state’s economy in April and, just as quickly in May, reversed nearly every closure order he’d issued — urged school districts to restart full-time, in-person instruction by Labor Day week. The welfare of children was his top priority, he said.

…. Yet McMaster reiterated, again, he won’t be closing businesses back down or requiring South Carolinians to wear masks — two solutions other governors have adopted to slow the spread of COVID-19 in their states. A chorus of critics rang out — from health experts and hospital officials to religious and local government leaders and educators, who said clustering people together without a concrete plan of how to do it safely could result in higher daily case counts.

And many more of us were there long before

“This is the moment that radicalized many people”: