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California Sheriff Defies Newsom On Virus Regs

California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is not having a good time of it recently. His draconian regulations regarding religious gatherings were struck down by the US Supreme Court. He campaigned mightily for Democrat US House members in California just to watch several go belly up. Now, the sheriff of his most populous county, actually the most populous county in the nation, is telling Newsom and his noisome and hypocritical virus regulations to naff off.

FNC: “Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva will not instruct his deputies to enforce a new statewide stay-at-home order announced Thursday that could force businesses to temporarily shut down…Under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order, many businesses and activities would be forced to close for at least three weeks if capacity rates at intensive care units in several regions — the Bay Area, Northern California, the greater Sacramento region, the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California —  dip below 15%. The new rules would be implemented within 48 hours of hitting that level.”

Said the sheriff, “I want to stay away from business [sic] that are trying to comply, they bent over backwards to modify their operations to conform to these orders and then they have the rug yanked out from under them, that’s a disservice, I don’t want to make them more miserable…Since March we have continued to focus on education and voluntary compliance regarding health orders,” he tweeted. “Moving forward, we will additionally be conducting targeted enforcement on super-spreader events.”

Sheriff Villanueva will not be alone in his indifference to edicts from above. All across the nations groups and elected officials are saying no to further lockdowns and severe overregulation. The governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, has said the state will not go back into lockdown. Religious groups are defying both Newsom and New York liberal Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo. Small to large religious congregations of all faiths, okay, probably not the Episcopalians or the Unitarians, are meeting in numbers that ignore stringent virus regulations. In fact, the American people as a whole are beginning to smell, to quote fictional USAF General Buck Turgidson, “a big fat commie rat.”

And if the virus magically disappears after a couple of months of the Biden administration and the attendant hoopla starts, we will know this whole thing was a planned political set-up from start to finish. That timing will be past suspicious. It will be indictment of all those liberal and leftist Democrat politicians the nation over who pressed for hard regulations just to drop them after the goal of electing Joe Biden to the presidency was secured. That knowledge may fuel a national Republican resurgence in 2022, the likes of which has never been seen. Unless the GOP, as it is quite capable of doing, snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on December 4, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette [2] and is used by permission.