The Democrats will be putting forth a radical revisionist spin on COVID lockdowns in red areas of the country during the peak of pandemic. This is due to growing disapproval of these draconian tactics in the weeks ahead of the November midterm elections and the lead-up the 2024 presidential Elections.
Though Jerome Adams has previously stated that his political party affiliation is “independent,” the guy who was former President Donald Trump’s surgeon general during the COVID outbreak sure came off sounding an awful lot like a Democrat with remarks he made on Twitter Sunday suggesting that the country “NEVER ‘locked down’” in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a mini-thread, Adams addressed people – presumably politicians and those who want to be one – who he says are declaring we will never lock down again.
“Today’s IDK who needs to hear this: ‘We will never lock down again’ is a political campaign slogan – not a real and honest discussion about pandemic policy,” he proclaimed. “We NEVER ‘locked down’ before (especially so in the places that most complain about it) so we can’t do it ‘again….’”
In his second tweet, he seemed to be contradicting himself somewhat by acknowledging the long-term school and business closures caused due to the government mandates.
“If your position is, ‘with the knowledge and the tools we have gained we must do all we can to keep from closing schools,’ then I completely agree,” Adams noted. “Or perhaps ‘we can utilize those same lessons and tools to help keep businesses open’ – I also agree with this- so lets discuss!”
Adams concluded by calling talk about lockdowns “deadly hyperbole.”
“Pandemic hyperbole is as rampant and deadly as Covid19. If we want to have sincere and honest conversations about policy, we’ve got to be sincere and honest ourselves,” Adams went on to say. “Starting w/ acknowledging we never truly locked down, yet we must do all we can to keep open in the future.”
For starters, you can’t claim on one hand we were “NEVER” locked down and then on the other acknowledge that businesses and schools were shuttered (by government force) for months during the coronavirus outbreak.
Further, apparently Adams has conveniently forgotten about all the people who were either publicly shamed or arrested for simply trying to go to the parks, the beaches, churches, and to work and also those whose neighbors snitched on them thanks to snitch hotlines created by local governments in an effort to enforce “stay at home” orders and to stop indoor gatherings (whether they be business-related or otherwise) of more than a few people.
Adams was obviously aware of it and commented on his post.
A Twitter user named “Ryan” countered Adams’ claims by talking about what he had to go through during COVID lockdowns.
“As someone who lived in lockdown hell in MN for 2 years, I lost 1) my high school graduation 2) my prom 3) my first year of college 4) social interaction. My bedroom was taken by the public health department along with several other children. If that doesn’t constitute lockdown, I don’t know what does.”
Adams responded predictably by trying to shift the goalposts.
“I appreciate what you went through (I have 3 school age kids who went through the same),” he wrote back. “I respectfully would suggest people like Brittany Griner, or my brother (who actually WAS in prison in 2020) would argue that there are different degrees of “lockdown hell.”
Ann Bauer shared also her lockdown experience with Write Ann.
“I live in St. Paul. For about 8 wks in 2020 I was not allowed to leave my home after 7 p.m., for any reason (inc walking the dog),” she wrote. “Nat’l Guard were here enforcing. My neighbors could call the hotline if someone outside of my immediate family visited my home. What do you call that?”
It was at that point that Adams’ sort of acknowledged that lockdowns did occur in some parts of the country, though he still tried to downplay them.
“1) When in 2020? Did that happen because covid was all it took or due to civil unrest in George Floyd’s country? 2) There is no doubt some places went overboard in 2020,” Adams admitted. “It’s 2022 now. So how about we discuss what we can and should be doing now, based on what we’ve learned?”
My RedState colleague/partner in crime Brad Slager had this to say after reading Adams’ argument:
Jerome declared, to keep this in tact, that any arrests of individuals for going to the beach or doing business during the pandemic would now be considered ‘governmental medical consultations.’ https://t.co/m39MTHv2Ut
— Brad Slager – Unique Taco/Lifetime CNN+ Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 12, 2022
Sarcasm noted, point taken. Unfortunately, not by COVID lockdown revists such as Jerome Adams.
Adams is a person like I mentioned earlier. He will attempt to make the COVID lockdowns that this country has gone through seem exaggerated as the nation heads into the midterm elections and the eventual presidential election.
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