Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) defended the steps his state has taken to reopen even as it saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases Thursday.
“We have to manage the risk,” Hutchinson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We take the virus very seriously, it’s a risk, it causes death, but you can’t cloister yourself at home, that is just contrary to the American spirit.”
Hutchinson compared social distancing and wearing masks to driving while wearing a seatbelt.
“You can be in an automobile and that is very risky, but you can manage the risk by wearing a seatbelt,” he told Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
Uhm, ok. But his people are refusing to wear their fucking seat belts. And worse than that, they’re driving drunk and weaving all over the road!
That’s right. In a free country, we wouldn’t have lights and stop signs or any rules of the road at all! And we certainly wouldn’t allow those lily-livered Democrat Governors and politicians to make laws that require us to follow them. Why, they even allow the police to enforce the traffic laws!
Oy. One of the reasons we only have 30K traffic deaths per year is because we have those laws. If we didn’t, our mobility by car and truck would be so fraught with risk that the economy would collapse. Why these Republican officials can’t see that this ridiculous highway analogy doesn’t work for them, I will never understand.
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