By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | They don’t want to be told what to do, yet they hold public office to pass laws to let their people do just about whatever they want to do.
We want to carry guns out in the open, they say. Get the slowpokes out of the left lane on the interstate. We ain’t going to wear masks because we don’t believe in them, regardless of what your science says. We know better than you and we’ve got the power so you can go to hell.
These are South Carolina’s Red Snowflakes, a politicized cadre of people loyal to former President Donald Trump. They often claim to be religious, but seem to forget most of the New Testament — the part about “loving your neighbor as yourself.” Instead, they’re seemingly tickled to be able to get to the “eye for an eye” part of the Old Testament by now allowing firing squads as a way to execute those on death row.
The leader of the whiny Red Snowflakes seems to be Gov. Henry McMaster, who like his idol Trump, has poo-pooed mask mandates throughout the pandemic and downplayed medical science. Why? To keep almighty business humming throughout the worst global pandemic in a century.
Yet almost 10,000 South Carolinians died so far. You’ve got to wonder how many wouldn’t have succumbed to coronavirus if South Carolinians, led by leaders with safety in their hearts, would have been more cautious.
Earlier this week — before the Centers for Disease Control relaxed mask recommendations for vaccinated people — McMaster issued an executive order to end mask mandates statewide, a move that sent school boards and local governments into a tizzy to figure out how to react.
The governor’s order, State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman said, rippled chaos throughout South Carolina as officials didn’t have time to prepare. But what’s worse is because most kids in schools aren’t vaccinated, they’re now more at risk during the last month before school ends.
So what you see is McMaster, immensely sensitive to the mask-haters, trying to score political points in the ongoing culture wars in an unbridled attempt to appease his GOP base. Oh, did we mention a governor’s race is coming up — and McMaster is expected to be challenged from the right?
“McMaster is running in 2022 and wants to run on a humming economy since the pandemic started,” one observer told us. “He wants to offer himself as a smart executive weathering the pandemic and maintaining the economy that is flat out untrue. But the truth is irrelevant in politics. A humming economy campaign needs to have just the ‘crazies’ wearing masks. McMaster’s intent is to get rid of face masks using craven confusion.”
South Carolina is taking a pandemic victory lap too soon. Sure, businesses need business. But they need to remain careful so that the virus doesn’t spread.
Only 31 percent of South Carolinians are fully vaccinated, as of May 13. Only 38.3 percent have had one of two shots. That leaves six in 10 South Carolinians unvaccinated, including virtually all children under age 16.
“When the history of the pandemic in America is written,” one critic wrote us, “there will be a big chapter on the politicians like McMaster, who dithered and denied while people sickened and died from the virus—the vast majority who would have been spared if ‘leaders’ like Henry McMaster weren’t so … stubborn. Sure hope the voters remember this at the ballot box.”
Unfortunately, many won’t because they’re still falling for the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Trump and all of the little lies about the pandemic.
Keep safe. You can continue to mask up in crowded places — stores, schools and churches. And keep the masks handy because you’ll still be required to wear them on planes, trains and buses.
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South Carolina Snowflakes who have no desire to be goose stepped by far left and Marxist minded politicians and scientists. You should research how many of those ‘10,000 Covid deaths’ were actually Covid deaths? Why not research how many deaths in 2019 in SC were attributed to the flu and how many flu deaths were counted in 2020? Please, tell us how many people died in 2019 and in 2020 of the flu, just to compare the difference? Bet your newspaper doesn’t have the kohones to report the difference.
Keep your masks on! Wear three! Stay safe as you can! Don’t forget to keep wearing your three masks when you exercise too! Wait for your commissar to give you the all clear to remove your facial burkas, like Blue Socialist lemmings. Just keep waiting!
Thanks for, “McMaster is running in 2022 and wants to run on a humming economy since the pandemic started,” one observer told us. “He wants to offer himself as a smart executive weathering the pandemic and maintaining the economy that is flat out untrue. But the truth is irrelevant in politics. A humming economy campaign needs to have just the ‘crazies’ wearing masks. McMaster’s intent is to get rid of face masks using craven confusion.”
I hope it crystalizes the thinking of some of your readers. During the pandemic, McMaster went 4 for 4 screwing up the shutdown, masking, school openings and vaccinations. These accidents are pilot error.
Your one sentence in the middle of “red snowflakes”
about “truth in politics being irrelevant “ is so true more so today than I can remember in the past 60+ years!!
I am ceased to me amazed by the rhetoric of the left. McMasters has done a great job balancing safety for both health and the economy. If I hear follow the science one more time, I am going to lose my mind. I have spent hundreds of hours researching the vaccine (treatment), masks, and covid. I have listened to doctors, virologist, biologist etc. all over the world with many different opinions. I also have a close friend that is an industrial hygienist that has done a 3 month experiment on many different types of masks. His research will be public soon. They don’t work….AT ALL. It saddens me that so many people feed into the fear based tactics to control the public. Why are doctors not talking about ivermectin, vitamin D, or encouraging people to have a healthy immune system. Becase there is no money in it for the pharmaceutical companies. Shame on you Mr. Brack. It is so typical to bring up Trumps name. We are over it, why can’t the left move past it. We are not all Qantas. You go ahead a where that make that does noting that keeps dividing our country. You go ahead and take that vaccine that has not been tested for years or approved by the CDC. You go ahead and encourage people to use their children as guinea pigs for Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnsonand Johnson. I take Covid very serious. But I want real science and testing, not paid for doctors that do what big Pharma tells them and don’t have the courage to speak out. Good luck with your hit pieces. Truth always prevails in the end.