Austin, Texas mayor Steve Adler joined the long list of politicians who have been called out for hypocrisy during the coronavirus outbreak. While on vacation in Mexico, he filmed a video telling his constituents why they must obey his COVID orders, urging them to stay home.
The New York Times reported that Alder flew on a private jet to Mexico and then told his constituents, “We need you to, you know, stay home if you can.”
Emily Williams Knight, the chief executive of the Texas Restaurant Association, told KXAN-TV that Alder’s orders to close down bars and restaurants badly damaged the industry in the city.
“It’s hypocrisy at its best,” she said.
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Last week, Sheila Kuehl, the Los Angeles County supervisor, was also called out for hypocrisy after she was caught dining outside at an Italian restaurant in Santa Monica just hours after voting to close outdoor dining in the city.
ABC 7 reported that a protest broke out in front of Kuehl’s home on Saturday over the closure of outdoor dining. Many at the protest said they invested heavily to accommodate outdoor dining amid the outbreak. The ban is expected to last for the next three weeks, which will directly affect the holiday season for these restaurants.
“They yank us back and forth,” said Camila Dizon, the owner of The Oaks Tavern in Sherman Oaks. “All of a sudden we have all these bills that we can’t pay because they tell us the day of the shutdown that you can’t work anymore.”
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Up north in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed admitted she joined seven others to celebrate the birthday of Gorretti Lo Lui, who was described in reports as a prominent socialite. Mayor Breed attended the party at the French Laundry – the same restaurant that attracted Newsom. Fox News pointed out that three days after Breed returned to the city from Napa Valley, she banned all indoor dining in San Francisco.
SFGate.com reported that Breed did not technically break any guidelines by dining at the restaurant, yet, she admitted she broke the “spirit” of the law. Governor Breed said,
“As I said yesterday, it doesn’t matter if I was technically… if I was technically violating local health orders, because I know that as mayor, I should hold myself to a higher standard – I understand that. My job just isn’t to lead by the letter of the law, but to lead in the spirit of it. I understand that and I’m committed to doing better.”
She added, “No one is perfect, and certainly not me.”
TRENDPOST: Yes, “No one is perfect,” and certainly not her, but politicians think they are until they get caught… and then they spew out slimy little lines of apology. When, in truth and in fact, they are not sorry for what they did – they are just sorry they got caught.
TRENDPOST: One of the main arguments health officials and politicians face from business owners is they are not presenting the science that makes the case that dining outside is a higher risk for people than, for example, shopping at Home Depot or Target.
The ABC 7 report said the protesters wanted Kuehl to produce evidence supporting the claim that dining outside is a greater risk, which she did not.
The same questions were raised when governors and mayors put curfews in place. Where is the science that says the risk of COVID transmission somehow increases after 10:01 PM?
TRENDPOST: Politicians and health officials are intent for not allowing citizens to return to their normal way of life. Instead, they are creating a Great Reset of a new ABnormal.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, touted by the Presstitutes and politicians as America’s top disease expert, told CNBC that even with an effective vaccine, it will not be like a “light switch” back to normalcy.
Jonathan Van-Tam, the U.K.’s deputy chief medical officer, recently said that Britons could very well wear some kind of face covering for years. “I think those kind of habits that we’ve learned from that clearly stop the spread of other respiratory viruses such as flu will perhaps persist for many years,” Van-Tam told reporters, making references to mask-wearing and hand sanitizer. “And that may be a good thing if they do.”
