TX Senator Ted Cruz fundraising for cheap labor lobby Senator from Alaska

The junior senator from Texas sent out a fundraising email asking people make a campaign contributions to a fellow senator who supports jobs for foreign nationals at the expense of unemployed American citizens.

Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his broadcast last week to call out nine Republican Senators who signed a letter addressed to President Trump asking for NO suspension of non-immigrant, work-based visas and other job protections for foreign nationals.

Republican Sens. Graham, Cornyn, Crapo, Risch, Rounds, Young, Murkowski, Sullivan and Lankford write President Trump to urge him not to restrict temporary, work-based visas, which they say will help the economic recovery pic.twitter.com/BPDjcjUXyR

— Michelle Hackman (@MHackman) May 27, 2020

The implication is from their perspective putting foreign nationals back to work takes precedence over putting unemployed Americans back to work.

Unfortunately and undoubtedly unknown to his constituents back home, Texas Senator Ted Cruz attached his name to a fundraising email for one of his fellow cheap labor lobby loving senators from Alaska---Dan Sullivan.

In an earlier post County Examiner reported former Texas Governor and President George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove also gave every appearance of actively torpedoing President Trumps America First agenda by supporting an American Last illegal alien amnesty candidate running against incumbent Iowa Congressman Steve King.

Now it looks like we can add Texas Senator Ted Cruz to the list of Republicans advocating against President Trumps America First agenda, preferring economic prosperity and jobs for foreign nationals while American citizens get government welfare and socialism.

BTW, Ted Cruz's fundraising email for Sullivan has caught the attention of one of his legal American Latino constituents in Houston.

Thanks for the heads up. .@SenTedCruz & .@JohnCornyn no response from your office still from email. .@TuckerCarlson stay on this!!!!! My job and the 40mil others matter more than #h1bvisa https://t.co/KzWzv5vbCA

— SuznHtown (@dsusieQ69) May 31, 2020

Report: Karl Rove, Will Hurd torpedoing President Trumps' American First agenda

Reports indicate the former George W. Bush advisor and soon-to-be former Texas Congressman Will Hurd are actively working to torpedo President Trumps' America First agenda by ensuring Rep. Steve King of Iowa loses his re-election effort.

Big League Politics has the analysis of a Politico article reporting a full frontal assault on the re-election efforts of King with the help of Texas' Karl Rove and Will Hurd: (emphasis mine)

"The congressman for Iowa’s 4th district is being targeted by the Republican establishment for previous comments that were distorted by the Fake News media. 

Politico reported that “Major Republican power players in Washington and Iowa — from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and operative Karl Rove, to former Gov. Terry Branstad and evangelical leaders — have ganged up to take him down.” 

“It’s business, it’s conservative and more moderate, too. It’s basically the whole collection,” declared Nick Ryan, a long-time GOP operative who has opposed King. “You’re seeing all segments of the Republican Party really coming together and working together in an effort to defeat King, and that’s something that’s never happened before. 

Although he has a strong base of support due to his immigration patriotism, establishment Republicans have been trying to do everything they can to unseat him. 

Iowa State Senator Randy Feenstra is challenging King in the Republican primary.

Politico featured the contributions of soon-to-be former Texas Congressman Will Hurd  to Kings primary opponent.

"In a rare rebuke of a sitting colleague, five members of the House GOP conference have donated to Feenstra: Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.), Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Will Hurd (R-Texas), who recently launched a group to help diversify the GOP ranks."

The Iowa Standard reported Feenstra is endorsed by the cheap labor lobby which wants amnesty for illegal aliens.

By supporting amnesty for illegal aliens Karl Rove and Will Hurd are essentially campaigning on behalf of jobs and economic prosperity for foreign nationals, preferring  socialism and government welfare dependence for American citizens, especially todays teenagers and college graduates who want to work in the trades, healthcare and technology.

Republican Party of Texas communications guru exposed for anti-Trump comments

A communications consultant for the Republican Party of Texas is being exposed for his anti-Trump comments back in August 2016 AFTER then candidate Donald J. Trump was already the Republican Party nominee for President.

Big League Politics has the story of Rob Jesmer as the lead consultant for Alabama GOP Senate candidate Tommy Tuberville and adds a Breitbart News report highlighting Jesmer's role in advocating for the cheap labor lobby, amnesty for illegal aliens and a never-ending supply for white collar foreign workers that would replace American workers(emphasis mine):

"Jesmer was “Zuckerberg’s chief GOP aide for FWD.us, the billionaire’s cheap labor lobbying group that advocates giving amnesty to illegal aliens, as well as allowing Silicon Valley tech giants to have an unlimited supply of white-collar foreign workers.”

However the BLP article reveals another troubling aspect amid the mounting skepticism around Tuberville's campaign team.

Recognize the name Brendan Steinhauser of Steinhauser Stragtegies?

As recently as November 2019, Federal Election Commission records reveal the Republican Party of Texas disbursed $3000.00 to Steinhauser Strategies for "Press/ Communications Consulting".

Former Alabama U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is running for his old Senate seat and will face Tuberville in the July 14, 2020 Alabama GOP primary.

Do James Dickey and the Republican Party of Texas still believe President Trump is a shill for Putin? Did the RPT even vet Steinhauser on social media before hiring the firm?

Better yet - knowing the Republican Party of Texas paid Steinhauser for comms consulting just six months ago and after seeing the above tweet, you gotta wonder if folks within the RPT are quietly working to help the Tuberville campaign defeat Sessions. 

County Examiner has an answer to that question- stay tuned. 

HERE WE GO: Florida statutes banning the wearing of masks

During this age of coronavirus the mask-wearing edicts of elected officials in some Florida counties are an unmitigated disaster that created a patchwork of local executive orders virtually impossible for anyone traveling around the state to keep up with. 

And wearing a mask would be violations of certain Florida statutes. 

Officials in Osceola County, Florida mandated the wearing of masks in public "until further notice; thank goodness their initial threat of 60 days in jail and a fine of up to $500 was eventually rescinded.

Meanwhile over in Miami Beach  the Mayor announced an emergency measure ordering customers and employees to wear face masks at grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies at the risk of being turned away from the businesses. 

And the Miami Beach order failed to go through  the standard city council, public health department, open meeting, public comment process. 

Wanna know why?

I'm no attorney but I know how to look up Florida statutes.

Meet Florida chapter 876.(emphasis mine)

876.11 Public place defined.—For the purpose of ss. 876.11-876.21 the term “public place” includes all walks, alleys, streets, boulevards, avenues, lanes, roads, highways, or other ways or thoroughfares dedicated to public use or owned or maintained by public authority; and all grounds and buildings owned, leased by, operated, or maintained by public authority.

876.12 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way.—No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state.

876.13 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property.—No person or persons shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the state.

And last I checked, executive orders do not override the state Constitution. 

Take the mask off, put the mask back on - but not while you're in a parking lot, public street (while your driving??). Yes, I know, context is everything --the totality of the circumstances should be considered by law enforcement before arresting someone wearing a mask.

But why take chance?

Like I said, a patchwork of orders with consequences that could expose you (no pun intended) to misdemeanor or felony charges.

No thanks. No mask for me.

NRCC adds protector of alledged child molestor to their 2020 "Young Guns" Congressional candidate list

The National Republican Congressional Committee added a defendant accused of refusing medical and mental treatment to a child sexually abused by a volunteer at the Fort Bend County Juvenile Justice Detention Center to their 2020 "Young Guns" Congressional candidate list.

After Texas held their March 2020 Republican primaries, no candidate running in the race for Texas 22nd Congressional District advanced outright to the November general election. Two candidates, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and businesswoman Kathaleen Wall will face each other in a primary runoff currently scheduled for July 14, 2020.

On Friday May 8 CE noticed Sheriff Nehls now appears in the "On The Radar" section of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) "2020 Young Guns" Congressional candidate list.

On May 5th, we exclusively reported a motion hearing in the child sex molestation case against Fort Bend County and the Fort Bend County Sheriff would be held Monday May 11, 2020.

Background on the sex scandal at the county juvenile detention center can be viewed here courtesy of Wayne Dolcefino of Dolcefino Consulting.

Remarks shared with Governors on the May 18 call with President Trump and the First Lady

On Monday May 18, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosted a video conference with all 50 state Governors. In the event your local media outlet has not published the remarks made to the Governors by Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. McCance-Katz  on reopening the American economy, you can view the video and read the transcript here.

What she tell the Governors to consider? 

All American lives are precious and not every parent can survive the mental anguish of being unable to feed, care for their family due to lost unemployment.


Scroll to the 31:09 minute mark

DR. MCCANCE-KATZ: Mr. President, Vice President Pence, members of the Cabinet, and colleagues, as I've listened to states and communities struggle with mental illness issues that have arisen as a result of the virus, I wanted to ensure that governors, yesterday, heard these concerns from a medical perspective.

As my physician colleagues on the task force have been careful to rightly note, their perspective and advice centers on one aspect of the pandemic: virus containment. However, even medically, it is not the sole perspective. I felt that it was important to offer the governors a different, albeit equally important, medical perspective.

As such, I made the following remarks:

It is my privilege to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use. But today, I really speak to you more as a psychiatrist who also happens to hold a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology.

Never did I imagine the nation would be experiencing the coinciding of mental health issues and infectious disease that my training addressed. The research literature is clear on the effects of quarantine and stay-at-home practices on mental health. We know that the longer the duration of these orders, the greater the intensity of the mental health problems experienced. We also know that these symptoms persist for years to come, even once quarantine is lifted. The data tells us that when the lives of adults, children, and families are drastically changed for extended lengths of time, for many, anxiety, depression, and stress disorders will become manifest and will persist. These are real health conditions with potentially long-lasting consequences that must be taken seriously.

To put all of this in perspective, I believe it is important to point out that, pre-pandemic, we lose 120,000 lives a year to drug overdose and suicide. How many more lives are we willing to sacrifice in the name of containing the virus?

When we look at strategies to reopen, as a medical doctor, I ask that you take into account whole health, not just one narrow aspect of physical health. We continually ask ourselves what the health costs and risks may be of reopening, but I ask: What might they be of not reopening or reopening in such a restrictive way that American lives are not restored? Of course, containing the effects of coronavirus are critically important, but so too is preventing suicide. So too is keeping a person from being terrified to ever leave their home. So too is protecting the mental health of our nation's young people.

I ask you to remember that not every home is a safe home. Not every individual can withstand the trauma of not seeing or interacting physically with loved ones. Not every parent can survive the mental anguish of not being able to feed their children because of lost employment. Not every child can exist in a healthy way without the structure and support of school. We have to take a step back and recognize the other effects of our policies.

While we contain the virus, are we increasing the risk for suicide and drug overdose? Are we creating a future of substance use and addiction for millions of additional Americans? And if we are doing those things, why have we decided collectively that this is okay? We've worked so hard in states and communities across this country to combat epidemics like the opioids crisis. Why are we willing to forget those efforts now or deem them less important?
As a psychiatrist, I would argue that a life lost to suicide is just as important as a life lost to coronavirus. A family who loses someone to drug overdose experiences the same grief as a family who loses a loved one to coronavirus. Let us not forget that all American lives are precious.

Our citizens count on us to remember their health and safety in all aspects of life. The preservation of Americans’ health and the health of our citizens cannot be measured by only one metric. Virus containment cannot be our only goal, no matter the cost to Americans.
If we ignore the reality of the enormous mental health strain we’ve put on our citizens on the backdrop of an already overburdened mental healthcare system, I'm saddened but certain that the next major public health crisis of our time will be that of mental and substance use disorders, and it is not far behind.

I urge you to factor this reality into your planning, and I thank you for the work you've done thus far on behalf of the millions of Americans with mental and substance use disorders.

President Trump remarks on our ranchers, farmers and food supply

President Trump met in the Roosevelt Room of the White House today with several of our country's farmers and ranchers to discuss the nations food supply. One guest from Florida is of special note; Marty Smith, a Florida rancher serving this year as President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

A plentiful supply of beef and pork are back on the shelves of many SW Florida supermarkets.

Scroll to the 25:33 minute mark to hear Mr. Smiths' remarks:




MR. SMITH: Thank you, Mr. President. You have provided unprecedented leadership and -- to the United States and to the world throughout this crisis. And with that, you've shown so much concern and so much support for American agriculture. And on behalf of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the rest of agriculture, I want to say thank you.

I'm Marty Smith and I'm a rancher from Florida and serving this year as President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Your executive order a few weeks ago directed toward the packers -- we're starting to see the impact of that. We're getting beef, pork back online and getting the products back on the shelf.

You know, America's farmers and ranchers continue to work around the clock to feed the public, to feed all of our nation, to feed a lot part of the -- a large part of the world. What you've done with that and what we're doing with this -- with this current program enables us to stay in business and continue to do that.

Again, we thank you for that. We thank your administration. Working with Secretary Perdue has just been a great way for us to all move forward.

But even more importantly than that, I want to thank you and your family. You know, with us it's all about our families and our family operation. Your family is just as dedicated to this. And, Ivanka, we thank you for the support you've shown to us. It's just -- it's so meaningful. And together we get through this and we do beat this. And we keep the highest quality, safest, most-sustainable protein sources on the plate of Americans all through this. And we thank you.

Full remarks here.

How is YOUR county using CARES Act dollars?

Question: are your local county commissioners promoting how taxpayer money allocated through the CARES Act signed by President Trump is helping distressed workers get through the coronavirus crisis? 

The horror stories have been on the news for weeks; people suddenly out of work, unable to make their rent, mortgage, utility payments and put food on the table due to the decision to shutdown the American economy due to the coronavirus crisis. 

In a County Examiner exclusive, we take a peek into how one Southwest Florida county board of commissioners propose spending over $134 million received under the Act.

But first a recap:

As a supplement to the Paycheck Protection Program Federal coronavirus stimulus checks of up to $1200 per adult and $500 per dependent were electronically deposited or mailed to eligible families. Federal Enhanced Re-employment relief provided an additional $600 weekly benefit for individuals eligible for state Reemployment Assistance benefits.

Under the $2.2 trillion CARES Act $150 billion was also allocated to provide financial relief for families, government and business impacted by the public health crisis (Lee County, Florida public information)

Under the CARES Act Florida received $8.328 billion; $4.6 billion for the state and $3.7 for local governments:

Using the presentation to the Lee County (Southwest Florida) Board of Commissioners $194 million was allocated to the County Board of Commissioners, LeeTran, Human Services, Public Safety, the Lee County Port Authority and the Lee County Sheriff's Office as follows:

As for individual assistance the presentation recommended Lee County Commissioners devote over $23 million to help eligible households with mortgage, rent and utilities relief.

There's also a proposed voucher program for daycare assistance so parents can return to work :

The above presentation to the Lee County Board of Commissioners was a spending proposal; when the minutes from the May 12 board meeting are certified, County Examiner will report on the final spending plan. 

Open government advocates IMHO should obtain this information from their own county governments so they can "follow the money" and ensure your taxpayer dollars are spent as they were intended.

Texas Congressman explains "problem" with the work ethic of Americans

Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw subscribes to the cheap foreign labor lobby line that Americans are lazy and a bunch of bums. He has zero experience working as an entrepreneur nor FOR an entrepreneur and knows nothing of working in a private sector job. He clearly has no understanding of the concept of career progression---where the skills acquired working entry-level jobs in the trades and service industry lay the foundation for progressing to a better paying job in another industry such as oil & gas and sales.

He knows nothing about Federal and state workplace laws like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and the Fair Labor Standards Act  violations which occur in his backyard; in his home state of Texas. And he fails to acknowledge Americans know their constitutional rights in the workplace.

An individual lacking this knowledge, experience and wisdom should not be a Congressman, says one of my Houston, Texas friends.

Two days ago, on May 13 the District Herald reported on remarks made by the representative during a Leadership Institute Digital Town Hall (emphasis mine):

The representative claimed that places that had fewer immigrants, citing Alabama, couldn’t find workers to do those jobs. This, Crenshaw asserted, is a problem with the work ethic of Americans, not with business owners who prefer to pay ultra low-wages to foreign nationals. 

“That’s an American cultural problem that I wish we could fix,” Crenshaw said. “I wish our teenagers would actually go to work. They don’t.” 

Crenshaw added that he has to be “sympathetic” to “some of these business owners who are creating jobs and creating wealth in America, creating growth, building things — they can’t do it without anybody working there.” 

“For some reason, people who speak English just won’t go work there,” Crenshaw said.

People who speak English won't work there? Won't work in the trades? Won't work in the service industry? 

Congressman Crenshaw seems to also lack awareness of a time when vocational training and education courses were elective offerings in the public high schools. My now-deceased  father taught woodworking and mechanical drawing aka "shop class" at the high school level for over 25 years.

Wonder why high schools stopped offering those courses decades ago.

As I wrote earlier, he believes Americans are lazy and a bunch of bums. Wait until his constituents find out.

  

Dear Hospitals: please rethink your bans on visitors for female patients

Well intentioned policies to designed to keep female patients safe in hospitals may have the opposite effect.

Media outlets are publishing the details of precautions South Florida hospital administrators are implementing to keep non-COVID 19 patients "safe" from exposure to the coronavirus. A recent Miami Herald article reported the precautions of four South Florida hospitals include suspension of visitors (with a few, limited exceptions). 

While this policy of barring family, friends, husbands, boyfriends, relatives from visiting their female relatives, spouse or partner in the hospital portends to keep the female patient "safe" from exposure to COVID-19  the policy may well have the unintended effect of exposing the female patient to the risk of sexual assault and rape from male hospital employees.

It's not like it hasn't happened before. In Florida.

In February 2020 a 30-year old physical therapist employed at a Tampa hospital was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a female hospital patient (emphasis mine):

TAMPA, Fla. — A 30-year-old physical therapist was arrested Monday after deputies say he was caught sexually assaulting a hospital patient. 

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said late Monday night, an alarm began to sound in the room of a 75-year-old patient at St Joseph's Hospital South. When a nurse went to check out a live feed from inside the room, she said she saw Regginald Jackson sexually assaulting the woman, according to the sheriff's office. 

Jackson is employed as a physical therapist at the hospital in Tampa, according to detectives. 

Detectives said they tried to question Jackson about the incident, but he refused to comment on the allegations.  

Jackson was charged with sexual battery and booked into the Orient Road Jail.

In January 2020 a former Cape Coral male nurse accused of raping a female patient was found guilty.

CAPE CORAL, FLA — UPDATE: The jury has found Jeovanni Hechavarria guilty on all counts of Sexual Battery. The State asked that Hechavarria remain in custody and the Judge agreed. 

He was sentenced to  30 years in prison.

It's not clear if these "no visitation" hospital policies were developed by the hospitals themselves or mandated by the state. In either case and as can often occur, policies that sound great; designed to "do good" by protecting people from one type of risk can cause more harm by exposing them to another. 

White House Press Secretary to media: err, about that Johns Hopkins study you're pushing around

"As Johns Hopkins stated, their study should not be taken as a forecast".

You know the study I'm referring to. It's the study pushed around by some in the media as factual, a sort of forecast projecting the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1.

Sounds scary, huh?

National Review referred to the study in a May 5 article (emphasis mine):

The big story this morning is a study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, used in a draft government report, that projects the United States will have 200,000 cases of coronavirus infection per day by June 1, “a staggering jump that would be accompanied by more than 3,000 deaths each day.” The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention insisted it was a draft report and not officially endorsed, even though the report has the CDC logo on it.

Within two short hours, the White House put out a short quote from Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (again, emphasis mine):

“The Johns Hopkins’ study being pushed around by the media as factual is based on faulty assumptions and is in no way representative of any federal government projections and, as Johns Hopkins stated, should not be taken as a forecast. 

This “study” considered zero mitigation, meaning it was conducted as though no federal guidelines were in place, no contract tracing, no expansion of testing, while removing all shelter in place protocols laid out in the phased approach of the Opening Up America Again guidelines for individuals with co-morbidities. The media should be more responsible in its reporting and give the full set of information to the American public.”

See how news outlets put forth these studies, projections as factual--using doom and gloom scenarios to make their point while hiding the methodology behind the study from their readers?

Kayleigh McEnany is on the ball doing a great job for President Trump and the American people.

Hearing date set in child molestation case against Fort Bend County, County Sheriff

New motions filed in Federal court reveal a hearing date has been set in a child sex molestation case at the county juvenile detention center against Deborah Sutter, Fort Bend County, Troy Nehls, Fort Bend County Sheriff and over 16 known & unknown employees of Fort Bend County.

Background on the case is here courtesy of Wayne Dolcefino of Dolcefino Consulting: 

The attorney representing plaintiff Frank Thomas (think John Doe) subpoenaed York Risk Services, the County's insurance company to produce the insurance file --documents that would, should establish the County's compliance with the terms and conditions of their insurance agreement with York.

That file would necessarily include copies of reports with names, dates & times, photos & video, notes, conclusory statements and their authors, insurance adjuster notes, emails, (think everything you would share with your insurance company when making a claim) etc that would corroborate essentially all of the incidents forming the basis of the lawsuit against the defendants.

No surprise Fort Bend County does not want their insurance company to turn that entire claim file over to the plaintiff. 

And in an eight-page filing with the Court, neither does York Risk Services.

Citing the request as "overly broad, vague and ambiguous"; that they are a non-party to the case, York Risk Services also explains the production of the file poses an expense burden.

York also objects to the request because it seeks information or documents that are privileged or otherwise exempt from discovery pursuant to applicable privilege or protection, including the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine.

However according to plaintiff counsel, there's a teeny, tiny issue associated with York's and the County's objections.

Get this.

"York provided the entire claim file to Fort Bend County on April 13, 2020, four days before raising objections." 

Court records reveal a telephonic motion hearing is set for May 11 at 10:00 a.m.

Miami Beach mayor hopes stores refuse to serve customers not wearing a face mask

The idea is for the businesses to enforce the rule and turn away customers who do not have masks.

I've posted a few articles about the emerging public safety issue stemming from the SWFL media non-stop,day after day, over hyping the "safety" features of people wearing face masks in public---when in reality the message and the policies have resulted in just the opposite---four store customers and employees robbed by emboldened face mask-wearing thugs.

What would be the next rubicon crossed in the mask-wearing age of coronavirus? At the time I opined it might be the cultural phenomenon of public shaming--when I was a teenager we called it "peer pressure".

And I called it.

Over in the City of Miami Beach the Mayor actually hopes businesses refuse to service --under the pretext of "public health"---customers not wearing a facemask.

Courtesy of the Miami Herald (emphasis mine):

"...The city agrees, and on Friday Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber — with a tropical-themed mask in hand — announced an emergency measure ordering customers and employees to wear face masks at grocery stores, restaurants and pharmacies at the risk of being turned away from the businesses. 

The city’s new emergency measure, signed into law Friday evening (April 3) by City Manager Jimmy Morales, orders people to wear cloth masks, scarves, bandanas or other similar items to cover their faces. The order encourages residents not to purchase medical-grade masks. 

Like the city’s other emergency orders, violating the mask rule is a criminal offense. But, like smoking indoors, the cops aren’t going to arrest someone for baring their face at Publix, Gelber said. The idea is for the businesses to enforce the rule and turn away customers who do not have masks.

And it's a criminal offense that won't result in an arrest---noooooooo! We're waaaaayyy beyond the Rule of Law now. The Miami Beach mayor wants the business to refuse entry, hoping to shame, essentially guilt people into obeyance.

Keep in mind none of this went through the standard city council, public health department, open meeting, public comment process. 

Still think some of this mask-wearing, media overhype, virtue signaling is for "public health and safety"? Or to make people feelz good?