The Placer Way
Mandates are ending everywhere, but the Legislature’s “Vaccine Work Group” wants to relive the glory days. You can follow the status of their irresponsible bills here. I believe we can defeat each and every one of them.
Newsom, meanwhile, is patting himself on the back. His Public Health Department declared it “couldn’t be prouder” of our COVID response. Personally, I couldn’t be prouder of all the communities that fought back and ignored him.
Take Placer, my home county. We were the first to end the local emergency and earliest to open schools. The county supported our lawsuit against Newsom and passed our anti-lockdown Resolution. Our school district started the mask choice snowball that forced Newsom’s hand.
Through it all, the editorial page of the Sacramento Bee called us “reckless,” “COVID deniers,” “anti-science extremists,” and “conspiracy theorists.” Yet to its credit, the paper has now issued a mea culpa.
In a detailed story headlined “Placer County was ground zero for COVID culture wars. How did its approach work out?” the Bee essentially admits we got it right, concluding “Placer County’s per capita COVID-19 death rate is about two-thirds that of the state average.”
Our businesses stayed open, our kids kept learning, our citizens were left to make their own decisions, and our COVID response focused on protecting the vulnerable. This result was outcomes far better than Newsom inflicted on the rest of the state.
To counter Newson’s inane new slogan, The California Way, I’d offer The Placer Way. Or the way of El Dorado, or many other places that charted their own course. Ultimately, this is The American Way: entrusting power to local communities and their citizens.
That’s why I’m only now getting around to mentioning that last week, the Senate voted to keep the State of Emergency. As pathetic as this is, it hardly matters. The emergency is over and the people of California have moved on.
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