Michigan Governor Whitmer Admits That Her Covid Restrictions ‘Don’t Make A Lot Of Sense’

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer revealed in a recent interview with CNN that in retrospect her Covid-19-related restrictions did not “make a lot of sense.”

She told CNN:

We had to make some decisions, that in retrospect, don’t make a lot of sense.

We didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies… It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway…

Some of those policies, I look back and think: that was maybe a little more than we needed to do.

She said

The gaslighting here is simply breathtaking. The orders (multiple) were in late March/early April (NOT February) and were so unclear that some stores put caution tape around entire aisles to not risk noncompliance. A bit of humility would be nice. https://t.co/vVrnSLBhZM

— Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) March 13, 2023

Whitmer’s Covid-related restrictions and prohibitions were objectionably some of the toughest in the country, with Whitmer banning the sale/purchase of seemingly random things that, frankly, made little sense, as Whitmer is now admitting.

Of the roughly 200 executive orders she filed during the initial wave of Covid fear and thereafter, Whitmer prohibited stores larger than 50,000 square feet from selling paint and home-improvement supplies, including advertising for “nonessential” goods. Even poperating a motorboat could usher in criminal charges, as could traveling to a secondary home. People who were not at their lake homes were initiated were not allowed to return to their homes.

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At one point Whitmer had even banned the sale of gardening seeds and lawncare supplies, labeling them as “not necessary.” Meanwhile things like liquor and booze were still allowed to be purchased. Her very vague order also led to one Walmart location banning the sale of baby strollers after misinterpreting the commands. Michiganders rebelled against this and heavily criticized these types of actions, leading Whitmer to rescind the executive order in April, 2020.

[The order has led to] confusion, [with residents] just trying to figure out why you can buy a lottery ticket and not seeds. I recognize that there a lot of passionate gardeners in Michigan and I’ve heard from a lot of you. Right now, my immediate concern is to try and keep everyone in Michigan safe.

She said at the time

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

When I think of Witchy Whitmer, I cannot help but hear the Eagles’ song Witchy Woman play in the back of my head…

Since I live right on the Indiana-Michigan border her draconian edicts effected me to certain extents, (not that I ever followed them – most did not either, as most Michiganders not in the cities do what they want). Just by the way she talks and looks, that woman is evil and a menace. Only now that countless families and businesses were destroyed in her wake does she now want to act innocent; because banning the sale of gardening seeds would ‘totally’ cause the spread of Covid, and probably engrain itself in the seeds and cause the unisolated virus to germinate too, right?!

[13] A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. [14] For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, [15] To call passengers who go right on their ways: [16] Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, [17] Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [18] But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 9:13-18

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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