05-29-2020, 04:10 AM
(05-28-2020, 08:31 PM)bfine32 Wrote: And I'm one who thinks the rule of law should prevail at times over "rights". It's why i support what our Liberal Governor is doing. Admittedly, I'm one of the very lucky ones. I've been able to work from home while going into the office occasionally. We don't have a family member battling a life threatening illness that cannot get proper treatment due to restrictions.
I cannot speak as to how I'd feel if my family and my livelihood we jeopardized because of the government. There's no "right" answer during all of this, so it's why I take exception to folks on the sidelines that only live to point fingers.
Yeah, we're similar in that situational respect. Hell, my employer payed me to stay home and not work for almost two months. I took a major hit on my overtime pay, but still, I'm not exactly hurting. I get why someone who built a small business would be really upset right now, and if it were up to me, they'd be taken care of by the gubmnit due to the act-of-god nature of the pandemic.
Still, as you said, and as I've said before on here, the governors were put in a situation without much real information about how bad the virus would get or how quickly it would spread. Would you want to be the governor that watched a few thousand extra people die, or would you want to be the one that got accused of being a tyrant for using emergency powers, but still ended up with a relatively low death rate? I think a majority of Kentuckians thought Beshear did the right thing and hold him in solid regard. The ones going after him likely didn't like him to begin with and are doing what people do in the name of politics.