This was a part of the above article that I found particularly interesting and very, very fitting to this time in history.  VERY fitting, indeed.  I just HAD to share it.  Take a lesson!

Thank God the Governor of our State has chosen not to take charge like a ramrod in a cattle drive and is letting the state remain open and letting people decide for themselves what they feel is necessary.  I have NEVER been so glad to live where I do, even though I do not especially care for our Governor because we disagree on several other issues from the past.

Anyway, read the info I posted below and then buy the book called The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn.  And to think, at one time, I actually thought Franklin Roosevelt was a good guy.  Couldn't have been further from the truth.


"When the states formed the Union, they ceded power to a federal government cautiously, carefully granting to Congress enumerated powers and creating checks and balances to keep the federal government from evolving into tyranny. At least, that was the plan.

The states retained their historic “police power.” The police power is a state’s inherent authority to govern with a view toward its citizens’ health, safety, morals, and general welfare. Certainly, a state’s plenary powers are limited by the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions, but absent those restrictions, a state’s power is very broad.

Ordering lockdowns, then, is within the states’ authority, not that of the federal government. Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and anyone else advocating for a federally mandated lockdown either doesn’t understand the Constitution’s structure or doesn’t respect it.

On the federal level, emergency measures—no matter how necessary—always pose a danger to freedom. Historically, the exercise of authority triggered by an emergency brings to life a new federal power that never returns to the fully dormant posture from which it came. (I’d go further and say the power is created, but we maintain the ruse that it was always there and never exercised.) If you need an example of radical change in federal authority brought about by an emergency, look no further than President Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the Great Depression.

A state’s exercise of its police power in a time of crisis can be very frightening, too. I find our current lockdowns particularly chilling. They effectuate a sweeping deprivation of civil liberties and, in my opinion, many of the current lockdowns far exceed the uncontroverted evidence necessary to justify them.

This is one reason it is much better to have emergency powers exercised at the local level, where citizens can better control the leadership making the decisions. If lockdowns have to be implemented jurisdiction by jurisdiction, or state by state, they can’t be imposed with the same uniformity and force, and there is the option for a state to dissent and chart its own path, as Florida’s Gov. DeSantis did for some time."

The author failed to mention that quite a few other states (mine included) also have an "open state policy" right now, and thank God for it.  Many of us are grateful beyond words.