Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, the place your humble scribe culls by way of the most effective tales within the states of California, Oregon, and Washington to convey you solely the important highlights.
And there go the masks mandates. All three West Coast, Messed Coast governors have gazed into the Orb, seen pictures of pitchforks, tar, and feathers, and have concluded that the charade is over.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will take away out of doors masks mandates on Monday.
He’s launched a plan whose acronym will make any self-respecting information observer shudder at its gaslighting audacity. He calls it the “SMARTER” plan.
NEW: The subsequent section of California’s COVID-19 response is right here.
The SMARTER Plan focuses on what works, based mostly on classes realized from the final 2 years –
Photographs
Masks
Consciousness
Readiness
Testing
Schooling
Rx remedies— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 17, 2022
Newsom declared that he was the primary governor within the nation to have an “endemic” response. To which PolitiBunny had a reply.
DeSantis, Abbott, and Youngkin say hello … https://t.co/KcF5hgmSHs
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) February 19, 2022
Fast query for the governor: is an endemic an emergency too?
Newsom’s lackey, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, has gazed into The Orb this week to find that masks received’t be wanted indoors on March 21. He made the announcement however didn’t hassle to finish his emergency powers, saying he wanted to have an emergency declared to maintain the federal grift going.
Vaccine passports are canceled in early March simply in time for big occasions just like the upcoming Paul McCartney live performance and baseball when the gamers’ union beef is over.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, who’s by no means missed a chance to wield her energy towards the proletariat, seems to be to be the final governor standing when her masks edicts finish on March 31. “On that date, native faculty districts will have the ability to make impartial choices about their very own COVID-19 mitigation protocols,” reviews a local news station. In different phrases, she has handed the struggle with academics’ unions on to each faculty district within the state. What a profile in braveness.
All the things’s higher in Oregon. Besides costs. Faculties. General well being. Taxes.
Hey #Oregon – hold voting Democrat pic.twitter.com/Vk1D6BAjnU
— Hidden (@jaredhidden) February 19, 2022
In different information from the Woke West, I’ve the unhappy responsibility of informing you this week that we’ve all been racists with out even understanding it. Fortunately, the woke mob has made us conscious, so I dolefully and dutifully convey you the information.
Outstanding: a wise public well being regulation must be repealed just because racism is so endemic within the police power that they can not be trusted to implement the regulation pretty: https://t.co/BWSQSbmQf2 [corrected link]
— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) February 19, 2022
This week we realized that bike helmets are white supremacist, racist gadgets and the enforcement of legal guidelines requiring them are racist. However take coronary heart, as a result of there’s an enormous upside to the governmental response to perceived racism. Anticipate it.
This week the King County, Wash. (larger Seattle) well being poobahs rescinded the legal guidelines requiring bicyclists within the state’s most populous county to put on helmets. The King County Board of Well being voted 11-2 to eliminate the requirement as a result of “BIPOC riders and riders experiencing homelessness … are bearing the brunt of disproportionate enforcement, citations and costs,” Board Chair Joe McDermott declaimed.
Encouraging folks to make use of helmets and directing them to cheaper helmets is the brand new plan of action. In fact, bike fans have agitated for years to deep-six the helmet legislation, however the well being board wanted a greater purpose than mere freedom to eliminate it. As we realized this week on the pages of the Washington Submit, “freedom” is a white supremacist assemble. Voila! Helmets are racist as a result of black folks and the homeless and others get ticketed at a larger charge to the proportion of ridership.
Positive it’s dumb, however right here’s the upside: do you assume we might get woke scolds all around the nation to search out inherent “racism” in different onerous and costly rules in order that they’d throw these out? Think about if we might get them to finish rules after discovering racism in constructing codes. Assume about it. Discover “racism” and get cheaper housing! They might do it to convey down the value of liquor and even cut back prosecutions of conservatives!
In these dystopian occasions, when leaders like Justin Trudeau inveigh towards us for “tak[ing] up house” prompting him to ponder the query, “will we tolerate these folks?” we have to take our wins the place we are able to discover them.
Washington state is mulling over the thought of creating a separate Amber Alert system for “missing Indigenous people.” The proposed new alert, we’re informed, “would turn out to be part of the Endangered Lacking Individual Advisory plan and contain radio and tv stations, cable and satellite tv for pc methods, and social media platforms to boost the general public’s potential to help in restoration efforts of lacking Indigenous folks,” you already know, like the opposite alerts.
Even The New York Instances is aware of there’s election chicanery. New York Instances columnist Nicholas Kristof stop his gig on the Grey Girl, packed his carpet bag, and headed to Oregon, the place he hasn’t lived in a long time, to run for governor. Even the woke Leftist acknowledged that Oregon wouldn’t hassle to double-check his residency standing. However his lead opponent within the Democrat Occasion, the sadly named Tina Kotek, was to not be denied by some graying upstart who used to reside in Oregon.
This week, the Oregon Supreme Courtroom dominated the graying upstart could not run for governor.
Now, let’s exit to dinner!
Restaurant house owners throughout Portland say in the event you exit to eat, count on a better invoice. That is as a result of meals costs spiked about 13% within the final yr.https://t.co/e3VIJp0DqK
— KATU Information (@KATUNews) February 19, 2022
‘Til subsequent the West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, I bid you adieu.
Source: Large League Politics