So what’s the difference?

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Sept 21

RE: Washington State grapples with Idaho COVID cases.  By Mike Baker of the New York Times.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 14 Sept 21.

The main stream media blew its credibility by politicizing the COVID pandemic.  Anything to beat Trump. It continues in the same vein with stories reporting that Washington State is grappling with Idaho’s COVID cases.  It’s like Ontario didn’t take some Manitoba COVID emergencies, or Toronto didn’t off-load COVID cases to Hamilton.

Progressive, Democrat-voting Washington State boasts one of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S. while Trump-supporting Idaho has one of the lowest.  Washington State also has mask mandates, vaccination mandates, and quarantines upon mere exposure, the whole ball of wax.  Yet, Washington State is “reeling under its own surge of coronavirus cases.”  Surgeries are postponed, patients are backed up in emergency rooms, and nurses are working brutal shifts.

Idaho has none of the mandates or COVID protocols in place, and it too has overloaded hospitals, to the point where hospitals in Idaho are looking to send patients to Washington State.  “If you have your health care system melting down, the idea that you would not immediately issue a mask mandate is just bizarre,” said a Washington State health care official, bizarrely unaware of the ineffectiveness of masks.

There appears no difference in health problems in both states despite differences in approach to handling COVID, but Idaho gets slammed and Washington State gets the favored treatment in the story.  No interest in why the same problem despite different approaches.

Now drunk with power and its new-found ability to cancel and censor all opposition, it’s all politics all the time, even in pandemics.  Progressive politics.

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