Lock 'em Up!

As Covid tears through the South, the Twitterverse and Bob are sick of hearing about “personal responsibility.” They want the law to come down hard on those responsible. Red-state governors, beware.

Should Republican governors be held legally responsible for Covid deaths?

Twitter. Ugh. So careless, so unrigorous, so ideologically insufferable.

For example, just look at all the tweets directed at the governors of Florida and Texas, who are using their executive powers to keep school districts from mandating mask wearing. You know, that thing some schools are imposing to protect the kids and teachers packed in their states’ classrooms in the midst of the Delta variant’s deadly Southern rampage.

Cat Bess @cat_bess

@MSNBC Question, when a normal person willing endangers a child & that child dies they most likely will B charged with murder. DeSantis is willing & knowingly endangers children lives. Isn’t he liable 4 any harm 2 the child?

August 19th 2021

Dr. Elena Mikalsen @WF_writerEM

@GregAbbott_TX Governor Abbott is trying to murder Texas children while attacking President Biden about something happening outside the country. Take care of your state before you lecture others.

August 19th 2021

Solace Graves @graves_solace

@OccupyDemocrats These red state’s inhuman decisions are going to lead to dead children. Next we’ll be tweeting about the murder lawsuits against Abbott and DeSantis.

August 19th 2021

One Twitter user’s handle is “Governor Abbott Murders Children.” Yikes. Rage much?

I mean, not that these sentiments are indefensible. On the contrary, they are altogether defensible, as these Republican pols, along with the governors of Tennessee and Arizona, refuse to allow the most basic public-health protections for their states’ schoolchildren.