Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently appeared on the Caleb Hammer Podcast and said that she doesn’t want to ‘relive’ the policies she put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I bet she doesn’t.
I’m guessing her constituents don’t want to relive it either.
FOX News reports:
Gretchen Whitmer confronted on ‘weird’ COVID restrictions, says she did her best with poor informationGov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., was confronted about COVID-19 restrictions in Michigan during a conversation on Caleb Hammer’s “Financial Audit” show as the pair discussed the state’s finances.”I was a little annoyed when I came home for Christmas two years in a row. Like we had to eat outside, but we were in inside pods outside. It was a little weird, then I came back here, and then I could just do whatever,” Hammer told Whitmer.Hammer, who has more than 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, has blunt conversations with guests about their finances on “Financial Audit,” and Whitmer was his first political guest, according to his social media. Hammer has invited other governors and federal officials to come on the show as well.Whitmer agreed and said it was weird, and added, “Remember what the temperature was. Here [in Texas], you can walk around outside all day, right? But at home, in Michigan, in the winter, we’re all inside breathing on each other.””But if I was allowed to be inside outside, why couldn’t I just be inside inside?” Hammer asked.Whitmer said that he was “inside outside” with just a small group of people, though Hammer added that he was around servers and busers as well.”Listen, Caleb, none of us wants to go back and relive that. We were doing the best we could with very little or very bad information,” Whitmer said.
Here’s the clip:
Dining and seating policies were one thing. What about the restriction on buying seeds?
Unfortunately for Whitmer, while people don’t want to ‘relive’ these policies, no one is willing to just move on.
The Tampa Free Press provides this handy reminder of some of Whitmer’s other Covid-era policies:
Governor Whitmer’s handling of the pandemic, and several subsequent actions, drew significant backlash throughout 2020 and 2021.
- Dining Violation: In May 2021, Whitmer faced criticism and issued an apology after being caught violating her own restrictions by dining maskless indoors with a large group at a restaurant in East Lansing, exceeding the six-person table limit in place at the time. The administration rescinded that specific rule the following day.
- Business Closures: Numerous Michigan restaurants and businesses were forced to close due to the restrictions, leading to widespread economic concern.
- Travel and “Non-Essential” Items: Other contentious restrictions included a 2020 order preventing Michiganders from traveling “between two residences,” an order deeming home-improvement and gardening items like fruit and vegetable seeds as “non-essential,” and controversy over her husband reportedly seeking special treatment for a boat launch.
- Inauguration and Florida Trip: The Governor also traveled to Florida in March 2020, shortly before appearing on national television to urge others to avoid spring break travel there. She also attended former President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, a trip that critics argued contradicted her own guidance on travel and large gatherings.
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