Thank God For Governors Like Andy Beshear!

 As the Corona Virus crisis deepens, cases and deaths increase, and the economy becomes steadily worse, many people all over the country and the world are panicking and becoming more and more bizarre in their actions both in public and private.  A man in Nelson County Kentucky has tested positive for the corona virus, refused to self quarantine, and

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear--Photo by Twitter.com

Governor Andy Beshear has been forced to place deputy sheriffs outside the man's house to keep him from infecting the general public.  Now the man denies he was ever tested for the virus and has approached several media outlets to make claims that he does not have the virus and is being held against his will.  So the natural question becomes 'whom do you believe'?  I believe Governor Andy Beshear and the health care workers and sheriff's deputies in Nelson County Kentucky and so should you.  I watch Governor Beshear's daily press conferences about the corona virus on most days.  I am consistently impressed with his calm, professional, ethical, and compassionate attitude every minute of every press conference. I can assure you that, in the middle of the worst health care crisis in this country since the polio outbreak of the early twentieth century, he has more things on his mind than having police officers holding an innocent idiot against his will.  

Most of the news outlets which have run stories from this man and his wife are marginal in their professionalism and veracity.  The Washington Post did run a story one day ago, on March 17, 2020, with the headline "Don’t want to self-quarantine? The sheriff could send armed guards to your house."  I must insist that the headline is a bit garish for the usual professional standards of the Washington post.  But the story states in the second paragraph that "He recently checked himself out of a University of Louisville hospital against his doctors’ advice and told the local health department he would not comply with an order to isolate himself from others."  You can bet your butt that the newspaper which has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes knows how to verify any statement made by any reporter in any story and would not make such a statement as a lead paragraph in a story if it had not been substantiated by the governor's office, the hospital, and the Nelson county health department.  Andy Beshear has already served one term as the attorney general of Kentucky and his law degree is from the University of Virginia which is one of the best law schools in the country other than those in the Ivy League.  He did not take this step lightly and he did not take this step without justification.  People like the man in question are willing to endanger their family, friends, and neighbors simply because they are ignorant, uncaring, and anti-social to the core.  At this time, when the great majority of Americans are doing their duty and staying at home to protect the rest of the human race, idiots like this are a major part of the reason the Corona Virus is spreading like wildfire all across the country. We should also remember that any person who has tested positive can transmit the virus whether or not they are showing symptoms.  I do not know the particular circumstances of another case nearly as well as I know those of the Nelson County case but a family in New Jersey has had three deaths, six other members hospitalized, and five of those in critical condition, with pending tests for nineteen others in the family.  Their story is a clear indication of just how dangerous it is for an infected person like the man in Nelson County to traipse lightly through an unsuspecting community.  If you or any other member of your family is infected, whether or not they are showing symptoms, insist that they remain in isolation for whatever period the local authorities require which is generally two weeks to be followed with two negative Corona Virus tests taken at least twenty-four hours apart.  Do your part!  Obey the standards established by the Centers For Disease Control to the letter!  Do not become an uncaring carrier whose actions contribute to the infections and deaths of other innocent victims!  And join me in thanking Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear for doing an excellent job in a horrible time!  #TeamKentucky  #togetherKY