Louisiana Knuckleheads Join Mississippi Group

Well you’ve got to give it to our esteemed Louisiana legislators.  Not only did they serve as puppets for the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) in making auto injury insurance claims more difficult for the average citizen under the unsupported guise that auto premiums will decrease, and increased corporate tax breaks adding to our state’s budget deficient for the next fiscal year, but they also may have contributed to the spread of COVID-19.

Several of our Republican legislators politicized the request from our governor to wear a mask during the most recently concluded legislative session.  They claimed it was an infringement on their “self- rights” and supported our Commander-in-Chief in his refusal to wear one.

Sadly, Mississippi, the state that joins Louisiana in ranking at the bottom in many national polls, also had die hard legislators who decided to flaunt wearing masks to make a political statement.

Thursday, it was reported by the Mississippi State Health Officer, Thomas Dobbs, that 36 people who work at the capital have tested positive for COVID-19, including 26 legislators. That figure means that 1 in 6 legislators have contracted the virus.  Included in these numbers were the leaders of both legislative chambers.

Now some may argue this is no big deal unless these folks get seriously ill. And truthfully some may never experience any symptoms at all.

However, all now serve as virus spreaders, possibly infecting others who may experience serious effects requiring hospitalization and leading to possible death.  They have now exposed their families, friends and any others they have come in contact with to COVID-19.  And continue to blissfully do so.

Wonder how many of our legislators will test positive and how far they will spread it?  I guess we can just add our leaders in Baton Rouge to the other knuckleheads in Mississippi who are the contributors to the shutdown of our economy.  Ironically, our Baton Rouge legislators talk about the necessity of ending this crippling economic shutdown, but some refuse to make a simple lifestyle adjustment to aid in that process, all in the name of “personal freedom.”   Don’t figure, so stupid.