"A big issue that has emerged in the final days of the midterm election campaigns is the lockdowns of our schools and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The public saw with the abysmal test scores of our children the severe and lasting damage done. Voters are angry, and they should be. Lockdowns were a tragic mistake with very small health benefits but giant costs to society. So, who’s responsible for the abuse of our children? We are in the midst of historical revisionism about what happened and who did it. “It’s vitally important that lockdown governors — in both parties — be held accountable for the damage they did to their states.” The short answer to that question is Democratic governors. And yes, a few GOP governors such as Larry Hogan of Maryland. For the most part, though, you wouldn’t know that it was governors such as Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Kathy Hochul of New York, Tony Evers of Wisconsin or Gavin Newsom of California who ordered militant lockdowns but now pretend they never supported these policies. Whitmer and Evers say they only shut down the schools for a few weeks when the reality is the children lost nearly a full year of schooling. They must think voters have amnesia."
