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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elrich is turning Montgomery County into a police state. This is how I, a liberal Democrat, see things. I plan to vote against anybody running for re-election to the County Council this year, and anyone else that supports Comrade Elrich.[/quote]

A "police state"?  Did you come up with this analogy while you were driving between Best Buy and Target on your way to ride your bike outside?  SMH  It would be a lot easier to sympathize if people reigned in the hyperbole a teensy bit.  [/quote]

I sympathize with the people that were told this would last a couple of weeks and now it is more than 2 months mandated to stay home and there is no end in sight.  I have had no need to go to either Best Buy or Target, though I did have to replace my keyboard at Micro Center after my son damaged it trying to do his incomprehensible remote learning math homework (thanks, MCPS).  I am one of the lucky ones so far in that I have not yet lost my job (yet).  Why can't you empathize with people that want to work to support their families instead of relying on the government's willingness and ability to dole out minimal unemployment benefits?  By the way, I do not bike, since my bike is stuck in Delaware where I cannot go due to reciprocal 14 day quarantine requirements.  [b]Being told I cannot go out except to buy groceries and other items the state has deigned to declare are "essential" makes Montgomery County a police state. [/b] Being told by two different states that I cannot visit my own property in one of them means both MD and DE are police states (perhaps you haven't read about the Delaware police harassing people driving with out of state tags?).  As a Democrat raised with the idea that American freedom is a value to be treasured and makes this country unique among the nations, I am deeply offended at these things, and most particularly with Marc Elrich's arrogant decision to keep Montgomery County under house arrest INDEFINITELY when much of the rest of the state is starting to open up.  Governor Hogan's original action to shut down the state was at least arguably necessary.  But in the light of factual evidence of where the pandemic is affecting people the most (easily identifiable and easy to isolate nursing homes and other long term care facilities and people with significant underlying health conditions), there was no need to continue the lockdown of Montgomery County instead of taking special precautions around our most vulnerable people.  I would gladly pay more in tax to ensure that vulnerable people have access to good health care than tank the entire economy unnecessarily, and our children's education and future with it.  [/quote]

No, it doesn't. Really. It really, really, really doesn't. You are not under house arrest. Montgomery County is not a police state. There is no lockdown in Montgomery County. I understand that you're upset, and that you want to go to Delaware, and that you're upset about distance learning (most people are). But American freedom has never meant "I should get to do what I want to do" - at least not for most people.

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