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He’s so embarrassing….
There is NOTHING else that this man should be doing??? No other issue he could be addressing???
Here’s a thought:
Rokita is just pandering to the Republican delegates at the upcoming state convention who might want to replace him, just like they replaced Curtis Hill with Rokita four years ago.
Viewed through that prism, all Rokita’s nonsense makes perfect sense. He’d distracting them from his numerous flaws, like making an abortion doctor a sympathetic figure. He’s “one of them”.
Does this tool have nothing better to do? What an embarrassment.
What exactly does any of this have to do with his constitutional or statutory responsibilities?
Rokita is a joke, agreed. And I’m no anti-vaxer, nor Covid denier.
But Covid deaths were over-stated in the pandemic for at least a few reasons. (1) Hospitals got more funds as a result of increased Covid deaths, (2) when the death toll was so high and the healthcare system and workers were so overworked, there was not time to do a lot of analysis of cause of death – if Covid was present, use that as the cause of death, and (3) there were government assistance programs in which families received more monies towards funeral costs if their loved one died from Covid. So reporting a death as Covid when it was actually from another cause – while the patient had also contracted Covid – was perceived as an act of kindness to the family in cases where Covid was present, but not in all likelihood the cause of death. Since it was Government money, it was perceived that there was no (economic) victim. I personally know of such a case, and I really doubt it was the only one…
I don’t doubt you are correct but it would have been nice for a public official and one running for office to at least provide some hard data to back up his allegations. But this is par for the course for certain politicians today. Just make it up and your followers will believe it whether its true or not.
Mark, after review of the Covid 19 report, it appears that Rokita used IDOH information and the MPH for his data!
It helps to read the report!
Yeah, read this line too
“Pandemics are inherently messy. And it’s unlikely or unreasonable for every state or county to get everything right”
Hindsight is 20/20 but Rokita sure must be worried about losing his seat at the convention in June to be wasting his time and our taxpayer money on this nonsense.
What’s next, a report criticizing the Warren Commission? Maybe a report saying we should get rid of class basketball or stop observing DST?
If you want to go whine about how Eric Holcomb handled the pandemic, just remember that the Governor repeatedly asked the leaders of the Legislature if they wanted to be called into special session to weigh in. They declined every offer.
And remember that the Legislature sat on their hands for two entire sessions when they could have ended any state of emergency issued by the Governor with a simple vote while they were in session.
Yet I don’t see a bunch of Republican legislators who lost elections in 2022 because their voters were unhappy with them, or a bunch of legislators pushing to get rid of Bray or Huston. If you are so angry about how the pandemic was hired, why did you reward your local representative or senator with another term when they could have tried to “end it all” that much sooner?
SMH — Rokita needs to go!
As a concerned taxpayer that found the actions in response to a virus to be regressive and filled with orchestrated outcomes. The following statement from the report does not alarm me in the least.
“As a state, we especially must avoid repeating two egregious mistakes that characterized our
pandemic policies — 1) propagating (and then relying upon) faulty data and 2) imposing draconian
lockdowns on purportedly free citizens, with the latter proving even more destructive than the havoc
wreaked by the public health crisis itself.”