yes, they were. and while i disagreed with shutdowns and mandates you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere I ever said governors did not have those police powers. whether they should have used them is another matter entirely. it is however the federal government through the cdc that informed them on what they “should” do and how long to do it. Are we going to pretend now that it wasn’t fauci calling the shots for all those governors stupid enough to believe him and follow his bad advice?
Obviously not a history buff, well no, you don’t even need to be a history buff to know about it, it was a pretty important thing. My guess is, he used to know.
For themselves, but change will only come collectively.
I’m of the mind that if you are being oppressed by tyranny then you probably lack the ability to vote it away. If you can, then I think the application of the term tyranny is hyperbolic. Similar to the way y’all toss around the term authoritarian.