They have no idea about science, they don’t respect it because their ideology doesn’t recognize it as valid so of course they want to have primacy over the real public health professionals who actually know what the hell they're talking about. Jacobs, Trump et al are a joke when it comes to serious, salient issues like how to operate in a pandemic. That’s why Jacobs and Trump refuse to wear a mask in public and it’s why they think that they should be the uncredentialed deciders about public health. This overreaching legislative effort shouldn’t be interpreted as anything else except an attempt to fundamentally destroy public health departments by removing their ability to be the informed decisions maker about transmissible disease. It’s so predictably brazen that what Briggs should be doing, beyond a vital rearguard action, is penning legislation that protects DoH decision making from know-nothing’s like Jacobs and others. This idea is in the similar vein as what was being discussed 20,000 years ago in early April when Trump was running the same, predictable Randy Sanders-like bubblescreen against Fauci.

Congress can prevent this: It ought to pass a law stipulating that directors of the centers and research institutes that are part of the National Institutes of Health—officials like Fauci—should be removable only for malfeasance, neglect of office, or incapacity, but not for mere policy differences or politically inconvenient messaging. Similar protections exist for the heads of numerous independent agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission and Social Security Administration. These protections prevent presidential politics from excessively influencing an administrator’s performance.

What the Pandemic Revealed

Making or keeping government as small as possible is an ideological fixation, not a sound principle of good governance. Small government is a false idol, and it is time we smash it. In its place, we should erect effective government as the goal that guides the development and evaluation of public policy. For maxims, we can look to America’s greatest stateman. “The legitimate object of government,” wrote Abraham Lincoln, “is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.”

Jacobs fires Buchanan once she makes the decision to ratchet back reopening as cases continue to spike in the red light zone; he leans heavily not to ratchet back despite red light spike. Wanted legislative authority to make decision because he knows this is coming.

Knox County population-448164

Rate of diabetes-14%

Rate of hypertension-33%

Rate of heart disease-3.38%

Rate of obesity-28.6%

These are the groups that the Swedish Protocol (the protocol we're using in Knoxville) will target and these are the groups Covid-19 is particularly at risk for death.These are the groups of people that Mayor Jacobs is instituting policy that will actively target these groups for debilitating disease and death.

The death rate due to the Holocaust was about 7.5% (that's actually a little high I believe) of Nazi Germany's occupied territory's population. Draw your own conclusions.