{"id":687035,"date":"2021-08-26T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687035"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:35:21","slug":"analysis-these-are-the-most-preposterous-abuses-of-power-in-the-covid-19-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-these-are-the-most-preposterous-abuses-of-power-in-the-covid-19-era\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: These Are The Most Preposterous Abuses Of Power In The COVID-19 Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-these-are-the-most-preposterous-abuses-of-power-in-the-covid-19-era%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=687035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304792447-scaled-e1629993043355.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in early August that the U.S. would not go back to the lockdowns of 2020, but stopped short of completely ruling out some sort of shutdown. But with a looming possibility of government overreach, here are some examples of when the government abused their power and implemented stringent lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is perhaps the poster child for COVID-19 abuse of power in the U.S. Whitmer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/04\/11\/gretchen-whitmer-gardening-seeds-non-essential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deemed<\/a> several home-improvement and gardening items such as fruit and vegetable seeds \u201cnon-essential.\u201d In doing so, her order gave explicit instructions to stores greater than 50,000 square feet to cordon off certain areas of the store and not sell certain items, including the aforementioned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CCwHxMUAjzc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in early August that the U.S. would not go back to the lockdowns of 2020, but stopped short of completely ruling out some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}