Kayleigh McEnany calls state COVID restrictions for Thanksgiving "Orwellian"

[NewYorkExpress]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/526476-mcenany-calls-state-coronavirus-restrictions-for-thanksgiving

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday called state restrictions meant to slow the spread of coronavirus around Thanksgiving "Orwellian" even as she acknowledged the Trump administration has ceded power to the governors to impose such measures.

"A lot of the guidelines you’re seeing are Orwellian," McEnany said in an appearance on "Fox & Friends."

"The American people know how to protect their health. We’ve dealt with COVID for many months," she added. "But it’s Orwellian in a place like Oregon to say if you gather in numbers more than six we might come to your house and arrest you and you get 30 days of jail time. That’s not the American way."

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Fox host Steve Doocy pointed out that the White House had previously deferred to governors on how to best handle the pandemic in their individual states.

"It’s up to every state to do what they want to do, but there are consequences for those states ... the American people are freedom loving people," McEnany said. "We can make good decisions, we can wash our hands wear masks, socially distance, but we can also decide in our own personal domicile, our own home, whether we can have our family members present at any given time."

[LabourJersey]

Orwellian has completely lost its meaning, and it lost its meaning a very long time ago.

[Ancestral Republican]

"The American people know how to protect their health"

Press [ x ] to doubt.

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[GP270watch]

She's very dumb.

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

Lock her up! (Orwellian style)

[Santander]

She's the most perfect woman I've ever seen.

[President Johnson]

What are exactly were her qualifications? But you could ask this question for almost all member of this "administration".

[Fargobison]

Private gatherings of 10-25 poeople from different households are literally prime covid spread conditions. More than any school, grocery store, gym, bar or restaurant likely combined.

Why not reinforce that point instead of going on this crusade of idiocy about people getting arrested? Just tired of it, sadly I see so much of it in ND.

[morgieb]

How likely do we think that McEnany has even read 1984?

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

How likely do we think that McEnany has even read 1984?

FTFY

[pbrower2a]

What so marks Orwellian practice? Using words in such ways that the words themselves become lies, as was the norm in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Thus in Hitlerland, the words "special treatment" which ordinarily means exemption from hostile or exploitative policies meant in practice (if applied to Jews) to prompt murder. "Ten years without right of correspondence", a typical sentence  following a conviction in the Moscow purge trials, usually ended with the convict quickly executed. In Mao's China, "let a hundred flowers bloom" suggested a relaxation of a climate of censorship, only to result in those making such an interpretation to expose themselves to be killed.

See also Victor Klemperer in his Lingua Tertii Regni (Language of the Third Reich) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn for the Gulag Archipelago.   

COVID restrictions also applied to Easter, 75th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and (ideally) Halloween.

... the disaster is worse than ever.