Freedom from Death

On March 25th, our Republican Governor Brad Little issued a stay home order to stop the coronavirus from spreading and The Freedom Foundation started attacking him right away.

“It is wrong, and we at IFF assert, unconstitutional, for the government to take away people’s right to earn a living, to assemble, and to move about freely. You correctly noted a couple of weeks ago, “history will remember our reaction” to this virus. It is worrisome that what people will remember is how people were forced to surrender their freedom for the notion of security.” 

Now the Freedom Foundation is telling its extremist followers that it’s time to resist, or lose their Liberty forever. Its as if they don’t know the coronavirus emergency is real but now we know exactly how real it is.

What might have happened if Governor Brad Little listened to the Freedom Foundation?

Models from the Institute for Health Metrics and Economics give a good estimate of how many people would have been killed if Governor Brad L…