Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tried to do damage control on her Covid-19 track record by pretending she didn’t ban the sale of seeds and gardening tools during the beginning of her authoritarian lockdowns in 2020.
“There were moments where we, you know, had to make some decisions that, in retrospect, don’t make a lot of sense, right?” Whitmer told CNN’s Chris Wallace this week. “If you went into the hardware store, if you go to the hardware store, we didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. People said, ‘Oh, she’s outlawed seeds.’”
MICHIGAN GOV. WHITMER ON COVID LOCKDOWNS: “We had to make some decisions that in retrospect don’t make a lot of sense, right? […] We didn’t want people, you know, all congregating around the gardening supplies. […] It was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway…” pic.twitter.com/WyOOAXsegZ
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Whitmer tried to couch her false characterization of the order by begrudgingly admitting it “maybe was a little more than we needed to do.” Her confession, however, was far from apologetic and failed to capture the damage she did to her state.
Whitmer then pretended her order banning the sale of seeds in big stores was justified because “it was February in Michigan, no one was planting anyway,” but Whitmer didn’t even announce the restrictions on goods in the gardening section until April 9, 2020.
At the beginning of what the Old Farmer’s Almanac called “the earliest
