Republican Governor Says He Has NO GUILT About Rising Covid Cases

Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson told The Kansas City Star this week that he takes absolutely no responsibility and doesn't feel guilty at all about the rising number of Coronavirus cases in his state that have appeared since he lifted the lockdown orders at the end of May. This is the Republican mindset - they were so desperate to save the economies in their states, but didn't want to do anything to actually save them, so they just sacrificed human lives instead. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

With States across the country, continuing to push forward with their reopening plans. The Corona virus has continued to spread at an alarming rate. You know, we never got through the actual first wave of the virus before we saw the massive resurgence that some have erroneously referred to as the second wave. But it's actually still just the bigger part of the first wave. But nevertheless, governors across the country left-hand right. Said screw it. We're pushing forward with reopening. And one of those people is a Republican governor, Mike Parson from the state of Missouri. Now he actually, Mike Parson started the reopening process of Missouri in early may early may, one of the earliest to start reopening, just screw it, we're going forward with it. Uh, and so Mike Parson did this this week, went ahead and ended all social distancing requirements. So they are officially back to business as usual.

And he did it. He said, because you know, he wanted to go ahead and kickstart our economy here in Missouri or their economy they're in Missouri. Uh, and so this week, when a reporter asked him, Hey, uh, cases of COVID-19 are skyrocketing here. Do you feel like maybe this is your responsibility. You feel a little guilty about this because you said, Hey, everything's cool. Go back to work. No more social distancing. You don't need a mask. Just go out there. And you do, you, you feel good. You feel like maybe you, you were responsible to which Republican governor Mike Parson said. Nope. And I don't feel guilty. Here's the exact quote word for word. Actually, let me go ahead and read the question first. Do you feel any personal responsibility for the people who've been infected and don't recover after you chose to reopen the state?

Um, and his response was, I don't even know where you come up with that question of personal responsibility as governor of the state of Missouri. When you're talking about a virus that's no different than the flu virus or do I feel guilty because we have car accidents and people die every day? No, I don't feel guilty about that. I don't know that any person's responsible for that no more than anyone else standing out here in this hallway. I can say the same thing for the media. Maybe you don't do a good enough job, really telling people the facts. Do you feel responsible for that? I'm all about the whole car accident thing too, by the way. Um, technically yeah, as governor, there is something you can do about that. Uh, you can commission studies to see like which intersections aren't very safe. If you have an area where there seems to be a lot of, uh, car accidents all the time, just everybody's Raymond into each other.

There are things you can actually do about that. And by not taking action, yeah. That technically does become your responsibility. You know, some jackass rear-ending somebody else. Yeah. There's nothing you can do about that. Somebody disobeying traffic laws, but there dangerous areas, blind spots. So yes, yes.