Our Carpetbagging, Dark-Money-Accepting, Bought-And-Paid-For State Rep Confirms That “Science-Denying” Is On That List

Andrew Fink, currently representing Consumers Energy (while claiming to represent District 58) in the Michigan House of Representatives, sent out a missive yesterday that just plain defies all logic.

I don’t think I have to tell you at this point that Michigan is currently experiencing the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the Nazi Republicans overturning a wholly constitutional and valid law giving the governor emergency powers, and thanks to their idiot cult members refusing to do anything to keep themselves and others safe.  Nor do I have to explain that Hillsdale County is still among the worst in the state — and was THE worst in the state for the first six months of the pandemic — in terms of both infection rate and deaths per capita.  Hillsdale County is notorious in not only Michigan, but northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio as well, for our obnoxious, lawless, idiotic, sizable minority who refuse to acknowledge reality.  I refuse to let such people trash the name of my second hometown and a place that I love dearly, but I know many people who are now embarrassed to say that they’re from Hillsdale County, and they only have that idiotic minority to blame.

It’s no coincidence that that idiotic minority is tied to the Nazi Republican Party.  Trump started this stupidity, and because he now OWNS that party, the party now perpetuates it.  And despite the years of Hillsdale County becoming more and more purple, that idiotic minority is just like the rest of the Nazi Republican Party: they know they’re losing power, and they will do everything that they can, legal or otherwise, to hold on to it.

That includes Andrew Fink.

Let’s look at the press release bit by bit.  I’ll include the whole screenshot at the end.  Andrew, I’ll address you personally through this.

State Rep. Andrew Fink, of Adams Township, today urged the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to remove its rigid COVID-19 testing requirements for student athletes.

Adams Township within the last couple of years.  Previously of Ann Arbor, and still with most of your ties there.

Fink said there is no scientific reason to single out student athletes for these tests when no other students are forced to be tested and when scientific data does not support that student athletics have been a source for COVID-19 spread.

What a stupid thought.  Student-athletes share the court or field with students of other school districts far more often than non-athlete students.  They pose a much greater risk of spreading the virus.  Claiming that the scientific data does not support the idea that they have been a source for spread is a BLATANT LIE.  Entire teams have been forced to sit out because multiple athletes have tested positive.  Spread has been documented BETWEEN teams in situations that have caused BOTH teams to pause activity.  You’re not fooling anyone, Andrew.

“Michiganians[…]

[…]are willing to take steps to prevent the spread of Coronavirus[…]

OH ARE THEY, ANDREW?  Tell that to your base.

[…]but only when those measures make sense,” said Fink.

No, never.  The idiot minority doesn’t HAVE any sense.  They don’t believe the virus poses any threat at all.  They ignore the deaths, they ignore the long-lasting effects in many survivors, they refuse to accept that ANY measures are necessary.  Nothing will ever get through their thick skulls to their rotten brains.  They will not accept reality, whether the measures make sense or not.  And these measures make sense.

“What doesn’t make sense is requiring Michigan’s student athletes to be tested for COVID-19 on a weekly basis, even when they have had no symptoms.

FOURTH WAVE, ANDREW.  It makes PERFECT sense.

There’s also a growing number of young people choosing to be vaccinated each day now that anyone over 16 is eligible, further lowering the risk of the virus’ spread through student sports.”

The vaccine does not guarantee the stop of transmission, it substantially raises the body’s ability to fight the infection.  Your very argument is rooted in ignorance of science.

Fink noted that he supports a parent’s right to choose whether to have their children vaccinated.

Nobody is even raising a question about that.  That has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Schools in Michigan’s neighboring states of Indiana and Ohio have fewer cases of COVID-19 than Michigan yet have resumed normalcy for their student athletes.

Those states have these measures in place, too, if not more extensive ones.  I know this because I follow the news and sports from those states.  It’s part of my job.

“Simply put, student athletes are not at the root of the pandemic and shouldn’t be treated as such,” Fink said.

What the hell does that even mean? “Student athletes are not at the root of the pandemic” — no one said they were, but they DO pose a greater risk of spreading the virus — “and shouldn’t be treated as such” — no one is treating them as such.  Total and complete straw man argument, Andrew.

“The governor has already stifled student athletes when she placed a ban on winter sports earlier in the school year, and many of these students lost the last few months of competition last year.”

NECESSARY MEASURE, ANDREW.  Or do I need to repeat the death count from that period to you for the umpteenth time?

Fink said he has heard from countless parents and coaches throughout his communities that are frustrated by the misguided orders being placed on student athletes who are now being further inhibited by COVID-19 testing requirements.

They’re not misguided orders, they’re based upon the infection rate, hospital bed availability, and the fact that student-athletes travel around their respective regions on a regular basis, increasing the risk of spread.  Yes, it’s frustrating.  Being a sports announcer who loves his job and loves watching the kids play, grow, and succeed at reaching their goals, I’m frustrated, too.  But I understand that keeping more people from dying or being seriously disabled in some way by the virus is more important than that.  This WILL pass, but only if everyone does their part.

“I am calling on the governor’s administration to stop using the lives of student athletes as a political pawn[…]

No such thing is happening, but YOU and YOUR ILK are guilty of exactly that, Andrew.

[…]and begin to consider the greater impact these regulations are having on their lives,” Fink said.

She does.  You don’t consider the greater impact YOUR refusal to acknowledge reality is having on everyone ELSE’S lives.

“Our regulations should be based on scientific data and nothing else.”

They are.  You’re arguing against science.

See, this is a standard Nazi tactic dating all the way back to the 1920’s: claim to stand behind “science” while rejecting actual science.  They do it with COVID-19.  They do it with transgender people.  They do it with other sexual minorities (all of them, dating back almost a century on that topic, as well).  They do it with anything that they think will cost them power.  It’s Andrew Fink claiming that travel for educational athletics somehow magically doesn’t spread viruses.  It’s Marjorie Taylor-Greene saying “There are only two genders; trust the science!” when science proves that there are innumerable genders and sexes across all of creation, humanity included.  It’s any given right-winger refusing to believe ANYTHING about climate change despite the obvious fact that it’s happening (even if the alarmists make insane predictions and the impact of human activity isn’t anywhere near close enough to causing permanent change), thus refusing to do ANYTHING in the way of environmental stewardship (because it will cost their corporate owners money).  Denying science while claiming to follow science is part of the bedrock of Nazism.  Has been from the very beginning of the ideology.  Fink is just doing what his ideological ancestors did.

It comes as no surprise.  What comes as a surprise is that the people of the 58th District voted for this moron.  It’s not gerrymandering in this case; our district is directly coterminous with Branch and Hillsdale Counties.  It’s the fact that the majority of voters fell for Consumers Energy’s ploy to buy themselves a representative to protect their wind energy investment in this district.  The people in this area USED to be suspicious of corporate involvement in government.  At some point, that suspicion must have vanished, or at least severely diminished, because Fink wasn’t even close to being the best candidate in his primary, neither on the basis of qualifications nor ideological adherence to what area voters claimed to want.

And that just goes back once again to my underlying point about apathy and corruption leading us to harm.