{"id":523,"date":"2020-08-22T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=523"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:22:48","slug":"a-california-sheriff-mocked-the-states-stay-at-home-order-he-changed-his-tune-when-covid-19-cases-surged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/a-california-sheriff-mocked-the-states-stay-at-home-order-he-changed-his-tune-when-covid-19-cases-surged\/","title":{"rendered":"A California sheriff mocked the state\u2019s stay-at-home order. He changed his tune when COVID-19 cases surged"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In mid-May, Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke had a lot to say about California\u2019s stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of coronavirus, none of it good.<\/p>\n<p>He posted a defiant message to Facebook saying he refused to enforce the state\u2019s orders because they meant \u201ceconomic slaughter\u201d and he believed government had no right to tell him or anyone else it was too risky to get a haircut or dental checkup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe that Governor Newsom\u2019s motivation is to have the majority of the citizens (and illegal residents) dependant [sic] on governments assistance so he could maintain this control once this \u2018pandemic\u2019 is declared over,\u201d Warnke wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-07-07\/merced-county-coronavirus-case-spike\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>A California sheriff mocked the state\u2019s stay-at-home order. He changed his tune when COVID-19 cases surged<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May, Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke had a lot to say about California\u2019s stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of coronavirus, none of it good. He posted a defiant message to Facebook saying he refused to enforce the state\u2019s orders because they meant \u201ceconomic slaughter\u201d and he believed government had no right to tell &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/a-california-sheriff-mocked-the-states-stay-at-home-order-he-changed-his-tune-when-covid-19-cases-surged\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}