[Mick]

To me, this underscores the false dichotomy of 'following the science' or not. To be sure, Trump and the anti-mask stuff have made fools of themselves with sensible social distancing measures. But if you think Blue State types like Cuomo, Whitmer, and Newsom have taken a scrupulously scientific approach, I think you're a bit naive. The NY measures are ridden with policy, some of it quite arbitrary. Whitmer faced much the same criticism, not so much on the approach as a whole, but an unjustifiable arbitrariness about too much of this. (I think of the golf restrictions, which I am cynical enough to believe was simple Democratic racial politics. If you're going to stop inner city kids from playing basketball, you have to stop country club members from playing golf, even though there are plenty of public links and of immense proportions numbers of African-Americans enjoy the game. Never mind that the two games are entirely different, and golf can easily be played with appropriate distance. THAT's the science, but it didn't matter.) There was also the indifference to social distancing measures in connection with the  Floyd riots. 

Trump bears his lion's share of the blame for public cynicism. But if you believe in 'following the science', I don't think any State has done it. You see corruption by politics and policy everywhere.

I never mentioned it at the time, and believe me, there were plenty of issues with Whitmer's COVID-related policies, but the golf prohibition was ridiculous and affected golfers across the pigment spectrum.  Michigan is a public golf mecca, there's 650 courses, most of which are extremely affordable.  There are a variety of really strong, very inexpensive public golf courses within a half-hour drive of downtown Detroit.  You can play a Donald Ross-designed course (Rackham, which has held two U.S. PubLinx championships) with cart for $49.  I don't know how many African-American golfers there are in Michigan, but there are around 700,000 in America.  My dad's favorite golfer was Calvin Peete, a solid pro (was in the Top 10 rankings when they first came out) and he built his game on Detroit public courses.  Detroit's Joe Louis played in a few pro golf tournaments back in the day.

On the private side The Detroit Golf Club, just west of Palmer Park has a substantial African American golfer community, and is currently on its third African American chairperson.  If you're interested, here's an article from www.africanamericangolfersdigest.com:

http://africanamericangolfersdigest.com/...mbination/

[Mick]

To me, this underscores the false dichotomy of 'following the science' or not. To be sure, Trump and the anti-mask stuff have made fools of themselves with sensible social distancing measures. But if you think Blue State types like Cuomo, Whitmer, and Newsom have taken a scrupulously scientific approach, I think you're a bit naive. The NY measures are ridden with policy, some of it quite arbitrary. Whitmer faced much the same criticism, not so much on the approach as a whole, but an unjustifiable arbitrariness about too much of this. (I think of the golf restrictions, which I am cynical enough to believe was simple Democratic racial politics. If you're going to stop inner city kids from playing basketball, you have to stop country club members from playing golf, even though there are plenty of public links and of immense proportions numbers of African-Americans enjoy the game. Never mind that the two games are entirely different, and golf can easily be played with appropriate distance. THAT's the science, but it didn't matter.) There was also the indifference to social distancing measures in connection with the  Floyd riots. 

Trump bears his lion's share of the blame for public cynicism. But if you believe in 'following the science', I don't think any State has done it. You see corruption by politics and policy everywhere.

I never mentioned it at the time, and believe me, there were plenty of issues with Whitmer's COVID-related policies, but the golf prohibition was ridiculous and affected golfers across the pigment spectrum.  Michigan is a public golf mecca, there's 650 courses, most of which are extremely affordable.  There are a variety of really strong, very inexpensive public golf courses within a half-hour drive of downtown Detroit.  You can play a Donald Ross-designed course (Rackham, which has held two U.S. PubLinx championships) with cart for $49.  I don't know how many African-American golfers there are in Michigan, but there are around 700,000 in America.  My dad's favorite golfer was Calvin Peete, a solid pro (was in the Top 10 rankings when they first came out) and he built his game on Detroit public courses.  Detroit's Joe Louis played in a few pro golf tournaments back in the day.

On the private side The Detroit Golf Club, just west of Palmer Park has a substantial African American golfer community, and is currently on its third African American chairperson.  If you're interested, here's an article from www.africanamericangolfersdigest.com:

http://africanamericangolfersdigest.com/...mbination/