Publisher’s Note: The American Institute for Economic Research has proved an invaluable source of science-supported sanity since COVID’s beginning. This article is no exception. We are neither Left nor Right here at Vermont Independent – we are pro-Human decentralists eager to see Vermont’s communities restored to Fully Human status asap. Very soon, Vermont governor Phil Scott will be the last Republican governor standing on scientifically discredited vial protocols, in the company of besieged Blue State Democratic governors whose unconstitutional Executive Branch overreach have destroyed their states through the top-down application of unscientific but brutally inhumane COVID protocols. Let’s make Vermont fully Human again, and while we’re at it, let’s demand the Vermont legislature pass a law to make mask mandates illegal, as North Dakota has done. Free Team Human, and free Vermont!

It took an entire year, but lockdowns and mask mandates are officially incredibly unpopular with half of the country, to the point that governors are rapidly making sweeping changes to their year-long COVID-19 policies.

Jumping onto the coattails of pro-individual freedom leaders like governors Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) and Kristi Noem (R-SD), the governors of Mississippi and Texas decided Tuesday to announce an end to business restrictions and statewide mask mandates.

Both Tate Reeves (R-MS) and Greg Abbott (R-TX), who had long taken a nanny state approach to the COVID-19 crisis, acted almost simultaneously to announce the end of statewide restrictions.

On February 8, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds lifted Iowa’s statewide mask mandate along with several other restrictions.

On February 22, North Dakota took it a step further. Its legislative body took the bold step in voting to make mask mandates illegal. 

As of March 2, there are now 16 states that no longer have statewide mask orders.

However, across the political divide, there remains no end in sight to the corona madness. Much of the Left continues to embrace and root on endless COVID-19 restrictions, and the hijacking of individual rights in the name of a virus. 

Governor Gavin Newsom of California took to Twitter in describing the end of restrictions as “absolutely reckless.”

It took long enough, but it’s now official: Governors who continue to impose lockdowns and mask mandates are fast becoming as popular as Red Sox fans in the Yankee Stadium bleachers, at least in half of the country. The internal polling is out, and the draconian restrictions are being abandoned in droves. History will not be kind to the remaining high-handed holdouts.