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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5429891" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>But those aren't the facts.  Lock downs happened at the local level, not at the national level.  Same as what happens with natural disasters.  People ragged on Bush for not immediately coming into New Orleans after Katrina but it was the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans calling the shots.  The president isn't a king ruling by pronouncements.  He's bound by constitutional limitations.  You want to scream at the powers that be but you need to get an understanding of how things work before screaming at the wrong people.  Why it's almost like, um, what's that term you used, oh yeah, right, cognitive dissonance.</p></blockquote><p></p>