04-22-2020, 03:16 AM
Quote:A Republican lawmaker has sparked outrage after she compared the quarantine measures imposed across the US because of coronavirus, to Nazi concentration camps. Heather Scott from Idaho appeared on the 'Jess Fields Show' podcast last week, where the host bemoaned the restrictions that have been put on people who are deemed to not be essential workers by the state governor Brad Little, who is also a Republican. In a very ill-advised statement, Scott dared to compare the regulations, which have been put in place to protect people and prevent the spread of the virus, to the persecution that people suffered in Nazi Germany and in concentration camps. I mean, that’s no different than Nazi Germany, where you had government telling people, ‘You are an essential worker or a nonessential worker,’ and the nonessential workers got put on a train. I mean, they’re already calling him ‘Little Hitler, Governor Little Hitler'Republican Heather Scott compares coronavirus lockdown to the Holocaust | indy100