Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) insisted that no one wants to relitigate her COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions and that everyone did the “best” they could have done with the information they had. But we should revisit those decisions because if they were the best Whitmer could have done, she shouldn’t be making decisions as a member of any government anymore.

Whitmer was pressed on this in a recent podcast by Caleb Hammer, who asked about restaurant restrictions. “But if I was allowed to be inside outside, why couldn’t I just be inside inside?” he asked. Whitmer said it was because people were only with their small groups, but when Hammer pointed out that restaurant employees were intermingling with all those groups, Whitmer tried to punt the matter away. “Listen, Caleb, none of us wants to go back and relive that. We were doing the best we could with very little or very bad information,” she said.