One of the darkest chapters in recent American life wasn’t simply the pandemic itself — it was the catastrophic, heavy-handed overreach by leaders like Gavin Newsom, who used COVID as a pretext to seize near-total control over everyday life. For those of us who lived through it in California, it was more than policy — it was personal. Families were shattered, kids lost years of education, small businesses crumbled, and basic freedoms were suspended in the name of “science” that turned out to be anything but.
And now, unbelievably, Newsom and his fellow West Coast liberals are dusting off the old playbook.
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor pic.twitter.com/Fx9ly1c992— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) September 4, 2025
On Wednesday, Newsom — alongside Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson — announced the launch of a new “West Coast Health Alliance,” a regional pact they claim will “protect residents with science, not politics.” The real purpose? To revive the COVID-industrial complex that gave them unchecked power and media worship for two years.
Their statement even took aim at President Trump, accusing him of “politicizing” the CDC and firing scientists. This is almost laughable when you recall that the CDC’s credibility was obliterated not under Trump, but under Biden — when the agency contradicted itself at every turn, pushed junk “guidance” like the arbitrary six-foot rule, and demanded the nation follow protocols that were cooked up more by bureaucrats than scientists.
California’s own COVID czars — Barbara Ferrer in Los Angeles being a prime example — enforced mask mandates long after data showed they did little to nothing. They shut down beaches and arrested paddleboarders in the ocean. They told us to skip Thanksgiving and Christmas with our families, while Newsom himself enjoyed maskless dinners at the French Laundry.
Here we go again. This is a repeat of the coordinated west coast Communism deployed during the plandemic.
F*ck that, @GovTinaKotek, @CAgovernor, @BobFergusonGov. We will not comply to any of you Bolsheviks.https://t.co/mJojWCV685
— Jo ♥️🤍💙 Oregon (@JoforOregon) September 3, 2025
Yet here he is again, posturing as the savior of “science,” while conveniently ignoring that the masks were useless, the vaccines didn’t stop infection, and the psychological and economic damage caused by lockdowns will take decades to repair.
What this alliance really represents is not public health — it’s political insurance. Newsom and his allies know the public trust in the CDC is wrecked. They know their credibility is in tatters. So they’re building their own regional power bloc, hoping to keep their grip on “emergency” authority intact.
But Californians remember. Oregonians remember. Washingtonians remember. We remember the closed schools, the empty playgrounds, the fearmongering, and the hypocrisy. We remember being told that asking questions made us conspiracy theorists, when in fact, the skeptics were right all along.
