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Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?
The Hill ^ | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 05/11/2020 12:38:56 PM PDT by Fury

Author Aldous Huxley once said, “A thoroughly scientific dictatorship will never be overthrown.”

Even as we try to battle the COVID-19 pestilence, we may be contracting a more dangerous virus — hygienic fascism. This involves a process when our political leaders defer to a handful of “experts,” amid what Dr. Joseph Ladopo, an associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, describes as an atmosphere of “COVID-19-induced terror.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid10; covid19; health; hysteria; shutdown
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Great read.
1 posted on 05/11/2020 12:38:56 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Joel Kotkin is one of our best thinkers. His www.newgeography.com is a national treasure.


2 posted on 05/11/2020 12:42:04 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Fury

Bkmrk


3 posted on 05/11/2020 12:44:04 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: Fury

DON’T TOUCH YOUR FACE !!


4 posted on 05/11/2020 12:48:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THEY JUST WANT PEOPLE TO DIE!!!!!


5 posted on 05/11/2020 12:49:45 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Fury

The attention should be focused on killing and treating the virus and not in making people flee from the virus and each other.

We are still quite primitive but if the entire world’s scientists focus on the problem and not the various workarounds then it can be probably be dealt with.


6 posted on 05/11/2020 12:50:23 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Fury

There was a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in its first season where the government took care of everyone, no one seemed to work, had loads of free-tine but where if an arbitrary law was broken, the only penalty was death—strictly enforced.

I can’t remember the name of the episode, but the episode and the handle we gave it descrned the situation we’re currently in: The Planet of the Jogging Nazis.


7 posted on 05/11/2020 12:50:25 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Re: 7:

I think you mean ST:TNG S:1 E:7 - “Justice”. It was one of the better ones in a dreadful first two years.


8 posted on 05/11/2020 12:55:13 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Comments on the site not so much. Its a commie circle jerk.


9 posted on 05/11/2020 1:00:35 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Fury

Most of the comments at the end of the article at the link are obviously dems.

As with DU, they are TERRIFIED of this virus and threaten violence against anyone who does not comply with their draconian leaders dictates.

Time to buy more ammo.


10 posted on 05/11/2020 1:04:54 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Fury

The only place where I see the word “terrified” is with the flubros here. You guys read a story—not this one per se—and YOU apply the tone and the “hysteria.” If you find the first sentence disagreeable, you take a step back and scream “WITCH!”

If you spent ten seconds and let your mind creep open just a bit...you would realize the only folks running around all excited are those who don’t really understand how any of this works.

But, you probably never washed your hands much anyway.


11 posted on 05/11/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: metmom

The Dems aren’t terrified of the virus, they just want the economy shut down as long as possible because (they think) it will hurt DJT’s re-election chances.


12 posted on 05/11/2020 1:16:18 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Some are.

I don’t doubt that what you say is true, but I’ve seen real fear coming from some people.


13 posted on 05/11/2020 1:24:07 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I wont touch my face....but I'm still going to pick my nose whenever I want!
14 posted on 05/11/2020 1:46:28 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Youth is blunder,Maturity is struggle,old age is regret.....Disraeli.)
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To: plain talk
We are still quite primitive but if the entire world’s scientists focus on the problem and not the various workarounds then it can be probably be dealt with.

Science moves at a glacial pace. That said, many scientists are working on the virus, on cures, on diagnostics, etc. We're not in some science fiction show where the science officer and a couple of lab techs bravely work around the clock and come up with a solution within 48 hours, we're in the real world.

The only way right now to beat Covid-19 is to apply the knowledge of disease transmission that we have developed over hundreds of years. We can't wait around for drugs or vaccines.

15 posted on 05/11/2020 1:58:56 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: Fury
In less than 2 months, we've lost our freedoms, our dignity, and for many our very livelihoods.



The Globalists are running a dress rehearsal right now for the Kingdom of the Antichrist.

I am sad to say that things for them are going swimmingly.

16 posted on 05/11/2020 2:42:57 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: 4yearlurker

I’ll bet your social life is a roaring bonfire. :-)


17 posted on 05/11/2020 2:44:48 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: BradyLS

IIRC, that was the episode where the indigenous people wanted to execute Wesley. Ah, what a missed opportunity.


18 posted on 05/11/2020 3:08:53 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: exDemMom

Natural products can cure a lot of things.


19 posted on 05/11/2020 3:40:54 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Charles Martel

Successfully rescuing Wesley was a bad ending for an otherwise good episode.


20 posted on 05/11/2020 3:42:43 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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