Posted on 04/13/2024 8:19:04 AM PDT by george76
Time to Change Our Language..
It is time to stop blaming “Covid” for breaking the economy, destroying businesses and livelihoods, and wreaking untold havoc upon families. It was not “Covid” that did this. It was not even the Chinese. It was our government. The government has conditioned us to blame the impersonal “Covid” for the destruction it wrought upon our businesses and families. We need to change the discussion by using the proper language to fix the blame where it belongs.
Good generals can win a battle by picking the terrain upon which they fight. At Waterloo, Wellington forced Napoleon to attack uphill through the mud. At Gettysburg, Meade defended the high ground from Cemetery Hill to the Round Top, forcing the Confederates to attack across the fire-swept Peach Orchard and Wheatfield and the open terrain over which Pickett charged.
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The terrain that propagandists and politicians (excuse the redundancy) use is language — the words that they choose to describe issues upon which they wish to fight. Thus, the choice of language can be critical to victory. Think: “Hope and Change” and “Make America Great Again.”
The Government with its politicians and bureaucrats that came nigh onto destroying our economy are trying to avoid responsibility by picking the terrain upon which they wish to fight — by using language that blames the impersonal “Covid” for what they did to the Country. “It’s no one’s fault, you see. Covid did it.” They thereby hope to stave off defeat, or worse, for themselves. Unfortunately, most of us have fallen victim to the ploy. Enough.
This week I was speaking with a relatively new friend who described having had to wrap up some lingering issues relating to the closing of his business. I asked him what kind of business he had owned, and why they had to close. He and his son had started and run a fitness club in North Carolina. It was not part of a chain, and they were not part of a franchise. He and his son were the sole owners.
He said that they had to close their business because, “Covid killed us.” In 2020 “during Covid,” the “progressive” governor of North Carolina forced them to close their doors and cease all business. Almost overnight they lost almost all of their 1300 clients. No business could expect to withstand that and survive.
I thought about what he said for a few minutes and then said that I think we all are using the wrong terminology. We have fallen into the habit of saying things like, “During Covid, we couldn’t even go to church,” “Because of Covid friends lost their jobs;” and the like.
I then said to my friend that we all needed to change the language that we had been trained and had become accustomed to using. I said to him, “Covid didn’t close your business, the government did. Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.
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The Chinese communists may be responsible for unleashing Covid either intentionally (which no one dares to discuss) or through a negligent lab leak (about which our government did everything in its power to squelch any discussion). However, our government’s reaction must have exceeded the Chinese communists’ wildest expectations. They could not have anticipated that our government would run over the Constitutional rights “peaceably to assemble,” to “freedom of speech,” worship freely in the church of our choice, and simply to be free of arbitrary and literally irrational government oppression. But that is what happened, and the government, and the politicians and bureaucrats that run it, are the ones responsible. Not Covid, not even the Chinese communists.
It therefore is long past time to put a stake through the heart of such phrases as “During Covid…” or “Covid caused…” or “Covid destroyed…” any of the multiple disasters and outrages the government forced upon us. Instead, from this day forward, I shall employ accurate language to describe what was done to us: Instead of “During Covid…,” it must be, “During the government shut-down.… And, “The government [not Covid] destroyed my friend’s business,” and the like, for the entire parade of horrible and unconstitutional acts.
I thought that all along. It was a scam designed to take down Trump. The supposedly overflowing hospitals were sitting empty. I had friends and relatives across the nation go check their local hospitals. Empty.
Yes, like the hospital ship Trump sent to NYC
1. Weak fear mongering politicians
2. Nazi inspired government bureaucrats
3. Media filth and scum blaring out the lies.
4. Pathetic corporate management asswipes going along with everything
5. 80% of the population baa-ing like the sheep they are.
No doubt.
And now the Biden regime seems poised to sell out our freedom to the World Health Organization so they can “Handle our Safety” when the pre-planned Pandemic-X hits.
“It was not “Covid” that did this.”
You’re right. Covid was the tool, not the reason.
wy69
Experts and “authorities” wanted to kill the economy to then steal all future elections.. like arsonists watch their fires destroy family homes and businesses.
Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi and Bill de Blasio were telling us not to worry, to take cruises and go visit Chinatown ..
They reversed course a week later for political / not medical reasons..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4230925/postslockdowns
Biden regime run by the stay behind army and .. only 13% who say it is Not At All Likely.. ~Rasmussen Reports .
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4211999/posts
Thank you
The biggest mistake Trump made was handing the country over to Fauci and Birx while sidelining Dr. Scott Atlas, who dismissed pretty much every Covid “mitigation” measure as being ineffective only to turn out being one hundred percent correct.
Like I said, covid was the tool, not the cause. The cause was based upon the opinions and needs of the politicians. We have flu come through the US every year of which a couple of strands are very destructive. Between 2010 and 2023 there have been confirmed between 408 and 409 million cases of flu in the US. Of that 557 thousand have died.
And this does not cover covid. So how are they have a coronary about covid when they have had flu epidemics for many years but nothing was said? It’s a tool, not the end of the world and has been treated like that for political gain.
wy69
This headline is exactly correct. Our government, and indeed almost every government on the planet ha gone completely feral.
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