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5 Civil Rights Americans Lost to the COVID-19 Panic
PJ Media ^ | April 6, 2020 | Megan Fox

Posted on 04/07/2020 12:39:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: DannyTN

Temporarily...yeah right.


41 posted on 04/07/2020 2:07:31 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: Turbo Pig

“If they can make you stay home, or lose your livelihood for no reason other than you might get sick, what other reasons can they come up with to curtail your rights...for no reason?”

Again, Exactly!


42 posted on 04/07/2020 2:10:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Bump


43 posted on 04/07/2020 2:10:57 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: joma89

“Eventually, there will be a crisis every day of every month of every year forever and will be used as justification to take away our rights.”

Yep. My fear as well.


44 posted on 04/07/2020 2:11:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Turbo Pig
" Make a healthy person with no know connection to anyone sick stay home - not OK"

They're still learning about CV-19. It can live on surfaces for 17 days. Certain people can be carriers, but be asymptotic. It can take up to 34 days to get out of your system.

These are recent discoveries.

Did I mention potential bio-weapon?

The more time goes by, the more they will know how to deal with it, and be able to get us back on track, and return to mostly normal, with some precautions.

45 posted on 04/07/2020 2:13:14 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord fr everything y have. Don't ? wait do it today.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If that occurs, at some point, a new Declaration of Independence will have to be written.

JoMa


46 posted on 04/07/2020 2:17:51 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: GingisK

Destroying our way of life to “protect” others will cause more misery, death, and despair than the virus.

Those who give up liberty for safety deserve neither!


47 posted on 04/07/2020 2:22:14 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35
Those who spread disease because they are too special to quarantine are domestic terrorists and traitors to their own kind.

After this is over perhaps you can implore the People of this Nation to setup a response team consisting of qualified specialists to evaluate and then establish properly measured responses. Maybe you would follow their advice, unlike you did for your duly elected government.

Maybe all of that was already in place and the experts spoke to our leaders. But of course, you'd always know better because, hey, its YOU.

48 posted on 04/07/2020 2:30:34 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

With Apologies to Archie Campbell

I SEARCHED the world over
And I thought I found freedom.

But then there was COVID
And Pfft it was gone


49 posted on 04/07/2020 2:49:30 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So TRUE

Imagine July 2017 with Pres. HilLIARy:

Justice Loretta Lynch
Justice Eric Holder

IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner
DoJ Chief James Comey
FBI Head: Peter Szrzok

ALL Appeals Courts looking like the 9th of 2016

Thank You, Lord for your mercy One. More. Time


50 posted on 04/07/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: DannyTN

“Your rights stop when you start causing harm to others, and in this very limited situation, certain normal activities cause harm to others.”

You are a fool. This stupid argument could be used over and over again. You might hurt somebody in a car crash. If you ban cars, then you can never “start causing harm to others”. I can see banning going to the supermarket because there is a slight chance of “causing harm to others”. We, as a society accept a certain amount of risk. We can prevent all accidental infection, injury, or harm if we lock everyone in a closet. At what point do YOU say enough is enough.

Ban ever leaving home for everyone, forever! That will be about as safe as we can get. No thank you...fascist.


51 posted on 04/08/2020 12:13:04 AM PDT by FlyFisher
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To: FlyFisher
Ban ever leaving home for everyone, forever! That will be about as safe as we can get. No thank you...fascist.

TPTB are just making up stuff as they go along as to what is permissible. Golf is banned in Illinois, but one can play in New York in the middle of a hot zone. Sheesh.

52 posted on 04/08/2020 2:30:03 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: GingisK

1) You have zero clue as to how I behave, or what I do on a daily basis, so your personal attack shows that you are just an a$$hole.

2) If you are willing to trade safety for your rights, that’s fine. Don’t ask me to do the same. There are methods of containing this thing that DON”T entail wholesale abdication of civil liberties. The fearbros will be the first ones to complain when the same reasoning that was used here is used to “protect” the population from some other “emergency” that threatens public safety.

3) While the China virus is serious, it is not nearly as serious, or deadly, especially here in the US, as the “models” have predicted. Sure mitigation has driven the numbers down, more importantly the over the top numbers were used to scare the populace in to accepting the limitations the government wanted.

have a nice day


53 posted on 04/08/2020 3:32:29 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: Pajamajan

Common sense precautions, that don’t entail abdicating the civil liberties of healthy unexposed people can be used, just like with the flu to mitigate the China virus. While being very serious, the china virus is not the world ending thing the media and some politicos have made it out to be. In fact, it’s not even close to being what they made it out to be. Most of the problems this thing has caused have been due to piss poor planning in liberal dominated areas and people playing politics with a very serious life threatening issue

Using your logic, the left can, and will use the same logic to ban/prohibit all sorts of items/activities in the name of “public safety. I’d rather not have the government trying to curtail my rights for no other reason than a “might”, all in the name of public safety. Here’s a news flash we are all going to get exposed it the China virus in the end, and not one of us is getting off the face of this planet alive.

Someday, the normalcy bias of thinking that the Constitution will “protect” you from those who want to ignore it and dictate every aspect of your life is going to come to a very shocking and violent end for a lot of people. The true face of the left has shown its self in places and small actions throughout this thing. To paraphrase someone much more intelligent than I, a people that would give up their rights for safety over freedom deserve neither.

Let’s do this. Let’s agree to revisit this conversation some time in the future when they are trying to force the mandatory vaccinations and “immunity passports” on everyone that certain circles have started talking about lately. Agreed?


54 posted on 04/08/2020 3:52:22 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: Turbo Pig
Our leaders are doing what they can, the best they know how. They are the ones YOU put into office, so now let them lead.

Of course this isn't as big a deal as it is hyped to be. The leaders have been placed in a damned if you do, damned if you do not situation. Cut them some slack.

No rights have been taken from you. That is just your paranoid mindset at work. Yes, I can judge how you behave on a daily basis from the content of your posts.

55 posted on 04/08/2020 7:23:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Turbo Pig

...And you still don’t answer the questions. Perhaps you aren’t here to discuss, you are here to preach or maybe incite revolution.


56 posted on 04/08/2020 7:42:41 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

You can be a simp and a sheep. I refuse to be made a convict. The founding father of our country hang their heads in shame at what we have become!


57 posted on 04/08/2020 12:41:56 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35
I am sure the Founders wouldn't be happy with us. On the other hand, it is well known that they practiced quarantine to control contagions. They certainly wouldn't have generated widespread panic and closed everything down. It is so obvious that our leadership overreacted, but probably to avoid being labeled a "do nothing" by the public. The news media is not a friend to our Republic or its people.

I am so weary at people hanging on to their phones and TVs for dear life, watching this nothingness develop into nothing.

I am, in general, advocating for our leaders just because we are the ones who put them there. They are in a panic. Maybe folks will choose better next time and even, gasp, think for themselves.

58 posted on 04/08/2020 3:14:31 PM PDT by GingisK
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