The trailing of the sheep, Sun Valley, Idaho - Mike Endminster photographyPosted on 04/25/2020 6:57:42 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“ A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Edward R. Murrow
I was listening to a local radio show yesterday and heard our local county Health Czar had announced that “we can’t have large gatherings again until we develop herd immunity or a vaccine is developed” And by his expert *cough* opinion, that could take up to two years. “Better safe than sorry,” “An abundance of caution” above all else, right?
I still cannot believe how we’ve allowed ourselves to be marched to the economic slaughterhouse with nary a peep. It’s so…un-American! We’re supposed to be the home of the brave, the land of free. Does this current situation look like either?
The trailing of the sheep, Sun Valley, Idaho - Mike Endminster photography
This American Spectator article, ‘Flattening the Curve"’ and Other Lies, pretty much covers the waterfront on the follies to date conducted by the wolves amongst us. This is the wrap-up, read the whole thing.
The “new normal” means we can go back to work when you tell us, and we can live our lives how you dictate we can. And why?
Because we don’t want a “second wave” of the outbreak.
Wait, why would we have a second wave? Because not everybody got the virus in the first wave. And until everybody has more or less had it you can’t get to “herd immunity,” which is how these viruses are defeated…
So why wouldn’t we want to just get this over with and protect the people most vulnerable to the virus? Because that would be irresponsible, right? You have to — how does it go? — “test, trace, isolate” before you can let people do what they want. You might even need to give people “immunity papers” proving they’re safe to be around before you’ll let them go to work at their “non-essential” jobs or eat at a restaurant.
We promise we won’t notice none of that was in the initial justification for forcing us to stay home. We wouldn’t suspect you guys of bad faith for having bait-and-switched us like that. Because we know that if we did notice, and we did express dissatisfaction, we would be descended upon by our betters at the Big Tech companies, who are doing us a big favor by censoring “misinformation” about the virus like for example people questioning the WHO or noting the virus likely came out of a Chinese bioweapons lab. Or we’ll get arrested because protesting is “non-essential.” Or maybe we’ll just be griped at by the hordes of busybody Karens across the country who call us “selfish” for wondering whether this wasn’t all just a too-costly overreaction.
I don’t ascribe to the theory that the Wuhan Cooties pandemic was a One World Order conspiracy but can anyone blame us in retrospect for thinking that the Democrats’ “never let a crisis go to waste’ strategy is being been driven by a variation on the Cloward-Piven plan of complete societal upheaval in order to implement their vision of America?
Be very, very wary from this point forward; for once a system is overwhelmed the organism is in danger of dying. That is what we’re really afraid of.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
BTTT
Can you imagine the rage of We The People, should it someday be discovered that everything done thus far — every business ruined — every totalitarian lockdown order — every “face masks or else” directive — and all the “social distancing” propaganda — is proven to have been needless?
True. How will we confront the foe?
Protons, neutrons, electrons
fundamental fermions (quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons)
fundamental bosons (gauge bosons and the Higgs boson), which generally are “force particles” that mediate interactions among fermions.
There, answered the question
Well, that’s what we are made of, fear however is a waste of time, it is the great mindslayer, the destroyer of minds
We're all getting a first-hand look at how a society operates when it's run by people who are always catering to the mindless whims of suburban Karens. Our leaders are invariably going to end up making decisions that are idiotic and irrational ... and they're going to feel completely unaccountable when they fail.
Stolen from the source
... “1st we hear alcohol may prevent the virus. Then we hear heat & humidity has no effect but direct Sunlight can kill it.
So if you see a woman standing in her yard, drunk & naked... leave me alone... I’m doing important research”.
It is interesting how the goal posts have been moved from preventing hospitals from becoming overwhelmed to keeping us all “safe” while the country is bankrupted and the worlds financial system is blown back to the stone age.
The people I’ve encountered in recent weeks — strangers asking for directions or information, postmen, etc. — are convinced the threat is real and dire. They keep their distance, hasten away once their question is answered. This is an unusual thing in my friendly corner of PA. Normally, people like to talk to me and they linger too long. The postman wouldn’t even hand me the mail, though it was a long walk to my mailbox. He cited the rules.
I need a mask to get into the grocery store, although the virus is said to be spread mainly by physical contact, not airborne transmission.
Meanwhile, I keep thinking, “We’ve been had.”
There was probably ONE other alternative considered by some of our leadership:
Let the death count mount exponentially while rattling the saber for war with China.
Other countries were already locking down, and China still has “friends”, so this might be a tough row to hoe. But leadership would HAVE to do something, to hope to retain leadership, and this would probably be it.
The economy would still suffer mightily trying to operate with both the virus and world response. I would expect to lose the current Government, and return full control to the Democrat Party.
I’m ashamed of what this nation has become. Clearly this remarkable experiment in self-government is drawing to a close. The feminization of everything continues apace.
We have a huge number of apologists here who will deny both the common sense and study after study based on antibody testing that show conclusively this was all completely needless outside of densely populated areas. The evidence of this is going to be repressed to an extent not seen previously.
After seeing how many people submitted to all of this without a peep, and how many people I know who still don’t question it, I seriously question whether there will be anywhere near enough “rage”, or even pique, among most of the population for there to be any sort of repurcussions for those who have done it to us.
Can you imagine the rage of We The People, should it someday be discovered that everything done thus far — every business ruined — every totalitarian lockdown order — every “face masks or else” directive — and all the “social distancing” propaganda — is proven to have been needless?
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Frankly, I can’t imagine the passive sheeple being enraged over anything. We haven’t cared about the ever growing expansion of government power and the steady erosion of our rights enough to stop it. We haven’t cared enough about our massive national debt to reduce it. We haven’t cared about our society enough to control immigration. Etc.
You’re right. Its really all about bread and circuses.
This was very poorly modelled. Outside of densely populated areas this was never going to create a “death count” greater than a typical bad flu season. On a fire department that I am very familiar with 11 people tested positive a month ago. Only 1 developed any symptoms; he thought they were from his seasonal allergies. They all tested negative 2 weeks later. The guy with seasonal allergies still has symptoms from... seasonal allergies.
Whether you get sick from this depends on the condition of your immune system and the viral load you receive on first contact. If your immune system is normal, you do not have preexisting conditions that make you vulnerable and you do not get a huge amount of virus on first contact the vast majority of people will not have any symptoms before developing antibodies that fight it off.
As much as I hate to admit it ‘Flattening the Curve’ was a brilliant branding tactic for the Left in terms of putting us on the slippery slope.
... this was all completely needless outside of densely populated areas.
Can you imagine the political outrage from the Al Sharpton set if just Cities were clamped down on?
That "someday" may be coming soon.
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