Posted on 04/28/2020 8:01:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...What if the president, governors, and mayors made us all close our businesses and churches and stay home, not for the plausible good of others, but just for our own good? Perhaps they decided that too many of us take risks when we drive, work, or play in the park.
We would never have tolerated it! There would have been huge, bipartisan protests from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
We’ve complied with the pandemic lockdown because it appeals not just to our vices — our fear and petty partisanship — but to our virtues — our love of elderly parents and fellow Americans. Like jiu jitsu, authorities have used our moral weight to hoist us on our own petards.
The question is, how long will Americans stay seated when they realize we didn’t, and don’t, need total lock-downs to save lives? And that some of our response has done more harm than good?
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You’re talking about a country that put the DEMs in charge of the House in 2018. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Because it’s not even really a lockdown.
People can go out whenever they want, in fact.
I think most people believe in the social contract and also saw European countries doing it.
And it was only supposed to be two weeks.
Sheep.
We didn’t. False premise.
Soft tyranny is easier to live with than outright brutal tyranny.
Plus, we as a country, are patient to a fault.
Maybe time to re-evaluate that last one.
Who the hell agreed to anything? They say it is to “protect” grandma and grandpa but I don’t know of any of us who asked for or wanted any protection from the government on any level.
I honestly believe we are living in a season of mass hysteria.
I don’t what all components have to be in place for mass hysteria to occur or if it is sort of random. But I say this is what this is.
And it’s worldwide not just us.
We were going to “flatten the curve”...right?...that got done...then the “experts” moved the goal. We did NOT agree to this.
I never agreed to it, but everybody else did.
Not so much that we agreed to a lockdown, but that we did lockdown.
I contend that government “followed from the front” on this, making pronouncements and ending obligated gatherings precisely because so many were about to do so anyway, with ugly consequences if government opposed instead of facilitated.
My sense is that we are compliant when the well-being of others is at stake. Most of us stop on red and go on green. It ain’t always pretty, but we are designed for self-government with a huge batch of nutcases thrown in.
They were never askes. No debate, no q and a. Tyrants took over and scared everyone and threatened fines, jail and longer house arrest. Democrats and Media shamed independent thinkers and those aware of their rights.
Most people think everyone who gets this virus dies. It was fear.
Nothing more.
Same here. I was more concerned about the hysteria than the virus. And vuala! However you spell it.
We didn’t. We were forced at gunpoint.
Sorry. Must have been asleep when I had a say in this!
Originally we agreed to “15 days to stop the spread”.
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