Posted on 11/01/2020 12:05:45 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
As a second wave of infections surged in Europe, lockdown-weary populations sought another way to contain the coronavirus pandemic....All over the world, the poor have had to bear the worst of the costs. “The coronavirus pandemic has thrown between 88 million and 114 million people into extreme poverty, according to the World Bank’s biennial estimates of global poverty.” After decades of rising income, people are getting poorer, so hard up they may actually begin to starve....se costs, it’s natural that resistance to lockdowns should be rising. The psychology of quarantine fatigue is similar to war-weariness:...The greater the costs of conflict, the farther the day of hoped-for victory, the stronger the weariness will be. What begins with popular enthusiasm turns sour as the weeks pass. The bands stop playing and grumbling begins. The euphoria of apparent success over the first wave only to be followed by a second wave is reminiscent of the emotional disappointment which drove the French army to mutiny during the Great War....The lockdown orthodoxy may have had its “Walter Cronkite abandons Vietnam” moment when the WHO admitted that the policy as implemented may be doing more net harm than good: “Recent commentary from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) special envoy on COVID-19 has sparked questions about the legitimacy of lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus. ‘We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,’ the WHO’s Dr. David Nabarro says.”
Politicians who have enlarged their powers under the aegis of public health should realize that the desire for freedom eventually overcomes fear. It starts gradually at first but it builds and never goes away. Eventually, freedom — to some — becomes the goal of life itself as depicted in the prison movie, The Shawshank Redemption.
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Instead of Shawshank, more like William Wallace’s final line in Braveheart. “Freedom!!!!!”
Tim Robbins is still an anal orifice, movie or no movie.
I JUST HEARD THAT PARIS IS CLOSING DOWN. Is this because of the virus or the terror attacks
from NYT:
Traffic clogged the streets of Paris on Thursday before the start of a new coronavirus lockdown in France.Credit...Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock
I already voted for Trump, but if I had yet to do so, I’d crawl through the Shawshank sewer to vote for him.
And the elite, like Emperor Cuomo, don't even follow the mandates they impose on everyone else.
To quote Hillary Clinton....”What difference does it make now?” ......./s
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