As leftists double down on lockdowns, are we being played?

American Thinker ^ | December 14, 2020 | Andrea Widburg

[Steve_Seattle]

Another theme has recently been emerging in all of this: the best way to organize society is in a totalitarian manner, i.e., to create a society in which the community has more value than the individual.

The left is now playing up to China, and citing the Chinese approach as the best way to deal with pandemics, and presumably all other aspects of social organization. Of course, we have little actual knowledge of what really went on, or is going on now, in China, so we must either be skeptics or take them at their own word. Skepticism is - in my view - the only rational approach to proclamations from a totalitarian society, a society in which its own critics simply disappear.

Criticism of China has almost become taboo in our media, even as criticism of our own traditions and institutions has become almost mandatory.

It seems quite likely that the CV shutdowns are simply a dress-rehearsal, or - rather - a way of indoctrinating the entire society into believing that "safety" requires unquestioning obedience to our rulers and their arbitrary dictates, and a willingness to give up all of our traditional liberties.

Even as small businesses and some churches defy shut-down orders and are fined thousands of dollars a day, mobs of leftists are allowed to take over entire city blocks with little fear of serious prosecution. The FBI is AWOL; they are part of it, they have become allied with the globalist enemy. It is the only law enforcement agency that I would personally support dissolving and rebuilding from the ground up, with a new cast.

[NEMDF]

I truly believe that it they succeed in stealing the November election (plus the GA runoffs), our country as we know it will be lost forever.

Our grandchildren will grow up in a country that will become fully socialist, if not worse. The comprehensive “globalist” mindset will prevail, and in a couple generations no one will even remember the America that POTUS has been trying to make great again. It makes me angry and sad.

[Uncle Miltie]

Writers keep using headline queations that answer themselves.

Why?

(Because they are uncreative navel gazers..)

[fuzzylogic]

In the USA, we’re the last country that believes individual rights come first, that the best interests of the collective are individual rights and that they supersede the will of the collective.

This virus is being used to reprogram us, to teach us that not complying with the will of the collective makes you selfish...and therefore, a bad person.

What is so problematic is that large segments of the population do not realize this and they’re willing to give up their liberties for some perceived increase in temporary safety. ...so as the phrase goes, they deserve nothing.

We are handing to them the very power they want that was exactly what the Constitution was designed to curb. They’re not going to give it back either. Notice how we went from “flatten the curve” to the “new normal” and everything, all our rights being taken away at the discretion of the government, is now “open ended”.

This is so unconstitutional AND EVIL that Washington D.C. is beyond saving. As we stand right now we do not have a Constitutional Republic.

[JerryBlackwell]

Biggest hoax in history of mankind

[Texas resident]

I have two kids in their mid/late 20’s that are just starting out into their professional lives. It scares the hell out of me what they will have to live with.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

They have to weaken Trump’s stronger middle class.

[Maskot]

I noticed today the front page of our daily rag newspaper. No Covid count banner across the top of the page, like they’ve been doing every day since March. I wonder why that is? 🤔 So weird, right?

[joesbucks]

I have a friend who believed it was no worse than the flu and would go away after the election. (He still owes me a steak dinner on that claim.) -He is now singing a different tune. It hit him about 2 weeks ago. It has been the worst experience he’s ever endured. While he’s improving, he’s not out of the woods. Wasn’t high risk. And about 2 days before he started having symptoms, he wanted to get together. Thankfully I was busy and didn’t agree to get together. I am high risk.

[zeugma]

I will gladly accept the NSS award. Thanks! LOL

[unixfox]

Biggest hoax in history of mankind

It's not a hoax, it's real. The Mayor of our little town is holding on by a thread in the hospital as we speak. Been in the hospital for 15 days and a ventilator for 7 of those days.

I am Mayor pro tem and acting Mayor as of now. So I am very concerned.

[Steve_Seattle]

One thing about this virus that intrigues me is that it has such a wide range of impacts on different people. I'm just pulling these percentages out of the air, based on my general impression from news reports, but my sense is that 40% of people have no symptoms, 40% have mild symptoms, like a minor cold or flu, 15% have more unpleasant flu-like symptoms, 3% require hospitalization, but survive, and 1% die.

I know about the impact of "co-morbidities," but the wide range in severity of symptoms still seems a mystery to me.

[JerryBlackwell]

Makes sense. Covid is dangerous to just enough folks like your mayor to scare the pants off the rest of the nation. The hoax is the fear mongering. 1,000 bed hospital ship in NY unused. 1,000 bed hospital ship in LA unused. 2,750 bed temporary hospital at Chicago convention center unused.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I agree. Notice that the first cases of adverse reactions to the vaccine are already starting to appear ... won’t be on the nightly fake news.

[hal ogen]

You are welcome! Merry Christmas!

[AFreeBird]

If you’re just now asking that question, you haven’t been paying attention.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

There are three new babies in my family, all less than a year old; it frightens me what will be taught in the schools when they start school.

[joesbucks]

Agree. Seems to range from nothing to death and everything inbetween. I never gave it much attention until it got Herman Cain. For some reason his death deeply touched me. I know he was a cancer survivor, but he seemed so vibrant.