Posted on 04/30/2021 7:34:23 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Feeling outgunned, outnumbered, overpowered, smothered, and censored? Many people who oppose Covid lockdowns and all their associated restrictions feel this way. It’s hard not to. You can hardly post on social media without triggering warnings, corrections, and sometimes outright blocks.
Bans are part of the mix too, the complete deplatforming of people merely because they want their freedoms back.... We never thought we would see these days but here we are.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to push restrictions – mask mandates and vaccine passports – just as it has for the past 14 months. The technology of intimidation is getting more sophisticated.
But how true is it that anti-lockdown people are a small and increasingly marginalized minority?
Consider:
The Wall Street Journal is one of the world’s largest circulation newspapers, with twice the physical circulation of the New York Times. Its editorial page has been consistently against lockdowns nearly from the beginning.
Fox News has been running anti-lockdown commentary for a full year. It very easily dominates all cable TV news, hosting 6 of the top 10 shows. It is trouncing CNN, for example, which is struggling for viewers.
The top-rated commentary show for this year and last has been Tucker Carlson Tonight, which offers gripping anti-lockdown interviews and commentary on every show, including interviews with scientists and activists left and right.
Elon Musk, among the most prominent tech entrepreneurs in the world, has fiercely spoken out against lockdowns.
Joe Rogan has the most popular podcast in the English language, and he has been consistently against lockdowns and Covid mandates for a year, most recently telling his audience the common-sense point that healthy young people should not be forced to be vaccinated since the virus is no threat to them......
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
The anti-facemask movement had better get organized.
I wish we would.
The best I do is treat them like t-shirts and get conservative and anti-hysteria words on them.
This satisfies the cowards but also ticks them off when they realize I don’t like it and I’m not liberal.
I was in my car and when the server came with my order and I axed about the mask policy.
She said all the servers wear them but while customers are "supposed to wear them" most do not and just shrugged.
It is good to see people voting with their own actions.
While it is just a small step, it is a sign that everyday people have had enough.
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