Posted on 03/16/2020 7:32:15 AM PDT by daniel1212
And what about fear of death, and preparation for eternity?
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19)
As soon as word leaks out about how the elites skirt these bans, the SWHTF.
In the very least, for the near future, Mankind is going to go from being a social creature to an anti social creature.
Imagine this thing becoming bad enough that anyone is terrified to be around everyone. Imagine how that could change life as we know it if it does not revert back.
Civil unrest will be the catalyst.
Controlling the food supply will provide the spark.
Here comes the cashless society. Bills carry germs. Much easier to just have a mark in your hand.
These are excellent discussions to have. Unfortunately since we’re stuck in a hysteria, we won’t be able to have such discussions right now.
And yes, people such as Rahm Emmanuel are not going to let this crisis go to waste. If Democrats win the White House and increase numbers in Congress in November, Rahm and his ilk will pass laws on socialized medicine and God knows what else.
How successful will the mitigation efforts of individuals who do self quarantine? We decided to bunker down on Friday. So far my wife has found a reason she “had to go out” every day.
We may heading toward curfews because I predict it will soon be “discovered” that not enough people are staying at home.
We will become comfortable with extreme impingement on our liberties - after all, it’s “for our own good.” Some impingements will permanently stick as being universally “prudent.” I can see laws requiring businesses to sell only a couple of anything in stock per person as one example, followed by vague laws that state the people “can’t sell at an outrageous profit” any good in high demand. We will never be told an objective measure of what “outrageous profit” is because subjectiveness benefits all of those in charge.
My wife and I are glad for the life we’ve had and look forward to many more years, but we are very grateful to God for allowing us to know Him and to experience life.
The governments, local, state and federal seem to be in panic mode, worse than the populace.
They institute more actions and if nothing improves dramatically in 24 hours, they panic more and double down. This is having a very ugly snowball effect.
While the seriousness of this should not be understated, at this point the increasing panic of public officials is liable to cause this to become a complete disaster and possibly a SHTF scenario. I fear the government.
Worldwide population: 7 billion
Number of worldwide deaths:6,705
7 billion seconds = 221 years
6,705 seconds = 111 minutes
They’ll drag Sam Donaldson out with all the body bags..s/
The difference between those causes of death you mention (cancer, heart attack, diabetes, etc) and covid19 is that this virus is highly infectious and deadly.
The fact that someone has cancer or high BP doesn’t scare other people to be around them, C19 does and hence the reaction you see.
On top of that with the quickly increase in number, the medical system can suddenly become overwhelmed to a point that you have to start doing triage operations as is the case in Italy, leading to more panic and restrictions.
I have had a theory / belief for a few years that the goal was to force as many people into cities as possible for ease of control. Obama made few repairs to interstates, inconvenience them, they will move. This whole boondoggle is about control of masses. Power shutdown, utilities shutdown, the lemmings will whimper and comply. Seattle mayor housing the homeless at SeaTac, dense population, easy to control. Of course the cost of cleaning up SeaTac afterwards, assuming they can remove the homeless will be monumental. The lemmings in the blue states are going receive a true dose of the Socialist “Haves and Have Nots”. What better way to install the U.N. agenda of control.
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I am quite sure, ChildOfThe60s, that you can surmise how radicals would seek draconian measures to stop the dire consequences of Climate Change.
But at least for now they want to save the lives of the most vulnerable - if outside the womb - and are not opposing border control much. Its quarantine, not open borders.
Hardly. Although sodomy (by about 4% of the pop.) is the means of HIV transmission in over 80% of cases among men, yet is it is promoted as a right, and Medicaid enrollees can get funding for prevention as practitioners and treatment for it.
We will become comfortable with extreme impingement on our liberties - after all, it’s “for our own good.”
That is a real danger.
Martial law is already a option.
Well, it is normally actually not best to only stay enclosed!
We’re walking the dog every couple hours. He’s old and makes mistakes occasionally. I think he has dog dementia.
Indeed. I expected some posts to show up scolding me for even daring to discuss some these questions. How are things in San Diego? Price of gas gone down yet? I am up here in MA. .
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