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PETER HITCHENS: There’s powerful evidence this Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy crippled
Daily Mail ^ | 28 Mar, 2020 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 03/29/2020 10:24:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone. You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone was unhappy with these events. But they were. So, above all things this week, I would like to thank all the kind, perplexed people who have got in touch with me by so many means, to say they share my doubts about the Government’s handling of Covid-19. There are, in fact, many of us. If you feel this way, you are nothing like as solitary as you think. Next, I would like to thank all those who disagree with me, who choose to abuse me, often with lies, personal smears and swearwords. Your childish, intolerant reaction has strengthened me in my conviction that mine is the better case. If your policy is so good, why can you not defend it like civilised adults? Do you really think that I regret needless deaths any less than you? Can you not accept that I also have good motives? I now suspect this dark season might get still worse before we see the clear, calm light of reason again. The greater the mistake we have made, the less willing we are to admit it or correct it. This is why I greatly fear worse developments in the coming few days. When I predicted roadblocks in my column two weeks ago, which I did, I did so out of an instinct that we were entering on the craziest period of our lives. And now there are such roadblocks, officious, embarrassing blots on our national reputation.

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To: Trump.Deplorable

Oh WOW! Did ya’ll hear this!?

America has NEVER been free!

America has always been a sham!

America is really just another Nazi state or North Korea in disguise!

America is just a piece of sh*t!

Your user name is partly right... You are deplorable.


81 posted on 03/29/2020 8:07:15 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: dynoman

dynoman wrote:

“Read posts 18, 20, and 31 on this thread; https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3829179/posts

Hillary’s tweets have been down right evil. She’s retweeted the New York Times model that’s forecasting 1.2 million dead. That’s based on the UK model Dr Birx has been talking about, the one that got revised down by a factor of 25 this week! The NYT model and the covidactnow.org one are classic GIGO!”

may thanks!

Here are the links to those posts you mentioned:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3829179/posts?page=18#18

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3829179/posts?page=20#20

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3829179/posts?page=31#31


82 posted on 03/29/2020 8:27:53 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

He was making threats. If he did in public it’d be the same thing.


83 posted on 03/29/2020 10:46:31 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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