Posted on 03/31/2020 7:04:47 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
The bizarre handling of Coronavirus and the obvious destruction of the United States of America......
I find myself seventy three years old here in Pittsburgh and deeply worried about the present and future of our country.
As the days go by the problems ahead for the nation seem bleaker.
My wife and I are Trump people yet this entire ugly event seems bigger and more evil than even he and his administration can solve.
The quote below sums up the feeling I have about how the American people are being treated. I really cannot see a way out of this. The evil plan to destroy our country seems too big and well planned. I hope I am wrong.
Any thoughts?
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
-- C.S. Lewis
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As an aside, one question we might want to ask is, Are people dying WITH coronavirus, or are people dying FROM coronavirus?
Do you think they hoarded corn cobs during the Spanish Flu?
Well, we have a tyrant as a governor and PA isn’t far behind.
2 Cron 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Deut 31:6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
I see a true Free Nations League, led by the U.S., UK, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and anyone else willing to follow.
Communism will eventually find its rightful place in the cesspool of history.
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I hope you are correct, but it looks like the China money is speaking very loudly these days.
Very good CS Lewis quote. Thanks from Pittsburgh.
I think I can help people understand the medical side of this to a great extent.
well it could be both.
it could be an engineered virus.
and opportunistic folks who had nothing to do with it, saw it as another crisisto exploit.
Watching Laura Ingraham and she is playing clips where Dr Doom is basically setting up the extension into May and June. depressing as hell. We will no longer have a country at that point. If some areas are not opening in May l see no way around a full on depression.
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What business?
All Quiet on the Western Front
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So well said and darkly spooky .......
I don’t consider stay at home quarantines for everyone with penalties for violation while having your business shuttered and jobs lost til God knows when to be merely governors and mayors ‘erring on the side of caution’. If that’s not a power grab then I’d hate to see what you think is one - cattle cars and gulags?
I pretty much agree. It’s dark now, but I think much better days are ahead. Especially for our children.
Heard tonight about another trump investigation starting up.
At what point is this sedition?
We mustnt give up hope.
The one who stops hoping first loses.
If its any comfort you arent alone!
The least worst country...I love it
You are not wrong I have had a lump in my throat over this for weeks, no one will ever convince me this was NOT done deliberately!!! The HATRED for Trump is SO DEEP it has gone past the point of being rational !!!
2. Donald Trump is president. ....... We are in very good hands. I trust Donald Trump.
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OKAY for now. I'll get off the ledge for now.
:-)
Today, in a state with relatively few cases, I just learned of the first person I know who is currently in critical condition. There will be a lot more.
Managing this is as much a mass psychology mind game as it is physically managing the outbreak itself. I believe given the nature of man, there is no other way to handle it than what Trump is going.
Now if it were a country of just people like me, or just people like us here ... probably such measures as we're seeing wouldn't be required ... we'd just be smart and get through it. But mankind en masse ... are loony. Things would not turn out well without a strong response.
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