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The Bizarre Handling of Coronavirus and the Obvious Destruction of the United States of America
freerepublic.com ^ | 3/31/20 | a little elbow grease

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?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: anothervainity; coronavanity; coronavirus; depression; destruction; dumbassary; economy
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To: gibsonguy

If mitigation is stopped prematurely, infections will soar, and economy will be in even much worse shape. If people follow guidelines from coronavirus.gov for entire month of April, the country will be back in business.


61 posted on 03/31/2020 7:36:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: a little elbow grease

I am in Pittsburgh too. The numbers don’t add up. It’s gotten absurd with how people are behaving especially at work. Someone coughs and is reported or someone jumps across the hall because I was within 6ft. And I’ve sent my whole staff home to work. I am 65 BTW. I just won’t live in fear. It’s a choice.


62 posted on 03/31/2020 7:37:35 PM PDT by SeektheTruth54
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To: a little elbow grease

This whole Sh!t Down is ridiculous.

Wash your hands, go back to work
Drink lots of water

Half of us have probably already had it


63 posted on 03/31/2020 7:38:43 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray .)
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To: a little elbow grease

People are dying WITH coronavirus.

Even the New Orleans lady (39 years old) who died had a serious intestinal issue for two years her boyfriend lied about. He said she was known to be in “perfect health.”

This is not a bad problem. It’s a serious cold, and that’s it.


64 posted on 03/31/2020 7:38:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: tinyowl
"What you're witnessing IS costly. But it's going to be OK, so long as you accept that when dealing with a hoard of mankind, which the US is and so is the world, it's a Sh*tshow. But we are in the least worst country in the world, in good times relative to history, and it's all going to be OK."

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Your post was great and appreciated.

(Now the mayor of D.C. wants to put people in jail for going outside.) Ugh....

65 posted on 03/31/2020 7:39:27 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: Salvavida

Sir, thanks for the job you do!


66 posted on 03/31/2020 7:39:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BigJimSportCamper

Please don’t confuse a possibly stupid overreaction with an evil one. I am in a lock-down state. Does that automatically make my Democrat governor an evil person? I think not.

My liberal acquaintances see every move that Trump makes as an evil one. I try to avoid that kind of mindset. Absent more evidence, I will not assume that everything a Democrat does is evil. Stupid, maybe. But not evil until more evidence is prevented.


67 posted on 03/31/2020 7:39:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Where the hell do you see signs of country being destroyed? Yes, we’ll have less means to enjoy life, but it’s not like we see mass hunger, looting and destruction of social order. The country is struggling to overcome a danger and succeeding at that. No one expected it to happen and we all (I hope) trying to make it pass. There will be consequences and adjustments of how people live in this country, as they should be. But to run around like your hair is on fire is unreasonable, at least, at the moment...


68 posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:12 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: nevermorelenore

Once we have an antibody test, it will be interesting to know the results.

In the meantime, we Don’t know.


69 posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:47 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rfp1234
Communism will eventually find its rightful place in the cesspool of history.

Communism is Satanic. It is Satan's answer to representative forms of government. It is the counter punch to freedom.

It will always be around in one form or another. There will always be a lurking ideology trying to seduce people into giving up their freedom for free stuff (which is only slavery in masquerade).

Believing communism and its heirs will end up on the trash heap of history is like believing that one day there will be no drugs that offer a few brief glimpses of heaven in the present in exchange for a future of hellish addiction.

70 posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Fiji Hill

The main things to beware are the Amazonification, Googlification, and Appleization of the U.S. economy. Monopolies are satanic.


71 posted on 03/31/2020 7:41:56 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
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To: sauropod
Well, we have a tyrant as a governor and PA isn’t far behind.

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He closed all our liquor stores. That's cruel.......... almost a SIN.

72 posted on 03/31/2020 7:42:11 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Agreed. That’s the eternal struggle to suppress our animal instincts.


73 posted on 03/31/2020 7:45:21 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Democratus Partitus Delendus Est)
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To: rfp1234

Ask AT&T and Standard Oil about what happens to monopolies.


74 posted on 03/31/2020 7:45:38 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: a little elbow grease

It’s not safe, letting criminals out, there will be looting and rioting, mayhem is coming, too.

This has been the most awful Sh!t Show ever produced. I don’t buy into the lock down the country. Those who are afraid can stay home. My son’s hospital has had to furlough doctors - 500 of them, because there are no patients.


75 posted on 03/31/2020 7:46:50 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray .)
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To: gibsonguy

[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.]


Given that the alternative might be hundreds of thousands of dead elderly Trump voters, a Biden landslide and overwhelming Democratic majorities in November ...


76 posted on 03/31/2020 7:47:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: ripnbang
so just because you personally are not affected you could care less about all the millions , some who will commit suicide and others will commit homicide due to the stress of no job and no income and being forced to stay in...

so who cares if our young families and our working families suffer immense personal losses as long as you are "okay"...v

its great that some freepers are all set in life, but most Americans are not set...they don't live on ranches or in small towns or have immense wealth...most Americans live hand to mouth...so losing a job is losing hope.....

at least pray for them....

77 posted on 03/31/2020 7:47:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Jamestown1630

It may be time to put all Americans (esp. first responders/health care workers) on the HCQ/Z-Pack cocktail.


78 posted on 03/31/2020 7:47:53 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: wastoute; Mariner; DLfromthedesert; cgbg; ETCM; bgill; calenel; Vermont Lt; nascarnation; ...
"I think I can help people understand the medical side of this to a great extent."

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Okay.

Mask or no mask?

There are a few "officials" ou there now saying masks are no good for us regular peons. That young man, Surgeon General Jerome Adams was spewing that crap today, and he wasn't the only one.

79 posted on 03/31/2020 7:48:57 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: gibsonguy

I agree. Please note. We are in a depression right now and worse. Fear of each other? It’s all cascading both in the economy and among people.


80 posted on 03/31/2020 7:49:52 PM PDT by SeektheTruth54
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