Posted on 05/02/2020 9:54:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Governors across the country, even if their coronavirus numbers are in decline or never really spiked at all, don’t seem to want to end stay-at-home orders or open their economy for fear that they will be blamed for what happens. They refuse to adapt to what is a new reality and so almost none of us can prosper. In fact, one headline suggests our nation’s capital might be closed for another three months — something that has never been done, even though we have faced far greater threats.
The reason why is obvious: any smart politician knows their re-election chances will be crushed if they are perceived to have opened up their state too soon; if they are accused of triggering another wave of infections. Their political opponents will scream ‘murderer’ and say that their policies are ‘killing people’. So, they make the safer political bet: stay in lockdown mode for a long as possible in order to save lives.
Poverty clearly kills too, though — think of the suicides, drug and alcohol addition, heart attacks and strokes, not to mention unthinkable damage to our collective quality of life. The economic violence that we are committing to our society does not have as quick an impact as the virus, but its harmful effects will be longer lasting and more profound.
Nobody wants to choose between human life and financial well-being, but at some point somebody has to. And, with another Great Depression looming, that moment has all but passed. The table is set for what can only be described as the worst economic disaster in American history,
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.us ...
I predicted long ago, but I’m sure I’m not the only one, that these Comrade Governors would be very slow to give up their tyrannical powers. Sigh. Sometimes I hate it when I’m right all the time.
“Sometimes I hate it when I’m right all the time.”
Rejoice & Carry On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh67x9iDCjg
Its over. Go on about your lives.
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