Posted on 10/26/2020 12:34:39 PM PDT by livius
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald McNeil released a shocking article: To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It.
He was serious. Most all governments – with few exceptions like Sweden and the Dakotas in the US – did exactly that. The result has been shocking. I’ve previously called it the new totalitarianism.
Another way to look at this, however, is that the lockdowns have created a new feudalism. The workers/peasants toil in the field, struggling for their own survival, unable to escape their plight, while privileged lords and ladies live off the labors of others and issue proclamations from the estate on the hill above it all.
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
A great article on what the shutdowns really represent.
bfl
Yep. Exactly.
“...the lockdowns have created a new feudalism.
The workers/peasants toil in the field,
struggling for their own survival,
unable to escape their plight,
while privileged lords and ladies
live off the labors of others and
issue proclamations from the estate on the hill...”
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Such as it ever was.
“Such as it ever was.”
Well, there was that whole French Revolution thingy.
More from the article:
“Think for a moment about the main victims of lockdowns: working classes, the poor, people who travel for a living, those working in arts and hospitality, children locked out of schools, people who can’t just convert their office jobs into living-room jobs. They were never asked their opinions on policies that destroyed their lives and degraded their choice of profession. “
The Covid shutdown is an intentional political demonstration of how to control a nation through fear.
It certainly was. And they found out how easy it is.
The govt declared winners and losers in this debacle and we, and millions like us, got the short end of the stick. My husband is back at work now, but we ended up losing $10,000 in savings this year due to the shutdown.
If you weren’t financially impacted by the shutdown, thank your lucky stars that your job is considered essential, unlike 30 million of your fellow Americans. The uncertainty of being furloughed (initially for 2 weeks which turned into 7 months!) in addition to hoping your unemployment is going to be approved that week outweighs the months of “sitting on your ass” while you wait for normality to return.
Every time I read something about the government deciding who’s “essential” and who’s “non-essential,” I see red. This whole thing, as we move further and further along, seems like something that I never, ever thought could have happened in this country...but it did.
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