Without a doubt that is shocking. It was on a par with Stalin's iron-handed rule of the Soviet Union. Our "leaders" acted in the most un-American ways imaginable.
Second, I remain surprised at the acceptance by the American people of draconian rules, restrictions, and unprecedented mandates, even those that are arbitrary, destructive, and wholly unscientific.
The only thing I can say to try to mitigate the utter cowardice displayed by the people is that nothing like this has ever been done in America and it blindsided everyone by its brazenness. But, as a justification, that's a pretty weak excuse.
Too many Americans bent over and said "skip the lube this sounds like fun!"
Not everyone was blindsided by it. Some of us have our antennas up. But most people are out of it.
A very nice Americanized Chinese couple, who both work in my office, and both support Trump, recently both got COVID. They’re in their late sixties, and husband has compromised immune system from cancer.
They both got over it, but took a while. I asked them if they inquired about taking any early onset therapeutics with their doctor, or if their doctor brought it up with them. They answered no to both.
I just don’t get it. All these people knew that Trump and Giuliani both got COVID, and were both given therapeutics and both got better quickly. But because the media downplays these drugs,people don’t put 2 and 2 together, and the doctors are completely out of it too.
I was talking to a woman whose son is a doctor, and she said she would ask him about the therapeutic drugs. She reported back to me with his opinion, and it sounds like it’s right off of CNN....”there’s no proof that these drugs work, and more people would die if they were prescribed extensively”.
He’s saying this as though he’s totally unaware of how extensively these drugs are being prescribed in many countries. And it’s funny how all the people who say there’s no proof that these drugs work aren’t bothered by the fact there’s no proof that the vaccines are safe, and no proof that the masks, or the lockdowns are effective.
This was an all out government/corporate massive PR campaign, to terrify people, and give bad information to make the situation worse, in order to scare people even more. So if you’re not willing to see the evil intent of the ruling class, you just become a gullible sheep.
‘Too many Americans bent over and said “skip the lube this sounds like fun!”
it’s my studied opinion that the sheeple are so embarrassed at being played like fiddles that they are doubling down on getting angry at ‘deniers...’
it is a natural defense mechanism kicking in, to try and minimize the shame...