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Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns
Brownstone Institute ^ | 6/5/23 | Jeffrey A Tucker

Posted on 06/06/2023 5:51:49 AM PDT by week 71

It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of our lives in accordance with the priorities of the bio-medical security state.

Very few people anticipated such a shocking development. It was the onset of a new state-conducted war and the enemy was something we could not see and hence could be anywhere. No one has ever doubted the omnipresence of potentially dangerous pathogens but now we were being told that life itself depended entirely on avoidance of them and the only guide going forward would be public-health authorities.

Everything changed. Nothing is the same.

(Excerpt) Read more at brownstone.org ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: civilrights; covid; fascism; lockdowns; tyranny
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To: SamAdams76

How absurd!

Our church did the internet services (but, had already had that tech in place, before china virus), held outdoor services, for a while.....then, fully re-opened, and, the silly masks were optional.

NEVER any mention of the horrid $hots, thankfully.


41 posted on 06/06/2023 8:01:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I like that you listed the positives.

I am hopeful that many eyes were opened. I was shocked at the level of lies and compliance but I did see some honesty, like the Barrington Declaration, some courage (John Macarthur really stood out) but less famous guys too; I know people who lost their jobs over refusing to comply; I know churches that continued to assemble for worship; and I saw fake passport run arounds and businesses that defiantly stayed open. Eventually the courts started ruling for us (too little too late but still we are winning some judgements). Even some politicians stood and kept people free and called crap out - looking at you Sen. Paul.

Mostly I have basis for hope that this will be very hard to pull off “next time.” We need to get laws in place that limit the cudgel of “declaration of emergency”


42 posted on 06/06/2023 8:20:51 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: SamAdams76
It's very sad to hear stories like yours. It grieves me to see churches closed down due to their capitulation to the Covid narrative. I honestly haven't been back to a church just because it's nearly impossible to find one that didn't in some way give in to the government or is still mandating vaccines or social distancing. It's only due to the encouragement that I receive in places like Free Republic that I'm able to keep going.

See my tagline.

43 posted on 06/06/2023 8:42:15 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Persevero

It’s going to take a long time, if ever, for churches like yours to recover.


44 posted on 06/06/2023 8:43:38 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: T.B. Yoits

Thanks for pointing out some light in this darkness!

Indeed, there is a sort of brotherhood among those who resisted from the beginning.

There is a tacit understanding among those who complied with the foolishness that they ended up on the wrong side of history.


45 posted on 06/06/2023 8:45:47 AM PDT by week 71
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To: kelly4c
Televangelists I'm sure are still raking in the profits for online services. Most of them, though, do nothing to encourage the flock.

If people can find good preachers online, then of course, watch and listen to them, but they are hard to find. Maybe we ought to start a list of good online ministries for people to tune into.

46 posted on 06/06/2023 8:46:44 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Jane Long

Sounds like you attend one of the few churches peppered across the fruited plain. Praise God for them.

Hopefully some of the other conservative churches will find their courage again - including my own.


47 posted on 06/06/2023 8:50:00 AM PDT by week 71
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To: week 71
Presbyterian Church in America

I had to look that up!

48 posted on 06/06/2023 8:50:36 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Jane Long

Sounds like your church was one of the few who did things right. Kudos.


49 posted on 06/06/2023 8:53:13 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

Grin - yeah, wrote from my habits forgetting many may not know my own ‘christianese’.


50 posted on 06/06/2023 8:56:55 AM PDT by week 71
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To: notdownwidems

Check your Freepmail


51 posted on 06/06/2023 9:00:11 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: week 71
Interesting to note. There are no PCA's here in central Indiana that I can find on their website. HOWEVER, there are three PCA's in the area of Rapid City, Sturgess and Spearfish in South Dakota, an area I was thinking of relocating to.

Hmmmmmmmmm

Do we have anyone from that area visiting this thread right now who can chime in? I'm looking for a good church, and I'm also looking for a good place to retire to. Maybe God is at work here?

52 posted on 06/06/2023 9:08:43 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

I know, and serves us right, really.

But some of the regular members wrote very eloquent arguments for staying open, really pleaded. I was gratified by that. It was just the leadership! Sigh


53 posted on 06/06/2023 9:32:38 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: week 71

I’ve always been a bit of a cynic, but even I was shocked at how fast the majority of people were eager to become Good Little Nazis.

Me, I was standing out on a corner with a sign that said “Freedom Is Essential Too!”

Can’t tell you how many times I ended up having to tell mask nazis to piss off.


54 posted on 06/06/2023 9:37:14 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: ducttape45
How many churches now sit empty because they went along with the narrative? I've seen three church structures, all literally with a quarter mile of each other, that have been sold to local merchants and turned into a business of some sort. They paid the price for their betrayal.

I haven't been back to my local church for exactly this reason. If the Church won't stand up to evil, it doesn't deserve to exist.

55 posted on 06/06/2023 9:38:40 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: ducttape45

It’s a Shakespearean tragedy that there are no PCA churches near you (ha- kidding, the Christ is glorified in many church persuasions).

Though living in the midwest not familiar with any.

I attend PCA, but/and I am truly Reformed Baptist (credo baptist vs pedo baptist) at my core.

There may be some Reformed Baptist churches around. I think some website Founders has suggestions. sorry no link, but findable. cheers


56 posted on 06/06/2023 9:40:56 AM PDT by week 71
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To: ducttape45

There’s a good directory of reformed Presbyterian churches at NAPARC.org
That I know you will find useful.


57 posted on 06/06/2023 9:46:24 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: zeugma

Find a faithful church and attend. We don’t win by staying home.


58 posted on 06/06/2023 9:47:29 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero

@ 58 Amen


59 posted on 06/06/2023 9:53:09 AM PDT by week 71
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To: Persevero
Find a faithful church and attend. We don’t win by staying home.

Finding a faithful church requires a lot of research. It's easier than it used to be, because their scamdemic response is a dead giveaway. I find that personal study is better anyway.

60 posted on 06/06/2023 10:33:56 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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