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Covid Taught Americans To Stop Trusting A Government That Puts Them Last
The Federalist ^ | 12 Mar, 2025 | Elle Purnell

Posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The reaction to Covid showed Americans the system wasn’t going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.

When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time.

The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques. For the average American who assumed his political leaders still shared the belief that all men are created equal, it was a cruel betrayal.

Coronavirus lockdowns alerted Americans to an uncomfortable reality: the institutions to which they’d entrusted their liberties were no longer trustworthy. If the 2024 election is any indication, they got the message.

In the Covid times, hardworking people were deemed “nonessential” and lost their jobs while watching Tony Fauci’s net worth climb. They were banished from church while thousands gathered in the street to worship George Floyd. They watched their kids fall behind in school while Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot broke the rules to get their split ends trimmed. Their dying loved ones left this world alone, while Obama danced with Hollywood stars at his 60th birthday bash. To add further insult, those loved ones were denied proper funerals, while 10,000 people gathered to eulogize a drug-addicted criminal in a gold casket on television. Only some Americans were authorized to print their opinions online, while others were punished and censored.

The delusion that we were “all in this together” didn’t survive for long. A certain set of rules applied to the BLM protesters, the Democrat politicians, and the Hollywood elites, and another set of rules applied to everyone else. Americans started to realize they were being had.

When Covid vaccine mandates rolled out, the dichotomy was even clearer. For the vaccinated class, there were jobs, service academy appointments, college acceptances, and social acceptance. For the unvaccinated, there was talk of denying them entry to airplanes, restaurants, and stores, or even putting them into camps.

Once the double standard was exposed, it became visible everywhere. The Bidens got away with selling White House access because of their last name, while Trump was relentlessly prosecuted for made-up crimes because of his. Peaceful pro-life protesters were dragged to prison while abortion supporters got away with firebombing pregnancy clinics. Ukrainian oligarchs got billions while we watched the buying power of each paycheck shrink. Our government seemed more interested in caring for citizens of other countries who broke our laws than in looking after its own. Our president was more interested in apologizing for using the term “illegal” to describe Laken Riley’s murderer than he was in apologizing to Riley’s family for inviting her killer across the border. Our speech was muzzled as a “threat to democracy” while partisans gleefully dismantled our republic....SNIP


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: civilrights; covid; government; mandates; masks; tyranny; wuhan
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To: 1Old Pro
I still see the arrows and marks on the floors of super markets telling us where to stand and how much distance to maintain. Maybe they expect another panic. I will not be so accommodating the next time. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
21 posted on 03/12/2025 7:33:01 AM PDT by ABN 505 (+)
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To: MtnClimber

It only taught some people. Most of those folks were already on the skeptical side. Lots and lots of sheep learned nothing and got paid well by the govt to sit at home and collected paychecks and voice their approval of the covid response years after the truth of the matter had been revealed.


22 posted on 03/12/2025 7:44:12 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MtnClimber

I learned everything I needed to learn about government - in particular Democrats - when I saw them not requiring illegals to get inoculated while threatening the jobs of American citizens who did not get inoculated.


23 posted on 03/12/2025 7:49:48 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: rktman; All
Right. It was also a power grab.

Many people had a head start on distrusting the government. We didn't exactly need that final nudge.

For others it was , as Nietzsche said...”It it's falling, give it a shove.”

24 posted on 03/12/2025 7:52:23 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

I never believed in any of the COVID actions and you can search my history to prove it.

It was all about control and getting rid of President Trump in the 2020 election and they did not care for how many people they had to hurt to get it...


25 posted on 03/12/2025 8:23:49 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: ABN 505
I still see the arrows and marks on the floors of super markets telling us where to stand and how much distance to maintain. Maybe they expect another panic. I will not be so accommodating the next time. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

And the dirty looks when you had the audacity to walk down an aisle in the wrong direction...gasp

26 posted on 03/12/2025 8:24:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

15% of the people I work with in a warehouse still wear masks.


27 posted on 03/12/2025 8:24:20 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Sicon

Unfortunately, a large number here on FR was part of the COVIDiots!


28 posted on 03/12/2025 8:25:25 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: 1Old Pro

I never get tired of rehearsing to each other the insanity we just went through. Even here on FR. At least we had a forum here on FR —- we could talk about it.

The floor arrows seemed a bridge too far, even here in SF. they didn’t last too very long. I disobeyed them entirely. I got some looks but never a reprimand. Whereas I was reprimanded about masklessness frequently.


29 posted on 03/12/2025 8:27:24 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: drwoof

Down here in the South, it is almost exclusively blacks that are still wearing masks. I see 100 blacks for every 1 white wearing masks.

The whites I do see wearing masks are all older sick looking people, while the blacks are all healthy.


30 posted on 03/12/2025 8:27:36 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Persevero
The floor arrows seemed a bridge too far, even here in SF.

In NY, even at outside bar areas, Gov Andy Cuomo forced people to buy a $1 meatball or some other food every time you walked up to grab a beer...talk about a bridge too far.

31 posted on 03/12/2025 8:29:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: glennaro

I’ll never trust the CDC ever again...


32 posted on 03/12/2025 8:29:37 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: MtnClimber

I saw a retard US Soldier with Airborne patch on his uniform wearing a mask yesterday.


33 posted on 03/12/2025 8:37:55 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: V_TWIN

“I never would have thought in a million years that so many people in this country were that weak minded.”

I absolutely hear you... But I have to share that from the very beginning I saw through the scam and was not surprised at all. I have witnessed this mass hysteria and irrational fear and manipulation before.

I saw it when this country fell head over heels for the scam called the Patriot Act. The only difference was the new terrorist was a manufactured virus... Everyone in this country fell for the false “Weapons of mass destruction” and “A terrorist under every bed” narratives.

Both were about control of the masses and the whole world fell for them lock, stock, and barrel...


34 posted on 03/12/2025 8:41:11 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: MtnClimber

Mark for later


35 posted on 03/12/2025 8:41:56 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Openurmind

“the whole world” did not fall for them lock, stock and barrel.

You only know what the media told you. The very same sources who demanded ‘everyone has to get vaccinated’.

Then there were those who were compelled by business agreements and contracts to be vaccinated.

There are plenty of FReepers who disagreed and did not get vaccinated.


36 posted on 03/12/2025 8:46:55 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: MtnClimber

There were a lot of us who never fell for any of the Covid nonsense. Or the Climate change nonsense. Or the transsexual nonsense. Or the systemic racism nonsense. Or the Watergate nonsense. Or the Russia collusion nonsense. Or the “2020 safest most secure election” nonsense. Or the J6 nonsense.

As for Americans being taught lessons by Covid, I doubt it.. the people I know who were so quick to comply with all the Covid nonsense seem as gullible as ever.

That time it was Covid - next time it will be something else. Most people are followers - they are wired to identify who they should believe and who they should follow. The following instinct is easily triggered by fear.

There will never be a shortage of self-proclaimed authorities - experts who know how to create a panic and trigger all the followers to do this and that.


37 posted on 03/12/2025 8:52:14 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Justa

Well of course not... It was a figure of speech. But tell you what... Those who did not fall for it and comply to the word were a very very small minority. 95% of the world complied without question. Many were forced to comply against their will.


38 posted on 03/12/2025 8:52:23 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: 1Old Pro

Had to buy food- yes! Cause that kept an airborne virus away


39 posted on 03/12/2025 9:08:58 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: packrat35

I used to think the CDC, the WHO, the NIH etc were overall decent and pro health people who might occasionally err but could generally be trusted.

NEVER AGAIN


40 posted on 03/12/2025 9:10:45 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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