Posted on 04/13/2020 8:45:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yours truly was one of many who early on cheered the government for aggressively curbing everyone’s activity to slow the spread of COVID-19.
At the time, it seemed such a clear choice between life and death. Admittedly, I was squeamish endorsing government controls, something I’ve spent decades writing to oppose. What could possibly go wrong?
As Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Franklin recognized a false trade-off when he saw one. It took yours truly only a couple weeks to see the same picture. Every freedom you give up makes you more vulnerable, not safer.
There are two ways despots comes to power. One is to kill their way into control. The more insidious way is to promise to “take care of you.” Wannabe despots don’t bother explaining the fine print: “They will decide what’s good for you, once you’ve handed that power over to them.”
(By the way, that’s also how we got the vast corruption in the FISA courts, which we were assured when they were created would have adequate safeguards to prevent what the Justice Department and FBI clearly have done targeting President Trump.)
Death tolls don’t capture the full scale of the suffering of this Made-in-China virus. It’s literally a thousand times greater than the death count.
Sixteen thousand Americans died from COVID-19 in three weeks.
Sixteen million Americans lost their jobs in the same three weeks.
How many of the 16 million will find themselves permanently out of jobs? That depends largely on how many of their employers are permanently ruined by government’s forced shutdown.
We can’t tell today precisely how many American businesses were killed during this period because they look just like many other businesses: they are closed
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
#OUAN Open up America Now!!
But I already poured the gasoline in the house and lit it to prevent a little water damage from the rain, now you think we should put the Raging Fire out??
Two things.
One, let’s get back to normal living. Thanks to Greg Abbott for having a backbone and a brain.
Two, to government, LET GO of the power you have grabbed from the people in the last 30 days.
What these numbers tell me is that the Left thinks that 1,000 people should be left unemployed, unable to provide and care for their families, become more vulnerable to sickness and death in the long term, and become a weight on the economy.....
just so that one person may not die in the immediate term, who may already be terminally ill.
For every 1% change in unemployment, there are 40,000 suicides.
Not about saving the .1 percent, never was. Democrats(aka Satanic Death Cult members) don't care about your grandma or their own for that matter. It about control and their own festering raging mental illness. Seriously, we have upwards of 25% of the populace which has some kind of personality disorder. This stems from lousy or non-existent parenting, loss of reverence for God and maybe some genetic abnormalities. We are a dying society. Corrupt, rotting and decadent. WWIII is coming and 1/2 the planet will be incinerated, starved or murdered. This is foretold in Revelations.
Did he actually say this?
‘Some local jurisdictions are even issuing “forms” for neighbors to turn in each other for violations of stay-at-home and social distancing diktats.’
this is possibly the worst damage that has come out of this entire bungled affair; amazing how gleefully some people have taken to snitching..
It's human nature. That is why there had to be Ten Commandments, the ones about coveting and stealing specifically. This tendency is what makes internet trolls tick.
The author, by his own admission is a part of the problem. Good to see that he's finally waking up to level of insanity he's been supporting.
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