Posted on 04/25/2020 4:59:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
What are we doing, America? We've destroyed a booming economy, turned a record number of jobs into record unemployment numbers, and given up our basic tenets of liberty — all so we won't get sick?
We're allowing governors to restrict people's movement; prevent citizens from assembling; and order mandatory masks, testing, and vaccines. These governors now claim the right to track our every move, to surveil every American in order to ensure compliance. This shutdown is not just a slippery slope to socialism and communism; it's a downhill slalom.
How did we get here? Americans aren't cowards who would eagerly surrender liberty for immunity. But therein lies the genius of the left. It's not just about you and me, now, is it?
The left has hostages: our aging parents, grandparents, sick relatives. Either we put down the Constitution and slowly back away or the hostages will die.
This hostage situation is why kids are kept out of school even though they're not seriously affected by the virus. They're walking time bombs, carriers who will initiate a senior genocide should they be unleashed on the world.
I call BS.
If we want to protect the elderly, how hard would that be? We can avoid the elderly and those with health issues (duh). Our "most vulnerable" citizens can wear masks, use sanitizing wipes on surfaces (doors, counters), and minimize their risk.
And despite the narrative, the virus isn't a death sentence for the elderly. So how does locking up the rest of America provide them additional protection? Fact is, it doesn't.
Yet this false narrative of protecting our "most vulnerable" population is reason enough for Americans to comply with martial law, put liberty in abeyance, and suffer economic destruction.
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Spot on. What great statement to illustrate what is going on.
Ordering healthy people to stay home is tyranny.
Absolutely.
Covid-19 is an excuse, not a reason.
We have opened the door and let them in we need to kick their a##es out now
“... we need to kick their a##es out now”
Who’s gonna do that, with so many getting welfare and entitlements?
Welfare single mommies, many college students, farmers, retirees, minorities, the disabled, government workers (pubic school teachers) — they’re going to do that?
I am elderly and have several underlying conditions; and I want the country, USA, to OPEN.
I am responsible and know that when I leave my home, I must be safe. Period.
What is the problem?
Wrong. Learn history. Healthy people of the same household have ALWAYS been sequestered with those who were ill.
Cool. No one in my household is ill. I am ordered to stay home. Tyranny. No one in my extended family is ill. All their households are ordered to stay home. Tyranny. No one on my street is ill. All their households are ordered to stay home. Tyranny. You misinterpreted my post; however, it’s a free country...well, it used to be....so go ahead and read it however you wish to.
Bump
How did we get here?
Trump made a very big mistake.
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