Everyone regards bars, restaurants and diners as “non-essential”, but I see it differently.
Throughout history, resistance to government tyranny has always depended on informal gatherings of patriots in public places - pubs, taverns, diners, crowded marketplaces, etc.. - where old farts and young activists gather and bitch about an overreaching government.
Before this shutdown, small groups of friends would gather for breakfast at their local diner each morning, or happy hour after work at the local pub, or vets at McDonalds for coffee...
People seem to be dismissing these venues as “non-essential” - but they are not. Liberty depends on such informal gatherings taking place, and I find it very troubling that they seem to have been specifically targeted in this unconstitutional shutdown.
The Left seems particularly happy with these social venues being shut down for the foreseeable future. I wonder why that is.
” Liberty depends on such informal gatherings taking place,”
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I agree,I’m an old lady retiree and went out to breakfast almost daily,talking with the “regulars”, and lunch with friends a couple of times a week.These shutdowns have virtually isolated people like me.
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You are very definitely onto something-—to me, the most fascinating part of this whole Social Control Experiment centers on the dichotomy between essential and non-essential, and the decomposing brains that came up with the “distinctions”.
“Before this shutdown, small groups of friends would gather for breakfast at their local diner each morning, or happy hour after work at the local pub, or vets at McDonalds for coffee...”
One of my wife’s younger male siblings in his mid 70’s is a Viet Nam Army Vet, and basically eats breakfast at a local diner or drives 7 miles to eat at a McDonald’s. He is a true independent voter.
His wife tells him, she didn’t marry him to fix his breakfast.
So he was upset about that issue of not eating as a group of vets at McD’s or the local diner. He also, complained to my wife, his older sister and about Covid 19, restrictions on the tennis court. Like only serving your own marked ball, throwing the balls into big basket when they were done. Plus having to wear a mask to and from his vehicle and the tennis court.
My wife told him the same thing his wife told him,”You need to grow a pair!” ,
She told him that, he and his friends should wear their Army, Navy,Marine, Air Force hats and American Flag pins to eat breakfast/lunch wherever and together as 70 year old vets.
Then, wearing no masks from his vehicle, to and from the tennis court and to bring his used tennis balls back to his pickup for the next match.