Question — are people reacting to overreaching governmental decrees, and are they doing so because this virus is not deadly in the vast majority of cases? Are people not wanting to be under forms of “house arrest” based on this virus not being fatal to most of us???
Remember when lockdowns started, and the justification was that we didn’t want to overwhelm the hospitals? Now it seems that these governmental orders have taken on a life of their own, and Fauci and others speculate it could be well into 2021 before we get back to “normal”, whatever form normal will take at that time.
so what changed? We flattened the curve. The hospitals were not overwhelmed. Who decided and how was it decided, that we need to be in some indefinite state of emergency over a virus which is not fatal to the vast majority of us?
Good question(s).
The excuse for the lock-downs were never about “saving lives.” It was about “flattening the curve” to temporarily (only 14 days ?) avoid overwhelming hospitals..
Texas attorney general forbids local authorities from shutting down churches, religious schools.. They’re ‘protected by the First Amendment..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3866273/posts
Our rights can only be interfered with by means of due process.. judge, jury... not via illegal orders from a politician..
At least the criminals have lived long enough to have developed coping mechanisms, and the ability to understand why they are isolated.
A young child? Not so much. They sit alone wondering why they are being punished by the whole world. The internalized sense of free floating guilt (for nothing!) and diminished sense of self-worth will haunt many for the rest of their lives.
We flattened the curve, but the left wasn't satisfied.
We've flattened our children, and they still aren't satisfied.
Or as Livius adds:
But all the “public service” ad pitches for masks, isolation, etc. are that if somebody else gets “the virus,” it’s your fault. Children particularly are made to feel like radioactive waste, and to regard everybody else - especially all other children - as equal threats. They will indeed have a sense of diminished self-worth all of their lives. Especially for breaking out and doing normal kid things like laughing, jumping around - in other words, innocent fun and human expression. That won’t permitted in our future Marxist paradise.
Yeah. That can't be good...
Mostly “Peaceful Protests”
Didn’t fix the
Suspension of the
Constitution.
Right, the goalposts moved without explanation.
This is one reason I’m a little bit wary of the emphasis on a vaccine. If the premise is that only a successful vaccine gets us back to normal, then what happens if it’s not successful or it’s delayed? Do we just stay stuck in indefinite limbo? I think we should be making plans to open up with or without a vaccine.