Posted on 12/09/2020 4:23:53 AM PST by Kaslin
This week, as Los Angeles County announced it would lock down all outdoor dining, a video went viral. That video featured restaurant owner Angela Marsden, proprietor of the Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill, decrying the lockdown policy while pointing to the erection of production catering set up for a Hollywood shoot just a few feet away. "Everything I own is being taken away from me, and they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio," Marsden said, adding that she has spent approximately $80,000 complying with the requirements of LA County, only to see it shut down her business completely.
There is no scientific policy justifying LA County's outdoor-dining shutdown. In fact, during a Board of Supervisors meeting, a community member quizzed LA County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis on the evidence to support such a ban. Muntu provided no such evidence, likely because there is none.
But those who want to run their businesses in a safe and secure fashion are being targeted nonetheless by a political class incentivized to pursue tyranny rather than rational policy. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti -- who told police to stand down as rioters tore through his city during a pandemic -- said that his "heart goes out to Ms. Marsden" and then added, "No one likes these restrictions, but I do support them as our hospital ICU beds fill to capacity." He explained, "We must stop this virus before it kills thousands of more Angelenos." He did not explain why, if outdoor dining was so dangerous, Hollywood is still allowed to engage in it.
That's no surprise. Throughout the pandemic, one set of rules has applied to America's most ardent lockdown advocates, and another set of rules has applied to everyone else. LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining...and then went to an outdoor restaurant later that evening. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is currently locking down some 33 million citizens but had no problem eating indoors with members of the California Medical Association at The French Laundry. Mayor London Breed of San Francisco ate at that same posh restaurant the next day. Austin Mayor Steve Adler told his constituents, "stay home if you can" in a Facebook video filmed from his vacation timeshare in Cabo San Lucas, where he'd just headed with seven others after a wedding in Austin. Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago got her hair cut and called it an "essential" business activity while promoting lockdown. Gov. Andrew Cuomo told everybody to stay home for Thanksgiving and then announced he would be getting together with his daughters and his 89-year-old mother, only to then reverse himself.
The message is obvious: Our intellectual and moral betters in politics are free to make their own rational calculations on COVID-19 risk. The rest of us are to be locked in our homes until further notice. When these political actors suggest that we must act out of an abundance of caution, they mean that they ought to enjoy abundance while benefitting from our caution.
You and your family are capable of making the same decisions Cuomo, Garcetti, Newsom, Lightfoot and Adler do. You should be careful; you should engage in social distancing, mask up when in close proximity with others and generally avoid social gatherings involving those with preexisting conditions. But you can do all of these things and still live in a free society. Our politicians don't believe that, because our politicians have seen how easily so many Americans were willing to indefinitely suspend their freedoms out of trust in our authorities. Until the incentive structures change, our freedoms will continue to be throttled by people who have no problem exercising their own.
One need not be a COVID-19 skeptic in order to question whether the enthusiastic authoritarian streak revealed by those politicians can be curbed. The longer we tolerate it, the more our politicians will normalize their power grabs.
It’s too late.
The tyrants now know what they can get away with and will never go back.
How about they are a power grab , period, one we should not let happen, period.
When we allow a weak power to change the rules on engagement on us, we have terrorism.
It is like the magician dog who is persuaded by the cat to turn into a mouse for sake of fairness and of honoring the cute catiness of the cat, only for the dum dog to be eaten as a mouse.
You let them change the ROEs on you, you let them force you to surrenders your ROE options while dividing society with idiots empowered to attack you if you do not wear a mask, you have embrace state terrorism and loss of power, a state which will have even lesser respect for you and will let up you die on the side or eat you alive.
Between Rinos, libertarians and brain dead liberals changing ROEs at the Mexican border , with China on economics , with Russia on military missile treaties etc, this country gets stabbed in the back non stop. Enough is enough. Your restaurant gets closed in Cali and a china shop goes up instead should be , or, would have been enough for an absolute tea party.
What needs to happen is violent resistance on a large scale. Storm a few governors palaces and drag out the dictator to face peoples’ justice and behavior would change. Alas, we seem to be a nation of sheep.
From a pathologist and researcher Beth Walker Tovich
...”I must wear gloves in my lab just to handle and work with RNA materials. Why would I allow any vaccine containing RNA to be injected into my body or the body of my family. As a pathologist, I know exactly what happens to cells when RNA attaches to DNA...modifications that are not natural.”
Now read that again!
There is a solution.
The left has already used it.
And they will continue to use it until they also stay up at night worrying who might burn their house down.
Sorry, but that’s da twuth.
Another case for splitting country between free and marxist states.
Rigged elections was the permanent power grab. COVID is just something done by the deepstate because they don’t think elections matter. With @realelections we can get rid of the deepstate. With #fakelections we have all the rights of the citizens of Venezuela.
The Democrat boot on our collective necks is not going away.
With all elections in their hip pockets, the Democrats will chose which liberties to crush
and which ones to allow a timid existence. Few elections will henceforth have a Republican candidate
succeed. A smattering of callow Republicans will be allowed a place at
the trough for open humiliation and red herring treatment.
We, the sheep, are being shorn.
Savage is calling it undeclared martial law.
Exactly. The state has determined that it has exclusive and total control of every aspect of your life. Why would they ever give that up?
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