Just because YOU got scared doesn't mean I have to lose my livelihood.
I’m still amazed by the level of hyperbole and panic that seems to characterize much of what’s being posted here the past week or so.
“America is destroyed” “Police state” “We’ve surrendered all of our liberty”... It’s nonsense. No one is being dragged from their homes for reeducation. No one’s having the doors to their home welded shut so they can’t get out as was done in China. The police are not shooting curfew breakers indiscriminately... If that begins to happen, we should return fire. It goes without saying that we will be breaking their curfew.
Most everyone has been mildly inconvenienced so far. That is all. Your favorite restaurant is closed, (and may never open again). The local barber can’t cut your hair.
When it becomes a life or death matter (if it ever does), YOU are the one responsible for finding a solution for you and your tribe. If you are old and disabled and incapable of providing that solution, then YOU were responsible for training the young men in your tribe, so that THEY can provide a solution. Let’s hope you did.
Having failed to do that, you and yours will likely Darwin out, either in this crisis or in one that hasn’t yet occurred. It’s a shame.
The truth post-coronavirus is the same as the truth pre-coronavirus: The only liberty you’ve ever had is the liberty you exercise. The only things that you own, or ever have, are those things that you can possess and defend. Nothing else is yours, or ever was.
It isn’t that all the people will willingly go into servitude. It’s that so many have already done so, and are therefore unable to function in an environment of change.
That’s the principal reason that so many cry out to “restart the economy now”, and dive head-first into the wilder sort of conspiracy fiction... More of the same servitude they’ve always enjoyed is the only condition they’re equipped to handle.
These people actually believe that some all-powerful “other” controls whether there is an economy or not.
That’s MY opinion anyway.
The customers may be mildly inconvenienced. But if you are the restaurant owner or the barber this is hardly just an inconvenience.
THIS is why the police state is so easy to impose on a population of willing sheep ... because most people are NOT business owners.
“No one is being dragged from their homes for reeducation.”
No, but the cops are coming and shutting down businesses, writing tickets for being in a park, pulling people over and giving them $1,000 tickets for “unessential driving”, etc.
Just because YOU got scared doesn't mean I have to lose my livelihood.
Yep, your opinion. Suggest you read our DOI and COTUS.