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Maybe that's what I missed early on. I never "saw images of people falling dead in the street in Communist China" at all. If you DID see anything like that, and reacted to it by letting your government run roughshod over you, then count yourself among the sheep who bought the totalitarian government propaganda -- hook, line and sinker.

When you live your life according to principles instead of childish emotion, you don't fall for this crap very easily. Some of us were "lone voices in the wilderness" even here on FR last year. Even at the very start of this fiasco when not a lot was known publicly, there were too many cases where the measures imposed were ludicrous and irrational by any objective measure. For example, I said from the start that it made no sense to shut down businesses and impose all kinds of pathetic mask mandates while the New York City subway system -- arguably the worst place on the planet in terms of transmission risk for diseases -- was still operating.

Some of us knew that "fifteen days to flatten the curve" was never going to end. I warned my business associates accordingly at the time: "Forget about fifteen days. If you accept this bullsh!t for even 15 minutes, you are never going to be doing 'business as usual' again."

I hope it was all worth it, folks. Now put your mask -- or is it three masks? -- on and wait for your instructions from Chairman Xao Bai Den.