Posted on 04/19/2021 12:56:19 PM PDT by lightman
When the history of the COVID year is written, the key feature - from a freedom perspective - will be how quickly Americans acquiesced to the imposition of draconian measures on American society by healthcare bureaucrats. And, those bureaucrats, no matter how stridently they proclaimed that we must “follow the science," turned out to be ignorant of what the science is.
You will recall that initially President Trump suggested the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) appeared to have a salutary effect when used as either a prophylactic or remedy in the early stages of symptoms of COVID. The Left mocked and reviled that position…until the American Medical Association (AMA) declared that HCQ had a significant positive impact as a prophylactic or remedy. But, because the AMA hated Trump as much as all Leftists, that announcement was withheld until two weeks after the November, 2020 election.
It appears the AMA favors Americans suffering from COVID if it means thwarting President Trump.
Also, don’t forget the doubtable Dr. Fauci telling us we didn’t need to wear a mask in a pandemic. Then it was the only thing. Then we needed to wear multiple face masks. Then we needed a vaccine. And then, even if we were vaccinated, we needed to wear a mask, or multiple masks…unless we are Dr. Fauci at a ballgame or rioting and burning down American cities.
And how about the promise that the lockdowns and personal protection equipment (PPE) mandates would only last two weeks so the hospitals and frontline workers had plenty of PPE while treating the infected? That two weeks stretched into months, and now more than a year in some places. Businesses closed, societal pathologies exacerbated, and in some places, a continuation of Government control in lives that were only imagined by dystopian fictionists such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.
In the meantime, doctors and scientists, who suggested that we limit the lockdowns and rely on the science regarding who was the most at risk, were demagogued and castigated. And, where possible, with the help of the tyrants of big tech, were canceled.
But in places like Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis followed sound counsel and freedom loving sensibility, he was able to protect the most vulnerable while allowing Floridians to exercise the mandate that falls to a free, mature, sentient being. He allowed them to be informed of the risks, make personal risk assessments, make their choices and accept responsibility for the outcomes of those decisions.
And that brings us to the Biden oligarchy. This crew only has interest in control of the American people in order to gain power. They kowtow to the teacher unions and desire to keep schools closed contrary to the science. They send COVID infected illegal aliens throughout the United States regardless of the science.
The elitist nature of the Left, coupled with the tyrannical power to control us, brings us to the realization that the lemmings of the Left demand we comply with their unconstitutional edicts. Meanwhile, the Left sends their kids to private schools, dine in ritzy restaurants, and vacation in luxurious resorts that would have been featured on the old TV show, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”
The Left and their Democrat operatives in Congress have used the COVID year to bring Americans into greater subjugation to our national government. In so doing, they have created an existential crisis for America.
I will continue to use every tool in the congressional toolbox to slow down the Democrat race to Gomorrah. I believe that most Americans want their elected representatives to do the same.
When the true history of this time will be written, the public health bureaucrats will be remembered with the disapprobation they have earned.
What I have been saying from the GETGO.........Covid is a LIE, it is about CONTROL, it is the FLU.................PERIOD!!!
“Clearly, the Covid 19 Plandemic and the fast tracked vaccines were pre-planned by Bill Gates, Tony Fauci and the rest of the mad scientists in our world.”
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COVID began (assumedly) on an ocean liner that could not port for a month or so .... as I remember
Hey, if they can invent or contrive a vaccine for SARS-2 Why can’t we get a vaccine for SARS-1?
The Diamond Princess...happened in the western Pacific.
Almost NO “asymptomatic spread”.
Fairly low “infection rate” and even lower fatality rate.
What do I mean?
Life is everything having to do with our lives - physical, spiritual, our sense of self, our own integrity, etc.
Liberty, within the context of how our Framers understood it, is primarily surrounding our family and our livelihoods. If you are free to take take of your family then you are truly free. This understanding includes our relation to others and how freedom, being centered in the family, emanates to those outside the family. Colleges, in the days before the American Revolution, put the study of economics within the framework of Moral Philosophy.
The Pursuit of Happiness has to do with living a virtuous life in relation to God. That was Our Founders understanding. It was not meant for accumulation of things, but an accumulation of virtue so that when you died you could spend eternity in Heaven with your Maker.
The end of 2019, in walked Covid.
Our bodies are now fodder for any Karen to rearrange with a mask, a shot and a passport.
Our ability to ply our livelihoods has been dealt a terrible blow.
And, worshipping our God has been difficult at best.
I believe that this last year and a half has been a war against our three most essential, God-given, inalienable rights.
We need to face the fact that we are in a personal and Constitutional crisis.
‘The Pursuit of Happiness has to do with living a virtuous life in relation to God.’
eh...? someone who prays to another god, or prays to no god at all, is denied pursuing happiness...?
Um....2022 Midterms are coming.
Take it up with the Founders and Aristotle.
NOTHING Prevents a State from going after Fauci with the Full Force of Government, see New York and Donald Trump
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