11-09-2022, 12:17 AM
(11-08-2022, 11:11 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: Not enough for me to start a war over, but I am really looking forward to some of the retribution Homelanders will levy against elder Millennials and (whatever remains of) Gen X for all these mandatory lockdowns during the next 2T (or, hopefully, sooner). If I had my way, all of government officials who instigated these lockdowns would be arrested, and its supporters among the public should be shamed for the rest of their lives.
The people imposing the lockdowns have largely been Boomers and X who know dominate American politics.
Quote:Honestly, idgaf about the masks. In fact, I still wear one at work because it's convenient to hide my headphones. I believe in being socially responsible and took all reasonable measures, including frequent test as I lived with my elderly parents at the time. I worked through the whole thing, watched my diet, called out from work if there was a potential I was contagious. No one had to "make" me do anything.
You still had to pay taxes, pay bills (reasonably), and obey existing laws.
Quote:....however, as an American, I was never more ashamed of my country as was the case in 2020. As Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." In March of 2020...we chose temporary safety, and decided that all it took to say the First Amendment "doesn't count" is for the rest of the country to freak out over an unknown respiratory virus.
I saw the masks and a vaccine as minor inconveniences in contrast to being hooked up to a respirator because of COVID-19. Does death constitute freedom? That is your call and not mine.
One could go far more places with a mask than without one, which is like saying that one can travel farther with a driver's license and appropriate tags and plates on your car than without them. Good reason exists for both drivers' licenses and license plates, such as denying the questionable freedom of getting away with stealing a car.
Quote:Every one of you who supported forcing half the economy to shut down for months (or in some cases, over a year) have chosen security over freedom. You believe it is your right to control people, even forcing small business owners to go belly under because they can't stay open, because "the greater good" is more important. You...are...a...coward!
People found ways, not always fully satisfying, to do what they most needed to do. Big Business did what it needed to do to get its activities done again.
I am one of those people in at least two high-risk conditions (age and an auto-immune disease even if it is "only" psoriasis). I consider myself to have had more freedom wearing a mask than not wearing one. Indeed, when wearing a mask was controversial I thanked people for wearing masks to greatly reduce the lethal danger of COVID-19. COVID-19 has killed more Americans than Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini combined.
I saw the struggle against COVID-19 tantamount to a war. We rightly conduct war in a way that allows us to win wars (ideally we win) with lesser cost of life.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.