11-09-2022, 10:29 PM
(11-09-2022, 09:26 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(11-09-2022, 07:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And yet people in Georgia voted for their governor because he lifted the lockdowns and mandates so quickly, so that more people died there than in other states per capita.
And then he and other Republicans shouted "inflation" to get votes, saying that the government should not have spent money to help people and small businesses recover from the lockdowns that the government itself imposed.
Republicans will go to any length to deceive and foment evil upon the people.
Yes, a few more people died, but that doesn't give people the right to....literally stop people from going to work. There is an order of magnitude difference between restricting the behavior of, say, a drunk driver going 30 miles above the speed limit and a small business owner going into the shop, a regular citizen going into work, a mother taking her children to a nature reserve (yes, that was restricted in many states, and throughout all of Canada). "Fomenting evil upon people" is...truly a colorful way of describing such a banal set of activities.
I repeat: freedom is more important than security. This is, quite possibly, THE most important concept of what it means to be an American. There is conservatives tell some people to leave. We aren't for everyone.
We know that many jobs (construction, police work, fire fighting, truck driving, working on utility lines) is more dangerous than average. We do what we can to reduce the dangers. COVID-19 is an added danger not work-related.
COVID-19 is a plague, and I can assure you that both the Black Death and the influenza epidemic both imposed great dislocations to the economics of the time. America endured a major recession in 1920-1921 related, most likely, to the aftermath of the influenza epidemic. Like the Black Death and COVID-`19 its effective on mass death was entirely additive. Choking to death is not my idea of freedom any more than having one's neck broken or throttled in a hanging is freedom.
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.