Is there anything you'd be willing to fight a war for?

[JasonBlack]

(11-09-2022, 10:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 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.

Your chances of dying in any one year from a vehicle-related accident are pretty high, but we allow people to drive because they have to get to work. The worst part is that we performed all these lockdowns and mandates without any prior knowledge. They couldn't decide whether to tell us "we don't know" or "trust the science", and would frequently make contradictory claims on a weekly basis, then try to backpeddle and say "I never said that". For example, I'm not some anti-vaxxer Q-Anon type, but it's a matter of common sense that you cannot prove that a vaccine is "long term safe" unless you do long term trials. You cannot claim a vaccine won't have serious side effects in a matter of years when you have only tested it for 6 months, yet that's exactly that they did. They also changed their minds on masks about 5 times, changed the definition of pandemic, changed the definition of heard immunity and acted surprised when children gained weight at alarming rates when they were locked indoors. Intellectual dishonesty. Intellectual dishonesty at every turn. 


The big government people (mostly on the left, but many on the right) don't want things to go back to normal. People exercising basic ass freedom is "hyper-individualism" to them, and gives them no role in controlling the lives of the ordinary public. They hate freedom, they hate individualism, and, more than anything, they hate power (in the hands of anyone but themselves).