04-18-2020, 02:28 AM
(04-17-2020, 12:11 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-17-2020, 12:04 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-16-2020, 11:05 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN is reporting that Social-distancing deniers have arrived. The red pattern has always been to deny any problem that can only be solved be big government and big taxes. The Coronavirus obviously counts. The efforts to isolate by government order are considered tyrannical. Trump’s attempts to reopen the country and minimize these isolation are to be applauded. The old values favoring Unraveling selfishness and hedonism are thus continued. The post trigger dedication to the common good, to helping out the people on the front lines, is shunned.
Michigan had a protest recently, where the protesters ignored social distancing, flew Trump banners, and if there were any contaminated people carried the Coronavirus back home to their communities. More hot spots.
If it was possible to let them have their way in one or more places isolated from the rest of us, that would make for nearly perfect all-volunteer control groups.
Darwin Award candidates as well?
It is for creative expressions of individual stupidity. Collective stupidity does not count. Darwin Awards do not go to those who put others at risk. Children and the mentally-ill do not count. People doing things in the normal line of work or dying for some cause or principle do not count.
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.