The title of this essay is Who Profits, in Latin. There is a conspiracy theory, that Covid-19 is a bioweapon created by the ChiComs, to take the USA down. Given the relatively low body count, I’m a bit skeptical. Was it legitimate research, or one too many pots of bat soup? We may never know. But, who profits from a shuttered American economy?
Besides our Foreign enemies, it’s the Autocrats and Oligarchs firmly ensconced in the permanent Bureaucracy and elected officials who are getting a taste of what REAL power is like. Just look at the Draconian orders coming from Michigan’s Governor Whitmer. The latest; only one occupant per car. Next, it’ll be only Authorized travel and checkpoints (papers, please).
In Hawaii, Georgia and Florida, some communities are using drones to enforce compliance with the stay-at-home directives. The mayors of New York and Los Angeles are encouraging people to “rat out” their neighbors who don’t social distance properly. And how about Nancy Pelosi’s “Ice Cream” interview? Marie Antoinette, anyone? My friends, we are witnessing a paradigm shift, and not for the better. This is what tyranny looks like. Forced compliance for the “Common Good”.
“What you allow, is what will continue”. I’m shocked, saddened and angered that this is happening in the United States of America. Real people are being harmed, and yet we’re just passively taking it. What happened to the American Spirit? Where is our gumption? THEY work for US! They DON’T TELL US, WE Tell THEM!
As more and more data is coming to light, we’re discovering that Covid-19 is nowhere near as deadly as the media and the apparatchiks (but, I repeat myself) would have us believe. At this point, it’s still possible to revive America, but if we wait, we’re likely to lose everything. The funny thing about life is, nobody gets out of it alive. We’re all going to die. The important thing is how we lived. Did we die unbent, living life under our own terms or cowering in our homes, because the State told us to.
I am not unsympathetic to those in High-Risk categories, as a Type One diabetic, my wife is high risk. But, I am a Postal Worker, and as such, I’m part of the Supply Chain. So, every day, I have to go out, and potentially risk, not only my own life, but that of my wife. I do it without fear. What’s going to happen, is what’s going to happen. Life MUST go on. If you’re High Risk, Stay Home. If you’re sick, Stay Home. As for the rest of you, Let’s Get Back To Work!
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Given all of the protests and backlash I don’t think most of America are just taking it. It feels more like “the more you grasp, the more slips through your fingers” especially in regards to New York ivory tower types telling all of America to shut down because we shouldn’t have to risk riding on buses or subways (so Tom Friedman (?) can be all alone in his subway car) when most of the rest of us are already alone in our car-cars.
Here in Wisconsin our Dem (Dim) gov is trying to get the Republican state legislators to pipe down by saying he’s just following their fellow Repub President’s opening orders, completely ignoring the 1/3 of the state that never had a case, 1/3 the state has has less than a handful and some nothing in the last week, and that a tad over HALF of the cases are all showing up in one part of the one largest city. Not even all of that city is all that bad off. Some county sheriff’s have announced they’re not exactly going to be going along with the new edits and (I think today, 4/21) it was announced the legislature is taking the close order (that runs till May 22 I think) to the courts to see if the gov overstepped his bounds.