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I am fortunate that I do not work with any Karens, or lockdown fetishists. While I support lockdowns, it needs to lift as soon as it is practical and safe to do so, and it should be as un-restrictive as possible. Anything else needs to get smacked down, quick and hard.
I feel like telling them that we should issue every legally valid American citizen a firearm, and start smacking Antifa / hippie / SJW types with wooden paddles to stop coronavirus. Sure, it is unlikely to have an impact on the epidemic, but neither will closing parks, banning the sale of seeds, or busting surfers…
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This is why any executive who invokes emergency powers should be required to stand down at the next election and return to private life. We can honor them and give them their pensions, but it’s not healthy to have people in these positions who have had the experience of exercising arbitrary power. The habits cannot be unlearned.
Wooden paddles? Why go easy on them?
Louisville Sluggers embedded with nails . . .
Omega, Great Post.
The question is what can we do?
Trump has apparently punted on the issue for now. There are those that say that the Governors do not have the power to enforce these lockdowns. Tell that to those who have been ticketed or arrested. Here in LA we are encouraged to rat out our neighbor for noncompliance just like in the good ol’ Soviet Union.
The Left has a very sophisticated marketing approach to these lockdowns. They will say they are in the process of investigating how we can open up the economy but somehow never seem to achieve any serious improvement in the situation. That have set guidelines when a full opening will come but these guidelines are arguably unreachable so that full opening will always be a subjective decision by the Psycho Commie Dems when they are good and ready. Funny how that is. Anyone protesting is just going to get buried in the minutia of it all , juiced stats on how bad it is, and a mind numbing explanation of why this or that can’t be done. Meanwhile delays will mount and people’s lives will be ruined.
The guidelines for lifting the restrictions have goals like “low and adequate”. These have different meanings to different people and none is not realistic. Those that lift the restrictions are going to have to face the fact that the cases will continue and they will be blamed for them. Trump would be wise to let the governors do that.
Of course the numbers will and have gone down and there will be a lot of governors in line to take credit for saving lives. We will never know if that is true.
If anarchy leads to serious problems it can be corrected. In contrast centralized power just grows and so far, it doesn’t retreat. We too often act as if it’s just back and forth centered on some notion of freedom and adjustment. It’s not an accident that we were unique and it’s not an accident that the drift away from freedom accelerates. It has to do with size and centralization, nothing else.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there should be a rule that states the moment someone enters a political race voluntarily they are automatically disqualified from the race on the grounds that they want the job.