Is it your fault that I’m afraid? Maybe it is your duty to obey me until I feel better. Your rights end where my feelings begin, and I’m afraid of a virus, afraid of guns, and afraid of freedom. That is why you have to do what I tell you to do. Or not. This so-called “epidemic” is a wakeup call. More people will die from addictions and suicide than from Covid-19. Are we going to let someone take our freedom? We’re giving up the freedom to earn a living. The freedom to travel. The freedom to worship. We’ve given up the freedom to assemble and petition our government. We’re willing to give up our freedom over the common cold, over the flu that will kill one out of two thousand of us, while other causes kill 15 times more of us every year. This is our fault. We didn’t pay attention when our mayor was elected, and now he ordered us to stay home. We didn’t pay attention when our country board was elected, when our sheriff was elected, when our school board was elected. We didn’t ask the right questions when our state representatives, our governor, our federal legislators, and our president were elected. We didn’t do the work then, so now we have to get up and call them and demand our freedom back. We didn’t do the work, so now we have to protest and contribute to the legal organizations who are fighting for our freedom.. or we won’t have any. We never agreed to slavery. We went from flatten the curve, to social distancing, to until we have a vaccine. We were told that the new normal is where abortion centers are open, and churches are ordered shut down and we should report our neighbors. We went from releasing violent criminals from jail, to jailing manicurists and barbers who see one client at a time. That is socialism. That is fascism, and here is the cure. Stop asking for permission. The strength of the american people is that we lead the way and make the politicians follow us, not the other way around. We’ll show the politicos when it is safe for them to come out of their safe spaces. They can follow our example. I will not be a politician’s slave, even if the politician is wearing a white lab coat and a surgeon’s mask. There is no evidence that house arrest saves lives. None. There is a theory, but there is no data to support it. In fact, there is strong data against house arrest. Look at the experience of Sweden and Japan. Neither country enforced a lockdown. When we look at the severity of the illness, the US is worse than Japan and slightly better than Sweden. If we take out the New York metropolitan area, then the US infection rate moves closer to Japan. That lesson is clear; don’t be like New York and move infectious people into nursing homes. Don’t stay stuck on stupid. It is your life and living it is up to you. Stay at home if you want, but you are not my slave and I am not a slave to your fears. It is past time we acted like it. Should You be a Slave to My Fears?
DJT cares....he nominated Tom Marino as his preferred man as 'Drugs Czar' ( head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy).....Perhaps Marino's support for big Pharma's concerns about DEA restrictions on their distribution of opioids is indicative of his concern for opioid addicts and their mortality. Report: Trump’s Nominee For Drug Czar Led Pharma-Funded Law Undermining Opioid Fight Fortunately for America, Tom Marino withdrew his nomination.
