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We Have Had Enough Lockdown
The Tennessee Star ^ | 5 Sep 2020 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 09/06/2020 4:25:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Take off the masks and remove the “social distancing” circles from the floors. Open the schools, liberate college campuses, fill the restaurants and the gyms and the churches and the salons. Enough.

If 2020 wasn’t twisted enough, the current political imbroglio centers around a verboten visit to a California boutique for a routine blow-out. Americans are lining up either behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who claims she was “set up” to visit the San Francisco salon, or the salon’s owner, a woman struggling to keep her business alive amid cruel and unscientific edicts issued by her governor months ago.

The incident is the latest in a series of “rules for thee but not for me” gut punches from the ruling class; whether it’s mask-free trips to the park or crowded funerals for anointed heroes or casual meals munched indoors, the government-ordered shutdowns apply to everyone except the sadists running government who order said shutdowns.

But here’s the rub: No one should be talking about Pelosi’s coif controversy because it should not even be a story. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Erica Kious should never have been forced to close her business, fire her stylists, and sneak in customers like some 1940s underground operation hiding from the nation’s modern-day face covering and social distancing Gestapo. Pelosi should be able to get her hair done whenever and wherever she pleases without concocting a preposterous excuse that she was framed for fluffy follicles.

Almost a half a year ago, Americans were asked to suspend their personal freedoms, business pursuits, and schooling for 15 days to “flatten the curve” of rising cases of the novel coronavirus. Americans, fearful of the unknown and willing to do what they imagined was the right thing to protect themselves and their family, acquiesced.

(Excerpt) Read more at tennesseestar.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: flattenthecurve; lockdown; mask; masks; plannedemic; reopen; shutdown; tyranny
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1 posted on 09/06/2020 4:25:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: carriage_hill; wattojawa

Ping.

(Friday?)


2 posted on 09/06/2020 4:32:27 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Rummyfan

Already going down the slippery slope. Just see what happens when we have a very bad flu season...


3 posted on 09/06/2020 4:36:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
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To: Rummyfan

Are the big Democrat cities still “locked down?” That might eventually take some wind out their political influence.


4 posted on 09/06/2020 4:42:13 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: Rummyfan

Schools and restaurants are open in Tennessee, BTW.


5 posted on 09/06/2020 4:51:52 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: lightman

Yep.


6 posted on 09/06/2020 4:56:08 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Rummyfan

“ Global lockdowns, particularly in the United States, were one of the costliest man-made disasters of all time. The decision was rooted in unscientific hocus pocus that resulted in economic, educational, mental, physical, and emotional catastrophes on a scale that can never be fully quantified—not to mention the way stay-at-home orders fueled racial and civil unrest across America months before a national election.”

The author is right. And all the rest of our problems now stem from this disastrous decision.

The only thing that can start to correct it is for Trump to simply say that it’s over. No more federal support for lockdowns, masking and isolation. No state that does not end these policies gets a dime from the federal government.

We can’t go on like this.


7 posted on 09/06/2020 5:01:27 PM PDT by livius
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To: familyop

A place as conservative as Texas...still enduring sporadic lock downs. Harris co. is insane. Glad I live up in Montgomery co.


8 posted on 09/06/2020 5:06:43 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: livius

Newsome has to
Pull the plug.
States Rights or
Some such.


9 posted on 09/06/2020 5:09:07 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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To: familyop

Los Angeles is very leftie, very locked down yet. Schools are ONLY online. Everybody is to wear a mask, even outside! (I don’t). Yada yada. LA Beaches - they were threatening to ticket folks without a mask, but the Orange County beaches are FREE. The Sheriff there said his folks don’t have time to arrest law-abiding citizens; he’s got actual criminals out there.

Orange County Sheriff and Board have been wonderful. The beaches have been free since March. We go down from Los Angeles just to FEEL FREE.


10 posted on 09/06/2020 5:14:18 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Big Red Badger

Trump simply has to declare that any federal level lockdown or lockdown guidelines are no longer in effect, there’s no longer a state of emergency, and governors are to open their states and enforce this also against power crazed mayors.

Then popular pressure will do the rest. The governors are using the federal “emergency” as justification for their power grab. Trump has got to end it.


11 posted on 09/06/2020 5:15:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: Big Red Badger

Someone needs to pull the plug period on Newsome and Brown both.
And the rest of the Demon-rat governors too.
Nothing they do is based on science.
Just like their global warming manure is not based on science.
If they declare something to be true, their brainwashed zombie pawns believe it, but anyone with half a brain does not.


12 posted on 09/06/2020 5:19:33 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Rummyfan

Great article, thanks for posting. She is right, enough!


13 posted on 09/06/2020 5:34:45 PM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Rummyfan

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are going to have a Burning Mask celebration...but WHEN???


14 posted on 09/06/2020 5:41:02 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Rummyfan

Lockdown from day one was a complete fraud by proven FAULTY DATA!!!!!!


15 posted on 09/06/2020 5:46:16 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: doc maverick

The issue
Is Never the Issue.
The Issue is
The Revolution!
.
Destroy Western Civilization.


16 posted on 09/06/2020 5:52:10 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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To: livius

I thought from the beginning that to Declare
War for Chinas Wuhan Strike
rounding up collaborators
and having War Powers,
Trump would squash the
Lockdowns,Hunter,Pelousy
and the like would be,,,
Well,,,Silenced.
Glad I’m not in charge.


17 posted on 09/06/2020 6:00:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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To: bboop

Thank you. Yes, it looks like another world for now, socially.

Recall Gavin Newsom campaign gathers support as lockdowns continue(End his Presidential Amibitions)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881596/posts

It looks like a game of king of the hill between the radical left and conservatives: a struggle for which side will stay to enjoy the best, most comfortably dry climate, most beautiful and varied terrain, greatest economic potential and many other benefits of living there.


18 posted on 09/06/2020 6:09:16 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: bboop

The rural and small town middle of the Midwest is only affected by customers, who nearly all wear masks to stores. Restaurants, bars and gyms are open but are shutting down for lack of business. Some children in rural areas wear masks to school. Others are being homeschooled. Parts of urban areas are more lax and without much regard for the coronavirus but dangerous for many due to racial tensions and higher potentials for violent crimes.


19 posted on 09/06/2020 6:21:58 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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Bump


20 posted on 09/06/2020 7:27:21 PM PDT by foreverfree
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