FYI I don’t support mandatory anything. I do support voluntary masks in public places and keeping your distance. And have high hopes for upcoming vaccine.
Well done that you don’t support mandatory mandates. Only big area of difference between you and me might be that I am more dismissive of claims that this is a serious illness that is worse than the flu.
I respect your sincerity, and your right to have an opinion - but your alarmist WuFlu posts have been a constant comfort to the enemy.
Some day, I believe you will look back at all this and realize with horror that you have been used by the political Left. Your good intentions, your natural instincts, your vigilance - were taken advantage of to stoke fears, justifying politically motivated economic suppression in an election year.
“I do support voluntary masks in public places and keeping your distance. And have high hopes for upcoming vaccine.”
I have no problem with someone who WANTS to wear a mask. Seems silly, but lots of folks question my judgment too! Keeping one’s distance? Where I live, that is just good manners! And I’ve been vaccinated for so much weird stuff while in the military that I have no problems with one more vaccine.
My problem all along has been:
1 - The mortality rate has been greatly exaggerated, resulting in people believing - and I mean BELIEVING - they are in immediate danger of dying. And that 10% or more of the US has already died!
2 - Emergency orders long after no need for an emergency order. For two weeks? OK. But within 2 weeks, they could convene an emergency session of the legislature and decide if a new LAW is needed. OK, I’ll give them up to FOUR weeks.
But 8 months? No way!
3 - The emphasis on never getting sick versus TREATMENT. I think there is ample evidence that hospitalizations and deaths could be significantly reduced by a full court press of supplements and already approved medicines.
Instead, dictators want to control behavior and make as many as possible dependent on government. And I think THAT, along with vote fraud, is the real reason democrats have treated this once-in-a-while deadly but mostly benign disease as a world ending event. Political power. And way too many, including Arizona’s republican governor, are acting like the Constitution is toilet paper!