Posted on 04/30/2020 8:11:45 AM PDT by rktman
As the weeks have worn on, however, the incessant drumbeat of commercials, public service announcements and local news hairdos declaring that "we are all in this together" and imploring everyone to "stay inside" have become insufferable. Often these directives are conjoined with salutes to the "heroes" in masks who are credited with saving our secluded backsides from a dreaded plague. (Yes, health professionals almost exclusively in the New York City area have done heroic work, but hospitals around the country have been laying off employees and suffering huge financial losses due to a shortage of patients.)
Another flood of commercials piggyback on the panic with assurances that "take out" is available during these "difficult times" and that your friendly auto dealer is prepared to postpone car payments should you now be unemployed. A wistful hope about getting back to normal in some distant future accompanies a few ads devoted to slavish obedience to unseen authority.
A few signs of actual courage, however, have begun to emerge. A salon owner in the North Dallas suburb of Frisco opened her establishment and tore up the citation she'd been issued for defying a government pronouncement that classified her work as "non-essential." Even more impressive is a New York City tailor's commitment to open up in the virus "epicenter" – a metropolitan area that accounts for about half of the (inflated) Wuhan deaths in the entire country. By doing so he defied the imperial arrogance of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who snarkishly told beleaguered protesters to "get an essential job" if they wanted to work. Protesters in Michigan finally began to see the light when it became clear that it's not about your health when a governor tells you that you can go to Home Depot ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I’m hoping FreeRepublic survives this, because an awful lot of so-called “freedom-loving conservatives” have been exposed as simpering frauds here over the last 4-6 weeks.
A Michigan court on Wednesday ruled that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) stringent stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus outbreak does not violate residents’ constitutional rights, denying a motion for a preliminary injunction.
A group of five Michigan residents filed a lawsuit against the governor and other state officials claiming that the quarantine measures infringed on their constitutional rights to procedural and substantive due process. They also alleged that the state’s Emergency Management Act was unconstitutional.
The Michigan Court of Claims rejected both allegations, ruling that an injunction against Whitmer’s order would not serve the public interest, “despite the temporary harm to plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”
A whole lot of us went along for one reason and one reason only:
Trump asked us to.
If he withdraws that request all bets are off.
Trump ASKED.
The Governors REQUIRED.
Vive la difference!
I wish that I could disagree with you, but there is a large contingent here that seem to want to be slaves of the state. At some point I hope that they see that liberty always comes with risk and that liberty is worth infinitely more than the risk. I would suggest that “cowardly conservatism” is an oxymoron.
I have come to deeply resent the accusations of selfishness because I believe this has been hyped to panic people and I want to go back to the parks and the movies and work WITHOUT a mask, by the same self righteous selfish people that demand I stay home because they are afraid.
If you are concerned, stay home, where a mask going out, but don’t try to shame me because I don’t agree.
I saw somewhere that PDJT says he won’t be extending the SD request/requirements.
How about because we don’t have a choice. Really what are we gonna do? If the things are closed, they’re closed. We citizens can piss and moan all we want, but there’s freaking nowhere to go. I’d love to be blowing off the lock down, but I can’t. Work has turned off the badges so I can’t go there, restaurants are closed, bars are closed, movies are closed, gyms are closed. Really everything I want to do OTHER than stay home, I can’t. Don’t call people sheep when there’s not a damn thing they can do.
So--a court has admitted that the actions of the gov't is unconstitutional, yet refuses to do anything about it.
wow. I miss the USA.
The media is promoting this "shaming" of people who defy the mask orders. Reminds me of the book about the kids turning on each other
I do, however, have a serious problem with people on this website accepting the most ridiculous, irrational, and blatantly abusive government edicts at face value ... and (even worse) harassing their fellow citizens for NOT buying into the bullsh!t.
On the plus side, I’m getting about 3 weeks per gallon in my Ram 1500 Hemi.
land of the docile***
land of the “take care of me so i dont have to work”
Not everything is some vast plot to do this or that...or maybe everything is.
Americans, as well as most other peoples, will have occasional rational moments and actually listen to what their government is telling them, but mostly they get their news from their friends. If their friends are telling them there is something to worry about...they start worrying...
For a short period of time, folks realized that a danger could be mitigated if they disrupted their lives and stayed home. That was good for some 45 days. It has now worn thin. Americans entered into the agreement with their government in good faith that if they stopped their lives, the virus could be stopped. Not totally gone (we understand that); but that the danger of the virus will have for the most part pass.
We have fulfilled that agreement and are ready to resume our lives. The President, who asked us to do this realizes this and knows his peeps. We will put up with crap for a short while, after that...
We filled our end of the bargin and he is trying to fulfill his. It is now up to the Governors to set their people free.
Some of us can not afford to risk the chance of getting this virus as we have several of the check marks. All of us can not afford to not work. My industry will be the very last to re-open. I will have done my part and then some. I will have totally destroyed my financial well being so the rest of the country can carry on.
I think back to September 1939...As word of Germany entering Poland reached the rest of Europe, the BBC announced new governement regulations forbiding large gatherings at sports facilities and cinemas and the like. Why? Because if London were to be bombed...well you can guess the rest. In a sense it is the same with the battle with the virus. We are giving up our right to assemble in large gatherings in the short term to preserve our very existence in the long term.
Not to mention the TRUE believers that drive around ALONE wearing a mask. Or out in the sunshine and ‘fresh’ air alone wearing a mask. But, their business.
Even if the government lifts every restriction, there's no way to compel most business establishments to re-open.
So be it. It's called "private enterprise" for a reason.
I've already determined that I will no longer use the barber who has been cutting my hair for more than 20 years. I don't resent the fact that he's not open, but after I relocated from one place to another it wasn't too convenient to patronize him anymore. I remained a loyal customer even after moving, but now that he's not open I no longer feel obligated to him. If he doesn't go the extra mile to open under these circumstances, I won't go the extra mile to patronize his business when things are back to normal.
More than a few of us have speculated that this site is populated by a disproportionate population of retirees living on government pensions who really have no idea what freedom and limited government really mean.
There are miles of box cars waiting on the sidings and 'camps' waiting for their campers to arrive like the hospice patients they will become.
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