For the record I believe in Covid’s existence, though it may be a poison instead of a virus. The Big Lie is: “It is the government’s job to protect us from getting sick and dying.”
No, it’s not. Never before in the world has anyone looked to any governing system to save them from sickness.
Medieval peasants might grumble against the king for not protecting the borders from roaming hoards of bandits or enemies. They would expect him to protect them from enemies and lead the armies into battle. Or at least appoint and consult with the general who would.
Peasants expected the king to feed them in times of famine since he kept extra food stored for emergencies. Bread and circuses kept Roman citizens from revolting against decadent, incompetent emperors like Nero.
Yet no one ever held a monarch or tyrant, an aristocracy or oligarchy responsible for a disease sweeping a nation. This involved honest-to-goodness plagues.
All the sudden people demanded that “Someone due something!” amidst the insane hysteria. There is no historical precedent for the measures taken in handling this alleged pandemic.
If the king or duke or prince had ordered all the peasants—healthy or sick—locked into their homes until all people were perfectly healthy forever there would have been a revolt.
The peasants may have been illiterate but they knew that if everyone hid home for months on end famine would surely occur. Plague or not, crops needed to be planted, tended, and harvested. Now most college graduates are in denial about these rudimentary facts.
The exasperating thing is this insanity didn’t originate with the people themselves. They served as parrots reciting back the sound bites spoon fed them off the tube night after night. It almost makes me ashamed to be human.
The government does a better job punishing law breakers and defending its citizens from enemy invasions than enforcing kindness. Or what it calls kindness.
The government is a faceless mass of bureaucrats. It cannot love you for love requires individualism. One on one rather than some collective.
Yet so many not only trust the bureaucratic nanny state, they get outraged when the destructive machine doesn’t “do enough.”
The notion of public health should send chills up the spine of every rational individual. “Public health” can easily excuse a number of atrocities.
Punishments that are either unjust or cruel and inhumane will sometimes cause repercussions. By claiming a procedure should save lives, an expert can get away with anything. Including murder.
Few realize that thanks to cronyism, the government can force us to buy horrible, deadly treatments in the name of science. In gratitude for their help the pharmaceutical companies pay hefty sums called “campaign contributions.
On the level of citizenry, hard feelings abound.
“My health is more important than your freedom.”
I love my health as much as anyone. To those thinking the above statement is true, I reply, “Your responsibility is more important than my obedience.” Or, “My health and freedom are more than your placebo effect.”
This talk about how we all need to be “unselfish” as a collective, as we become more selfish and cowardly and lazy. I’m not going Ayn Rand to praise collectivism.