Anger over COVID Mandates
I recently contracted some kind of flu-like bug. My head got stuffy overnight and I woke up with severe vertigo. I slept about three extra hours and the vertigo went away. I stayed home from work the next day and slept another three extra hours. That was pretty much the long and short of my symptoms.
Immediately I encountered a chorus of “You need to get tested.” When I asked why, the response was some form of “it will help others.” And I asked in return, “How do you know that me getting tested and having my life shut down in quarantine would benefit others?”
This masquerade has been dragging on for twenty months now. There are a lot of statistics and graphs and history now. There have been draconian clampdowns and mask mandates and distant socializing. There have been places where the tyranny was relatively benign and there have been societies where there was high compliance with stringent mandates.
One thing is overwhelmingly documented in all of this: there is no correlation between the mandates and the spread of COVID-19. There are places that do very little and the virus behaves a certain way and it is all recorded and graphed out where anyone can see it. Then there are the draconian tyrannies where nothing is allowed and the public complies and everyone wears a mask and isolates himself — and the virus does exactly as it did in the places that were one tenth as restrictive. There are places with high rates of vaccination and their graphs look just like the places where there are low vaccination rates.
The data have been covered here for a long time.
The majority of people, it would appear, have been tamed by the tyrants. They just obey and get on with their lives. That hasn’t been the case with me.
I’ve seen people driving their cars with their masks on. Alone, windows rolled up, and a mask on. Ask them what it’s for. They don’t know.
A friend of mine went out of town to visit his daughter and son-in-law. When he came downstairs one morning, he found the son-in-law sitting alone in his own living room, wearing a mask.
In my neighborhood, kids get off the school bus and walk two or three blocks to their homes in small groups, talking to their friends. Most of them still have their masks on.
Very few fast food joints have opened their dining rooms around here yet. When I can get inside to use the restroom, signs are everywhere about wearing a mask and keeping your distance. Then there may be no soap at the lavatory sink.
Presumably vaccines are beneficial, but it has been firmly established that (1) it won’t keep you from getting the disease and (2) it won’t keep you from spreading the disease. Those two facts should be enough to stop the tyrants from requiring the Mark Of The Vaccine to buy or sell. But, of course, it doesn’t.
People die of COVID every day. (Other people die of cars every day.) But nearly everyone below 80 years of age survives COVID. It may be that some who have died would have survived if they had been vaccinated; we can’t really know. Probably some who have died in car wrecks would be alive if they had never gotten into cars.
Life comes with risks. Humanist governments offer security: “Huddle together under this tyranny and we will protect you.” But some of us would prefer to die on our feet than live on our knees.