I just ignored him. When first elected I thought 'that's good!' Then I just pretended he didn't exist.

term, think of this: If it is such a huge burden and impact, for so few people who already are at deaths door knocking loudly, then why? Why would such draconian precautions be needed? What is the logic? The answers to that may be disturbing but can tell you a lot of what is happening and where we are going.

Spock passed his katra to McCoy, so maybe he was less altruistic than the writers' overt socialist message might have conveyed.

I like your quote. A learned gentleman (medical profession) said to me when I was young, 'You may bend, but you will never break'. What a ride I have had! I despise those who say 'You will get over this!' A better one is 'You will get through this.'

if people were left to protect themselves from this virus, but the government didnt "protect" us by trampling on our rights, the economy might shrink a bit but would suffer no permanent damage.

This way, the economy is shut down, and to "fix" that, we destroy the value of the dollars that some of us are relying on so as to live the rest of our lives.

The orders are from state governors, covering almost everyone:

"Thirty-eight states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico have issued stay-at-home orders, encouraging isolation measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

"Some metro areas in states without such orders — including Birmingham, Alabama; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Houston and Dallas, Texas — are also under stay-at-home orders.

"In total, that brings about 90% of America's population, or about 297 million people, under some form of lockdown." https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ma...

You are right that it's "legally murky" and that Trump didn't personally order it himself, but it's here and the trend has become worse as more and more and controls have been progressively added over time in about the last month. They have largely been presented as frantic, inconsistent edicts with little or no explanation beyond 'we must act'.

The massive shutdown of the economy and flooding with government money that does not exist are devastating, and so is the threat of the additional statist controls not going away as frightened people become accustomed to acquiescing to more government edits and restrictions in the name of "necessary".

The necessity of temporary quarantine to protect individuals against physical spread of disease has been replaced by an almost anything-goes statist mentality.

That mentality of accepting and imposing statism as "natural" is terrible, and will most likely accelerate the growth of collectivism that the leftist ideologues already wanted and demanded. There is less and less willingness to object.

As Ayn Rand observed, this country has come out of every war with less freedom than which it went into them. The "war" mentality now is leading to the same.

Even the claims that the economy will come back are misleading. It may very well revive, and probably will, but most likely not all at once and not the same as it was.

The extent and progress of revival will depend on freedom to make it possible. To the extent that government maintains controls and high taxes the way it did in the Great Depression, recovery will be thwarted and slowed.

The New Deal "emergency" controls prevented recovery for a decade and the economy did not recover until after WWII after the worst of the controls (including price controls and rationing) were lifted. Grocery stores, deliveries, etc. continued to exist, most survived it, and some people thrived, but it remained a national depression with widespread deprivation and poverty far longer than was necessary.

But even claiming that all is well after a recovery is misleading. It is collectivist: The "economy" can come back, but it won't be with the same individuals, many of whom are being destroyed.

There is nothing to relax about. One must always think and pursue values to the extent possible in any situation, but this is not normal and is leading to a bigger battle, not relaxation. Elsewhere on this page: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

All health epidemics/plagues, over the last 20 years, and 10 centuries, have come from China. I will stand corrected if it is not all but only say 9 out of 10. Back in the 13 hundreds it took years to spread, now with direct flights Wuhan to Milan, hours. I think there was a big inflow to the US from China early, Jan, in 2020.
It is known for certain how they spread, how they start is not certain but there is evidence of pathogens evolving and transmitting across species, some species get the symptoms, some just transmit. This is made faster by human eating of species known for conveying disease before individual members die from it, namely rats and bats.
We are talking about a regime here about which I for one can believe the worst, but I will need strong evidence to accept they did it deliberately. What we see is a major error which hit them just as hard, or worse, as it hit others. Those at the top are unscrupulous but also careful and calculating,

I an not up-to-date on CDC but as for WHO, firing may be a good word - as in up against a wall.

many Questions are unanswered complete agreement there.

Dr Fauci and Mr Kelly on the same page?

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