Confession — I Was Wrong About the Flu Manchu
By: Michael R. Shannon
This article sums things up about right. Well written and right on.
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Why lockdown the country, bankrupt businesses and put school children under house arrest if the results can’t be blamed on Trump?
What I failed to anticipate was how much leftist governors and their pet bureaucrats would enjoy new–found powers under what Candace Owens calls “diet fascism.” They like ordering people around. And since the orders are ‘for the people’s own good’ increasing the number of Kung Flu orders and expanding the reach of the edicts only serves to make the dime store dictators feel even better about themselves.
It’s health policy by onanism.
Recently Dr. Fuhrer of the Los Angeles Department of Health ordered the cancellation of trick–or–treat. Excuse me, that’s Dr. Ferrer. It’s typical of our faceless government bureaucrats that they decide to ban the one event — other than bank robberies — where Americans are happy to wear masks.
Dr. Fuhrer canceled the candy grab on Tuesday and on Wednesday she backed down. She grudgingly moved trick–or–treat from Verboten to ‘not–recommended–and–if–Pennywise–gets–your–kids–it’s–on–you!’
It’s a sad commentary on our nation that citizens meekly gave up Easter celebrations. Children let their elderly parents die alone. But when the Flustapo cancelled trick–or–treat, the populace rose up in arms.
Will it happen again when the Flu Fuhrers cancel Christmas?
It certainly didn’t when leftist governors told residents who and how many they could invite for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s entirely possible turkey celebrants are ignoring the Flustapo’s rules. Thanksgiving takes place inside the home, no matter what California Gov. Gavin Newsome decrees. Unless the authorities bring a warrant with them they aren’t going to be taking dinner attendance in very many homes.
It’s quite possible thanksgiving will be celebrated with Dr. Fuhrer being none the wiser. No public civil disobedience necessary.
Christmas is different. The services are public. There’s Advent. Christmas Eve services and the big one on Christmas Day. We can’t anticipate the pagans joining us in our protest as we joined them to rescue Halloween. It’s going to be up to Christian leaders and I don’t think they’re going to rise to the occasion.
Alex Berenson says there are two teams driving Kung Flu policy. Team Reality and Team Apocalypse. I disagree. There is a third team: Team Surrender. I think the vast majority of our namby–pamby pulpit possums are on Team Surrender. They don’t even fight for the worship rights enshrined in the Constitution, much less those that originate with God.
If we had more pastors like Tony Spell in Baton Rouge who fought worship restrictions from day one we would have a good chance of success. Spell has been arrested for opening his church and he’s preached with an ankle monitor on his leg.
When I asked him what the future holds he told me, “We will never comply with this government.” I can assure you Christmas services will be open for one and all at Life Tabernacle Church.
Even pastors like California’s John MacArthur, who finally had enough this fall and opened Grace Community Church, could help fight the Flustapo’s ban or restrictions on Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas services. Why aren’t pastors networking in their respective towns and planning a mass civilly disobedient uprising of many, many churches opening together for Christmas?
The odd Unitarian might alert the authorities to the plan, but if Jesus can overcome Judas surely the majority of pastors can bypass a rat.
Civil rights pastors marched to the Edmund Pettus Bridge knowing there would likely be a beating waiting for them, but they believed in what they were doing. Our pastors fear the wrath of the media and the Flu Fuhrers more than they trust the Bible and the lord.
If the pastor can’t find the courage to celebrate the birth of Jesus, church members need to find it for him. Call the church office. Call the deacons. Tell them you don’t intend to remain a member of a church who abandons the Lord at Christmas.
If the pagans can save Halloween, surely the Christians can save Christmas.
(For those readers wondering about the outcome of my account suspension by the Kancel Kommissars at Twitter, I have reassumed command. The Twits sent an email, “Our support team has reviewed your account and it appears we made an error. We’ve determined there was no violation and have restored your account to full functionality.” You may now add @ReluctantUser2 to the long list of Twitter censorship errors that only seem to affect conservatives.)
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Trump completely failed at containing the trump virus.
On Feb. 7th..
In a conversation with Woodward on Feb. 7, Trump said that he had confidence that China’s president, Xi Jinping, had the disease under control, but added ominously:
Trump knew then how deadly it was yet...
Read the dates...
As has been noted, over and over again;
The only reason trump wants to blame China is to cover up his own EPIC failure of a response to covid.
260,000+ dead...and trump couldn't be bothered to even one time say, "Wear a mask and social distance in public". That ALONE would have saved over 100k lives....but he just couldn't say it. Why not? Because he had already been bashing masks and saying that covid was no big deal. His ego wouldn't allow him to reverse course no matter how many people died.
When Obama was in office and 2, (TWO!), people died of Ebola, the right was screaming that he was going to get us all killed.
But trump presides over 260k dead Americans and all the right can say is, "China's fault"?
Really? Pretty damn sad and thanks be to GOD that Biden is taking over.
Of course. Did you really think they would actually have any integrity and blame their leader (who can do NO wrong) or be MAN enough to accept blame themselves?
You didn't mention that the words out of Trump's own mouth recorded by Woodward actually ADMITTED his negligent delay in doing anything at all (except eventually block some flights) about the virus allowing it to proliferate to the extent of being beyond the ability to contain it.
Well Buzz, take it from their leaders own mouth...
It is unAmerican, immature, irresponsible, undignified, racist and ignorant to repeat Trump's xenophobic racist language to describe the virus, especially when doing so has caused painful harrassment of and attacks against Asian Americans, especially when it has been recommended long ago that applying national or ethnic names to such things will in fact encourage such criminality.
It's what bigots do Buzz.
They are in for a rude awakening now that Trump is not in power to encourage them.
There is and never was a war on Christmas, only certain people needing to play victim.
260,000 plus dead on trump's watch, but yeah I know, no big deal.
Uh oh, some republican governors are having lockdowns and mandates too.
Better call them rino's and kick them out of the party of denial.
Look, the facts are that what people do and how people behave is responsible for spreading the virus. People choose to engage in activities and behaviors that spread the virus. That's how the real world works. The spread of the virus isn't the government's fault. But that also means controlling spread of the virus is beyond the government's capability, too.
The pandemic has been a example of democracy in action. The general population had a democratic choice and chose to spread the virus. The general population chose to sicken themselves and, in many cases, die. If the pandemic is to be described by a stark dichotomy then the choice has been freedom or death. The general population has chosen death. Follow the evidence and the facts are clear.
Governors have been placing themselves in the role of Macho Mao and have used their authority of the collective state to subdue democracy. Democracy is a threat to the collective state. Macho Mao is trying to establish an undemocratic democracy. Too much democracy is a bad thing.
And wise people appreciate education and listen to people who have dedicated their lives to some studies like virology and often modify how they live to avoid some known dangers. Seatbelts save lives, so we wear them. During an airborne pandemic masks save lives, social distancing saves lives, so rational people wear masks and social distance. Are there some dumb shits who don't wear seatbelts, don't wear masks and don't social distance? Of course there are, and they are to be avoided because they are a danger to themselves and others, they are not rational thinkers, they're irrational self-absorbed pricks.
While they didn't cause it, they were responsible for developing and enacting a comprehensive response and nationwide safety recommendations as well as make themselves available to the States who were effectively in a state of emergency, just like when there are major floods or wildfires that debilitate or overwhelm a States defense mechanisms. Instead, we got the message from the very top that this was no big deal, it will magically disappear by Easter, it's no worse than the flu he said, and masks and staying home are for suckers. Three weeks earlier, the same idiot-in-chief was telling wall street investors and a book journalist behind closed doors that this was bad, really bad, airborne and way worse than the flu. If that's not evidence of criminal negligence I don't know what would be.
The general population was fed lies and deceit from the highest levels of government, thankfully the majority has rationally ignored those lies and their downplaying of the pandemic. It's likely why we don't have the 2 million dead we could have had if governors hadn't taken action on their own. We continue to see a government that is downplaying the virus and practically encouraging virus spread as they advocate for "herd immunity" before we have a vaccine ready to deploy widely. So yes, this is "democracy" as some have simply chosen to believe the lies because they're too self absorbed to care about their neighbors, but that isn't "majority rules" as a democracy represents, it's the minority forces their will upon the majority by ignoring safety guidelines out of convenience and selfishness and end up infecting others. Their actions should be considered willful negligent homicide if their actions led to the deaths of any of their fellow citizens as it obviously has.
Not true, a minority have chosen death and they don't really care who they take down with them. Interestingly, that minority tracks fairly consistently with the minority who voted for the liar-in-chief.
No, they are concerned for the peoples safety which is why they enforce road safety, food safety and workplace safety laws and, like those many other safety laws we've been living with, these emergency measures during a pandemic are necessary to keep their citizens safe. Those who claim this is some communist or authoritarian move are fucking crazy and apparently oblivious to the dozens of other safety laws they abide by willingly every day, either through fear of getting a speeding ticket or DUI or understanding that wearing a seatbelt does in fact protect you and your family from harm.
That's why America is a constitutional federal republic. We are not a theocracy, we are not socialist, we are not communists, and we are not a pure democracy either, we have a constitution that protects minorities from the will of the majority. We have a federal government and a federally controlled Army, Navy, Airforce and Marines. And we are supposed to have a federal government that attempts to lead by example, support and protect the citizens of the United States of America. During this pandemic the current federal government failed miserably which is why the majority of American voters, more than 80 million of them, kicked this dumpster fire of an administration to the curb.
Isn't that the role of broadcasters? The FCC requires broadcasters disseminate 3 hours of educational programming each week. The role of the broadcast media in providing the public educational information is quite clear.
Reporters couldn't even be bothered with wearing a mask to make a video report until recently. A President wearing a mask or recommending wearing a mask won't accomplish much when those doing the reporting refuse to wear a mask.
The government did exactly what has been described. The Federal government disseminated safety recommendations and guidelines through the mail last March. The Federal government established testing and contact tracing infrastructure and recommendations for states to expand that infrastructure. The Federal government really did distribute resources and used its authority to ramp up production of those resources. The Federal government really did take steps to expedite development of therapies and vaccines. Just because the news media has chosen to not report on those activities doesn't mean the Federal government has failed to make a robust, comprehensive response to the pandemic.
The general population was fed whatever the news media wanted to feed the public. The news media used Federal coronavirus briefings to spin negative reporting rather than attempting to educate the public.