No. It is not government’s job to tell you…

• What to do
• What you can’t
• What to wear
• When you can go out
• With whom you may associate.
• …AND keep you safe.

That was mommy and daddy.

The government is NOT your mommy, or daddy. Thought you should know .

Remember this winter when Jackson Kernion, a UC Berkeley instructor, said in a Twitter rant that those who live in rural America are “bad people who made bad decisions” and they deserve to be uncomfortable?

As Covid-19 ravages the population of some major metropolitan centers while comparatively ignoring us “bad decision” hicks in the sticks… Wonder how his self-important classist worldview is holding up?

It’s almost like God said… “Whoah, not so fast, boyo.”

Don’t worry, junior. I don’t REALLY think God personally visited a plague on the world just to make you look like a dick.

After all, you seem to have accomplished that rather neatly without any need of divine assistance. :-)

Anyone who thinks government regulation IMPROVES things hasn’t bought a gas can lately.

I mean, heck, I grew up in a world where the nastiest statement about someone’s capability for a task was “He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.”

And yet, through the magic of government regulation, in order to pour a liquid out of a plastic jug they’ve come up with a gas can configuration that actually requires detailed instructions with five illustrations.

Pretty sure the new “safety” spouts are a fitting metaphor for government regulation in general. Even IF their intentions are good, they’re at best ineffective if not counterproductive.

They say a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Safety spouts are the same. In the process of saving you from yourself, they only make you less safe while simultaneously decreasing effective use.

On the bright side, when you get pissed and decide to burn it, it’s already full of gas.

Unless you can point to the line where the Constitution says “unless we get really really scared”… ALL edicts which violate the Bill of Rights, even “for our own safety”, are ILLEGAL.

I understand you may think it best for me, and more pointedly, best for YOU.

Watch my lips: I DON’T CARE what you think.

I especially do not care for you thinking your opinion should be enforced by city, county, state or federal authorities. They might have the ability to enforce it, but they lack the authority.

That’s a very important distinction. There’s a word for enforcing unconstitutional edicts simply on the basis that you have control of the police or military.

If you have a compromised system, or even just a preternatural fear of contracting an illness… self-quarantine as long as you want. No one will stop you, but you don’t get to imprison OTHERS because of YOUR fear.

Just not how it works.

The idea that the Bill of Rights can be ignored “for our own good” is being field tested.

So far a lot of folks seem to be fine with what amounts to house arrest of the nation in order to “protect us” from a largely survivable strain of flu virus.

It’s embarrassing the public is so easily manipulated while officials who get paid with our tax dollars regardless of performance direct “emergency” funds to entities like National Endowment for Humanities ($75 mil) and The Kennedy Center ($25 mil).

Seriously. The Kennedy Center isn’t making surgical masks. Let’s pay attention.

QUICK Q&A ON THE TOPIC

NOTE: Sadly, I am not making these questions up. They’re taken from real conversations.

“OMG! This is NOT ‘a largely survivable strain of flu virus!'”

Actually, yes. That’s EXACTLY what this is… just the next in a long line of influenza. We see a new one every few years. We lost between 60-80 THOUSAND about two flu seasons ago and nobody batted an eye, much less shut down the country.

“But people are DYING! Are you that selfish? Do you WANT people to die?!”

Well, yes… but only the ones stupid enough to post ridiculous statements like that. People are going to die by the tens of thousands from one virus strain or another EVERY YEAR.

“But it isn’t SAFE yet. If we just wait a little longer….”

The only time you are totally safe from dying is after you actually die. In the meantime, we KNOW thousands die in traffic accidents every month, but we still drive to work. Buckle your seatbelt and quit acting like a child.

“But Huffington Post says we have had more Covid-19 deaths than Italy!”

They’re right. We also have 5½ times the population of Italy. It helps to remember to watch for statistics that are true but totally misleading. It’s called “critical thinking.”

“Well that’s SO FAR… But the government projections say…”

Ummm, yeah. Government projections. At the end of March they projected 2.2 MILLION US deaths. Suddenly they went to 100-220 THOUSAND US deaths… then days later they went to “about 60 THOUSAND US deaths.

Sixty thousand goes into 2.2 million almost 36 times. That’s not “flattening the curve”… that’s the government slowly dropping the numbers toward reality after they pissed on your boot and assured you it was just raining.

BOTTOM LINE: It’s important we engage in critical thinking. Politicians are using this “crisis” for totally unrelated reasons. Their deep concern for your health is at best a long way below achieving their own political agendas. Frankly I’d say it’s entirely mythical.

We’re getting played, people. Quit playing along.