An unmasked mom shows how badly out of balance police power is
...However, ordinary people – e.g., moms at football games and church worshippers -- are finding that some local police have developed an unpleasantly totalitarian side about those mask mandates.Leftists like masks. They want to see everyone wearing a mask. Health paranoia, more than health science, supports them. From a non-scientific viewpoint, the way people wear masks (under their noses) and handle their masks (on and off, on and off, transferring viruses and bacteria all over the place), their utility is questionable.
People other than power-hungry leftists have noticed that, while hyper-sensitive Wuhan virus tests are still showing new cases, people aren’t dying en masse. Also, most of the deaths occurred in a handful of counties. Roughly 200 days after we were told a 15-day shutdown would flatten the curve and return life to normal, we finally flattened that curve.
In the free America we older folks still remember, mask madness would be over. Masks would be limited to those who need them (the elderly and those with co-morbidities) and those with active symptoms who, for whatever reason, cannot remain at home. The rest of us would be free – especially our children, who can neither give nor receive the Wuhan virus.
But that’s not happening in 2020 America. State and municipal politicians, having had a taste of power, are not letting go. Many are going all-in for total control. To save one person from dying from the Wuhan virus, these despots are willing to destroy hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of other lives. Who cares about drug abuse, alcohol abuse, depression, broken marriages, suicide, untreated diseases, child abuse, and bankruptcy when you can assure that your town won’t have a single Wuhan virus death and, even better, no Wuhan virus cases at all?
So how are these tinpot tyrants maintaining this control? With the police, who fall into two categories. We regularly see footage showing police facing down screaming mobs, who shoot them, throw Molotov cocktails at them, try to burn them alive in police stations, shower them with feces balloons, blind them with lasers, and strike them with clubs. These front line police are absolute heroes.
But when it comes to some of the behind-the-line police, there are problems. Take what happened to Alecia Kitts. She drove with her family for an hour and a half, traveling from Marietta, Ohio, to Logan, Ohio, to watch her son’s school football game. She was sitting outdoors, in isolation, with her family, maskless (just like Fauci) because she has asthma, when a Logan Police Department officer, without any prior warning, arrested her for not wearing a mask.
Kitts objected loudly and wiggled about wildly to avoid the cuffs the officer was trying to place on her. She shouldn’t have resisted. That only makes things worse– and it did. The officer tasered Kitts as she sat on the metal bench, giving her children a shock too. Another officer who came to help . . . wasn’t initially wearing a mask:
I’m beginning to understand how, in Saudi Arabia, the religious police were willing to let young girls burn to death rather than have them appear maskless. Even in Saudi Arabia, though, people across the political spectrum objected. Here, the spectators sat placidly as the mask police went after Kitts. They didn’t even have the decency to heckle the police.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Idaho, where no one has died or been hospitalized from the Wuhan virus, the city council has still banned church services, which is almost certainly unconstitutional. When parishioners showed up in a parking lot to sing hymns, the police arrested some of the singers:
I know exactly what’s going on with police who follow orders that they know are unconstitutional or morally indecent. They’re not bad. They’re prisoners of the demands of their lives – feeding the children, paying the mortgage, keeping up the insurance. But at some point, one hopes at least some will say “enough.”
Watching all this, I ask myself, who are we? What in the world have we become? Have we always been so sheeplike and cowardly, and I just didn’t notice? At least the vile leftists fight for what they believe. We need to pull back soon because we are heading fast for a cliff edge that separates us from being Americans and turns us into perpetual victims living in a violent, totalitarian world.
Outside rare contrary voices like mine, silenced in August, we continue to be fed a steady diet of Covid hysteria, which amounts to government-sponsored terrorism. After all, what is terrorism? The instillation of pervasive social fear to achieve political ends. Sounds like this administration’s Covid strategy in a nutshell. Good gracious, and I thought governments were meant to protect us from terrorism.
For months now, Boris and his Sage henchmen have warned frenetically about the likelihood of a second wave. The sudden backtracking on opening up the economy — Monday’s arbitrary, scientifically baseless ‘rule of six’, limiting all gatherings to half a dozen; the threat of a nationwide curfew — gives every indication that the UK government is preparing for a second wave. These folks could profit politically from a second wave, if only because they’ve predicted it for so long, and another full lockdown would seem to justify the first one. The most expedient way to cover up a mistake is to keep making it.
I’m not a natural conspiracy theorist. I instinctively trace the source of human catastrophe to incompetence, a quality in which our species is far more awash than malign intent. Nevertheless, it’s within this government’s power to make out that there is a second wave. Indeed, the perverse project may already be under way.
Let’s start with the definition. We should rightly worry about a second wave of deaths. Covid fatalities have been rumpling along the X-axis at barely above zero for two months. But Boris has brought down the hammer on treacherous convocations of seven people, even outside, because of a rise in cases. Ergo, a ‘second wave’ will be defined as a surge in cases, even if deaths remain negligible and admissions to hospitals presently half-empty barely rise.
This escalation of cases for the last month has a host of explanations, one being that lockdowns only delay infections so long as the virus is still circulating at all. Lockdowns do not save lives, unless we lock down for ever, in which case I suggest we all procure a mercifully deadly dose of cyanide. The other obvious cause is vastly ramped-up testing, which identifies the asymptomatic.
When you account for the fact that PCR tests are wildly oversensitive, and thus systematically stigmatise loads of people who merely carry a kind of viral flotsam and are not infectious, the real false positivity rate is much higher. With widespread testing that produces a high percentage of false positives, we will always appear to be amid a raging epidemic. This nightmare will never be over. And the authorities’ suffocating restrictions for our ‘own good’ won’t ever be over, either.
That’s why the ‘moonshot’ proposal to get us to test ourselves every day as automatically as we brush our teeth has activated the few dormant cells in my brain that are vulnerable to conspiracy theories. Daily testing of 67 million people would, if nothing else, produce a bumper crop of false positives. It would have the happy side benefit of inducing permanently heightened anxiety in us serfs: more terrorism. It’s a formula for maintaining a state of emergency until the end of time. At an eye-popping cost of £100 billion, it would also, by the by, help ensure sovereign bankruptcy.
On encountering Chris Whitty’s baleful announcement that the UK is ‘on the edge of losing control’ of the virus, I can’t have been alone in spewing coffee all over a new iPad. Our betters have never controlled the virus. They’ve just controlled us.
They’re not planning to stop controlling us. This government is starting to behave as if it wants a second wave, ideally even worse than the first, and a second lockdown, ideally even worse than the first as well. Otherwise, we wake up one day and realise: oh, excess deaths for 2020 weren’t all that high compared to previous years with especially bad flu. Most of us are still here. And the country is in shambles. The finger-pointing could grow unpleasant.
Pay less attention to case numbers. Primarily attend to deaths, and secondarily to hospital admissions (also paltry for the last two months). Only the lethality of this disease has justified the wholesale destruction of our social lives, our work lives, our livelihoods, and our civil rights — including freedom of speech, apparently. If draconian measures are triggered by an uptick in mere ‘cases’, which for the most part do not represent people gravely or terminally ill, the country could be plunged into repeated lockdowns to suppress the head cold.
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