Flaming Carrot
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- Oct 8, 2019
The lockdowns have taken on an almost religious dimension at this point. The Coronavirus is Satan and the lockdowns are Jesus and the people who don't believe in the lockdowns are heathens who will be burning in Hell. People don't believe in God anymore, they believe in "science", which means they believe in any dude in a lab coat on TV. People will announce their support for ever increasing lockdowns like they're testifying in church, and they're ratting on their neighbors like they're turning in witches.
The lockdowns will continue regardless of what the death rate is because we've shifted the goalposts from spreading the deaths out to eliminating the virus entirely by staying inside forever. No one wants to ease off, because we've convinced people that leaving your house is the equivalent of murdering people. I hope that at some point, people will get sick of it. Not the very online people insisting that we have to shut down every playground, but the people who just want to go outside and do things. And then the cops are going to have to decide whether they want to shoot some kids for playing basketball in the middle of July or if they should just go to Dunkin' Donuts instead, and then things will slowly go back to normal.
That's what I hope - that everyone quietly starts going about their business and the absolute nutjobs can jerk themselves off online about how many lives they saved by ordering Grubhub while the rest of us get on with our lives. What I worry about is things getting violent, that the cops decided that yes, they do want to use SWAT teams to break up people going on picnics. I worry about the government deciding that we all have to be tracked every hour of the day and people just going along with it because that's what the good people do. I worry that we'll never trust each other again. I'm hoping that our leaders finally realize that they can't run their states with everyone being unemployed and have to back off, because the alternative is horrifying.
What’s up with the weird comparison to number of deaths in the Vietnam War too? That one‘s been making the NPC rounds and it makes zero sense to me, which is probably why they’re using it. Nonsensical is the name of their game.
