I was reading some posts for and against reopening the country. One was talking about being selfish and it got me to thinking.
There are those wanting to reopen yet they’re being classified as selfish. There are those that rely on all kinds of people to supply them while they cower in fear at home. Isn’t that being selfish too?
You expect your garbage to be picked up, you expect the grocery store to be open so you can get milk, you expect truck drivers to supply the stores, you expect farmers, meatpackers, fruit and vegetable pickers all to keep food in that grocery store.
You expect Amazon to still ship all the things you’re ordering while you sit at home shopping. You expect the delivery driver to leave it on your doorstep. You expect your phone to work, your power to stay on, and your mail to show up rain, sleet, or shine. And most important, you expect the doctors and nurses to be there if you need them although many of them across the country have been furloughed because their units and services have been shut down while the entire system focuses only on COVID19.
The whole premise of shelter in place is based on the arrogant idea that others must risk their health so you can protect yours. There is nothing virtuous about ignoring the largely invisible army required to allow people to shelter in place.
I know there are some of you that are screaming mad about what I just said but stop and really think about what is allowing you to stay safe in your home.
I truly believe that with some common sense on my part, I could easily go back to life as it was. I want to go to restaurants, I want to shop at the little store just up the road.
And yes, I could catch COVID-19. I could also catch the flu or a cold. I could get run over by a bus. I could get struck by lightning. We take risks everyday.
If you choose to stay home, that is absolutely your choice. And please don’t start screaming at me about how I’ll just spread it. Why are you worried? You won’t get it because you’re staying in your home. Are you going to shelter in place every time a new strand of the flu happens?
Our economy can’t withstand much more of this. If our economy collapses, so will the rest of the world’s. If that happens, you will see the rise of tyrants.
I absolutely don’t want people to die…from COVID or anything else. I want people to live.
But sheltering in place is not living.
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This is so true. And, I want to see the death statistics for all the other causes of deaths for the last six months. People are not going to calm down until they realize this virus is not as dangerous as they are building it up to be.
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I am guessing they do not know. It was determined that the first person died of the virus 3 weeks before we knew the virus was in America. They are going back and doing autopsies, makes me wonder were these people not buried or had tissue and blood save for further examination.
I read that NYC is thought to have buried 4000 people who died of something else, but it is being attributed to the Virus. I am not sure if they get a bounty for buring virus victims or what.
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I think the hospitals get increased funds for Covid patients.
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If you watch the video I posted just before this post, the doctors say that hospitals are pressuring doctors to list the cause of death as COVID-19 even if the main cause is something else.
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I won’t believe the C19 statistics without the others alongside them.
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Amen Sister, preach it!
What amazes me is that people are actually following all these arcane rules, acknowledging that living in a large city, one’s choices are less than living in a small town.
But doggone, who can stay inside just because “they” said so? Since when do we do what “they” say?
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I have mixed thoughts on the shut-down. I know with the hatred for President Trump, we have no chance of getting the truth out of the media. The Left seems to believe that if the economy collapses, then Trump will not be re-elected.
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Personally, I am between Concerned and Scared for America’s future, which is a new position for me.
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Dennis Prager’s Fireside Chat this week is worth watching with this subject in mind.
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A pair of thank yous for the video suggestions.
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We have a treatment, let’s get off the hysteria bus driven by the Democrat propaganda machine called “mainstream media”. They want to keep us on lock-down until the election so they can demand mail-in voting, which is how they work their voter-fraud magic.
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