Since all this bullshit started, there's been something nagging at me from the back of my mind. Since when is it mine, or anybody else's responsibility to make anyone else feel safe. What works for me might not work for you or vice versa.
Say you were walking home, and you come across a dark alley you could cross through to get home faster. Sure, it's spooky that way, and if you take the longer well-lit way you might feel safer. I'd take the alley. Not everyone will.
Like if I were to go into a store crowded with people not wearing masks, I might actually want to wear one. Why? Because I'd feel better. I'm sure as hell not going to tell everyone else what they're doing might affect me. I can also choose to turn around and walk right the fuck out. Basic civil liberties here, it's not a hard concept to grasp, but here we are.
The fact that probably half of the general population's opinion of you is riding on whether you are, or aren't wearing a piece of fabric on your face, and the speed of which said opinion went balls to the wall crazy is incredibly frightening to me. What the fuck happened?
Since when is it mine, or anybody else's responsibility to make anyone else feel safe.
I mean, we have laws against impaired driving, operating machines without a specific license, smoking inside of public buildings, and so on. All "responsibilities to make anyone else feel safe".
Impaired driving and smoking do cause harm to people.
We have licenses for all sorts of things, from being an engineer to operating a food truck.
The problem is, masks don't work, the government admits they don't work, no one has any RCT-level evidence that they do work, yet here we are. Lockdowns don't have any evidence of working either. And mandatory vaccines are against international and federal human rights laws, as are any mandatory medical procedures.
Strict lockdowns work. Look at Israel, Poland, Austria or the Czech Republic. They locked down everything. Closed all schools, all non-essential services and shops, mandatory home office and so on. Israel had 9000 cases every day and they went down to about 200 to 300. Now they opened up and the cases rise again. Same goes for Poland. From 25 to 30k a day down to less than 5k. Austria, from 10k a day down to 2k. What doesn't work is the current patchwork lockdown, where some areas are open and some are not. And some businesses are open and some are not.
And mandatory vaccines
Not even the Liberals are talking about mandatory vaccines.
Since all this bullshit started, there's been something nagging at me from the back of my mind. Since when is it mine, or anybody else's responsibility to make anyone else feel safe. What works for me might not work for you or vice versa.
Say you were walking home, and you come across a dark alley you could cross through to get home faster. Sure, it's spooky that way, and if you take the longer well-lit way you might feel safer. I'd take the alley. Not everyone will.
Like if I were to go into a store crowded with people not wearing masks, I might actually want to wear one. Why? Because I'd feel better. I'm sure as hell not going to tell everyone else what they're doing might affect me. I can also choose to turn around and walk right the fuck out. Basic civil liberties here, it's not a hard concept to grasp, but here we are.
The fact that probably half of the general population's opinion of you is riding on whether you are, or aren't wearing a piece of fabric on your face, and the speed of which said opinion went balls to the wall crazy is incredibly frightening to me. What the fuck happened?
You might be thinking about something similar to "negative rights" and "positive rights."
In the U.S. at least freedom of assembly includes freedom to assemble to work, which they are denying with the lockdowns.
Who ever thought we'd need a "freedom to work" law. Really crazy.
Granted freedoms aren't really freedoms if they can "suspend" them indefinitely.
I mean, we have laws against impaired driving, operating machines without a specific license, smoking inside of public buildings, and so on. All "responsibilities to make anyone else feel safe".
Impaired driving and smoking do cause harm to people.
We have licenses for all sorts of things, from being an engineer to operating a food truck.
The problem is, masks don't work, the government admits they don't work, no one has any RCT-level evidence that they do work, yet here we are. Lockdowns don't have any evidence of working either. And mandatory vaccines are against international and federal human rights laws, as are any mandatory medical procedures.
Strict lockdowns work. Look at Israel, Poland, Austria or the Czech Republic. They locked down everything. Closed all schools, all non-essential services and shops, mandatory home office and so on. Israel had 9000 cases every day and they went down to about 200 to 300. Now they opened up and the cases rise again. Same goes for Poland. From 25 to 30k a day down to less than 5k. Austria, from 10k a day down to 2k. What doesn't work is the current patchwork lockdown, where some areas are open and some are not. And some businesses are open and some are not.
Not even the Liberals are talking about mandatory vaccines.