It’s crazy how government shut down of businesses is so normal now.
Also, there’s no such thing as a non-essential business. Every business is essential to someone.
Lastly, the way you frame a question in a survey will skew the results. For example, asking “do you agree with shutting down non-essential businesses” will get a vastly different response than asking something else like “would you allow the government to shut down a business even though it would cause workers to lose their jobs?”
The real question we need to ask is since when did the government get to decide who is essential and who is not? Last I checked in a free society every person had rights, rights earn a living, rights to live in society. Now they can decide who doesn’t get to earn a living? Who doesn’t get to live their lives? 1984, it’s here now.
As an American it’s hard to understand how the world understands us. I get that they hate us for intervening in the Middle East but why do countries like Canada hate us? Is it because they think we are uncultured? Is it because we are powerful and they hate that? Is it because they sense that Americans don’t care at all about what other countries think and so they have no power over us? Give me the hard truth! I want to know. Are we obnoxious? Do we smile too much? I hate to be cliche but is it somehow tied to our freedom? I am half French and my French family is all tearing itself apart over some inheritance from my grandmother. None of the American family cares. If we get some money, sweet bonus, if not, we will all be fine. We all work, we all have houses, we live a perfectly decent middle class life. I sense that they hate that. For them that money seems to be like life and death....
It’s crazy how government shut down of businesses is so normal now.
Also, there’s no such thing as a non-essential business. Every business is essential to someone.
Lastly, the way you frame a question in a survey will skew the results. For example, asking “do you agree with shutting down non-essential businesses” will get a vastly different response than asking something else like “would you allow the government to shut down a business even though it would cause workers to lose their jobs?”
I believe we are at the 'normalization' process that Yuri Bezmanov describes.
Ya, labeling certain businesses as non-essential sets a dangerous precedent.
The real question we need to ask is since when did the government get to decide who is essential and who is not? Last I checked in a free society every person had rights, rights earn a living, rights to live in society. Now they can decide who doesn’t get to earn a living? Who doesn’t get to live their lives? 1984, it’s here now.
Canadians are in favour of sitting at home and getting handouts from the people who are left working. Imagine my shock.
What makes Canadians so credulous I wonder?
As an American it’s hard to understand how the world understands us. I get that they hate us for intervening in the Middle East but why do countries like Canada hate us? Is it because they think we are uncultured? Is it because we are powerful and they hate that? Is it because they sense that Americans don’t care at all about what other countries think and so they have no power over us? Give me the hard truth! I want to know. Are we obnoxious? Do we smile too much? I hate to be cliche but is it somehow tied to our freedom? I am half French and my French family is all tearing itself apart over some inheritance from my grandmother. None of the American family cares. If we get some money, sweet bonus, if not, we will all be fine. We all work, we all have houses, we live a perfectly decent middle class life. I sense that they hate that. For them that money seems to be like life and death....
Inferiority complex
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74
just the top lnk from a 2 sec search.
Shall we allow the exposure of 3-4 people with a .001 chance of death? Nah, lets kill the business forever.
"Majority of people we talked to on U of T campus today"