The only really non-essential “business” in America right now is the Government. The 20 plus million Americans out of work without a livelihood are ALL essential. The evidence is mounting that the total lockdown was a tragic mistake. Even China – the cause of this plague – supposedly only locked down the Wuhan region. Yes, given the plague’s deaths in New York City and surrounding areas, it made sense to lock down NYC, but it was a real mistake to shut down the entire economic engine of the country. I have no doubt that this cure is far worse than the disease. We have at least three studies, two in California, and one in New York, that show that perhaps as many as 50 to 80 times more people have had the virus than have been actually recorded. This translates to a mortality rate well under 1% and more in line with other flu strains. So, was it worth it?
If you love China and to see America and the EU suffer, I guess you do. If you are a Democrat and think that this is your time to blame Trump, I guess you do too. If you are a Marxist or Socialist and want to see the Government control people’s lives with a green new deal and mediocre care for all, like never before in history, I guess you do too. If you are globalist trading with the Chinese Communists, at least until America totally tanks like the former Soviet Union, I suppose you do too.
Other than the incarceration of the Japanese during WWII by FDR, has our country flouted our Bill of Rights to such an extent? Maybe you can say Lincoln did during the Civil War, but that was the bloodiest war in our history and if you wanted to save the union – which Lincoln did – shutting down some negative newspapers and doing away with habeous corpus – it seemed justified. FDR’s concentration camp of the Japanese in America? Not as justifiable, as we did very little to find every German or Italian Americans and lock them up. Yes, it was racist. But then again, during war time, de-humanizing the enemy is necessary if you want your farmers and store clerks turned soldiers to want to kill the enemy.
Right now, people are arrested for exercising their 1st amendment right to assemble, to attend the church of their choice – all for public safety they say. But what if they’re wrong? And it appears the government may have indeed over reacted in MOST of the country. Many governors – as Trump abdicated his “absolute authority” – have shown themselves to be little more than petty dictators. And their choice of what they call “essential” says everything about them. Whitmer in Michigan is fine with abortions, lottery, and anything that generates government revenue. Not so much for boaters who in boats are quite easily keeping their “social distance” requirement. But that is the point. She does it because she can. Power corrupts and absolute power…you know the rest. Will these petty government tyrants pay a price? Probably not. The people are bombarded by Chinese and Democrat propaganda. Despite giving decision making “rightly” to state and local governments, Trump will incur the wrath from the illiberal left and their media hacks who support them and be blamed for all of it. Will he be reelected in November because more states trust Trump to get us out of the economic malaise than corrupt, sleepy, hair sniffing, creepy Joe? Good question. If there isn’t mass fraud with mail in ballots, Trump wins. But if the next “stimulus” has vote by mail for all – kiss this country goodbye.