I’m depressed & have to say something... it’s like one day they told us to stay home, and we did. And now my once thriving neighborhood of small businesses has been reduced to a sea of “For Lease” signs in just a matter of months. How much longer will we sit back & take it? I feel like the Stimulus Check was hush money to keep us distracted... and it worked. Seriously at what point do we say “enough is enough?!”
And I’m just as guilty - I took the money & believed the lies that we were just going to “flatten the curve”. I justified staying home by saying it was to protect the cancer patients being treated at the hospital I work at, since they have such compromised immune systems.
But then the talk of reopening just stopped. The whole summer flew by, and despite living in California I stayed pale, relegated to staying indoors, handcuffed to my computer working from home. And now it’s getting to be winter, the time of year everyone gets sick. So now every sneeze, every cough, ever sore throat will be treated as a possible death sentence.
You know that we will be indoors now at least through the end of March 2021, making it one full year of this lockdown. Do you honestly think that we will ever get our freedom back?
And now, regardless of your politics, the Democratic Party promotes big government- honestly I am afraid to have even more government in my daily life because my daily life has already ceased to exist. I’m on Democrats.org & reading their platform preamble which says “Democrats will forge a new social & economic contract with the American people - a contract that promotes shared prosperity” = what the hell does that mean?! “A new contract” & “shared prosperity” sounds like socialism & like we will definitely be giving up the right to free business.
I know what I’m saying is unpopular & I’ll probably be hit with a barrage of hate speech, but the truth is I just want us all to have the freedom to live our daily life as we desire. If you wish to stay indoors, that should be your choice. But we should also have the choice to NOT stay inside. Private businesses should be allowed to choose whether or not they can serve citizens, just as you can decide to patronage business. Yes, we need to protect the elderly & infirm, so those private hospitals & facilities can enforce the rules they deem appropriate. But if a coffee shop wants to reopen & not require social distancing or a mask, that should be their choice too. Then just don’t go if you don’t feel comfortable.
People are still getting sick despite these unprecedented measures (maybe because we’ve prevented herd immunity by not allowing the virus to take its natural course) but regardless, at what point do we say “enough is enough”? I mean, am I the only one that is deeply saddened & anxious that we are fine sitting home while small business dies? Until our only choice is Amazon? I feel complicit because I’m one of the lucky few to have a job & work from home, so I can pay bills & keep a roof over my head. But what about everyone else?
I’m sorry for ranting, and I know I’ll probably get a ton of nasty comments but the truth is, I love this country, I love its citizens, and I hate watching it be destroyed. Instead of coming together, our frustration is being exploited into making us hate one another. Local police are highlighted as being the problem, so that the federal government can step in- I’m just waiting for martial law... (and please don’t misread or misinterpret what I’m saying- there are some horrible things that were done by some horrible people, but just like all priests aren’t pedophiles, not all police are murderers). I am honestly just truly worried about the future & afraid of what life will be like a year from now, two years from now.... how much worse will it get??
... I mean, not only did I get blocked on Twitter for creating a petition to preserve Freedom of Speech on Social Media, my petition has now been deleted. Isn’t that exactly like Orwellian’s Big Brother & committing a thought-crime? My dumb petition that had maybe a dozen or so signatures was deemed too much dissent & removed. This post is a thought-crime because it goes against the narrative of mainstream media. This post will likely be deleted as well. And if you don’t find that troubling, well that scares me. We have fought for civil rights- for equality, LGBT rights, human rights, and now all humans are losing all rights. The pursuit of freedom is guaranteed to us, and I think every consenting adult should be allowed to do whatever that means (obviously not to hurt someone, please don’t misconstrue what I’m saying). But right now, we have lost all those rights generations before us fought so hard for, yet we sit home. And instead of fighting for our freedom, we fight each other.
It’s no wonder that the elite’s favorite slogan is “order out of chaos”. While we are busy fighting each other, they will establish a new order of life, one where we have no more freedom. THAT is what scares me. And it really scares me that no one else seems to care.
... I’m sorry for the long post & I’m sure I didn’t say it properly because I haven’t been sleeping & have been working crazy hours so I’m pretty zapped, but I just wanted to say something before this gets deleted too. I just want us to stop fighting against each other & start fighting for the same freedom this country was founded on. I love each & every one of you (even if you disagree with me) - I just don’t want to lose any more freedom.