Life under the Flu D’Etat is not Worse than Death, but this anonymous essay is most thought-provoking.
Our fear of death has created a life that is worse then death.
We have a world without touch. Without smiles. Without normal human interaction. We are dying from the inside out.
Years ago, Romanian orphanages were overcrowded and understaffed. They were run like factories where the babies and toddlers were fed, dressed, and essentially cared for, but unloved and untouched. It was shown their brains didn’t develop properly from the lack of touch and loving interaction.
Currently we have a sea of masked faces. Anonymous beings without expression. Avoiding touch and interaction for fear of catching a virus that ironically has a 98% recovery rate. A virus that because of media hype and conflicting directives has become equated with death.
The ultimate contradiction is being told ‘wearing a mask saves lives’ while it is in fact killing us. I don’t mean physically killing, but psychologically and emotionally.
The longer this drags out (or we give in to it), the worse the long term repercussions will be. What are babies and toddlers ‘learning’ in this world? They have lost their landmarks of how to distinguish friend or foe. There are no expressions to differentiate between the two. One person is the same as another. That is going to either create a realm where they fear no one or fear everyone. Neither of those are going to amount to healthy children.
It has also created a huge upside for those nefarious individuals who kidnap and traffic children. With the anonymity of masked faces, it makes it much easier to take a child and walk right off with them. Even the children may not notice the difference until it is too late!
Whether masks are effective or not effectiv, no longer matters. What does matter is what this is doing to our lives. We can’t continue to fear death while forgetting how to live.
We have the option to take our lives back. To stop this zombie apocalypse and start living again. Death will always be with us. We can’t stop living because we fear death.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
AND THEN THIS:
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
“In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
“This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
By Christine Meyer
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Here we go….
We inform our sheriffs that we are aware and fully understand that this governor has far surpassed his authority and has completely demolished our willingness to continue to allow our Consent to be abused. Our lives are being destroyed, families are loosing everything; some are fleeing the state while they can! We do hereby Declare our Withdrawn Consent. We refuse to be governed by a tyrant.
Effective immediately, we refuse these Unconstitutional and therefore illegal executive orders and mandates. We recognize the Governor is lying and even enforcing Dangerous mask wearing. There have been deaths and injury from exercising and wearing masks. Telling citizens they must exercise in public facilities with masks is to FORCE them to risk their lives.
There is no authority given to the governor to force people to risk their health and life if they want to exercise their freedom to work out at the gym.
We will not bend. We will not give up our Right of Conscience and the freedom to think for ourselves.
There is no authority given to the governor that enables him to forcefully revoke our rights; rights that are God given; rights that NO elected representative has any power to take from us – EVER.
There is no authority given to the governor that enables him to bribe businesses with threats and penalties. That is force and force is unconstitutional; he does NOT have Consent from the people to be governed in such a manner.
There is no authority given to the governor to force families to such extreme harsh financial crisis, that they find themselves suddenly poverty stricken, unable to buy food to feed their families or pay bills. We have sacrificed enough and are no longer willing to entertain this agenda driven, Political Game being played in our lives. We cannot afford it and we say Enough! We are not pawns in this political chess game.
There is no authority given to the governor to abuse his power and abuse us in our lives; some of us are fighting to survive. The governor does NOT have our consent to punish and penalize us for trying to take care of ourselves and our families. He has never had consent to enforce these mandates and especially NOT this most recent one.
We find that Governor Jarod Polis has broken his social compact with the voters of Colorado; we rightfully and expeditiously Declare with our Sovereign voice, our consent is withdrawn and we will not comply with his criminal orders. We will not consent to a governor who thinks calling us “selfish bastards” is acceptable. He has diminished our needs, has minimized operations across this state that are vital and important. To refer to us as such, as we are battling to survive, he demands us to sacrifice more. The social effects of his disdain and clear disrespect for us as human beings is magnanimous. It will prompt further radical aggression towards us, possibly endangering our lives should someone call in BLM or Antifa .
NO
The moment Jarod Polis threatened and began to punish and condemn the free people of Colorado, he became a Tyrant. We stand firmly upon the Declaration of Independence, and accept our rightful duty to throw off tyranny.
We find the Governor to have broken the laws of our land, and refuse to be governed by his criminal actions, laws and mandates. We are invoking our Sovereign right to refuse tyrannical rule.
We call upon our Sheriffs, whom we elect as our protectors of our Constitutional rights. We stand with you and we ask you to stand with us. It is time to shut this corruption down and return the rule of law to our state.
AND IF those in charge of the flu d’etat were true experts…
AND IF those in charge of the flu d’etat actually had our well-being in mind…
… They would have demanded that we all wear masks at the beginning of March and this whole COVID mess would have been gone by the beginning of April.
And then there is this gem from Diana Nadin on Facebook: Why are there no biohazard bins for masks and gloves if the virus is so contagious and deadly?
Deaths have dropped to a small fraction of what they were in mid-April. Indeed, they were already dropping rapidly before anyone was cracking a whip about masks.
On this day in 1776, 56 of you pledged your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor when you signed a declaration that would birth perhaps the freest nation the world has ever seen. For several of you that document would constitute a death warrant.
Today, we vote overwhelmingly again and again to:
Have half our income confiscated.
Have ourselves incarcerated at the highest rate on earth.
Have ourselves groped as a condition of travel.
Over the last 4 months, depressingly yuuuge numbers of us have fervently embraced the flu d’etat. This included slamming the brakes on society, crashing the economy, sending the Bill of Rights through the shredder and re-engineering many fundamental aspects of human behavior in the name of protecting us from what is probably not even among the top 30 health challenges this country has faced.
It’s been said that whereas we once roared like lions for liberty, we now bleat like sheep for security.
There was a very cautious man,
Who never laughed or played,
He never risked, he never tried,
He never sang or prayed,
And when one day he passed away,
His insurance was denied,
For since he never really lived,
They claimed he never really died.
– Anonymous
What is the meaning of life? Only God Himself knows, so I am not going to attempt to answer this question. However, we can say with absolute certitude that the meaning of life is not about keeping you safe from any and all potential risks.
Just in case you live in a lead mine or North Korea or wherever, there’s a virus going around. These things happen once every few years. None of them are any good. This one is probably worse than some and undoubtedly not as bad as others. However, the powers that be have used this particular virus as an excuse to carry out what I’ll call a Flu D’etat – a destruction of massive amounts personal liberty and of so many things that bring joy in life in the name of keeping us safe.
Credit: Huffington Post
One of my favorite movie scenes of all-time is in the film Dead Poets Society. John Keating, an English teacher at a boarding school, deftly portrayed by Robin Williams, asks his students to huddle up and explains the importance of poetry.
“We don’t just read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering … these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But beauty, poetry, romance, love … these are the things we stay alive FOR!”
“To quote from Whitman:”
“Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
… What good amid these, O me, O life?”
“Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse!”
“What will your verse be?”
To be sure, the life of an amoeba or a termite or a dung beetle is about nothing more than mere biological survival. Human life, however, is about much more. We incarcerate people as punishment for crimes they have committed. Yes, they are allowed to survive physically, but they are denied liberty and the so many avenues by which to pursue happiness, which are what we stay alive for.
In March, the powers that be urged us not to gather in groups of more than ten. This represented a fundamental transformation of American life beyond Obama’s wildest imaginings. (Trump was very much a part of this. And, yes, he played a yuuuge part in fanning the flames of fear.)
When Jared “Pol Pot” Polis, the governor of Colorado, where I live, decreed this, my first question was if this would include church, weddings and funerals. Sure enough, it would!
We may be able to survive for a short time in solitude. But to prolong this is to recklessly disregard what sets human beings apart from every other life form. We are designed by God – or, for you secular humanists, nature – to be in community with other human beings. Talking on the phone, watching YouTube or having Zoom parties simply does not fulfill this need. These are wonderful and immeasurably valuable technologies, but their capacity is limited.
Jonathan Sumption, a former British Supreme Court judge recently wrote:
“What sort of life do we think we are protecting? There is more to life than the avoidance of death. Life is a drink with friends. Life is a crowded football match or a live concert. Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren. Life is companionship, an arm around one’s back, laughter or tears shared at less than two meters. These things are not just optional extras. They are life itself. They are fundamental to our humanity, to our existence as social beings. Of course, death is permanent, whereas joy may be temporarily suspended. But the force of that point depends on how temporary it really is.”
And please, in the name of all that is sacred and much that is profane, spare me your money-over-lives sanctimony. The economic shutdown is…not…saving…lives!
And the recent caterwauling about face masks isn’t prolonging life either. In early March, when the vise grip was tightening on so many of our civil and economic liberties, no one was cracking a whip on anyone about face masks. Science didn’t change in 90 days. It was all just a propaganda ploy to see how many people would unquestioningly obey. That number is depressingly high. What hoop will they jump through next?
(By the way, I am not judging you if wearing a mask gives you peace of mind. The trouble begins when you want to mandate a mask for all of society.)
Perhaps the saddest part of the whole Flu D’Etat is that so many people not only do not realize they are being tyrannized, but that they gleefully celebrate every new wave of tyranny.
But it’s to keep you safe, they proclaim. All tyranny is implemented in the name of some Higher Good, be it fighting drugs, poverty or climate change, thwarting terrorism, or For The People or Juche or la revolucion or Das Volk or whatever. Indeed, our entire contemporary philosophy of government may be summarized in six words: If it sounds good, do it!
John Keating in Dead Poets Society illustrated education at its noblest. The CDC’s recommendations for reopening schools this fall illustrate schooling at its worst. Yes, these are recommendations and not laws. However, what do the following tell children?
Requiring masks for children over the age of 2.
No sharing of any items or supplies; all belongings in individual cubbies or labeled containers; no sharing electronic devices, toys, games, learning aids.
Desks 6 feet apart, all facing the same way.
Social distancing on school buses, i.e. one child per seat, skip rows.
Install sneeze guards and partitions wherever you cannot space 6 feet apart.
One way routes in hallways; tape on sidewalks and walls to assure kids stay 6 feet apart.
No communal shared spaces – cafeterias, playgrounds.
Physical barriers or screens between sinks in bathrooms.
Only pre-packages boxes or bags of food instead of cafeteria food; kids eat in classrooms.
No field trips, assemblies, or external organizations in the schools. Limit volunteers and visitors.
Children stay with the same staff members all day. No switching groups, or teachers.
Stagger arrival and departure times for students to limit exposure to crowds of kids.
If possible, daily health and temperature checks.
And there are several more rules about cleaning and disinfecting throughout the day and handwashing frequently.
Schools in North Korea have more flexibility. You can read this document in detail here on pages 40-46.
This is a reckless attempt to re-engineer human nature. Che Guevara spoke of a New Socialist Man. Think of this as a Post-COVID Man, whose entire existence is reduced to the avoidance of COVID. Just think of it as avoidance Uber Alles.
Yes, government schools were already an unholy mess. However, you did children no favors whatsoever when you yanked them out of the environments to which they were accustomed and isolated them from companionship and play with their friends. And do you want children to group up in constant fear of taking even the slightest risk?
And it is worth noting that the COVID fatality rate for Americans under 15 is one in several million. But reality doesn’t matter here. Nothing matters except the triumphant march to the New Post-COVID Dawn.
Believe it or not, I am going to end on a positive note. Good things will come from this episode. A whole new wave of parents will remove their children from government schools. There will be a new wave of awareness about personal responsibility for one’s health with a special focus on immunity, which is really quite simple. And there will be a whole new generation of entrepreneurs because millions of traditional jobs have vanished because of the economic crash.
The great play will inevitably go on.
And you, reader, have the opportunity to contribute a verse.
What will your verse be?
I’ll just leave this here. It’s almost as if people WANT this to be the next bubonic plague.
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