Life is a risky business.
What climate alarmists have been trying to do since the inception of the IPCC in 1988 the coronavirus has accomplished in a few months - shut down western society in order to reduce human CO2 emissions.
Planes are being grounded, there are fewer cars on the road and industry is shutting down as people are told or ordered to remain in their homes to combat the spread of the Chinese COVid19 virus. There are those who applaud the imposition of a sequestration order.
Socialism by virus. How easily we gave up our freedoms and without so much as a whimper.
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose." ¬ Club of Rome
They should have come up with a virus rather than climate change et al.
A viral epidemic is an imminent threat; climate change is not.
There is no evidence for this. It is an assumption.
Is it troubling to witness how easily we cede our freedoms to the dictates of the state?
There are those who issue freedom warnings.
Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: The West is committing suicide through its irrational response to Covid-19
Will we hear them? Will we listen?
Have we acted in panic too radically too soon?
Shock: Govt Study Proves Flu Vaccination Link To Coronavirus - could this be why lots of old people are dying from the coronavirus? The elderly are also often full of different medicines for different ailments all or some of which may actually weaken their immune systems.
When panic sets in people with and without the virus scramble for esteemed essentials in the stores. This concentrates people and obviously does NOT foster social distance. Could the big jump in cases we are now witnessing be the result of this initial panic created by dire warnings and imposed lockdowns on non-essential movement?
“in America and the world the 2009 swine flu killed 12,000 and 300,000, respectively; the 1968 Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 and 1,000,000; and the 1918 Spanish Flu, 600,000 and 40,000,000. The dramatic decline in deaths over the past century is a very good reason for optimism.”
Italy’s lockdown doesn’t seem to work- watch them become even more draconian
“By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?” Why didn’t we shutdown the economy in 2017 over this?
Treatments and cures seem to exist. Are we panicking for nothing??
Researchers in the UK, France, Australia and Japan have been adapting already known drugs to fight the coronavirus with great success as well as working on a vaccine.
Perhaps we panic too soon but the precedent has been set. The state can take away our rights and freedoms at the drop of an invisible virus and we gave them up without so much as a whimper. Do we deserve them?
We do not stop the world to prevent death from other causes.
We accept death as an inevitable fact of life. We inform people of the risks involved with a threat and allow them to assess those risks and make their own decisions as to how they will deal with threats both known and unknown. In a free country we do not proscribe their behaviour although we do hold them accountable should they knowingly infect others. As someone once morbidly observed: Life is a terminal disease. No one gets out alive.
Questioning the wisdom of sacrificing liberty on the altar of state protection has been around for a long time.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”― Benjamin Franklin
Let’s hope we don’t come to regret it. We should always Question Authority
Life is a risky business. No one gets out alive. Prior to the virus we were judged capable of assessing those risks and acting accordingly. There will always be some who are irresponsible such as those who have had too much to drink and still get behind the wheel. But we do not order everyone to stay at home in order to prevent the lethal motor vehicle accidents that are sure to follow. Freedom is rated higher than the deaths from the inevitable road accidents.
When challenged, those who wield the power of lockdown, call those who protest the removal of their civil rights ‘yahoos’ and accuse them of wanting to murder their fellow citizens by not staying home. This sense of moral outrage has no place in a free society where free humans are quite capable of assessing the risk that the virus poses to themselves and others. If you think the risk is high - stay home. If you still want to go to a bar, a restaurant or a ballgame the choice should be yours.
Precautions should be taken for the infirm or the elderly populations who are most vulnerable to covid19. Don’t we do this every flu season? But we don’t shut down half of civilization in order to do it. We let freedom reign. It may seem unjust that people must die but die they must. A human life is not eternal.
Franklin’s quote bears repeating.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”― Benjamin Franklin
