So, where are we?
240 pages. 4.8K comments. It was almost exactly 18 months ago that I pinned this because we were heading into the week that America was supposed to stand still. We were only about 6 weeks into 2 weeks to flatten the curve. Since my original post we have:
Been lied to about the mortality rate
Been lied to about the efficacy of masks
Been lied to repeatedly about herd immunity requirements
Been lied to repeatedly about the efficacy of the vaccine
Seen a vaccine mandate enforced for certain jobs - with thousands being fired for non-compliance
Had a vaccine mandate for air travel proposed
Watched unemployment go from 3.8% to over 13%. Currently at 4.8%.
Seen thousands of small business get shuddered forever.
Watched countless politicians who enforce mask mandates not wear masks at events.
Spent trillions of dollars to fight this bubonic plague like pandemic
Seen mail in voting be normalized so one party can consolidate power
Watched child attempted suicide rates soar (over 50 percent for girls 12-17)
Seen all covid restrictions ignored during the summer of love, but only for justice protestors
Seen credible evidence of far ranging complications emerge wrt the vaccine
Seen big pharma enriched and politicians benefit from it
Seen Big Tech censor all dissenting views on the pandemic
Watched as a President was elected running a campaign from an actual basement - you can't find anyone anywhere who actually likes him, but he's the most voted for President in history - allegedly
There is so much more but I stopped caring enough to detail it all. This pandemic (lol) has been the biggest government power consolidation since the ability to tax was forced upon us. It has totally remade and divided society. It has given permanent majorities to single party rule in many areas. It has shredded liberty, and brought about harsh censorship of all but the "right ideology." That ideology being one of state power to enforce its' science on everyone, even when competing science exists. It's been a great 18 months. For progressives. For all the rest of us it has sucked. I keep stockpiling ammo.
I honestly had kind of checked out from being too interested in anything outside my own bubble before this. Was content to live in the eastside burbs where tax payers and sane people seemingly controlled what was happening locally.
That all changed when Inslee canceled golf for a month and a half in the face of zero data or logic to do so and then micromanaged the operations of it for another year plus. It sounds stupid for that to be the issue that woke me up, but it was and I’m sure many others have their own parallel personal example that is just as stupid. Showed that the far away monarchs had only temporarily ceded local control over people’s lives.
