Is It Just Me?

Phrases evocative of 1984?

Is it just me or do some of the phrases associated with this medical crisis anamnestic of Orwell’s 1984, not literally perhaps, but evocatively? Social distancing, essential workers, essential businesses, contact tracing, drones, police cameras, “for the greater good.”

♫And the sheep go on. . . .♫

Progressive and conservative approaches

A phenomenon we have seen at the national level since the beginning of our infectious virus crisis is restraint. Rather than usurping authority at the national level, and mandating broadly based policies across a varying landscape, the President recognized responses to the crisis can be better managed locally, and deferred to local governors. Thus, we saw decision-making being deferred to state governors. From my perspective, this was action that respected the principles of the founders of this constitutional republic.

In retrospect, this was a move vilified by progressives as insufficient. Better, so progressives, than a “strong” federal government mandate policies across the nation, regardless of the local efficacy. States, counties, and municipalities be damned, “We’re the government, and we’re here to help (destroy the small businesses in your community)! We know what’s best for you, and it’s for the greater good!.”

A problem that persists is the draconian lock-downs in several states. We continue to get new data about how COVID-19 persists, and spreads. Despite the overwhelming data that suggests closed spaces are more conducive to the transmission of the virus, and that open spaces are significantly less conducive, we see state imperators keeping their coloni in lock-down.

A Complicit Lame-Stream Media

Not only are there state imperators keeping their coloni in lock-down, we continue to see the lame-stream media harp about the lack of federal leadership. It seems what they are really pining for is a dictator-like leadership that mandates zero-defects–“Wait until there is a vaccine before opening up the country. Otherwise you’re killing the vulnerable.”

What angers me about this mantra is that those who continually harp for keeping people quarantined have not lost one minute of their own salary. Pay up or shut up!