Someone I know on the other side of the political aisle sent this to me.
https://www.tiktok.com/@supermantodd132/video/6994429118423026950?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowHnAvd2N9zp0%2B8PbLdgMkOFFE3X3YI7j3igwxVNhaCwykDQHn%2F7d3E4RbO1O7L3uWGgA%3D&checksum=ff942ec53f716e193c655125046923dc625db944f00ee1680a56314f0b1a762f&clips_cover_ab=v2&enable_clips=1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAJyb1Twm4sDtKW8-ER3IGQfjNJMiy3I6xJidvLnrd4xi4mzs_22LBBGrWgMZkeVMc&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=6994429118423026950&share_link_id=7F68C5BF-1121-448B-BC37-1E2328B9D3A1&source=h5_m×tamp=1628563561&tt_from=sms&u_code=db78hmalcbi4fl&user_id=6800567033995871238&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=sms&_r=1
By the time I got most of the way done watching it I was fed up.
This asshole’s thesis, and the thesis of a lot of people on the Left, regarding America and COVID is this:
If only Americans had simply given up their freedoms willingly, had only we immediately acquiesced to every government suggestion and mandate, if Americans were less interested in their individual rights and more focused on the good of the collective and be willing to sacrifice their happiness for the collective good, fewer people would have died and America would not be an embarrassment to the rest of the world.
Never mind the changing and contradictory narratives and mandates.
Never mind that lockdowns destroyed the livelihoods of people who don’t have the privilege of being able to work from home via VPN and teleconferencing.
Never mind that our children have been so damaged by lockdowns that more have committed suicide than died of COVID.
Never mind that alcoholism and drug abuse skyrocketed and more young people overdosed than died of COVID.
Never mind that COVID spending has driven record, economy shattering, inflation that is going to crush the working and middle classes.
Never mind that restrictions and mandates in other countries weren’t any more effective in reducing per-capita COVID deaths, and America is not a radical outlier in COVID deaths per 100,000 people, especially considering the number of major cities we have which is where the worst spread has occurred.
Never mind that our kids fell a year behind in school or more.
Never mind all the unintended terrible social side effects we’ve experienced.
No, the problem is that Americans are just stupid, selfish, boorish assholes who just can bring themselves to consider the common good for a year and obsequiously obey restrictions on their lifestyle of shotgunning Bud Lites while screaming “freedom, fuck yeah, ‘Murica!”
This belief is little more than using COVID to justify your hatred of America and advocating for totalitarianism, no matter how ineffective or inept it might be.
I’m just fucking tired of this.
Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
He was right then and he’s right now.
These fucking people need a helicopter ride.
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