Here to Help
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” President Ronald Reagan - 1986
This statement can be horrific because sometimes, when the government does help it can make the problem even worse. Cumbersome regulations and shortsighted bureaucrats can make the needed help transformative and permanent, forever. With the current state of the nation, we are on the brink of martial law and loss of basic freedoms, because some in the government think the citizens are too stupid to figure out how to avoid getting the virus.
The Democrat Governor of Virginia issued an order that everyone should stay home until June 10th. How in the world does he expect folks to stay at home until that date? More importantly how does this genius know that the date, apparently pulled out of thin air, is the definitive all clear date. This is precisely the unbridled government power, executed without regard to the United States Constitution, that could become an unhealthy trend.
When there are earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, the government marshals’ substantial resources to aid the victims of these disasters. Sometimes a curfew will be issued but when normality returns, those orders are withdrawn. The situation dictates the action. In the case of Virginia, there is no empirical data to mandate an order to stay at home for the next two months. Virginians should demand answers to this capricious order.
Further some Governors have dictated what medications shouldn’t be prescribed by doctors to treat the Coronavirus. Huh? When did politicians with no medical background become experts on treating patients? Who’s advising them and why? If there’s a treatment procedure that shows promise as a cure, then let the patient and their doctor decide. This kind of intrusion is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind. Individuals, in position of their faculties, have the right to choose their own fate as long as others are not harmed.
In the movie, “Hot Fuzz”, Constable Nicholas Angel is reassigned to a sleepy English village because he’s too intense for the London force. He soon discovers a lot of mysterious deaths, and his investigation leads him to a cabal of local leaders who demeaned that the losses were sanctioned for the “greater good”.
The paranoia and fear that has been created by the pandemic and the media, has emboldened elected officials to trample on constitutional rights/civil liberties in the name of the “greater good”. The greater good is resident in common sense of the ordinary citizens and not the elitists.
People deserve credit for being intelligent about self-preservation without the sacrifice of the freedoms so many have fought and died for.