“I don't watch television news anymore so I am not being tripped up by the daily narrative. What I think is happening is that there were apparently riots, looting and maybe an assault yesterday that is getting some news coverage.
My question is simply this: I have no idea why these people are upset other than it appears there was the loss of a life that happened under questionable maybe egregious terms. (Keep in mind I don't know the underlying story so I am not dismissing the incident, I just don't know about it.)
What I do find to be concerning is that somehow we have managed to stop the US Economy in large part, traded civil liberties, and witnessed harmful effects to our population at large over what appears to be a media-driven fear campaign with questionable data, an undetermined source, and a massive display of tyranny by certain Governors who are demonstrating they are unfit for office at a minimum and possibly criminally negligent with the way that the nursing homes have been used in this situation.
Why are people rioting and freaking out about one person when they are losing their constitutionally protected rights, not just in one case but across the nation? Why isn't that the cause of riots?
The death count totals out of Italy have shown that something like 97% of the people that died from coronavirus were elderly with some complicating serious health condition. That seems to line up with the covered up but now released data in Ohio where 70% of the deaths were from nursing homes and the average age of the lost patient is 81. (I am sure these numbers will evolve so this is a snapshot in time of what the data is saying so far...) Look at NYC and the whole way that the nursing homes were used, there is a lot to that story; $1M political donation > exemption from lawsuits over corona > patients being parked into nursing homes when both hospital beds and alternate care/relief facilities were available (Comfort ship, makeshift hospitals that were built and went completely unused)...
So why make a big point here? 1) The elderly in nursing homes have essentially no voice, most are a burden financially to their states and it looks like they were targeted in this process. Criminals released from prisons over Coronavirus? Also a group with essentially no voice that is a financial burden to the states, also a large percentage of the population that was infected with the virus.
Nobody is rioting about the weakest in society being subjected to something that 1) can kill them at a high rate 2) They can't leave where they are 3) They should be protected 4) The mismanagement and related deaths are covered up by the Governors and health officials and even worse were used to spin tyranny on the US population!
That's the type of thing that I would hope we would have riots over. Not to mention the power grabs trying to limit or remove second amendment rights, right to gather and worship, etc...
It is fine if you don't agree with me, I just have to point out that the reaction to loot and riot over the loss one life under unusual circumstances while possibly a terrible thing, seems penny-wise and pound foolish.
Protest publicly if you need to but do it for the right things.”
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment