Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #30
April 16, 2020
New York Orders Residents to Wear Masks in Public
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said all New Yorkers must wear face coverings when social distancing is not possible, including on public transport, in stores and on crowded sidewalks. April 15, 2020
Ever tighter. The powers that be put ever more pressure on a system that is quietly beginning to reach a near-critical stage. I am not writing this stuff to be negative, poke spurious criticism or cause depression. I am writing all this as a warning that if a direction the nation has chosen to take, at least ninety percent of it, is continued to be pursued then an unavoidable social, economic and psychological explosion of violence will be experienced by all of us.
The cinch is pulled tighter in New York and Maryland where they are requiring masks and gloves for all people going out in what we used to call the public. Now, to go outside, people, all people, must wear this gear…most of which people do not have. There are no masks at Walmart or Target or any of those. And the only gloves you can buy anymore are those huge clunky things at hardware stores. In Illinois, they are establishing checkpoints. The police (they apparently have plenty of masks and gloves) will be stopping all cars at undesignated checkpoints to check people to see where they are going and why they are going there, in order to put enforcement into the stay at home rules. The word ‘essential’ is about to have some real bite put into it. The fear of going to a jail that may be likely infested with the virus or at the very least jamming humans together one upon another should and will cause fear, if not downright terror, to spear into the hearts and minds of most citizens.
The encapsulation of the social body into divided pods of fear and terror can only have one eventual result. The explosion I am writing about. The police are being put in untenable positions, those officers working the checkpoints more exposed, and also knowing that they may be sentencing someone to death for breaking social visitation rules if they arrest them. Every day I wake up and wonder what new torture device can be implemented to ‘save’ everyone while the new saving measures are near silently and slowly killing them. We are losing our businesses, our colleges, our sports teams, our social organizations like churches and clubs and we are losing many of them permanently.
How can this be happening and what can be done? I don’t know. I wait, like you, hoping for the best, praying, and worrying like hell.
Share your concerns (or lack of them) below
Watch the Chinese model, no trains this time! Vaccines, controlled and monitored movement, permission to go past your prescribed boundaries ALL for your own good! The most feared words are the government saying, “We’re here to help!”. They have certainly helped, just ask the 22,000,000 who they “helped”.
Careful, the enthusiastic sales program of very rapid erosion of all American’s rights is a long way from over.
And it is not popular to go against the virus or anything done to torture or limit humanity in order to avoid it.
The numbers are slowly following the effects of the economic closure of the country.
By the time we are ‘done’ here
seventy percent of the country will have been brought to a standstill.
Like a bicycle, the grand huge economy of the U.S. cannot stand when it finally stops.
Semper fi,
Jim
LT, I sat here in my little room… my hooch on my daughter’s place, thinking about what I see.
I wrote this, and published on my own page… I wondered what you might think of my “opinion”?
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America is in denial.
Her people refuse to see the beast that is staring them in the face. A BEAST her sons have spilled their blood fighting across the globe.
Its stench is seared into their souls.
Its voice echoes in their ears, every minute of every day… and laying in their bunks at night….staring into the dark… these many years hence.
They recognize it Now.
They have tried to warn their people… but are told to “calm down… be quiet… you’re being unpleasant.”
A time is coming that far less than 2% of this country has ever come close to experiencing.
You are soon to be given two choices;
“Kneel before me. I am your master. Submit to this collar around your neck, for your own welfare, or go to prison… or worse…”
-OR-
Smile….step forward… Snatch the Tyrant by the Throat… touch your fingertips behind his windpipe… lay your K-Bar alongside his neck… just below his jaw…
Lean in close, so you can whisper in his ear… “I was born a Free man… I Free man I am yet… Your Move.”
What will be your choice?
Wow, Brian, I am most happy to post what you have written. Tyranny cannot be overcome by going along, it must be fought….and here we are…
Semper fi,
Jim
Thank You LT
I heard it said once in a movie; “I know some things” 🙂 … Together Sir, we can show some kids how to make it count.
A Marine I was not… But Faithful, and Loyal, this old soldier always was and will always be.
It is old soldiers we need now Brian. The young people won’t get what’s coming until it is way too late. You have to have seen this kind of
behavior to know wha it is right away. This is a coup and it is a well planned and very well disguised one with many supporters at the top.
I put your previous comment up on my Facebook sites.
Thanks for making me feel less alone…
Semper fi,
Jim
I think it’s rough, one of the rough spots AMERICA hasn’t seen, But I do have faith, and believe we will come out of it , hopefully soon. Semper Fi Lt
I wish I had more faith in the government as it is currently organized, but I see an evil hand in all of this
and I do not believe the government has enough in the way of intellect or life experience to figure it out and then fight it.
Semper fi,
Jim
When I read 1984 many ,many years ago it seemed so unlikely. Now I see so much of it was prescient. Your commentary reflects my concerns. I can’t help thinking there must be some ulterior motives.
My ‘concerns’ have made me unpopular at home and in town.
People want to assign me a place in the Trump camp, but I am not.
I cannot go along
with what I believe to be that man’s dementia.
But even a broken clock is right twice in 24 hours.
Semper fi,
Jim
Your analysis is as good as your writing. Glad you are back and recovered.
Thanks Richard, I am hard at it again and thanks for the motivation.
Semper fi,
Jim
God has our back, this too will pass.
This will pass but I have a feeling that this is one of those things where God stands back,
evaluates the talents and gifts He has given us, and then waits for us to do something about what has happened.
Semper fi,
Jim
Crying cumono has declared that he is more powerful than God, meanwhile criminals are turned loose on the streets, citizens without records are given tickets an placed in jail to take the place of the released criminals. I always wondered why the people boarded the trains without protest. At first it was well meaning police enforcing infractions an after awhile turning into the Gestapo ,KBB an other Secret Police. The people were fooled into thinking they were helping the “Government” an their neighbors.
There was no way they got on those trains because they knew they were going to the ovens.
Nobody ever discusses the truth at the end, otherwise whom would go.
And so here we are, getting ready to get ready to get on a train…
Semper fi,
Jim
I think a bit too much JAMES !!! They are going overboard, the gal in MICH. called the protest “PURELY POLITICAL” sad but you can’t fix stupid. Our gov. in N.J. saying BILL OF RIGHTS IS ABOVE HIS PAY GRADE !!! Most likly never had a pay grade never served in any way !!!!
You are speaking a vital and penetrating truth. Our leaders have become so insulated that they don’t have to care much about anything.
Or so they believe. Now they are screwing with the populace in a way that can only eventually bring attention upon them
and that attention is going to be a lot like the movie “V.”
Semper fi,
Jim