Freedom

Thanks for sharing. Yesterday was likely the first day I experienced genuine socializing with my neighbors/friends since all of this insanity started. And not because I bought into it; I didn't, but because others did. I honestly believe that more and more people are waking up to the truth. My friends and I engaged with each other without masks and without being six feet apart and it felt wonderful and freeing and natural. Humans are social creature by nature. We were not created/are not meant to live isolated from one another engaging in virtual relationships. Zoom and Skype are nice for temporary solutions to engaging with friends across the country or outside of the country but not when they leave within a few blocks or miles from you. It's well past time we push back. You are right. People are always dying of something--it's called the circle of life. I had to remind a friend the other day who was chastising me that I would take it more seriously if it hit closer to home and someone I knew died of it. I reminded her that I have lost numerous loved ones to all manner of sickness and accidents over the course of my lifetime, even to suicide (two friends of mine committed suicide). And some of them have died quite suddenly. For instance, just last year my sister-in-law's niece who I've known since she was an infant died within 30 days of being diagnosed with cancer. A few months later the mother of her niece died suddenly---woke up one morning sick and a few hours later was pronounced dead.

The truth is we are all going to die one day. The question is how do you want to live? Do you want to live a meaningful, rich, full life in which you are free to do the things you love and enjoy and engage openly and freely with the people you love. Or do you want to spend/waste your life locked away in your home because you're afraid of dying from a virus that by the way has a 98-plus percent recovery rate for most people. And... even a significant percentage of those with co-morbidities have also survived.

As long as we live in fear of the virus or anything else for that matter, the elites will always be able to control us--they will always have power over us. I refuse to live in fear. I choose to push back. I choose to speak out.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin

You are Absolutely correct on that!!!

Patricia, I can understand seniors or those with compromised immune systems wanting to take extra precautions with regard to their health whether it's related to covid or any other health issue. I believe that people have the right to decide what is best for them medically and to act within their own best interests. But it is up to the individual to decide what is right for him/her and their family, not the state. And to make those decisions, we need access to as much information as possible, not what governments or mainstream media decide we should have access to.

Regarding the dangers of the virus, you cannot and should not believe everything that you read in the media or even coming from the medical establishment. Unfortunately, so much of the information is designed to keep people in a state of fear to push an agenda so that people will not push back and demand their rights. I think what people are trying to say in this thread, at least what I'm trying to say, is that for old or young alike if you live your life in fear of death, you will not live very much of a life at all. Every time you get in a car, every time you board an airplane, every time you step out your front door, the risk is of death is present, and yet most of us continue to drive, fly, and leave our homes.

And for each doctor, scientists or so-called expert claiming this current virus/pandemic is deadly and causing all sorts of atypical things to happen to our bodies, there are many others--equally qualified and credentialed--who are calling BS on what is being reported in the media. And I'm not just talking about doctors in the US, doctors and scientists all over the world, from Spain to Israel, Germany and the UK are voicing their opposition to the main narrative based on their research, findings, and experience. Whenever I read or hear any of the medical information about this virus or any other health-related issue, I ask the questions: Where is this info. coming from? Who funded the research/study? Who benefits from the conclusions reached? Who are they connected to? What organization are they connected to?

This is how the game is played in government, politics, media, marketing. Create a problem/crisis, get people to react in fear or another intense emotion, propose a solution that people if they were not fearful would never accept but because you've stirred them up into a state of fear will readily accept without question. Think back to 9/11. As long as the powers that be can keep us in a state of fear, they can also control us, and they will. Remove the fear, and the foundation for their power erodes.

The poet Maya Angelou once said, "if people show you who they are, believe them." Many of our government and world leaders have shown us that they do not have the best interests of average citizens at heart and they cannot be trusted. They have shown us they are more interested in building power and wealth and controlling the masses than in governing rightly and serving those who put them in office, and will take advantage of any situation and crisis to accomplish their ends, no matter who or how many are harmed. We should believe them. I believe we can take back our country, but not if we cower in fear.