COVID
As we approach the most important election in anyone’s lifetime, this infrequently-deadly virus is the biggest concern. See what I put out yesterday about Australia
Obviously, as someone on a very strong immunosuppressant, I do have to be concerned about the virus. At the same time, I worry about the creeping totalitarianism to combat the virus. I can stay inside, work remotely. Many folks can’t.
I’ve been assembling this as i watch football on Sunday. Fox had this impassioned plea about voting.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
With the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID, there is no government protection of liberty.
But don’t you care about other people?
Fuck, yes, I do, which is why I’m willing as someone with medical problems to keep myself isolated.
The pursuit of happiness section is further clarified by the Bill of Rights, and, since I live in Virginia, the declaration of rights that went into the Virginia Constitution.
Government, even one in which you had a small part creating, doesn’t protect either your property; taxation is theft. It doesn’t protect your liberty.
When does it stop protecting your life?
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As I pick up the draft today on Monday, I’m wondering if this is part of what’s affecting my drams. Had some very odd ones again last night, then woke up worrying about things like DINA, and East Germany.
For whatever reason, I really worry that those sorts of authoritarian societies are what people are seeking today.
Some of the conversation I had with my oldest friend yesterday over Jitsi was about whether in the age of COVID, it there’s any place in the entire world where you can go to get away from the nervous Nellies worried about whether you’re wearing a damn mask.
I don’t know.
I really don’t want to live in East Germany even if Frau Merkel said you could almost be happy living there..
I want to be free. Maybe that will cut a couple of years off of my life, but would those extra two years be ones I’d enjoy.
Maybe it makes me a bad person about thinking about suck things.