Friday, April 10, 2020
Poor old Ben
The usual "conservatives" are misquoting poor old Ben Franklin yet again, about giving up liberty for security.
FIRST: Franklin did not fucking say it. Some asshole writer said it, and Franklin's printing business published the author's pamphlet. Franklin himself said the opposite (though not strongly).
SECOND: Franklin was a serious scientist. He sold his printing business to pursue science. His experiments on electricity were strictly scientific, following the scientific method of trial and error to improve results and solve problems. He would have understood the difference between real public health techniques, established and fine-tuned by 200 years of scientific trial and error, versus a nonsensical method that had NEVER BEEN TRIED AT ALL.
THIRD AND MOST IMPORTANT: WE'RE NOT GIVING UP LIBERTY FOR SECURITY. WE'RE NOT GETTING SECURITY IN ANY SENSE. CRIMINALS ARE RUNNING WILD. THE LOCKDOWNS MAKE NO VISIBLE DIFFERENCE IN INFECTION. WHERE WE CAN SEE A BALANCED TRIAL BETWEEN COUNTRIES OR STATES, THE LOCKDOWN ISN'T THE VARIABLE THAT COUNTS. ALL SORTS OF OTHER FACTORS CAUSE DIFFERENCES, AS THEY ALWAYS DO. NORMAL PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LEARNED BY TRIAL AND ERROR HOW TO TAKE THOSE OTHER FACTORS INTO ACCOUNT. PLACES THAT VIOLATED NORMAL PUBLIC HEALTH RULES WITH OPEN BORDERS AND LOW VACCINATION RATES HAD MORE INFECTION.
The lockdowns are not FOR security against viruses, and they're certainly not FOR security against crime or poverty or hunger. EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE. They're FOR security against Deplorables, who are the real virus as seen by NYC and DC.
As I tiresomely repeat, human beings do not want Liberty, whatever the fuck it means. Only NYC psychopaths and criminals want Liberty. Humans want security, which means NORMALCY. We want to live our lives, do our duty, raise families, eat, sleep, love if possible. And our immune systems also depend on the same normalcy. The lockdowns bring ALL NORMALCY to a screeching halt. The lockdowns are a carefully detailed multi-flank WAR ON IMMUNITY. That's the SINGLE SOLE PURPOSE of the lockdowns. Genocide.
Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Jail mode
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