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Covid and the Three Tests of Compliance

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Posted By: Harlowe, 2/5/2023 12:15:57 PM

Jesus in the wilderness faced three temptations from the Devil himself: material comfort, fame, and power. Needless to say, he declined every temptation and passed all three trials.(Snip)One way to think about these last three years is a succession of compliance tests: how much liberty and good sense are we willing to surrender to the regime and on what terms?(Snip)As if to fit the model, they came in three great waves: lockdowns, masks, and vaccine mandates. Let’s examine all three stages and reflect on their demands and terms. It begins to make sense, at least from the point of view of those in control.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 2/5/2023 2:33:27 PM (No. 1395775)
The idiot county commissioners shut down restaurantes here for six weeks, and then there was zero "lockdown" here. I never stopped going shopping....without a mask....the entire time. Frequently when stores "required" masks....I just ignored the signs and occasional "helpful person" offering a mask. I was never challenged except in doc offices, and several times was extremely close to leaving. In my cardiologists office, I didn't wear a mask, regardless of signs, and wasn't challenged. And we didn't take the vaccines. So, did we flunk or pass the "three challenges". We never bought into any of them. We traveled from KS to Florida and out to Colorado. I had a well drilled and interacted with the drillers, and the pump installation teams and nobody even talked about masks....other than the drillers lamenting that they had to work amid a severe cloud of rock dust coming up from the air drill without their usual dust masks because they couldn't get any. THAT harmed their health, probably. We pushed back, and refused to be limited. Not "go along" kind of folks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: franq 2/5/2023 2:56:01 PM (No. 1395799)
Excellent. One of the best summaries of the COVID fiasco I have read. Time is revealing the lies we were told.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BirdsNest 2/5/2023 5:07:05 PM (No. 1395874)
I had to deliver some things to a friend. I have a sore throat. My friend met me outside wearing a mask. To make her feel better I used hand sanitizer before helping to sort the goods. She was still wearing her paper mask when I drove off. Nuts.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ja47646 2/5/2023 7:01:24 PM (No. 1395963)
I refused to stay home and would wander down grocery store aisles the wrong direction (remember those stupid arrows on floors in stores?) just to be out and about. I am a gregarious extrovert and staying home is like death. I was thrown out of lots of places because of no mask including an open air farmers market. Finally I moved to Florida to get away from vax mandates. The catch is I am on oxygen 24/7 and cannot breathe in a mask! Still had drs force those masks on me. The whole thing was nothing but a compliance test just as this article states. And the American public unfortunately went right along with it. My grandkids are having trouble learning to speak now. But when I would mention the problems brought about by this baloney I was ignored.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 2/5/2023 8:26:43 PM (No. 1396036)
I still have my honor intact. Always loved sticking it to the man. I took a road trip right after the lockdown started and had the whole road to myself. No traffic, no speed limit, no cops, no problem. It was like being in the original Omega Man. I went in stores without a mask and enjoyed watching people dive for cover. I enjoyed an instant kinship with the others who didnt wear masks. Was only denied entry once. Wal mart, natch. Never got the shot despite work making it mandatory. My religious exemption held.
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