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Originally Posted by Oerets
Talking to a Doctor friend today and the subject was C-19 and wearing/not wearing of masks at first.
Then we went, went on talking and then to us both realizing and agreeing, just how much this country has changed since the greatest generation. Gone is the exceptionalism of the past it so seems today. Our forefathers would be ashamed of what we have done to the country they left to us.
Talk a big and loud game! Just do not have the stomach for when it gets hard.
That when our time came to be tested as a country, make the sacrifices required. Roll up our sleeves and go to work as one fighting against a common enemy.
We as a whole failed miserably.
Just how weak and selfish the nation has become. That wearing a simple mask to help protect others if not yourself.
Is to much to ask!
Going to the beach swimming, getting a tattoo a haircut eating at a restaurant a bar is more important then another's health or life.
Selfish and weak!
Now it can be argued that with a great leader at the helm with a party that is in control of the senate. That this could of been different. With a game plan and using science as a guide.
Who knows with the amount of disinformation and conspiracies that a segment would rather believe then facts. I fear there still would of been gridlock and indecision. For the fact people do not want to suffer any inconveniences. To many live for today not planning for tomorrow.
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We're fighting different enemies. Those that wear a mask are fighting one enemy. Those that don't are fighting a different one. That's really all that is going on here.
I'm of the latter group. It would be easy to just go along with the flow and wear a mask. But there is a reason I don't. It's the same reason our founders gave up their "comfort" and fought the King. It would have been much easier to just do what they are told. And many did in fact feel that way.
But the patriots did not acquiesce and simply do as they were told. They fought back - and won. Just as they are winning in the US. A good example is this:
Judge Rules All of Illinois Free From Gov. Pritzker’s Unlawful Mandates
That ruling is the result of people FIGHTING, not sheepishly simply doing what they are told. The latter is the European way. The latter is what those that did NOT board the Mayflower and other ships to the new world did. Fighting and taking risk is what the pilgrims and the rest that heard the call of mother liberty did when they boarded ships to this nation. And now, some would have us become just another European nation of sheep.
Nope.