From: Don Strietelmeier
Columbus
At no time in the history of this republic have we come so close to becoming a police state.
At no time in U.S. history have government orders and policies resulted in disrupting a free market of business and industry – and turning to a socialist system.
A police state is when you have stay-at-home orders, don’t allow peaceful assembly of citizens, and the government decides which businesses are allowed to open and which will close.
Socialism is a policy in which the means of labor and production are controlled by the state, resulting in dependency on the government for any benefit.
The cost has been tremendous. Everyone has paid a price in one way or another, and for many in a number of ways.
No more going to church, no eating out, no sporting events. Young people finishing their final year of high school or college without celebrations. Nursing homes and assisted living quarters turned into virtual prisons where even family members cannot visit even when death may be imminent.
But it fit in very well for the news media. The effort to impeach President Trump ended on Feb. 5 when the Senate acquitted him. So, the major media suddenly went to the issue they had ignored for weeks: the coronavirus.
The Trump Administration recommended for Americans to remain calm, use common sense, wash hands frequently, sneeze or cough in your arm and stay home if you’re sick.
But soon the radical left, the media complex, certain scientists, the World Health Organization and some medical experts, developed models showing a serious threat to the U.S.
The Imperial College London with its team of "experts" with loose ties to the WHO, and input from communist China, predicted from its models that if drastic measures were not imposed as many as 2.2 million Americans could die. The drastic measure to be followed would be a communist-style lockdown.
Doctors Fauci and Birx, two leading members of the COVID-19 Task Force chaired by VP Mike Pence, referred to the model.
This brought on two major policy decisions:
1. To practically close down the country except for what was considered essential. Wisely, the president didn’t make it a federal order, but left it up to the governors.
2. A massive government spending bill of $2.2 trillion of borrowed money, with much of it given to where it had no connection to the virus.
A short time later the "experts" began to backtrack on earlier estimates.
This virus has played right into the hand of the liberal playbook: pull the economy down, high unemployment, high deficit spending and bigger government to take care of us.
We can put much responsibility on the Chinese communist party and the WHO.
A Chinese ophthalmologist Li Wenliang advised fellow doctors of the disease on Dec. 30 but police warned him to stop making false statements. He died from the virus on Feb. 6.
On Jan. 31 President Trump banned any foreign nationals from entering the U.S. if they had traveled to China in the past 14 days.
Joe Biden said this was hysterical and fear mongering.
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