The Corona Virus has done a lot of things to this country. Economy shut down. Stay at home orders. People arrested for stupid reasons. Media manipulation of the virus. Elected officials becoming overbearing tyrants. If you didn’t follow the rules, Mom or Dad would punish you further!!
I have already stated in previously written articles that I was missing something regarding the virus. How many of us did our due diligence in investigating the risks of the virus to our own safety? I did for four hours! All too often people are locked into their phone and their apps to venture outside their own self absorbed world to measure the risk/ reward of their actions. The boogeyman was spoon fed to us by a compliant media always looking for the biggest T.V. rating over a competing network.
You get to find out a lot about people when you take things away from them for two months. Three different groups emerge, in my estimation, the compliant group willing to do whatever is told of them. The second group willing to play by the rules but also willing stand up to the bully and take the fight to the bully, if the bully gets a bit crazy. The third group just blatantly ignorant of what is going on around them and don’t care about the consequences.
We are very lucky to live in United States of America, we have the Constitution that gives direction to us if we need to keep the Government in check. Just a few of the things guaranteed to us under the Constitution are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As the weeks have gone by we continually see more citizens of this country stand up to the overbearing orders given by some Governors or Mayors around the country.
Here is my take. The people of this country are reminding the Government at every level who is in charge. The Government is not in charge of our lives. The Constitution provides the framework to live our lives in this country as we see fit. It reminds me of a quote from Admiral Yamamoto regarding the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. “I am afraid we have awoken a sleeping giant.” Those of us who understand the Corona Virus can make educated decisions regarding our lives and those it may affect. Those same elected officials come November may find out how their media loving scare tactics changed public opinion of them.