Down with Lockdown
By: Anthony Bialy
Tags: Executive Order, Lockdown, Covid 19, Liberty, Pandemic

Unlocking lockdowns has been most celebrated by those who inflicted pointless restrictions on liberty in the first place while acting like they preserved life itself. Authorities will never suspect someone who called the tip line. There are better ways to appreciate what we have than taking it away. Getting back to how life is supposed to be is joyous except for how inflicting pain didn’t heal.

Appreciation can be misguided. The unsettling tone of many who are seeing other humans again implies they think rights they’ve always held have been returned. Pretending the freedom to congregate and work was granted by the state isn’t as liberated as you’d think. North Koreans grateful their messiah made the Sun rise are ashamed of Americans who think governors grant subjects the privilege of dining inside.

Restrictions faded like the fan club membership of New York’s mass-killing New Jonestown executive. Following the lead of Texas must really tick off every fan of coerced cooperation who thought communal separation would get us through this. Convincing themselves a year of state brutality was the cure made everyone sick. The war’s over because the virus got tired.

An alarming percentage of people in an allegedly free nation spent time in solitary confinement being glad to be there. Getting permission is not how rights work. Viewing what’s ours as something granted leads to dire consequences during the best of times. As present residents of the worst of times, being told an emergency justifies interdiction is both philosophically and practically deleterious. The total twisting of liberty is not a new problem. It’s just presently far worse, like going from the flu to COVID.

Nothing embodies big government like lamely trying to halt a virus by being forced to hide. Ceding divine authority to heretical dunces has not created enlightenment or peace, although there have been many people sent to Heaven because of their blessed policies. Pompous dolts who win elections are experts on both policy and science, as otherwise government isn’t the supreme authority. They must be authorities, because why else would they be in charge?

People would’ve protected themselves, which surprises those calling to wrap street signs in memory foam so pedestrians survive collisions. Government fetishists never grasp the capacity of humans to be decent, or at least do what’ll keep their survival prospects decent. Life’s infiltrators never trust markets, whether it’s humans buying items they need or keeping themselves from getting infected.

Irrational people are at their worst when they’ve decided they’re hassling you for your own good. Six feet may as well have been 60 feet or 16 inches. And it’s easier to announce masks are useless without wearing one. Acting both aggressively and timidly was the semi-impressive feat of fearful people who thought tearing the heads off anyone they deemed in noncompliance created safety. States that let those within their borders breathe freely got healthier much more quickly, but that’s not nearly as scientific as shrieking at supermarket free breathers.

Failure is exacerbated by not admitting to it. Pride leads to sticking with what fails. Shutdown specialists have to tell themselves unilateral orders to idle is the only reason anyone’s alive to read this or do anything else, as the notion that all this doing nothing made infection just the start of agony. If the idea that they made humanity idled for that long without benefit is tough to bear, imagine how victims feel.

The toughest part to cope with is how the death rate was unaffected by a year without society. In fact, the corpse pile would’ve been far less teetering if Andrew Cuomo hadn’t been allowed to show how much he loves New Yorkers by choosing which ones live and die. The elected savior only killed off a small minority by percentage if you doubted his benevolence.

It’s tough for survivors to have to live with knowing they didn’t stop death. Seeing there was no benefit is just another bit of evidence those who express a fetishistic love for science are ignoring. Announcing it’s better to be safe than sorry ignores how much sorriness there is in pretending to be safe. The incalculable costs of a lost year for humanity didn’t accelerate or improve outcomes, but COVID was defeated by autocratic Democrats otherwise.

Good ideas must be imposed by force, according to the quite confident. Affecting your breathing was a too-perfect symbol of everything else government screws up. Kind and good leaders developed the cunning counteroffensive of stopping movement then stabbing everyone to protect from a virus most sufferers had to be tested to learn they had.

Those who spent most of the confinement fantasizing about what they’d do once humans were permitted basic contact again should self-examine and see if they were the ones who prolonged the useless intermission. Worshipers of bumbling Blue State politicians are the ones who supported mandatory global seclusion for this long, which can’t be fun for consciences. Opponents of sound epidemiology are the last ones who get to party without everyone swinging around a yardstick.

Celebrate the right to head out by remaining shielded from fresh air. A disturbing percentage of those banished to home confinement concluded they prefer being jailed. The mentally imprisoned would actually prefer their rights remain confiscated like a convict who can’t stand the open skies. The comfort of a cell only tops having mealtimes set.

Those still wearing masks while driving alone are ready to be scared of liberty. They prefer the false comfort of pretending a politician can ensure security against infection, especially today’s particular politicians. Taking away what’s yours is the worst way to make you appreciate it. Thieves aren’t entitled to teach the lesson.