Quote Originally Posted by ssgross View Post
Since when is it ok for a governor, or anyone, to declare what is essential and what is not? In California you can go to a strip club, but not a church, Michiganders could go to isle 4 in Lowes for soap, but don't you dare walk over to isle 9 where the seeds are. "Growing your own food spreads the virus dontchaknow!" Where are equal protection lawsuits? 10th amendment? "You can only go to the big grocery store, not the small one and certainly not the outdoor farmer's market!" There is no checks and balances when the whole bureaucracy is in on the game. The virus may be causing a pandemic, but it's this kind of BS that's causing the panic.

Why am I more worried about rioters (sorry twitter/facebook, I meant to say protesters) burning down my house because of my Gadsden flag out front than I am about this virus? Well, if I wasn't, I would probably be a bit more willing to listen when they say "Virus no big deal...wait big deal...but certainly no masks - makes it worse...wait yes masks...but no school, no seeds, no church,...but strippers hell yeah!"
"Show me your papers! No papers? Your kids can't go back to school then". My kids haven't been to school since last Feb.

That's my vent. I'll stop now. Stay safe everyone.
Pretty much my feelings. General rules and no further interference in people's lives. No-one can tell me what is important, essential, worthy to me. They can only tell me what I need to do to be able to do something I want to do. Once I follow the rules, the rest is only my business.
But that's pretty difficult to make clear to people who consider themselves democratic and enlightened people only because they say so. Curiously enough, also here it's the "snow whites" who would deprive you of all of your freedom like they feel fitting. We were prohibited to go to mass, but we could go to the governing party's festival, where thousands of people gathered without any police controls. Broadcasted on tv, but no trouble. By the way, they are the same that ran around flying red flags until a few years ago. Now they prefer to show the rainbow flag, but keep the red t-shirt under the parka... And they are soooooo humane, sooooooo democratic. Until you share their opinion. If you dare dissenting...
I dissent.