By James Bovard
"Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened."
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17T 25 Sep
All while murdering the elderly? Rings a bell.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Sep
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22 sats \ 15 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
This is what happens when you give government too much power.
Was there any state that did nothing?
Or did all the states have some kind of vaccination mandate?
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20 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
South Dakota had no Covid measures that I'm aware of. Many states, probably most, had no vaccine mandates.
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33 sats \ 6 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
I was out of the country for the majority of it.
I just know Taiwan was very rigid about covid.
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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
Basically, red states were fairly open after a few months and blue states went full on tyranny for three years.
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24 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
I have to check the red and blue map and see how serious it was.
I knew it...my state is blue!
No wonder we struggled!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
Literally millions of people fled blue states for red ones because of Covid tyranny.
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
I know it was really bad on the east coast.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
I think the Covid measures were similar on either coast, but being locked down in a NYC apartment is so much worse than being locked down in a house.
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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @justanumber 26 Sep
Do you mean "nation state" (as in countries) or American state?
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
I'd be interested in your answer to either.
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46 sats \ 2 replies \ @justanumber 26 Sep
Maybe some isolated Amazonian tribe or similar carried on as normal 🤷♀️
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
There were actually plenty of third world countries that carried on like normal, regardless of what the political class may have tried to do. The one that comes to mind is Malawi, where they realized they couldn't do any kind of lockdown, because that would cause mass starvation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
Taiwan locked down very hard.
Especially in the beginning before the vaccine came out.
It relaxed a bit after the first wave of vaccinations were out.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
I was here for the first 9 months of the pandemic, then I moved to taiwan.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep
I meant an american state.
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24 sats \ 3 replies \ @justanumber 26 Sep
I mean, this is old news, we know they did this. Why are so-called freedom advocates still harping on about this in September 2024? They're like a stuck record! People need move on from the covid BS. If they haven't learnt the lesson from that era yet then there's no freakin hope for folk. We to start focusing on real solutions and how we can opt out of all the ruling class' bull shit. I wouldn't mind so much if the first thing hits that me wasn't a request for 5 bucks. I'm not paying for someone to tell me what I already know. This is disappointing from Mises.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
Why should we have such short memories? It takes years to make any consequential change, so just forgetting about enormous injustices and moving on when we're still in the same presidential term doesn't make sense to me. It's not like they're harping on the Tuskegee Experiments (not that I'd have a problem with that).
There's nothing the regime wants more than for the populace to stop harping on its overtly tyrannical actions.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @justanumber 26 Sep
I disagree, it's the same articles churned out over and over, on and on....... for the last 3 years. Who/which organisations, journos etc are focusing on real solutions and helping people opt out of all this bull shit and not just stuck focusing on all the problems that we already know about??? I will give respect to those people in the so-called freedom movement who don't keep people stuck wasting time focusing on the same problems but rather produce content that helps people move forward with actionable solutions that inspire real change and helps people create more freedom in their lives.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 26 Sep
There are still many ongoing lawsuits over the Covid tyranny and many politicians trying to pretend they didn't force it on us. This is recent history and I'm at a loss as to what the benefit is of letting the perpetrators off the hook. This seems like very low time preference behavior.
Where I fully agree with you is in preferring to see real solutions advanced (that's probably why we're both here).
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