As I unfortunately predicted, the numbers all over the country are growing, and are growing fast. We are just shy of 129,000 deaths and I have no doubt we will pass that number by a good margin within the next four days. I have to be honest, I get very angry at what I am seeing. This part of the country got thrown into the pit of all this in the beginning and our lives were changed, and many for forever. We lost lives. We lost our jobs. But we all chose to do what was needed to stop this horror, and it WAS a horror.
While it is understandable that people far away do not think it will happen to them, it was the bloom of the present cancerous ideology that had people believe they knew better and that they desired their freedom to not have their lives changed over something that was not happening to them. But I firmly believe that it was not a choice based on freedom, but one based on not getting caught. These people who desire to not wear a mask follow other rules that impede their behavior. They drive more or less in the mandated speed on the roads. They wear their seatbelts. They don't drink and drive. They demand that their food be prepared properly at a restaurant so it doesn't make them sick. They wear clothes when they live the house and enter a store. They don't walk in the middle of busy highways. And there is the catch.
If you drive 90 miles per hour in an active school zone, you will get busted. You go naked into a store, the cops will be called. You get busted when you do things like that. And all those things are done for the common good. But there was no penalty for not staying at home, for not wearing a mask, so people did it. All of us here on the East Coast saw people getting ill and dying so we knew there would be a price to pay for our actions. But others saw what we were going through and didn't want to believe it would happen to them.
As I have said many times before, biology and physics care nothing of one's desires. This virus has spread with Texas and Florida getting slammed. Now, after the horses have left the burning barn, they are trying to change course and have people wear a mask outside and close gathering places. Remember that burns barn I just spoke of? Well, take it from me, that is the life of those in the states that ignored the issue because they wanted to be free to make a choice.
I have just heard on the news that the Florida governor is asking that people stay home this holiday weekend. Even a gas station microwave burrito has enough brains to know that is not going to happen. People will gather and they will mock it. But you never laugh at the devil as you will have hell to pay. Cases will shoot up and the hospitals will be overwhelmed because of their choices.
The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says we have the right life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is what we are celebrating tomorrow. But the first part of The Constitution says we are to promote the general welfare. If you have faith in physics, then you must agree upon the "Butterfly Effect" that states all actions have an effect upon all others, no matter how minute they may seem. We learned that here is New Jersey very fast but it seems most of the other parts of the country will have to learn it the hard way.
It seems that, alas, humanity must learn things the hard way.
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