Before I begin, I will state this so it can’t be used against me; The Covid-19 virus is real and is more dangerous than the flu. I am not here to deny or downplay its severity. Yes, it is kind of a big deal (kind of). There I said it, I can get on with my post. While it is dangerous, and there are risks, the responses have been no less than an inept overreaction. It is as if the soccer moms on Facebook who like to bubble tape little Johnny before he plays T-ball, are now in charge of our public policy. Without warning, full data, debate, or common sense, the governments of the world decided to close their respective countries down economically. Costing trillions of dollar’s worth of damages and ruining lives. A win-win for the politicians who now can both grandstand and grab more power.

The Media Chimes In

The media, in predictable fashion, foamed at the mouth at this opportunity. Now is the time to scare the citizens into submission! Horror story after horror of how many people it is killing and how no one is safe. Not even your F-in cat or dog will be spared! Of course, the insults like Covid-idiots are being thrown around to anyone who dares step outside. And also, predictable, I have seen many articles trying to use this as a springboard to socialism.

Idiots in Hollywood are not far behind, criticizing anyone who dares question the orders of our governments. I guess it is easy to quarantine when you live in a mansion and you are not watching your life savings disappear while your business goes under. I can’t just make another remake of Home Alone to pad my bank account when this is all over.

Yet some basic questions are rarely mentioned during this madness. So many people are mindlessly allowing this shutdown to take place that they don’t even consider simple alternatives. Maybe I am just one of those uneducated hicks (Of course I have a master’s degree and grew up in Long Island), but I have some things I am curious about…

What Happened to Flattening the Curve?

Remember that cute little graph they showed about a month ago? The whole purpose of this isolation wasn’t to lower the number of people who got the virus, but to draw out the how long it took for everyone to get it. This was so the hospitals do not get over run. Guess what, in most of the country the hospitals are fine! Why do we still need to drag this out?

By the original logic shouldn’t we be encouraging young people to get the disease so if there is an outbreak in the fall less people will need to go to the hospital? Flattening the curve has been replaced with let’s stop the virus from spreading 100%. Just because we have done that a total of zero times in the history of the earth, why stop now?

Do You Really Have NO respect for the Constitution?

Many on the left think that the constitution is nothing more than an obstacle and has no place in modern life. Yet it exists and last I checked it is still the law of the land. Protesters still have the right to assemble, so how can anyone wave a magic wand and make our rights disappear.

Since when are peaceful protesters made out to be monsters? The media has called them everything from racists to morons, without even questioning if they have a point. Yes, some are acting foolishly, like those who are verbally attacking nurses and doctors. As a side, if you are doing that please stop it, you are not doing anyone any favors. Of course, the media loves to claim the outliers are the norm. They ignore the vast majority of the hard-working people who just want their lives back. If you can’t paint protesters as dumb, selfish monsters, it kills the narrative.

Why Do the Shutdowns Have to Be All or Nothing?

Luckily at the time of writing this fatigue has been setting in and some states are slowly opening themselves up. Without data or regard for any of their businesses well-being they shut down the world…why? First, many countries did far less in terms of shutting down everything, yet they have not seen the dramatic increases New York or California have.

Sweden, the country the media loves to hate, pretty much did nothing in terms of shutting down businesses and their cases are around 19K at the time of writing this. The United States which has been closed for over a month has more cases than that daily. I understand that there are population differences, but even when factored in the cases are far less than the United States. Japan also wasn’t as aggressive in terms of lock downs, and their Covid-19 cases are hardly earth shattering.

We could have closed schools, moved most office jobs to work from home and started there. Do we really think that Covid will go wild due to barber shops being open? How about the idea of letting younger people get on with their life? The data that is in tells us that the death rate is far less for people under 45, than those over 65. We take risks every day, isn’t this a reasonable risk for someone to take, especially compared to the alternative? Instead you close off the entire economy without regard for your own citizens. There are a lot of “MAYBES” out there…like maybe the summer does slow it significantly. Maybe the millions are already immune due to previously unknown exposure to the disease. I guess if we solve this without you, you cannot pat yourself on the back after destroying the economy.

How Will We Pay for All This Stimulus?

Forget-me-not Joe Biden, the man who mixed up his sister and wife (man that must have been awkward on their wedding night), proves his ignorance. He cried that the 2-Trillion-dollar stimulus wasn’t nearly enough. That is 2000 Billions, which is not nearly enough! People think we can blindly run deficits forever, yet it will catch up to us. Some like to say, “it has not got us yet so why worry”…which is like saying I eat 5 Big Macs a day, never exercise and smoke, but It hasn’t damaged my health yet. These things have a way of catching up to us. It is fine until it isn’t, we will hit that point.

Politicians are already using this disease as a way of bailing themselves out of the mess they made in their own states before Covid-19. Some State budgets and pensions were woefully underfunded before Covid-19, yet now they have a great excuse to beg for money from the feds. Many of these Socialists are using this as an excuse to push for Universal Basic Income, Student loan forgiveness and a host of other items. When the system finally collapses on itself, who will be there to pick up the pieces?

What is The End Game?

If this thing is so highly contagious and deadly what exactly is the end game? Yes, many states have a plan to open up, but there are still tens of thousands of people with this disease. Now that we halted the world and the disease has slowed, what happens when we open? Surely you aren’t waiting until we have zero cases or a vaccine to open up the economy, that will take years.

It takes one super spreader under the right conditions to spread this around again. We will literally be back in the same boat in the fall. If on the other hand we let young people get it, this will help to flatten the curve to the point where it is manageable. Just pushing off the inevitable is not a plan, then again you do it with the federal deficit so maybe you think it is.

Who the @#$K Do You Think You Are?

How dare you use this as a power grab to flex your own muscles. Do you even comprehend the damage you have done to people’s livelihoods? People are losing everything they built in a lifetime because you unilaterally closed their businesses. People are out of a job, with almost no way to get a new one, because you said so. You are gleefully forcing the entire nation into a debt that can never be repaid, yet we are all supposed to fall in line and not even question this madness

How dare you make people into criminals for having loved ones over to their home. How dare you use the media to call people who don’t listen to you idiots. You speak to us like children, some politicians threatening to close things such as liqueur stores (some already did). You use your power to drag people out of oceans when they are swimming by themselves. Give people tickets for watching a sunset in their car. A man was pulled over for breaking curfew while getting ice cream with his daughter. What the F- is a curfew for? Why will a curfew change anything? You are not our kings, and you are not acting like we live in a free country.

Conclusion

Make no mistake about it, the government is using this as a power grab masking it as protection. Our “leaders” do not know what they are doing. Some of them are the inept, scared of risk, fear mongers, but with good intentions. Others are flat out are using this as an excuse to push for more of government power (which equals their power.) These politicians do not work for us, they think we are their children, theirs to exploit. They will use any excuse to have power over us, and the majority are blindly allowing it. Until next time – Truth Be Told

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There is an obvious plot on many fronts to make people in the United States weak and dependent. Government is the number one (but not the only) culprit with regards to creating this dependency (regardless of political party). This has become evident by how often they punish success and reward failure, whether it be through the tax code or regulations. The system is designed to milk the self-sufficient, while simultaneously rewarding both the poorest and richest among us.

Keeping us dependent isn’t limited to governments. The media, for the most part, preaches how we need to be taken care of. We are treated like children and victims, every problem is caused by someone else, and they will solve those problems. The healthcare system, corporations, schools all want us to need them in one way or another. Whether this is accidental or deliberate, I am not sure. I am not necessarily one of those conspiracy theorists, preaching about the Illuminati. Yet it doesn’t seem like many giant organizations want us to be self-sufficient. Let me break down how each area attempts to make us dependent on them…but first, why?

Why Make Us Dependent

There are two motivations as to why it is so alluring to keep you dependent …

Power/Money

I think the motivation is slightly different for every group, but at the end of the day the main motivation is power and cash. When someone is dependent on you, you have power over them. Those on top want you dependent so they can suck you dry (not in a good way). While you work your ass off; they dole out the fruits of your labor. They tell you that you need the governments social security, so you will vote in those that will protect it. If the media scares you into a crisis, you depend on them for information. They then can steer you into whatever half-brain cause they see fit. When your life depends on someone else you are as free as a child whose parents lets them ride their bike down the street.

Elitism and Contempt

Politicians, the media, and especially Hollywood, operate under this notion that they are better than you. They sit on a thrown and we need to bow at their feet(in their eyes). They know how you should live your life; therefore they focus on making it so you need them. Experts know better than you as to what is good for your well-being. Somehow what is best always parallels their values, but not your self-interest.

The media especially, think they are above us. Just look at Chris Cuomo, he talks to the audience as if he is on a pedestal with all eyes on him. If he doesn’t get the attention, he thinks he deserves, he gives himself Corona (OK that last part is just a working theory).

Since they look at themselves as if they are gods, they also have contempt for the average person. Most of these institutions believe we are too stupid to take care of ourselves. How dare we think we are adults and do not need them. How to eat, how much of our money to keep, what to say, and now if we can even go outside is regulated and enforced by various institutions. You want in their special club? The only way to rise in the ranks is if they let you into their club, and to do this you have to drink the Kool-aide. Let us take a look at each component…

The Government

Government leaders in both parties are the guiltiest of the guilty in terms of keeping us dependent on them. They get off on us looking to them for answers. Hopefully we will forget they f*cked up everything they touch… a minor detail.

Look no further than this crises, they have the solution to the problem of course. The idea that this could be solved without them is crazy in their mind. The Covid-19 virus, although real, is being used as a power grab by the government. Our government is putting small companies out of business and then patting themselves on the back for the stimulus they are offering (but we are paying for), in turn making people dependent on them. For god’s sake they basically put me out of a job, and now I must crawl to them for unemployment. The government, not you, will tell you how to be safe, and isn’t it convenient that we need to trade freedom for safety.

Finance

Financially speaking government loves to “take care of you”. Social Security is a scam, one that everyone loves, yet peel the onion and you can see what a farce it is. Instead of being able to choose to privately invest your money, the government forces you to put your money away with them. The rate of return is somewhere near 0%, if you die, for the most part, you can’t pass it on to anyone…oh and it is going bankrupt. The result is, if all you have is social security, you are kept on the government tit, just barely able to keep your head above water..

Universal Basic Income, free college, free housing etc… these are all ways to make you dependent. It is in the governments best interest that you are kept just above poverty…if you don’t need them anymore, then these power-hungry elitists have no purpose.

The Media

The news in this country is no longer there to inform you, they are there to tell you what to think. They want you to depend on them so they can run your life for you. Media today is dumbed down into one-liners or short headlines, to keep complex issues simple so as to easily keep their narrative.

According to the media, we are constantly the victims, and the solution is usually letting them lead us to the promise land. Somehow that always entails shredding the constitution a little more. It is a power trip for many of these news outlets. A weak audience is a dependent audience. If you weren’t scared and turning to them for guidance, they might have to step off their cloud. It is no secret that the media, even the mainstream media is extremely left-wing.

Now, simply hating Donald Trump does not make you liberal, the guy can be an asshole, so I get it. When the vast majority of their stories bash capitalism and tell you how much you need the government to take care of you, there is a problem. It is a contempt for the average person that drives them.

Corporations

Clearly, people depend on a paycheck and that is logical. You are expected to work hard and are given compensation for this, and that is fair. More than fair, it is how capitalism works. I have worked for various corporations for about 20 years. With this in mind, if you have100% of your livelihood dependent on your job, they own you. Think about it, for about 45 years of your life you are being told what to do, where to go; and be happy with what you got.

It is in their best interest to keep you relying on your paycheck. This way you won’t complain about working 60/HR work weeks and getting a 2% raise once a year. You will fall in line with whatever bull $hit they tell you to do. Most of the time they give you just enough to keep afloat, with little room for advancement. I have been in situations where I was “promoted” given four times the amount of work and told there is no money for a raise. What can I do? I personally left for a different company, but most are too scared to speak up.

People are so beat-down by companies they are theirs to manipulate. They not only take your workday, but also nights and weekends. Folks are trained to think even the vacation days they were promised are not too be used.

You are directed where to be, what to wear, and even what to say. The fact that some companies monitor employees social media posts shows they want total obedience. If your thoughts are not aligned with theirs you will lose your livelihood.

This goes beyond one doing an exceptional job and getting a good wage for their efforts. What they want is your submission. I can give many examples of corporations manipulating their employees for goals that have nothing to do with their job duties. Companies will enact laws and rules for no other reason then to show you that you are their servant.

The above are just a few of the organizations that need you to depend on them. I can go on to include the health care system, Hollywood, Colleges…but I am sure I can only keep your attention span for so long.

Conclusion: What is the Point?

What is the point of this rant, you might ask? The purpose of this blog is to help people (and myself) take back their own power. You cannot have power if you depend on others to exist. They will tell you there is no way you can survive without the government for subsistence and safety. These are the lies that are repeated to keep us dependent.

Popular wisdom also feeds us that one must get all of their income from a job or corporation, but these are lies as well. There are income streams that are not dependent on a company. If you never question the medias intent, you will not be free of mind…but you will think what they want you to. My goal is to empower as many people as possible, by pointing out how much others want you to depend on them. This in turn will help you reclaim your own life. – TRUTH BE TOLD

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