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"Above our pay grade" is a variation on " I was only following orders." Which I find odd because I was specifically told both as an Army private and later on when I became a commissioned officer that it was my duty as a member of the armed services to question any order I found to be unlawful or which ran contrary to my oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

They never promised anything about not being excoriated for doing so. Or about facing possibly penalties for doing so. Merely that it was my duty.

No American (in the Heritage sense, not the mooing, tax revenue producing cattle who occupy space in the country) could in any kind of good conscience applaud chaining the doors of a small business to prevent legal commerce on the whims of a petty functionary like the mayor. Yet there were scores of the herd who not only loudly mooed their approval but called for more.

At that time, my wife and had recently joined Costco. I went in to do some shopping and was presented with a face diaper in a zip lock bag. Thanks. Put it in the cart and proceeded in. I had not one, but THREEE employees chase me down and tell me I had to put that on to shop there. So I walked right around to customer service and demanded our membership fee be refunded. And I've not been into a Costco since.

I'll cop to buying the hype when it first began. I was going along to get along. But it quickly became VERY apparent that it had nothing to with health and had everything to do with control. Locking people down in their own homes. Small businesses (except for liquor stores of course) were deemed 'non-essential' at the whims of bureaucrats while 7 trillion dollars in wealth was transferred to large retail chains and Big Pharma. Inflated case counts (as you mentioned) based on 'tests' that would give at best random 'positive' results. The suppression of information about (pick one of all of the following) 1) The fact that normally healthy people had nothing to fear, 2) People could prevent this most deadly contagion with readily available rememdies, 3) People weren't dying 'from' the 'disease', they were dying WITH it and other, more relevant health factors resulted in their death, 4) The outright communism of people who expected me to turn my life upside down, be a prisoner in my own home and wear the proscribed face diaper/virtue signal to 'protect their health'; thus making ME responsible for their life time of poor health and diet decisions. But I was 'stingy and selfish.' Life on the Plant of the Apes. Scamdemic doesn't even begin to cover it.

Perhaps nothing to me illustrates the clown world nature of this sorry episode as driving by a McDonald's one day and seeing a morbidly obese person in a car with sealed windows, a big grease stained bag of food sitting on the dash, a face diaper on and a lit cigarette in their hand. But hey...I'm the selfish one for not taking responsibility for the litany of terrible decisions I see in that one little slice of time.

My dad used to say, 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....shame on ME.' Never again.

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Chrispy's avatar

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Hopefully we’re a lot smarter this time around!

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