If I would have known about it I would not have attended. I am taking this social distancing thing serious
ly. It is pretty simple really. I believe it is real and I am in that vulnerable age group.The older you are the more likely you are to die from this virus, if you get it. If I was thirty and would have known about it, I would have been there. If I would have known about it, I might would have driven by and given a thumbs up and honked a horn. I would not have been mingling with other people. Even if this lock down is lifted, I am going to remain in isolation until there is a vaccine or it looks like it has ran its course.
I believe we must reopen the economy, however. Let those most vulnerable isolate and everyone else go to work. Our county is now $24 trillion in debt. As GDP falls that debt is a greater percentage of GDP. That debt can freeze out other borrowing, take a greater percentage of tax receipts to service and may lead to massive inflation. Also, wealth is disappearing. The stock market has tumbled. That wealth is not hid under mattresses but is capital available for borrowing. Savings = Investment. When money disappears, then money available to start new businesses, to expand business and for consumer consumption disappears. Also, many businesses have already gone under never to reopen. Every day we stay closed down, more businesses will close. Some liberals, including a member of my own family, have characterized the concern with the economic impact of this virus as "putting
One of the major concerns of protestors is the suppression of liberties. I am not as convinced as some that the Federal,, State and local actions to impose a lockdown are a violation of our rights. I have studied some of this and address it this post, Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine. I do think, however, that when police arrest people for attended a drive-in church service that is over the line. I also question if the police have the right to demand of one that they show some papers that they are exempt from lockdown requirements. The tendency of government is to take power and use it arbitrarily. What rights do governments have to classify some business as "essential" and others not?
I would welcome clarity and think some lawsuits ought to be brought to actually determine the limits and sources of government authority in this matter. Liberty is as fragile as health. We do not want to get accustomed to government micromanaging our lives. For more on the issue of government authority in this crisis see link, link, and link.
According to Channel 2 news, a protestor told them their next protest is scheduled for April 27 at 10 a.m.
To see a Channel 5 video clip of the protest follow this link.
To see 53 pictures of the event published by The Tennessean, follow this link.
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THE UNITED STATES REJECTED AGENDA 21 ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO!
ReplyDeleteConspiracy promoters like Deborah Tavares falsely claim that Agenda 21 is a U.N plan to expand the wilderness into areas already occupied by humans so as drive us out of our rural and suburban homes and into tightly-packed, over-populated "Kill Cities" in furtherance of the planned extinction of mankind. But, none of this is so.
Agenda 21 was merely a suggestion that the United Nations recommended to all its member nations in 1992. Member nations were permitted, but not required to adopt Agenda 21 for themselves.
Under the United States Constitution, both the President and the Senate must consent to a proposed international treaty or convention before it becomes law in the United States. While the President ceremonially signed Agenda 21, the Senate withheld its consent to Agenda 21. As a result, the United States government REJECTED Agenda 21 almost 30 years ago, a fact which conspiracy promoters fraudulently conceal from their followers.
That means Agenda 21 never applied in the United States and does not apply in the United States now. So, whatever Agenda 21 "would have done" if it not been REJECTED is completely irrelevant. It was REJECTED.
Likewise so-called "Agenda 21 Map" is entirely FAKE and had nothing to do with Agenda 21 in the first place. Instead, the fake "Agenda 21 Map" was a wild exaggeration created by Michael Coffman to generate United States Senate opposition to "The U.N. Treaty On Bio-Diversity", something entirely different from Agenda 21. (This is why the fake map only depicts the United States, rather than all member nations of the United Nations.), As it turned out, the United States Senate also rejected The U.N. Treaty On Bio-Diversity. So, neither Agenda 21 nor The U.N. Treaty On Bio-Diversity (which the fake "Agenda 21 Map" allegedly illustrated) ever applied in the United States. BOTH WERE REJECTED.
The mere fact that some elected local governments have since passed regulations to protect the remaining environment has NOTHING to do with Agenda 21. These elected local governments merely concluded (entirely on their own) that some protection of the environmental made sense.
FOR PROOF, CLICK ON POST #5 HERE. REMEMBER, POST #5 HERE. Google "The Hoaxes Of Deborah Tavares", or click here. https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?130336-The-hoaxes-of-deborah-tavares-(conspiracy-weaponized-weather-fires-depopulation)&