What will be the next excuse?
 

I predict now that public officials have granted themselves the power to shut down commerce and lock people in their houses at will, this power will be used for increasingly less severe purposes. I predict the next use will be another overreaction to a disease new to the country (probably a flu strain on the order of bird flu or swine flu). Eventually it will be a bad flu season that has us all locked down. Someone will try to use it to stem a phantom crime wave. Get used to it. We are all subjects that can be ordered inside at the whims of our rulers.

I have heard "the next time" so much lately on the news. It's almost as though they want us to know they can do the same or worse with any virus.
I think they are looking forward to it.

Exactly. If we tolerate this, we might as well burn the Constitution.

I suspect the financial repercussions will be so severe that 1 no one will want to do this again and 2 if someone proposes doing this again, it'll be political suicide.

This needs to be in PARF. We are drifting in every thread but this started out with PARF in the first post.

This is no team-D vs team-R thing.

This is Freedom vs Tyranny

This already is the next excuse. Last fall those in power in CA ordered the power to millions shut off. They shut our power off for 3 days, even though we were in a low fire potential area with low wind speeds. We and thousands of others had to skip work and throw out a lot of food. So, yeah, this is the next excuse.

2021...The common cold shuts the country down for 6 months.
In other news...the streets are empty.

The next excuse "because we know what's best for you".

FYI Being a wimpy old man I have voluntarily isolated myself, but I will come out of isolation when I decide that it is safe for me to do so.

2022...Cold sores/herpes has shown to be growing quickly.
All males are being isolated from females for 6 months.
(face masks are only ok if locked on...with police control)

And they’re coming for your guns too, right? Ease up fellas. The black helicopters are still in moth balls.

pfft..who cares if they take the guns.
Our standard of living will be lost...guns or not.

ha..
but the proposed drones aren't..
nifty little thing..
takes my temp. & heart rate all while 200 feet away...
supposedly not using facial recognition...
supposedly..


Rika

as long as it is "FOR YOUR SAFETY", it really doesn't matter--could be anything, but boy will you be safe.

^^^ I feel better now SmileWavy

Those who give up liberty in exchange for security....

.............meanwhile, the mass of sheeple are more concerned over Reality TV and voting someone off an island.

^^^
I can be voted off Ban Island?

They are coming for your cacao beans.

I think it will be car safety.

My guess is more lives will have "been saved" by people not driving than CV. --Average car death is 102 per DAY in the US. Furthermore, those deaths often are on the younger side. (Won't somebody think of the children!?)

So, everyone get out the bus-pants, big daddy govt has a metal tube to pack you into. Here's a face mask, you'll be fine.