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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
I have been reading about authoritarian governments - they have poor records of/ by handling crises with iron fists. Even the administrations screw themselves by creating a false narrative and censoring real information from citizens.
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You read the Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments? You know Gilead is the U.S., right? The most frightening government of all is not China, in my mind, but that wyrd loose cannon south of us...
 
Northwind said:
That hope is helping me too. I see small glimmers of evidence that supports the hope in some corners. In other corners, I see none. My hope is that the populace will demand better.



People can stand on the sidewalk and smoke in most BC communities as long as they are the prescribed distance from entrances to buildings. You cannot stand there with a beer.
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No but people hide beer. You can’t hide smoke. And most sidewalks downtown and in shopping areas are too close to doorways.
 
BetteTheRed said:
You read the Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments? You know Gilead is the U.S., right? The most frightening government of all is not China, in my mind, but that wyrd loose cannon south of us...
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They’re both as bad, different styles. Russia, also really bad...run by former officer of the KGB. And us...run by an entitled twit. But it’s amazing to see how much money our government said they didn’t have to help people that they can now give away like they have a license to print it or something (they do)...so it is possible to be more generous with struggling citizens, afterall.
 
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Even if totalitarianism is an effective way to fight a pandemic—and I'm certainly not persuaded that it is—can anyone reasonably suggest that people granted such power will nobly and promptly relinquish all that power when the crisis has passed?

Despotisms have arisen out of a fearful population in a crisis calling for government to rescue them.

On a more local scale, we're all going to be neighbors when this is over.

In this crisis, we should be seeing neighborhoods growing closer... case in point from @PilgrimsProgress.

We should not be seeing ...

Posts on social media calling for the arrest of kids in the neighborhood who dare to assemble in groups of more than 3.

Unqualified shaming of people who don't "stay home" when we really have no idea what the personal situation is.

Calls for draconian policies from government that would have warmed Stalin's heart and could severely impact neighbors.

I'm not doing anything that would contravene current policy where I live.

Still, the thought has already crossed my mind as I walk around my neighborhood ...

Who among these people would inform on me if I appear to be doing something that doesn't comply with a government order?

Will they knock on my door and share their concern (from a 6 foot distance) or just call the cops?

Is it paranoia if they already publicly stated a desire to have people arrested?

We may have a long way to go before the restrictions on our activities begin to be loosened rather than tightened.

Stress is building.

Many households are struggling financially.

Family members that don't get along well at the best of times are living together in a pressure cooker environment.

Parents are trying to shepherd children through online schooling.

Some employees are trying to adjust to working from home, and are worried about the future of their employers.

People are already reaching a breaking point.

In the face of all this stress and anxiety, a commitment to civil and peaceful relationships with neighbors is most important.

Let's think before we condemn neighbors for not "social distancing" enough.

Have polite conversations to persuade those who disagree.

And let's refrain from calling on the institution whose primary distinctive is the use of force to induce compliance.

After calling the cops on our neighbor or our neighbor's kid—or advocating policies that render our neighbors jobless ...

We still have to live around each other.

Paraphrasing from: Local Scolds Are Using this Crisis to Grow the Police State | Timothy D. Terrell
 
BC is flattening the curve, unless the recent repatriated residents from the cruise boats who live in BC create a chain of increases in infections. Especially, they need to stay home for 2 weeks solid, with good reason...so I hope they are connected with help and resources so that they can do that as safely and comfortably as possible.
 
No understanding of any of the information is attributed to the poles (triad) but in an invisible, unheard medium of some condition that is beyond natural ... even sublime and flakey to the greatest of powers that act without "Q". Some in a dire state of de void ... even the understanding of "Q" is skew'd by the gross powers!

In actuality what goes up must come down ... due to Schrodinger's Theory ... a real hummer out there in the night winds! Thus archiMedes floater theory ... transmitted to Eire and Skellig Michael ... a peak position to hear the wael ... the work Ci chi goes on ...
 
But it is, in fact, the French Foreign Legion being awesome once again so all is not lost.
 
Considering Bo Gest ... is there still some deeper humour? The real carrier being a mule called Midnight?

There are several related legends and bell AD's ... AD being something appearing after the light goes out in GEO Ghia ... the domain of mire (earth)? There's A' Moor centred there ... Bo Gest may be the boggiest swamping of the thought pool giving lift ...

Expect powers in opposition and alienation ... the mythology goes on canta libre ... albeit poorly understood without extensive lexicon ...
 
Recall having a mythical ass on your shoulders ... jst too cheeky! The brae within is jst as unforgiving as the physical apparition of extensive powers ...
 
Her Majesty has spoken (with due precautions taken).

www.bbc.com

Coronavirus: Queen tells UK 'we will succeed' in fight

In a rare address, the monarch says the UK "should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return".
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

(Due precautions being that only the cameraman was in the room with her and was wearing PPE. Rest of the BBC technical team were in another room.)
 
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