250 Feet Away Is Still Not 'Safe Social Distancing'
Never Ever EVER forget what they did, and what they could easily do again.
I was going through some old drafts and I found something from the covid era that is worth sharing and remembering now. It begins with a post in social media, shared by a colleague of mine:
So this happened today to a brother of ours in East Irondequoit HS and with the local PD.…
“So today my School District (East Irondequoit) targeted me and my wife some 250 feet away from anyone and outdoors at our sons Varsity High School baseball game....threatened us, then called police on us because we refused to wear masks outdoors.
I was arrested, handcuffed, and taken into custody because I refuse to comply with insane ‘regulations’.
The police were on notice of this matter (lots of back story) and they were complicit in this!
We do not live in America anymore.
Arrested for trying to watch your son’s baseball game....
Not looking for ‘sympathy’...I ‘asked’ for this by being vocal and fighting back every step of the way since our government and schools have hijacked our freedoms.
It will not end until YOU also take a stand.
P.S. after game: I asked my son how he was with what happened: his response.... ‘Dad....I would have been embarrassed if I saw you wear a mask outdoors!!!’”
This was never about health. Some of the operatives, cheerleaders, and dupes of the regime—locked as they were into the automatism of the system—may have believed it was about health. But the architects knew all along it was about something else.
But I want us to consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that this couple were arrested for not wearing masks 250 feet away from anyone else. This is about way more thah just the architects of all this madness.
Let’s unpack it.
250 feet is almost a football field. It is a long way. No one with an IQ over 90 could possibly believe that this couple were a risk to anyone else. Not even if they believed all the other nonsense about social distancing and masks.
It was obvious that this couple were trying to watch the game their own way, without posing anything that any even remotely functional person could possibly construe as a “risk” to others. And yet they were still arrested. What should we make of that?
#1 It’s a rule because it’s a rule.
Milgram and related experiments showed that a majority of people will comply with whatever authorities tell them to do…even if what they tell them to do is completely immoral.
Asch and related experiments showed that a majority of people will deny reality just because everyone else is doing it.
A lot of people are conformist, compliant, collectivist robots. I hate saying that, and I even recognize there are legitimate biological reasons why it is the case. Nonetheless, to deny it is to deny reality.
This means that a majority of people will comply with, and enforce, the rules of the regime no matter how stupid those rules are. Because rules are rules. And complying with rules is what we do. Because we are a slave species.
#2 You cannot trust the police to do the right thing
As I have written before, there are at least seven categories of perverse incentives pushing police to do the wrong thing. This is not police-bashing; it is just a fact of life. When a police officer has a choice between enforcing a bad law or bucking the system and doing what is right, nearly all the incentives push him toward the former.
Yes, some cops will choose to ignore the couple standing 250 feel away. Many will not. And if the hierarchy makes an issue of it and insists that they arrest people who are causing no harm, virtually all will go arrest them. Because they were told to. Because of the incentives. Because we’re a slave species.
If you are tired of all this, it is not enough to decry it. You, yourself, must cease thinking and acting as a slave.
That does NOT mean insisting that we have a great system that has simply been corrupted by bad people, and that if only we can get rid of the bad people, all will be well.
It DOES mean recognizing that you are a sovereign being who does not require any master whatsoever.1
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Note to the anarcho-skeptical: What I just said is NOT the same as saying that we should have a free-for-all, and that all in such a free-for-all, human beings will simply behave themselves. That is straw-manning AND it presumes that I am, and every other anarchist is, a complete idiot.
Wrongdoers will still be brought to justice, and there will still be protective force, in a condition of voluntary order (anarchy). The protective force will simply be exerted by entities other than an involuntary government monopoly.
1300 miles away is still not safe. The insanity was not limited to government. The insanity somehow overtook mob-thinking as well. I was openly anti-mask on social media. A "friend" from high school blamed his father's death on my anti-mask stance. I had not seen his father in decades, had no contact with him not even via social media, and I live approximately 1300 miles away.
Great article Christopher! You spell it all out clearly.
In Michigan the Police were mostly very good and hardly bothered anyone unless directed to.
During the Lockdown in Michigan I could get:
An abortion, go to the Marijouna Dispensary, Liquor Store, Costco and Walmart.
I could Not go to the park, the lake, on the lake, the local family owned stores (shutdown).
They sure had their priorities right. I followed none of their Illegal Rules!