It is indeed a curious political and semantic use of the English language to use the term 'Freedom' in the same sense as 'Lockdowns.'
Somehow the confusion in many people's minds ought to inspire all of us take a deep breath and ask some questions.
For example, with respect to health, is it 'freedom' to require the total population of a country to be injected with an experimental concoction that has no scientific, longitudinal data to confirm its efficacy or risk population?
And, is it sound science for a country's or state's Medical Board to threaten hundreds of seasoned doctors and researchers with the removal of their licenses, because they dared to question the implementation of unproven vaccination schedules?
Finally, is it backed by multiple scientific studies that wearing a face mask, and limiting an individual's oxygen intake, has a documented protective guarantee?
Many, many independent voters cannot support some of the highly positive programs supported by Mr. Biden and the current elites running the Democratic Party due to a very personal sense that their health is being threatened by the one-size-fits everyone 'Sick-care' adopted by Mr. Biden, Dr. Faucie, CDC, the Gavi Foundation and the FDA. These voters do not feel free, and they have only found some degree of safety via their support of conservative politicians, so far.
However, many of these voters would very much like to be able to support higher tax rates for the Billionaires, Medicare-for All and a robust Social Security System covering people who have no more pensions.
Mr. Hartman's use of the word Freedom, in this posting, is, perhaps, unnecessarily divisive and incendiary. Millions of Americans and Europeans are being driven into ultra-conservative voting patterns in order to increase the profits of the pharmaceutical corporations, and our children are facing long-term health risks with an unnecessarily high number of mandated mRNA experiments.
It might be far more effective to let our functional medicine doctors https://drhagmeyer.com/what-is-a-functional-medicine-doctor/, naturopaths https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/naturopathyand scientists practice freely, without name calling, or threats of license and employment loss. The cohort of 65+ and the cohort of people with immune system challenges deserve adequate health support, but, really, not to the extent that it damages other people.
Indeed, in a crowded urban environment the words 'Freedom' and the word 'Lockdown' are in an existential face-off that deserves a deeper scrutiny than we have allowed.
Mr. Hartman citations:
Rightwing Billionaires and their Republican shills, on the other hand, want us to think that raising the top tax brackets on people who take in more than $400,000 a year (Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act) will take away our freedom. In fact, raising those tax brackets is what built the American middle class between 1940 and 1980, when the rate paid by those in the top bracket was 74% to 91%.
America needs a healthy conversation — a debate, even — about freedom
Which begs the question: What is freedom?
Late in 2020, a group of “freedom fanatics,” shut down the Covid vaccination operation at Dodger Stadium, slowing down the process for hundreds of people before the police stopped them.
They called it an “Anti-lockdown Freedom Rally and March,” saying “We’re not going to stop until we get our freedoms back.”
They’re the same type of folks who argued that lockdowns and mask mandates were unconstitutional violations of their freedom, and spent much of 2020 proudly refusing to wear masks because “freedom.”
They even occupied the Michigan Capitol with assault weapons in a preview of January 6th because, they said, Governor Whitmer’s efforts to prevent Michiganders from dying of Covid were assaults on their “freedom.”
As NBC reported, that invasion was preceded by months of events like one where:
“Dozens of demonstrators took to the Michigan Capitol in Lansing for a rain-soaked protest Thursday — the third such event in the past month — demanding their ‘freedom’…”
"Finally, is it backed by multiple scientific studies that wearing a face mask, and limiting an individual's oxygen intake, has a documented protective guarantee?"
Surely you are just being silly.
Who said "guarantee?"
"Reduction", hell, yeah. It must be hard work, Teach, to either somehow evade, or to pretend, that you have missed the bulletin that masks have contributed to lessened flu seasons the last couple of years, while they were reducing Covid, to the extent that good citizens valued their fellow citizens enough to tolerate the tiny, tiny inconvenience of a mask.
It is indeed a curious political and semantic use of the English language to use the term 'Freedom' in the same sense as 'Lockdowns.'
Somehow the confusion in many people's minds ought to inspire all of us take a deep breath and ask some questions.
For example, with respect to health, is it 'freedom' to require the total population of a country to be injected with an experimental concoction that has no scientific, longitudinal data to confirm its efficacy or risk population?
And, is it sound science for a country's or state's Medical Board to threaten hundreds of seasoned doctors and researchers with the removal of their licenses, because they dared to question the implementation of unproven vaccination schedules?
Finally, is it backed by multiple scientific studies that wearing a face mask, and limiting an individual's oxygen intake, has a documented protective guarantee?
At this time almost 50% of the US population has lost complete faith in mainstream medical practices, and the term 'Sick-Care' is being used instead of 'Healthcare.' https://pnhp.org/news/health-care-vs-sick-care/Annual flue shots with efficacy (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm) results below 50% for the last 20 years are being paired with Covid 1-2-3 shots with mixed results, and the pharmaceutical industry is going after adding the latter series to the vaccine schedules for children who had a near-zero risk (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32926083/) rating compared to the over 65 cohort (https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatality-rates-sex-and-age-15163).
Many, many independent voters cannot support some of the highly positive programs supported by Mr. Biden and the current elites running the Democratic Party due to a very personal sense that their health is being threatened by the one-size-fits everyone 'Sick-care' adopted by Mr. Biden, Dr. Faucie, CDC, the Gavi Foundation and the FDA. These voters do not feel free, and they have only found some degree of safety via their support of conservative politicians, so far.
However, many of these voters would very much like to be able to support higher tax rates for the Billionaires, Medicare-for All and a robust Social Security System covering people who have no more pensions.
Mr. Hartman's use of the word Freedom, in this posting, is, perhaps, unnecessarily divisive and incendiary. Millions of Americans and Europeans are being driven into ultra-conservative voting patterns in order to increase the profits of the pharmaceutical corporations, and our children are facing long-term health risks with an unnecessarily high number of mandated mRNA experiments.
It might be far more effective to let our functional medicine doctors https://drhagmeyer.com/what-is-a-functional-medicine-doctor/, naturopaths https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/naturopathyand scientists practice freely, without name calling, or threats of license and employment loss. The cohort of 65+ and the cohort of people with immune system challenges deserve adequate health support, but, really, not to the extent that it damages other people.
Indeed, in a crowded urban environment the words 'Freedom' and the word 'Lockdown' are in an existential face-off that deserves a deeper scrutiny than we have allowed.
Mr. Hartman citations:
Rightwing Billionaires and their Republican shills, on the other hand, want us to think that raising the top tax brackets on people who take in more than $400,000 a year (Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act) will take away our freedom. In fact, raising those tax brackets is what built the American middle class between 1940 and 1980, when the rate paid by those in the top bracket was 74% to 91%.
America needs a healthy conversation — a debate, even — about freedom
Which begs the question: What is freedom?
Late in 2020, a group of “freedom fanatics,” shut down the Covid vaccination operation at Dodger Stadium, slowing down the process for hundreds of people before the police stopped them.
They called it an “Anti-lockdown Freedom Rally and March,” saying “We’re not going to stop until we get our freedoms back.”
They’re the same type of folks who argued that lockdowns and mask mandates were unconstitutional violations of their freedom, and spent much of 2020 proudly refusing to wear masks because “freedom.”
They even occupied the Michigan Capitol with assault weapons in a preview of January 6th because, they said, Governor Whitmer’s efforts to prevent Michiganders from dying of Covid were assaults on their “freedom.”
As NBC reported, that invasion was preceded by months of events like one where:
“Dozens of demonstrators took to the Michigan Capitol in Lansing for a rain-soaked protest Thursday — the third such event in the past month — demanding their ‘freedom’…”
"Finally, is it backed by multiple scientific studies that wearing a face mask, and limiting an individual's oxygen intake, has a documented protective guarantee?"
Surely you are just being silly.
Who said "guarantee?"
"Reduction", hell, yeah. It must be hard work, Teach, to either somehow evade, or to pretend, that you have missed the bulletin that masks have contributed to lessened flu seasons the last couple of years, while they were reducing Covid, to the extent that good citizens valued their fellow citizens enough to tolerate the tiny, tiny inconvenience of a mask.