We were told that the police have to force us to behave certain ways because of a public health emergency. That doesn’t make sense. The actions of our politicians don’t match their words.
- If cops who are not wearing a mask, arrest you for not wearing a mask, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If we release violent criminals from jail, and then jail peaceful shop owners, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- Salon owner Shelley Luther. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
- If you’re standing alone and cops gather around you to arrest you for not social distancing, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If police threaten to give tickets to a husband and wife because they are sitting next to each other in public, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If police ticket couples who are driving together during a mandatory lockdown, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If you can walk on the beach, but you’ll get arrested for sitting down on the beach, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If you can walk on the beach, but can’t swim alone, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If you can go to the beach, but you can’t fish from the shore, then this isn’t a public health problem.
Navy Chief defies restrictions
- If churches are closed but abortion centers are open, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If people die of preventable causes because we shut down our hospitals, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If the liquor store clerk can serve thousands of people a day, but you can’t open your business for a few dozen customers, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If golf courses are open, but shooting ranges are closed, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If the grocery clerk can see over a thousand people a day, but your priest can only have 9 other people his his church, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If the court is open for marriage or divorce, but not to renew your concealed carry permit, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If counties who shelter in place have the same death rate as counties who don’t, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If we treat counties that have never seen a death from Covid-19 the same way we treat New York City, then this isn’t a public health problem.
One third of Covid deaths in green, one third in yellow, and one third in red
- If politicians send sick people back to nursing homes, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If politicians demand help, and then refuse to use emergency hospitals staffed by volunteers, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If you’re told to socially isolate even after you’ve had covid-19 and are now immune from it, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If politicians say we shouldn’t jail people for disobeying the regulations that the politician just wrote, then this isn’t a public health problem.
- If politicians go to the gym, go get their hair cut, and go to a nail salon, but you can’t, then this isn’t a public health problem.
Back-alley haircut
We have a political problem during an epidemic, but not because of the epidemic. Politicians want to control you. Please get off the couch and solve it, or we won’t have a country by the November elections.
Give your elected representatives a call today, and demand your freedom.
Let us go.
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