The Societal Effects of Social Distancing

Should Mother Nature rule over humankind, or should a few elite people who think they’re smarter than their fellow human beings decide when we can leave the house, attend church, go to work, or show our smiling faces to each other in public without being shamed for not wearing a mask? These are the troubles that seem to further divide our already splintered nation. The societal effects of social distancing will result in social division, social unrest, and ultimately, civil war.

There are many positive factors that affect the severity of a viral infection, including good health. However, good health is obtained by exercising, proper eating, refraining from smoking (both tobacco and cannabis), and maintaining a healthy social lifestyle surrounded by trustworthy people whose hand we might even shake without fear or disgust, or whose neck we might hug without worry of illness.  There are also many negative factors that affect the severity of a viral infection, including bad health. However, bad health is acquired by too much alcohol consumption, too much smoking, and too much sitting around, watching TV or playing video games. Ironically, our elected officials, who think they’re leaders, have decided that gyms, beaches, and public parks must close, but liquor stores, tobacco shops, and even cannabis dispensaries can remain open because they’re essential. I guess they want to keep us stoned, sick and drunk. They are not leaders. They’re losers! If we follow those losers, then we are no more deserving of freedom than the cattle that unknowingly await their slaughter.

It’s such a shame that we have become so ignorant of the ideologies of the American Revolution that we now allow our elected government to abuse its power in such an arbitrary and capricious manner. I think these tyrannical governors who have put America on restriction, as if we’re teenagers, do not know nor care what the founding fathers of America intended when they established this nation based on the fundamental concepts of Freedom. If you’re thinking similar thoughts, then your understanding of the fundamental nature of liberty and justice for all is at least as sharp as mine, probably even sharper.

There is a bad bug going around. That I do not doubt. However, other societal consequences to the panic of the pandemic must be considered. We must remember that we are a part of Nature, not apart from it. The leaders of our nation and world have decided that because of the bad bug going around, we must stop being the social creatures Mother Nature intended us to be. They want us to stay safe in our homes, drunk, and stuck on stoned until they find a cure. These are the demands of the fake leaders to whom I will say the same thing Patrick Henry said back in 1775:

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (Patrick Henry, 1775).

 

 

Works Cited

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. Retrieved from: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp