Calm, cool-headed, reasonable Sweden is showing the world that a health challenge can be met without transforming society into a prison: 

“I’m happy to say that those fears haven’t materialised. But the pressure on Sweden to change tack hasn’t gone away. We haven’t u-turned. We’re careful, staying inside a lot more. But schools and shops remain open. Unlike some countries on the continent, no one is asking for ‘our papers’ when we move around in cities. The police don’t stop us and ask why we are spending so much time outdoors: authorities rather encourage it. No one is prying in shopping baskets to make sure you only buy essentials.

The country’s Public Health Agency and the ‘state epidemiologist’, Anders Tegnell, have kept their cool and still don’t recommend a lockdown. They are getting criticised by scientific modellers but the agency is sticking to its own model of how the virus is expected to develop and what pressure hospitals will be under. The government still heeds the agency’s advice; no party in the opposition argues for a lockdown. Rather, opinion polls show that Swedes remain strongly in favour of the country’s liberal approach to the pandemic.”

Sweden’s example is dealing black eyes to the mini-totalitarians that have sprung up like mushrooms across the United States, the alleged “land of the free”. All the self-inflicted pain caused by our own government’s overreaction has been for naught.

They like their newfound power, and they don’t want to give it up.

Sarah Brady, mother of a young special needs child, was arrested for taking her child to the park.

If there’s ever been a time to grow a spine and resist the forward goosestep march toward what is euphemistically called “the new normal”, it is now, dear reader.

This is the real crisis. Not coronavirus, but the devastating fallout from the government reaction to it.

This is about to get very interesting.

His new ad, featuring Nancy “Antoinette” Pelosi talking about her $24,000 fridge stocked with top shelf ice cream, is just one of the many reasons he will easily defeat Biden in November. Not because he’s a genius, but because…Pelosi is talking about her fridge while thousands of Americans are standing in lines wrapped around the block at food banks.

The French Revolution is, sadly, the apt analogy here. An out-of-touch Political Class during times of crisis creates the perfect storm for populist/fascist movements to rise up and take control. That would, of course, be a terrible tragedy, but it’s the inevitable conclusion if the lockdowns continue.

What is needed is a peaceful, philosophical, liberty revolution, one that shocks the public and their rulers into a higher awareness of the meaning of a free society, and the destruction wrought by infringing on liberty.

NY unemployment website crashes amid surge in claims.

The lockdowns have lit the fuse to a social time-bomb. While there is no way to avoid a meltdown, lifting the lockdowns immediately will dramatically diminish the fallout.

The lock-downs, and the destruction it has wrought, have been in vain, according to professor Isaac Ben-Israel:

“Severe lockdown has some negative implications. Its immediate result is an increase in the level of unemployment and the drop in GDP (in Israel, it is estimated that every month of lockdown is reducing the GDP by 8%). This will eventually lead to an increase in poverty and to human life
loss due other diseases.

Given that the evidence reveals that the Corona disease declines even without a complete lockdown, it is recommendable to reverse the current policy and remove the lockdown. At the same time, it is advisable to continue with low-cost measures, such as wearing masks, expanding testing for defined populations and prohibiting mass gatherings.”

Thank god.

Tennessee’s “safer at home” order will expire at the end of April.

Who will relinquish power next?