The advent of endless streaming content, high-speed internet, and screens everywhere, means that confinement is far less unpleasant than it would otherwise be. This seems dangerous, because it makes people far more complacent about forced isolation, forced separation, and forced quarantine. They’ve got their screens, so the loss of freedom doesn’t sting as much as it could and should. And for the people screaming the loudest for endless lockdowns, they were shut-ins to begin with.

The writers for corporate press, the social media addicts, the people whose existence is spent almost entirely in front of a screen, who make their living do so, are the ones providing support for unending pandemic authoritarianism. It doesn’t cost them anything, they feel the deprivation, and they may even have resented all along the people who have actual lives away from screens, a life lived at least partly outdoors, with friends and family and face-to-face interactions.

And these people with real lives in turn have a far less active online presence, which means that their opinions about the entire charade are not made widely known. They don’t have time to troll social media, enforcing a hollow appearance of virtue with inexhaustible vitriol.

The people providing a faux consent for endless lockdowns are the ones for whom “lockdown” means absolutely nothing.

The restaurant industry has been dealt a series of nigh mortal wounds over the past year, and the new Democrat-promoted economic aid package would drive a final dagger through its heart. Specifically, the new aid package would completely eliminate the “tipped minimum wage” of $2.13 an hour, forcing restaurants to begin forking over $15 per hour, which would only have the effect of eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and even restaurants, themselves. We’d be left with a fast food wasteland, and far fewer other options.

The $2 server wage is a stroke of genius, providing a priceless entry-level position for people would otherwise never break into the job market, incentivizing good service in exchange for a good tip, and affording invaluable work experience.

A $15 minimum wage, particularly one imposed on restaurants, would lock millions of young adults out of the job market for years, diminishing their lives and careers dramatically.

Rather than hearing, "Welcome to @BaskinRobbins!" when I walked in, the 16-yr-old brownshirt employee accosted me about the whereabouts of my mask.

We've done incomprehensible damage to these children.

— Sir DMT PhD (@SirDMTPhD) February 24, 2021

Florida also has an outsized elderly population. The faux, continuous outrage at Desantis & sycophantic praise of Coumo, Whitmer, et al. is media malpractice. Pure partisanship & disdain. How many jobs saved, suicides prevented, & schools open? There are real consequences. https://t.co/KnnNUad3gh

— Aaron (@aaron_mcdd) February 24, 2021