COVID-19 PROVES COLLECTIVISM IS A UTOPIAN MYTH

During this COVID-19 pandemic, one must notice the stark contrast of ideology, playing out in society. More than just the antagonism between those that love Trump, or hate Trump, more than just the socialists versus the free marketers, more than just the Democrats and Republican divide, we are experiencing the “BRAVE NEW WORLD” experiment, as the social sea changes overnight.

We have all become “savages” as we face a mystical world, where playgrounds designed for a city’s trove of rambunctious joyful children, sit eerily quiet. A new world where waves, bows, nods and winks have become the new salutation. A suspicious world, where strangers ringing the doorbell, cause panic, and uneasy curiosity, as to whom might be invaded one’s cone of viral protection. A dystopian world, where fear and freedom collide like emotional ions, to form a paralytic reaction of inaction, which leaves all Americans once living life with liberty, now caught in a societal puzzle. 

COVID-19 is an unseen killer, indiscriminate in infecting its victims, and rendering our future interactions in society as a people, extinct. We know we will be experiencing a new normal, once the immediate danger passes. Close talkers and those that wish to hug without asking, will be asked to back away, as we step back. Spitting at someone might be re-considered by state legislatures and changed to battery, rather than simple assault, as it currently is most states, with exceptions for spitting on police officers.  

 Moreover, this virus portends to be the tipping point of change that might finally bring the world back, to healthy, sane and reasonable interactions, while finally erasing leftist myths. 

In essence, all that the left has been preaching about, demanding and desiring when it comes to altering society is back on the table for discussion. Everything from using mass transit, to promoting unisex bathrooms, to redefining family values is about to be re-evaluated, by a society in fear of intimate interactions with strangers.

Gathering in large groups is currently being banned and forbidden, because of a microscopic virus, yet this COVID-19 germ is not an isolated threat. Many other viruses and bacteria are just itching to conquer our anti-bacterial and anti-viral medication treatments and seek to become a pandemic killer. Indeed, medical science has been warning for years against the overuse of anti-viral and antibiotics, that creates antibiotic-resistant strains of germs free to ravage our bodies and rendering vaccines useless.

Once again, although we live in a modern world, sometimes the “Savage” old fashioned ways of keeping healthy, such as washing hands, coughing into our inner elbows, turning our heads to the ground when sneezing, and staying home from work, not going out to dinner at a restaurant or to a party with an illness, is societal respectful thing to do.

One should be able to socialize without drooling all over one another other, but some public places take away the space to be healthy. Airlines have been packing people up like sardines and taking away travelers space for 30 years. Sports arenas have become food mosh pits or should we say nosh pits. So many people chomping down food and bumping their elbow into your nacho cheese fries, whenever a run is scored, can be, well, very unpleasant indeed.  

The good news is that it might make all these public catering travel companies and event operators, compete for your privacy and comfort in the future. Now wouldn’t that be refreshing? Airline seats spaced further apart with flip up side panels to couch you from neighbor to the left and right. Stadiums could do the same, and concessions might just marry the old peanuts throwing concession, to a food order app and a seat running track, that allows your gourmet hot dog to be delivered right to you, without missing a pitch.

Well, using the public restrooms anywhere, but especially at stadiums, would still need to be solved. Because these horse trough open urinals in public men’s rooms are an intrusion of privacy for men, and for women with young boys. Yes most good Moms take their very young and naive male children into the woman’s room. I never did understand why men’s public restrooms, aren’t afforded the same privacy as women. However, I’ll let others try and solve that cesspool of both germs and pervert potential.     

  

If this virus shows the American people anything dispositive and concretely realistic, it shows that government is not a god, nor a panacea of salvation. Ultimately, consumers should demand that we not be treated as cattle by those that want our business.

While the left has been pushing for an expansion of government power, conservatives and libertarians have been calling that expansion both unconstitutional, and a utopian myth of reliance. COVID-19 reminds us, that as humans dealing with life and death issues, we alone must manage our protection.

Government guidelines are being followed by Americans who already morally understand the need to both protect their families and respect their neighbor’s right to be protected. Individually morality and fear are guiding most Americans to shelter in place and self quarantine if they pose a risk to others, not Big Nanny Government.

In fact, the group of citizens that are ignoring the unspoken code of conduct during the pandemic, have been who? Yes, you guessed it; some of our radical leftist indoctrinated “woke” millennial generation, which has been raised to not practice, what they screech, to the rest of us.

We are learning many lessons during this pandemic. For instance, private cars are safer than public transportation during a viral outbreak. Handshaking and close interaction with strangers has always been a germ passing risky business. The need to shop in brick and mortar businesses is waning because of the ease of ordering your goods online. Politicians (Nancy Pelosi) becoming infused with larger egos and less brain power has also been on vivid display. 

  

Telecommuting or working remotely from home needs to be optimized in a technological society that has the capacity to implement it more broadly. Early socialization of our children in Day Care and Nursery school should be avoided, especially if not necessary. Teaching our children how to cook, has become a lost art and yet a very necessary skill in these times. 

Independent private thinkers, builders, and tinkerers are such an important resource in times that require innovation and re-invention. Indeed, all skilled trades over professorial propaganda is needed during times of crises, because those that can actually repair, fix or retrofit a solution to a problem, become more prized, than an eloquent thesis paper, on the sex lives of gnats.

Yes, we are learning why our borders are important. We are learning why manufacturing our necessary consumer products at home, is essential. We are discovering that our past political leadership, left us ill prepared to face domestic crises. We are witnessing the ever important need to protect our Bill of Rights especially the 2^nd Amendment.

The left continues to try and destroy our Constitution, and the protections it affords to every individual, by ceding more and more control to government. In these times especially, we see politicians misusing their power to score political favoritism and it should both frighten us, more than this virus, as well as awaken our renewed efforts, to stop leftist ideology from diminishing America’s unique protection of individual rights.

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.” (Brave New World Aldous Huxley)

The left’s ideology of “We are the world” globalism, political correctness, and social justice, believe in this collective sense of society, which renders the individual and individuality, obsolete.

However, patriotic Americans know our Constitution wasn’t designed to destroy individuality, in order to form “a more perfect union” but rather, to “secure the blessings of liberty” for Americans and future generations.