Originally Posted by Dcurrie911 (Post 1746334)

The US government has chosen to close 10’s of thousands if not 100’s of thousands of small business while Walmart is allowed to sell anything from underwear to fishing lures. Surely forcing many thousands of businesses into bankruptcy. Worse yet the various government agencies disallowed church services on one of the most holy days of Christian belief. And yet all I seem to hear around here is “ please mr. government help us, tell us what else we need to do, shut down, or disallow? Please help us...”

Our community (55+) should be the most vocal against this abuse of government power. Help the younger people to understand that this great country was not built on socialistic government control. Yes, they (the government) should apply all resources to finding a treatment, a vaccine, and informing the citizens of the best way to combat it. And yes, every individual and business owner should be free to choose to stay home or close it’s doors. And yes every church should decide what is best for their parishioners . But the government has vastly overstepped their moral and ethical bounds. Yes, they have the “right” to do what they have done only because they wrote it into their own laws and we the people choose to let them do it. But lessons need to be learned and the government needs to hear that they are out of line, else the next time they will encroach even further onto our civil liberties.

Let the shooting of the messenger begin!....

Originally Posted by drpepper (Post 1746392)

I believe 100% that you are correct. We will look back on this and find that all the shutdowns were an over reaction to what was reported to us and that the virus wasn't near as deadly as 1st reported. One positive would be less dependence on China possibly.

Originally Posted by Westie Man (Post 1746476)

Vote against the church closers

Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1746583)

I saw a sheriff on TV this morning address that very issue. They are not stopping you from worshiping, but where and how you can worship. Sometimes you have to figure things out for yourself, the government can't hold your hand all the time. However, if you don't use common sense, they have to protect you from yourself.

Originally Posted by pianoman88 (Post 1746530)

...and invoking the Founding Fathers is a clear indication that you do not know American History. These are the men who granted the right to vote to ONLY land-owning men. The men who counted non-whites as 1/2 a person. The men who were clearly the elitists of their day, and had little regard for less advantaged among them. They were brilliant enough write a Constitution that would allow the government to evolve over the years, to recognize that a despot could be elected and limited Presidential power, and purposely had just enough 'wiggle room' in their language to ensure ratification, yet allow for progress. I do believe the Founders would be astounded at the USA of today. But they would be aghast at our interpretations of certain parts of their creation. They would shake their heads in wonderment at things like the Second Amendment being used to justify AR15s in the hands of urban thugs.