INDOOR TRANSMISSION OF THE CORONAVIRUS IS 18.7% LIKELIER, SO LA MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI, WANTS TO PUT LA HOMELESS POPULATION INSIDE RECREATION CENTERS

I find all of the government interventions into COVID-19 threat absolutely ridiculous.  If as a child, your mother took your temperature and learned that you had the flu, what would she tell you to do?  Stay at home.  But today we've got the government mothering the American citizen, but instead of telling "its children" to stay home, the government commands "Shelter in Place."  The difference is that your mother actually cared for you, whereas the government wants to control you, they want to dictate to you what you can do, how close you can get to someone, what type of protective gear you should be using.  In effect, the government wants to dispossess you of personal sovereignty and executive decision-making of your own life, including your own survival skills.  They don't care for you.  Nor do they have any regard for your private exchange of relevant information with your doctor.  The government wants to override too many aspects of your own survival skills.  Further, the flu has a specific duration: it runs between 3 to 7 days.  Government edicts, on the other hand, can last a lifetime and longer.  

And let's grant the government edicts some level of practicality.  Let's say that wearing a mask works to protect you from airborne viruses, including protects other people; in this sense, then there is some level of ethics being applied by mask-wearers.  It's nice.  Is it urgent?  Is it required, I mean, say beyond what is required for the ordinary seasonal flu that occurs during the flu season?  Not really.  But I like the effort, I like the intention.  I don't like that these American puppets are wearing a mask, keeping 6-feet from you in line at the grocery store, and talking to the cashier behind an Adhoc plexiglass pane hanging above a checkout counter. And no one questions the wisdom of what the government does, whether what they do works or doesn't work, who it effects, how much it costs . . . well, they never count the cost of anything.  Even this latest $2,000,000,000,000 stimulus package where adults are promised $1,200, the government refuses to count the cost because they don't pay the cost.  Tax-payers bear the cost, not the government.  In fact, the government is calculating the next 10 different programs on which to charge the American taxpayer.

Folks have gotten lost.  We used to know that the country was different from the government.  Not today.  Not as far as I can see.  Jacob Hornberger recently wrote 

 Actually, the government and the country are two separate and distinct entities.  That phenomenon is reflected by the Bill of Rights, which expressly protects the country from the government. 

Note the language of the Constitution.  It provides protection from the government; it doesn't say that the United States IS the government.  

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference.

My point in this post is to say that folks have lost their good sense.  Call it overload in the age of information.  Call it being overwhelmed.  Call it illiteracy.  I don't know what I can point to to account for it, but folks have lost their good sense.  Here, Professor Eduardo Allegri comments on the global social discipline governments looking for more power have wrought on the backs of COVID-19, for which any failures occur they can always point to people not following orders.  Here are my highlights of his comments: 

I don’t care about coronavirus. 

I don’t care about the hysteria.

I don’t care about it as a topic of conversation.

I don’t care particularly about it as a cause of death.

I don’t care about it as producing panic and terror. 

He continues . . . 

A COSMIC LABORATORY OF SOCIAL DISCIPLINE

Cowed by hysteria and terror, men move like a shoal, like a flock, in unison, Allegri writes. They have suspended judgment, conscience, and common sense. They are obliterating these on the altar of global discipline. Allegri calls this a cosmic, massive laboratory of social discipline the likes of which has never been seen before. He adds, “I don't care if this is by design or if it was a fluke.”

TOGETHER IN ISOLATION

Everybody has been isolated from each other. Quote, “A sneeze scares, a cough demolishes friendship, a little fever condemns to ostracism.” Allegri stresses that out of 7.7 billion men on the globe 0.0020% have been directly affected by the situation. The rest is moving in packs and shoals, not together but separated, isolated, far from each other. 

What I really wanted to comment on is government incompetence.  I know it's a cliche, there are a million of them.  "Government is the employer of last resort."  Nothing so permanent as a temporary government program."  Then I saw this headline:  

CDC: Japanese Data Show Indoor Coronavirus Transmission 18.7 Times Likelier, as Garcetti Moves L.A. Homeless to Rec Centers 

Tom Woods like to refer to government bureaucrats as our "Overlords," which sure they'd like to be and pretend to be.  But there is nothing about them that we can admire.  We don't like their power, number one.  We don't like their enforcement arm of fines, jail/prison, or worse.  The only wisdom in their plans tends toward evil.  Take the above headline.  Garcetti wants to house the homeless in the backyards of middle-class, suburban residents in recreation centers, a service now that will requisition more tax dollars.  So one government agency, the CDC, publicizes information showing that indoor transmission is 18.7% likelier only to learn that LA Mayor, Eric Garcetti, wants to house the homeless into two places--recreation centers across the San Gabriel Valley and the LA Convention Center downtown.  

Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti

Here is his order to use the Convention Center as a Federal Medical Station to, according to the tweet, help relieve our nearby hospitals. Really?  There are so many Coronavirus outbreaks that you need to convert the LA Convention Center into a virus relief station?  From the different nurses that I talk to, they see very few, if any, COVID-19 patients come through their doors.  

We are utilizing every resource to confront the COVID-19 crisis: @ConventionLA will now become a federal medical station, led by @HHSGov and @USNationalGuard to help relieve our nearby hospitals.

Thank you to our partners for your support during this national pandemic. pic.twitter.com/RlRWmK6dmT

— Mayor Eric Garcetti (@MayorOfLA) March 30, 2020

Breitbart explains that 

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is moving hundreds of homeless people into recreation centers in residential areas—a policy that is receiving increasing scrutiny and criticism from residents and the media. 

I'd like to know where.

If you're at all worried about the flu or the cold or the COVID-19, then take extra vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc.  Problem solved.  These vitamins help directly with your innate immunity.  They make you stronger.  A mask doesn't do that.  A distance of 6-feet doesn't do that.  All that these gestures prove is that you're very obedient to Uncle Sam or Uncle Donald or Uncle Barry, one or the other.