Reason First: Discrimination Now!

COVID-19, for the most part is taking out the elderly. Why are our political leaders not discussing this? Children can contract the virus and give it to their grandparents one might say. So, isolation of the silver-haired citizens should be the next move. But this is to protect them, not to exclude and disrespect their freedom of movement. The housing could be made by force since we pay into Social Security. However, the private actions of generally rational adults will be more than happy to be away from their family for a few days, weeks, months until all are well again.

The greedy, selfish, and beneficent businesspeople all should get together to see if they can turn a coin on this crisis. Instead of accepting government funds to tax-payers (who should have kept their taxes in the first place) private individuals and organizations ought to be on the frontline fighting for discrimination. People in their 70’s and 80’s have increased risk of catching the bug and ultimately perishing from it. Close to ten percent of people approaching 100 years old are nearest to dying from the coronavirus.

The rage should be against an oppressive government as Dr. Brook delineates in his YouTube show. The State is acting worse than a nanny, now. It is acting like the little gestapos who stomp boots on the neck of the citizens who make the “mistake” of leaving their house. Selflessness and sacrifice are at the root to the bitter fruit that is produced by the government. Most folks want to see their government take action. Instead of thinking and then taking action, they just want politicians to do something. What? Who cares?! Get something done! they shriek. So they look to Cuomo and Trump as heroes during a fire that these bureaucrats knew, allegedly, was going to be set. When it turned to a wildfire, they looked like conquering heroes for “doing something.” Damn the liberty to pursue values, to work when and where we want, to leave our residences.

Without regulations, tariffs, and the tentacles of the government in every aspect of American life, there would be a big question mark. In a free market, what would happen? Who knows? And that’s the gorgeousness of capitalism. No one knows what will happen to the country under complete reason and individualism. No. Government wants to fiddle about and pull levers and knobs and push buttons to engineer our lives.

Now, the government has a role in all of this. It should be the cop on the beat who disallows people from spreading the virus and to allow private people to interact with each other. Given the fact that they’re people under 70, they shouldn’t have to deal with social distancing. Government is a cannon. It can blast away freedoms and values and rationality.

If that cannon were focused on enemies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, then we could focus on accepting reason and thinking. And speaking of our enemies, what are they up to, now? While the lionshare of ink is spilled in regard to COVID-19, what are our foes concocting while we consider multi-trillion-dollar bailouts and arguments over whether face masks and ventilators should be made in the USA?

There is rational room for enragement. That outrage stems from the idea that the American people are led by milquetoasts. The advocacy for a country that recognizes principles rather than throws them away is at hand with this novel coronavirus. There’s a way to fight for the future and Ayn Rand once said that that means “living in it today.” That’s how we save America.