Neil Ferguson has called for an 18-month
rolling quarantine. Many government officials have cited his Imperial College
paper as defense of the corona lockdowns. Like every other algorithm, this too
has turned out to be based on the mere guess of an academic. Algorithm is another word for “guess.” Model
is another word for “guess.”
It turns out
that those guesses aren’t actually panning out. We
have wagered a lot on those guesses, and taken unprecedented anti-social
action. New York, for example, has needed some 18,000 hospital beds, not the
55,000, 73,000, or 136,000 that some predicted.
Data from Oregon shows
the lockdown to be unnecessary. A professor there demonstrated more than a week
ago that lockdowns are not working.
Though there are
severely inflates death counts, only 150 healthy individuals are believed to have died of
Covid-19 with no pre-existing conditions. The BBC describes the American death
count with this problematic sentence: “At present in the US, any death of a
Covid-19 patient, no matter what the physician believes to be the direct cause,
is counted for public reporting as a Covid-19 death.
Wow. Corona wasn’t
that big of a deal? That’s great news.
These lockdowns aren’t
working? That’s some pretty big news too.
What are officials
doing in response? Doubling down on lockdowns.
What are people across
the country starting to do in response to that? Saying they’ve had enough. The
resistance is here.
The Face Mask Resistance – If
You’re Gonna Wear A Mask, Make It A Guy Fawkes Mask
75 people showed up
outside the Ohio State House to protest the lockdown. Some came masked, not in
the obligatory fear mask mandated by the national top-down fear mask movement,
but in Guy Fawkes masks!
If they make you wear
a mask, send a message. If you think face masks work, please read this pre-politicization of face masks (2016)
piece. They certainly don’t work well enough for people to get
violent with those not wearing them.
Early Victory: Philadelphia
Fear Mask Resistance Forced The Hands Of Pols
People were being
pulled off busses in Philadelphia for not wearing face masks, some of the thugs
doing the enforcing weren’t wearing face masks themselves.
Philadelphia‘s SEPTA
public transportation system required passengers to wear a face mask as of
Thursday, April 9. Passengers refused and stood their ground.
In the exact opposite
of social distancing, passengers were violently pulled off buses by
gangs of cops in Philadelphia for not wearing masks. After these shameful
displays of police violently removing unmasked passengers were captured by bystanders
on social media, the face mask requirement was rescinded.
In our heavily charged
political climate, somehow the willingness to not wear a face mask has itself
become a potent sign of civil disobedience in some corridors of America.
The Bravest Principal In
California
Principal Derrick
Bravo at Outside Creek Elementary in California’s San Joaquin Valley has kept
his school open. It is the only public school in California that remains open.
A Gulag California Restaurant
Owner Has Quietly Stayed Open
In his essays these
past weeks on black markets and corona, Arizona sheriff candidate David Hathaway has predicted that, just
as the prohibition on alcohol caused speakeasies to form, speakeasies and other
informal arrangements will open around restaurants. Daniel McAdams proves him right.
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Mississippi Preacher Taunting
The Police
Temple Baptist Church
of Greenville, Mississippi had a drive-in prayer service this past week. Police raided, ticketing the congregants $500
each, saying the mayor wanted to make an example of the congregation.
How did the pastor
respond? Did he cower? Did he apologize? Did he admit he was wrong to worship
against the will of the local officials? In his words “I told them to get some
more tickets ready because we will be preaching Sunday morning and Sunday
night.”
Church Bravery In Louisiana
A pastor in Baton
Rouge said of the members of his congregation “They would rather come to church and worship like free
people than live like prisoners in their homes.” Pastor Tony Spell
of Life Tabernacle Church, vowed to hold an Easter celebration.
The media in the weeks
preceding Easter was vocal about the need to shut down the church, but was
afterward surprisingly silent about whether the Easter service took place.
When I called the
church to verify that they held an Easter service, the most distinguished
sounding Southern gentleman picked up the phone and said to me
matter-of-factly, “We’re Christians, we hold church every Sunday.”
It’s “Legal” To Go To Church
Again (Sort Of)
Laws are made by
legislatures. Laws are not made by governors. Rights are granted by God, or
some would say by nature of being a human, but not by constitutions. Any
governor who thinks he makes the law is a fool. A few governors have gotten the
message.
Easter services
were made “legal” again in Wisconsin (sort
of), as long as the service is held outdoors.
Church was made legal again in Texas too,
before Holy Week got under way, with the Governor being reminded that he’s only
a visitor in the governor’s mansion. A handful of other governors have gotten
the same message.
In Colorado churches
are now “exempt” from the lockdown after a Baptist group threatened a First
Amendment lawsuit.
Standing Up To Police
Intimidation In Kentucky
Kentucky’s Governor vowed to track down Easter worshipers
by using license plates: which certainly means there were a lot of
people expected to worship there on Easter, otherwise there would be no need to
even make such a policy. Good on you Kentucky!
Despite finding nails on the ground, meant to
harm and deter them, and police in their parking lots, meant to intimidate them, Christians in
Kentucky met on Easter Sunday 2020.
The Sonny Method
When encountered with
intimidation, Thomas DiLorenzo points to the “Sonny method” for dealing with cops and media
hacks attempting to interfere in a religious ceremony.
Courageous Christians Even in
DC
Rather than shutting
its doors, St. Cyprian in Washington DC commits to remains openthroughout
the day, each day, for prayer.
Courageous Serbians
This Serbian Bishop refused to comply
with the orders to shutter the churches and boldly said mass.
More Courageous Californians
Parishioners of Bethany Slavic Missionary Church are
said to be meeting in small groups in private homes for worship. Some
would consider this admirable. The church, perhaps tiring of the legal
attention, tiring of the media publicity, and wanting to be left alone, denies
this.
Tennessee Resistance
Even though Facebook removed his post for “promoting a crime,”
Greg Locke, lead pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, says he
will keep his church open during the coronavirus panic.
The Most Inspiring Use Of A
U-Haul
From the back of a
U-Haul in a parking lot, this priest refused to abandon his flock. In
contrast to some of the many cowardly clergy out there, the image of the U-Haul
and the sea of cars is something to behold.
Stop Giving – Let The Obedient
Churches Go Broke
Some American pastors are shocked that their
congregations won’t pay for them to do nothing when they are
most needed. Churches are being hit hard by the lack of collection.
If your pastor won’t re-open the church doors, let the church go broke.
Social Distance From Compliant
Pastors
Speaking of do-nothing
pastors, Laurence Vance calls on all Christians to
socially distance from milquetoast pastors in our age of corona communism.
Have Your Own Service
If your church still
refuses to open, have your own service. Here’s how one LRC reader started his Easter.
Have Your Own Service 2.0
And one can also take
it a step further than having your own Easter celebration. You can invite
others and welcome them to bring their guns. Ammon Bundy invited hundreds for Easter in Idaho and
got a decent turnout. The corona bans demonstrate the point that without the Second Amendment,
there really is no First Amendment.
Republican Idaho State
Representative Heather Scott has spoken against the Republican
Governor’s corona ban, as has Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler. Wheeler
has called for a meeting of the full Idaho State Legislature to discuss
the Governor Brad Little’s actions.
Bravely Helping Others
In defiance of an
order to stay off the streets, a doctor and a team of volunteers has
provided Covid-19 testing to homeless in Miami.
Keep Minding Your Own Business
In a hilarious video, a police officer came after a
man running down what was ostensibly a closed beach. The guy’s response: he
just kept on running.
Power To The People
Pulling out a camera
is a potent statement to someone in power that they are being put on the
record. This gentleman called out an officer’s arbitrary
rules and filmed the officer.
San Francisco Style Corona
Response
A freedom cell in San Francisco responded
to lockdown orders with some disruptive entrepreneurship. They opened an
underground night club. Police responded by confiscating the booze and
arresting no one.
There Are Even Examples Of
Government Coming To Its Senses (Very Slowly)
Recognizing that
Covid-19 is not turning into the catastrophe some experts predicted it might
be, Seattle sent back a 250-bed army field hospital after 9
days. It never saw any patients.
Republican Tennessee Mayor Glenn Jacobs calls
out Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for his bad decisions in issuing a
statewide stay-at-home order.
The president of Brazil is snubbing social distancing.
Thomas Massie, will go down as a hero
during this chapter in American history, for his bold stand against corona
communism.
Courage Is Contagious
If this collection of notes from the resistance inspired
you, please pass it along to others. Courage, after all, is contagious.
Resistance thrives on courage.
If you have inspiring tales from the resistance to share,
shoot me an email.
Allan
Stevo [send him mail] writes
about international politics and culture from a free market perspective at 52
Weeks in Slovakia (www.52inSk.com). He is the
author of How to Win
America, The Bitcoin
Manifesto, and numerous other books.