ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The Founding Fathers would be stunned to see America, circa coronavirus2020 They’re most likely rolling in their tombs right now, watching the Constitution they so carefully produced– with regard for private rights as bestowed by God, not government– being squashed by a hammer of coronavirus worries. Specifically on worries that are up until now lost.
It’s not that they would deny the federal government’s right to declare a national emergency and do something about it to safeguard individuals from impending dangers.
It’s just that they would be stunned at the speed by which the Constitution was turned on its head– based simply on guesses of what could come. Based completely on widely debunked, extremely incorrect best-guess numbers of what could come.
” Coronavirus Pandemic: Projection Models Proving Undependable,” National Review wrote.
” How can coronavirus designs get it so incorrect?” The Hill wrote.
” Coronavirus: The Incorrect Numbers,” The American Spectator wrote.
Despite all this acknowledgement of error, of flawed projections, of incorrect and inaccurate coronavirus numbers– the slashing and burning of the Constitution is still happening. Individuals run out work, bought to stay at home, told to wear face masks and keep off the streets, arrested, fined and threatened– all for projections that are widely acknowledged as wrong.
Why the continuation of this constitutional crisis? It’s a free-fall, a snowball, a cycle of catastrophe.
Health centers have been bought by guvs to stop carrying out optional surgical treatments to give way for the coronavirus cases– the coronavirus cases that might or may not come. The government has actually provided billions of dollars in stimulus funds to these healthcare facilities, in order to keep the health centers afloat at a time when their ways of making money other ways have actually been halted. The hospitals, in order to get coronavirus dollars, need coronavirus cases– so coronavirus cases, think what, they will come. The government takes those coronavirus case counts from the health centers and utilizes them to validate more crackdowns, more stay-at-home orders, more service closings.
Where does it end?
When the money runs out, for sure.
The scenario is this: We all understand the coronavirus numbers are bunk.
Simply in case.
It’s the power expression of the day.
Justice Frank Murphy– a Democrat, no less– put it appropriately when he wrote, as the Independent Institute noted, “Couple of undoubtedly have actually been the invasions upon vital liberties which have actually not been accompanied by pleas of urgent requirement advanced in good faith by responsible males …”
That implies, in essence, the government will constantly point out a dire need– like nationwide health, like national security, like national security– as reason to take away civil liberties.
Creators understood this sneaky nature of federal government, and responded appropriately, with a Costs of Rights. With a Declaration that explained individual rights originated from “the Developer,” indicating God– and not from federal government. With warning after cautioning about the ever-encroaching nature of federal government.
Yet here we are, COVID-19, circa 2020, seeing the Constitution cavern on a “just in case” line of reasoning.
The missing aspects in this coronavirus crisis are reality and trust– truthful coronavirus numbers that cause citizens’ rely on government’s action.
And on that theme, founders had plenty to state.
The short-term service to this coronavirus crisis is for government to immediately open America back up for service. Get the economy rocking; get hard-working Americans off the taxpayer stimulus-slash-welfare-like rolls.
The long-lasting? The long-term comes courtesy this: “[L] et us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be kept without religion.”
That was George Washington in his goodbye address to the country– and to apply that to modern coronavirus times, that means the long-lasting solution for political leaders who abuse individuals’s trust and act in unconstitutional manners and who overreach powers based on untruthful reasons, is to toss ’em at the tally box and in their location, choose public servants who are devoted to supporting God’s laws.
It’s the morality; always the morality. It’s the ethical compass of America and the virtues of private Americans that matter most. For that, we require God.
The long-lasting service to protect America’s individuals rights, post-coronavirus, is for Americans to turn eyes toward God and elect political leaders who are boldly willing to do the exact same. It’s the only way to put a permanent end to unethical, unconstitutional, “just in case” sort of governing.
