Sunday, April 19, 2020

The Heir's worried that these lockdown protestors will end up causing a spike in casualties, both life-wise and economic.  That one person who survived Covid-19 the Heir praises for essentially telling the protestors to stop whining like that guy did about getting fertilizer, but he doesn't think telling them to stop whining is good enough.  The Heir has noticed that the protestors are fragrantly violating EO's and social distancing orders, and in doing so it doesn't seem likely enough to him how they can *not* respread the virus to others.  Because here's the thing.  The Heir agrees that the lockdown like in Bachelor Blue State is a PITA.  He gets that.  But the way he sees it, if you keep up your best efforts in the weeks to come, all that stuff would be able to open sooner than later.  So maybe that one guy who wants his fertilizer will end up having to wait years for it instead of weeks, and with the fertilizer the Heir sees holes in that guy's argument big enough to drive a truck through.  So the guy says he either can't get fertilizer or he's somehow not allowed to.  He could always order it online, since the EO isn't going to stop him doing so.  The Heir himself received more parts for our Third Pillar Player even when the online stores have made it a priority to get PPE's shipped, and he's grateful that some parts arrived sooner than later.  So the guy could order it online, but if he really needs it yesterday, he could go to his local Home Depot or Lowes or whatever hardware/gardening stores there are in his area.  OK sure they might have to ask him to wait outside if they've reduced the customer capacity of their stores, and he might have to wear a mask.  But at least he'll get the fertilizer he's looking for.  The Heir also noticed in one pic of protestors apparently scrabbling at the state house in one of those protest states, there was a guy with a Guy Fawkes mask.  That the Heir does *not* see as a coincidence, because guess who else wore those masks back in the day?  The Anonymous hacking group, and the similarities Anonymous shares with the protestors the Heir sees as recklessness and narcissism.  Anonymous already helped Ed Snowden destroy America politically, and now they seem to seek to destroy America's viability.  But the Heir's not going to take it, and he's seriously contemplating cutting loose those people we know at that beach conformant with Leeanna's and Filipa's preferred dress code who have historically rationalized and apologized for such groups.  The Heir sees the protestors as already guilty of some kind of second degree manslaughter, and he cannot abide by people at the beach he expects will rationalize the protestors.  That's nothing short of immoral, and the Heir just cannot take it anymore.  It's not even about politics, because he and the beach people can disagree about Trump and Biden and AOC and stuff, but this time it's about the health security of the country.  It's just not open to "opinion" as far as the Heir's concerned, and he's not going to waste time even listening to someone who pretends it is, let alone try to have a discussion with them.

"So in the words of Star Trek characters Jean-Luc Picard, and Quark of the spinoff series Deep Space Nine, 'the line must be drawn here.  This far and no further.'"

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