re: Anybody else getting sick of the "stay at home" screamers?

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I'm far more sick of the people leaving the house multiple times per day. Going to the grocery store everyday, home depot or where ever they feel like going and refusing to listen to common sense

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Ok Karen.

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Hattiesburg eaten up with this yet? There's a nursing home on every corner so I'm guessing it isn't too bad there or I would've heard about it

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In Hattiesburg right now. Hotels WiFi passwordnis covid. Big things going on here

I just listen to music all day and work

I've been going to work, but I'm an avid gardener and have a neatly manicured front and back garden as well as 40+ houseplants. I follow several plant groups on Facebook and every time someone posts a photo of a garden section at a store, the comments are nothing but "ZOMG STAY AT HOME!!!" or some stupid variation.

I've made it a point to reply to a lot of them with "BRB going to the store right now with the sole intention of buying a plant. You know what you're going to do about it? Jack shite. Now STFU."

The "chicken little" types hyperventilating over this event don't really surprise me - but it's a bit more widespread that I expected.

But what DOES surprise me - "disgust" is actually a much better word - is the number of people calling in to police departments to report that their neighbors are GASP! o u t s i d e ! New Zealand had a snitching website that crashed from being overloaded. There was a news article from the front range of Colorado that the police were begging people to stop calling to rat on their neighbors because they were overloading the phone banks. Several localities have setup hotlines to report "violators". These people turn my stomach, and if they'll turn you in for such as this just wait until it's monetized to inform on you for being a gun owner, a Christian or simply vocally disagreeing with the STATE.

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It's not "spreading" you shithead. The spread is past tense.

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We certainly don't know that either. It could have plateaued, it could have been reduced, it could have stopped or it could be exploding. We don't know what is going on any one day until an average incubation period of days after that day.

The “OMG STAY INSIDE” and the “MUH LIBERTIES!!!!!” are both the same type of idiots just on opposite ends of the spectrum.

And then the vast majority of us are somewhere in the middle still moving our lives but being much more responsible.

This is, as they say where we separate the wheat from the chaff.

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And if history teaches us anything it is that the government doesn’t give up its power easily.

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Jesus Christ! Woodrow Wilson nationalized railroads to solve logistical problems in WWI. Government very easily gave up that power. During the Civil War, and in the Reconstruction afterwards, Abe Lincoln assumed awesome powers. These returned to the people (congress) afterwards. This has happened repeatedly in America.

We have seen a gradual increase in Federal power and control as we transitioned from an agricultural society to an industrialized one. This is unavoidable, unless you’re ok with drinking the effluent of chemical plants and having planes dump toilets onto your house.

I am a strong advocate of Federalism - the principle that power should devolve to the lowest branch of government possible - and to that end I’d like to see a smaller federal government. But the idea that the American government is not going to allow people to roam freely once this pandemic is past is nutso stuff.