"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
I couldn't help but to think of this now infamous quote today.
It seems everything nowadays is a crisis, and if it isn't somehow it gets turned into one.
Today's current "crisis" is no different.
The media started revving us up a few days ago.
A tropical storm, or what we used to call rain, Henri, was bearing down on the East Coast.
Immediately, social media was ablaze with messages from concerned friends from across the country with heart emojis and prayers for our safety.
Okay people, calm down....it's going to rain here!
As the weather serviced tracked the oncoming storm (read RAIN), the warnings became more dire as did the underlying message to run for the hills.
Supermarkets of course had the usual onslaught of idiots loading up on toilet paper and life rafts.
By mid afternoon Saturday, NY States criminal governor and NYC's buffoon of a mayor, had both declared a state of emergency further increasing the anxiety level and preying on the fears of millions of people.
Sure enough, late Saturday evening the rain started.
At about 4 in the morning, cell phones started blaring emergency alerts about tornado warnings, every 15 minutes.
I suppose we should all have headed for the root cellar and chained ourselves to the well pipes, unfortunately most of us don't have root cellars anymore and very few of us have wells.
As predicted, it has continued to rain (read drizzle) all day here.
But was there really a need for the manufactured crisis. For God's sake, it's rain.
There was no peril involved.
This however, is how everything is reported and acted upon lately.
Over reacting allows those in power, those who govern, and those in the media, to continue to exploit an already vulnerable population who has become all to accustomed to being told what to do and when to do it instead of thinking for ourselves and living responsible lives.
It doesn't take a genius to see that it's raining outside and you should probably choose to not eat outdoors.
Nope. instead all restaurants were ordered to shut down outside dining.
Ridiculous!
Over reaching!
Overbearing!
Remember the 2 week shut down to flatten the curve?
How well did that work out?
When did we just surrender?
I see it all over, on billboards, social media, television and on the radio.
Fear mongering to control us.
Pretty damn scary this new way of living.
So much for rugged individualism.
The Marlboro man has been replaced by the Marlboro sissy!
Now that's scary to me
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