I see people posting things like "Kids are normalizing a police state. This is VERY problematic", and "You can see how we're being groomed for tyranny". #cdnpoli #COVID19 #StayHomeSaveLives #WashYourHands 1/10
No, we are fucking NOT being groomed for tyranny. This is NOT tyranny. This is not oppression. This is not even fucking hardship. Not if you have somewhere to live and access to food. 2/10
We are being told to stay home, sit on our couches and watch tv, or read, or sew, or start a garden, or make bread... 3/10
No one is lining people up and shooting them. No one is being broken on the rack or burned alive. No one is fucking looting your houses. No one is bombing our cities. 4/10
We are being advised to protect ourselves from the scariest contagious disease we have run into as a species since the Spanish Influenza from a century ago. This is the "Disease of the Century", for those of you who love hyperbole. 5/10
Get the fuck over yourselves. You are not being hard done by. You are not being oppressed. You didn't really need all that crap you would be out buying if you didn't have to stay home. 6/10
Think of all the times you wanted to do something; read a book, do a puzzle, learn to knit or play the piano or make a pie, and you couldn't because you just didn't have the time. Hey! You have the time now! 7/10
You can organise your photo albums. You can write your memoirs, call a friend you haven't talked to in a long time, catch up on a TV series or binge watch a movie franchise. James Bond or Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter marathon, anyone? 8/10
You. Are. Not. Being. Oppressed. This is not a government plot. This is called "taking precautions so you or someone you love does not die." 9/10
Please try to keep up. It is really not helping having you whinging and stirring people up with your dire predictions. The news is dire enough. Stay home. Wash your hands. And stop being paranoid and outraged. You'll feel much better.
Here endeth the rant. 10/10
Here endeth the rant. 10/10
