They tried it with COVID-19 and got away with it. I can’t help thinking that they’re getting ready to try it again:
Four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — have enacted a voluntary evening lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.
The decision comes after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed the first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) since 2020 in Worcester County.
On Wednesday, the Oxford Board of Health voted to support the recommendation for people to remain indoors after 6:00 p.m., effective immediately, through Sept. 30, according to a public health advisory shared with Fox News Digital.
Starting on Oct. 1, the recommendation is to remain indoors after 5:00 p.m. until the first hard frost.
The period from dusk through dawn is considered “peak mosquito hours,” the notice stated.
Note the word voluntary in the first paragraph. Were you aware that the COVID-19 lockdowns were initially deemed “voluntary?” Indeed, they were… but God help you if the “authorities” saw you defy them. Tim Walz’s paintball-firing squads were only one of the more dramatic reactions by the State’s myrmidons. Businesses were forced to close. Professional services – especially medical ones – were forbidden to see patients. Individuals walking or sitting alone in public places were arrested.
Voluntary.
This is a trial of the new Emergency Lockdown System. It’s a test of both the public’s willingness to comply and the Deep State’s ability to suppress dissenters. Never mind those pesky Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Never mind the microscopic size of the risk. What will matter is how effectively Massachusetts’ “authorities” can work their extra-Constitutional will upon the residents of those four towns.
It’s a bad sign that this test of our willingness to defy the Deep State is happening in Massachusetts. There’s hardly a deeper-blue state in the Union. The residents of that commonwealth are already largely broken to their fetters. But they may yet surprise us. At any rate, we can hope.
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I still see people running around So Cal dutifully wearing their safety masks. It would be sad enough if the faceless ones were all very old, and fragile, but I see it more often among the middle aged, and more often yet among those in their early twenties. The other night my wife and I had dinner in an outdoor cafe, uptown. I watched a party, I’ll assume a family, of four, plus a baby at a table nearby. After three had sat for a few minutes, the young man in his early twenties joined them. He wore the black mask of shame over his mouth and nose, but repeatedly pulled it down for a few moments, and then hiked it back up over his face. Obviously there was something more than a fear of the coof going on here. These are sad, broken people, and there are thousands and thousands of them running around. That it has happened to so many of the young is both heartbreaking, and frightening.
JWM
Well hers the deal. I can volunteer all the lead they need to help get there ass back to the city and out of the country side. Also please remember because both my parents are still wearing mask in public and me being the DA I am I asked them why ( because neither took any jabs and hate big government and big brother) then they reminded me they do it because both a still going through cancer treatment and have bad immunity. Now we know mask ant the best but even before covid they were also wearing them along with a lot of other cancer folks so please just be mindful of things like that so you don’t have to taste shoe leather like me. The mask for them offer a little extra protection