A Note To Leslie Roberts: Wake Up

I don't mean to pick on Roberts but the radio dial was stuck on 580am for a couple of minutes as I adjusted myself in my seat. Once settled, I go straight sanity radio on Sirius. 

But this can go for any radio host who says stupid things about people who disagree with incoherent and futile measures.

As I listened, it became apparent the beat of the show was to bend for the Covid-1984 narrative.

At one point, Roberts described people protesting lockdowns as engaging in 'bad behavior'.

I don't see how this type of rhetoric from that 'side' of the Covid divide helps the situation.

It's constantly riling and pitting people up against one another.

It's pernicious and quite frankly, immoral.

Roberts and the experts he speaks with don't own the facts and reality. They seem to casually and flippantly toss around 'lockdowns' as though it's something we need to just get through.

Easy for people who get an income despite shutting down to do so.

In doing so, they tacitly agree to the absurd segregating of people between 'essential' and 'non-essential'.

Of course, a radio show host is 'essential' and a barber is 'non-essential'.

Sounds totes legit and totes logical.

Costco 'essential'. Local restaurant....non-essential.

Rather than view the economy as an intimate body of veins and arteries like the human body, such people have a zero-sum. clunky view of what constitutes an economy which is nothing but an eco-system made up of humans interacting in day to day voluntary transactions.

In other words, as a gay man, Robert should know better and be able to HUMANIZE what people are going through.

I'm of the firm belief there is NO justification or science to back any of these measures and that people protesting are rightfully exercising their right to assemble. HUMAN RIGHT that is.

This is not a virus dangerous enough for us to abandon such principles or our compassion.

The rhetoric is far too theatrical at the moment. None of these measures work. Worse, authorities aren't even studying the results.

Roberts should perhaps consider there are parents with children during the Holidays that have lost their right to earn a living.

And if he keeps with this mentality, to me, he's part of the problem. He contributes to the massive collateral damage.

Ask yourself: Is this virus that dangerous and am I that afraid of it to the point I'm willing let other people pay the price?

Sadly, many have made this calculation.

And that makes THEM the 'recalcitrants'. They're the ones who lack compassion.

Not us.