Young people want their lives back
“So what happens when we realize that 80% of the measures taken against the coronavirus weren’t necessary?” It’s a question I’ve asked myself and others over the past year. It’s also a question that will hover over today’s young people for the rest of their lives.
A year ago, a minor pandemic triggered a mass psychological crisis. Usually leaders are expected to promote calm. Ours did the opposite. It’s true that more than 500,000 deaths linked to the virus is a high number. It’s also true that more than 600,000 Americans died in 2019 from heart disease, but we didn’t launch a society-wrecking campaign against fast food. Did some in the population need to be sequestered? Yes, my parents among them. Did the general population need to exercise some caution? Yes.
But did millions of key lifetime experiences for young people — proms, graduations, athletic events, camps, mission trips — need to be ruined? No. Did millions of young people’s educations need to harmed or destroyed? No. Did hundreds of thousands of at-risk young people need to be put in a place where they would simply disappear from school rolls? Did internships and athletic careers need to be erased? Did healthy young people need to be isolated and muzzled and then be left to suffer the social and psychological consequences? Did our children need at least $8 trillion added to the national debt and heaved onto their shoulders?
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal estimates that the children whose educations have been derailed over the past year will see their lifetime incomes reduced by 6% to 9%. And more young people have died from suicide in despairing response to anti-virus measures than have died from the virus itself. Psychologically, morally, economically and educationally, the young have been dealt a pointlessly cruel hand. It needs to stop.
So it was heartening to overhear a few bright young women at a local café collaborating on an effort to reclaim a key moment of youth: High school graduation. I didn’t want to eavesdrop, but once it became clear what they were doing, I couldn’t help but admire their effort. I even heard references to Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence.” I left them alone but congratulated them before leaving.
Not knowing the details, I don’t have an opinion about what graduation at the high school or anywhere else should look like. But these young women, and the other young people who stand with them, should be acknowledged for their respectful but firm effort to salvage a key life event.
Below, with light editing, are excerpts from the students’ letter.
“Dear ________,
We are writing this letter to voice our concerns and feelings regarding the graduation arrangements that are currently in place. We do respectfully request that the arrangements be reconsidered with our feelings in mind.
The seniors of Siloam Springs High School are entitled to a true graduation. We have learned and grown together for the past thirteen years. Together, we have faced
idea. America is under assault and conservatives are under attack.”
Ron Wood spews lies and hate against liberals and Democrats in his columns. “The liberal media bias is based on lies fomented by wicked people.” “Democrats want to push God out of the public arena. They want to govern without accountability to the Almighty. They have adopted a liberal anti-God bias.”
According to the Bible these people are not Christians, they are by definition, Fascists, and the proof is open for all to see.
The Bible declares Trump is a liar and he called God a liar by claiming to be a Christian but never having asked God’s forgiveness, nor repented. (1 John 1:6-10).
These Republican and Christian leaders joined with all the racist radical white supremacist Civil War idolaters in America to support and elect the most Godless, racist man in America and encouraged other Christians to ignore the God of the Bible and do likewise. (1 Corinthians 5:9-13). And like all good White Christian fascists, they hate liberal, Jewish, Muslim, left wing, atheist Democrats.
Chris Hill, founder of Georgia Security Force III% Militia, fears a government run by atheists, i.e., Democrats, and they train for house to house combat because that is where most atheists and racial minority Democrats can be found, at home with their families.
Similar White Christian Militias train with assault weapons in most U.S. states.
The fascist dog whistles fomenting fear against Jews, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Atheists and Democrats are loud and clear to anyone who will listen.
Since Trump named Covid, the “China Virus,” violence against all Asians has quadrupled.
Trump’s propaganda film, shown at the Ellipse Rally on Jan. 6, subtly suggests “a small minority” of elite Jews control both the liberal media and our government.
Basic fascist tactic, divide, pit “them” against “us.”