Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "Repeal Day - Ending Prohibition" video.

I wonder if we'll have a repeal day for lock-downs.
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My home county remained dry until the early 1970s.
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@gooser__43 Well, to some visitors it probably seemed like a foreign country. Think Mayberry.
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@gooser__43 I said county, not country. I was born and raised in north Florida.
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@LetsTakeWalk You should be asking how many people die everyday. According to the CDC the numbers are the same as before COVID-19. If you want to stay home for the rest of your life, you are free to do so as long as you can afford it. Few people have this option and few desire it. Calculated risks are a part of life.
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@HM2SGT Try applying your logic to any other daily activity like driving a car. Every decision you make involves some degree of risk. According to the CDC, 6% of the reported deaths are from COVID-19 alone. On average, everyone else had 2.5 comorbidities. The annual flu kills between 12,000 - 60,000 people, but the numbers would be much higher if doctors decided to report everyone who died with the flu virus as being caused by the flu.
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@HM2SGT The 1918 pandemic was far worse; similar measures were enacted with similar results. When you are ordered to do something under threat of fine or arrest, altruism is not a factor. As for the WWII generation, 61.2% of our armed forces were drafted, meaning only 38.8% volunteered. I'll grant you that today I suspect far fewer would sign up if the nation were threatened. The actions being forced upon us today by our elected and bureaucratic leaders are little more than band-aids. People hate feeling helpless, so they want to do something - anything to make themselves feel better or safer, even if it means denying everyone their constitutional rights. That was the argument used for incarcerating innocent Japanese-Americans during WWII. Be careful what you wish for; it may come true in ways you never anticipated.
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@HM2SGT You sound like a cop. When all they deal with are criminals, they start to see everyone as a potential criminal. You see everyone as a potential patient. When everything is up close and personal, it skews your perception, so your reaction is natural. But when you back away and look at the facts instead of the trauma, a different picture emerges. Our nation tests more people than any other country, so we diagnose more people with the virus. We use 40+ cycle thresholds on our COVID tests, while other countries use 25 - 35 cycles. As a result, we get more positive results even though many such results are really false positives of people who are not infectious or who have already recovered from the virus. We count anyone who dies after testing positive for COVID as COVID deaths even when their deaths are not caused by it or are tangentially related to it (meaning they were about to die anyway). No other country does this (with the possible exception of Brazil). The result of this constant panic pushing is the destruction of or freedoms, our livelihoods, and our mental health. Has anyone tabulated these costs to date? I wonder what will be the long-term result from breathing through masks for a year. I won't be surprised if white lung disease lawsuits make a comeback in the next few years.
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@HM2SGT What other "inconveniences" do you wish to foster on us - meatless diets, alcohol and tobacco bans, mandatory exercise? The potential list is endless. There is a far more pragmatic solution. Anyone who feels at risk should consider limiting contact with others, practicing good hygiene and sanitation, and wearing effective PPE. By this I mean using disposable gloves and the N95 mask. Any other mask is one notch above a placebo in effectiveness. If we're going to play this game then I have a list of demands regarding how my fellow citizens should behave. Demand number 1, stop telling me how to live my life.
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