‘Safe’ is a four letter word
At this point in time, there are a few words I would like never to hear again.
‘Dose’ is one of them. Newspapers, television and street conversations are laced with a dreary drone including ‘one dose’, ‘first dose’, ‘second ‘dose’, ‘Pfizer dose’. ‘double dose’. ‘Have you had your dose?’ ‘I just got my second dose’ etc . Humans, at least in this somnambulant city still in the grip of the psychosis, are obsessed with this word presently. I prefer its old use as slang for an STD, as in ‘the dose’.
However, one word is even more anathema to me. The word ‘SAFE’.
If there is a word that lies at the centre of the Covid religion, it is this four letter word. This is the cudgel, the Sword of Damocles held over everyone’s head. While western culture - particularly since the Enlightenment - has arguably held Freedom to be its highest goal, it seems that goal is now a quaint relic of the past, supplanted by a sad word that is arguably opposite in meaning.
I have always been fascinated by the motto of the state of New Hampshire - ‘Live free or die’, attributed to General John Stark. I also admire the second half of his statement - ‘Death is not the greatest of evils’. If there is one time where this motto is especially important, it is now.
The problem is that in Canada, though not just in Canada, this motto has become ‘Live SAFE or die’. Like the word ‘dose’, I hear this infernally pusillanimous word on countless lips of Canadians every day. 'No longer do they say ‘Good bye’, it is now ‘Be safe’. Workplaces are littered with ‘Safety Protocols’. Government issues endless ‘safety regulations’ and the corrupt Trudeau regime constantly speaks of its priority being ‘ to keep Canadians safe’. teachers are clamouring to be ‘kept safe’ from children, neighbour from neighbour, and faux Medical Officer Tam insists that sex be partaken, if at all, with masks on for ‘safety’. Your own freedoms be damned, they are going to keep you safe no matter what it costs.
What if I don’t want to be safe?
Canadian ‘culture’ has now appropriated putative safety as the ultimate value and goal for which its populace must strive. Our ancestors were willing to pay an enormous price in lost safety in order to gain Freedom. Now we have arrived at a point where our Governments, and Society at large, have decided that WE will pay any price in Freedom that THEY dictate in the name of safety. Bill Gates recently mused that one day ‘there will be a vaccine against everything’ and that humans should ‘never shake hands again’.
Yet a life without risk is no life at all.
How did we get here? Yes, the safety fetish has taken a particularly strong grip in Canada, perhaps owing to the general timidity and insecurity that is baked into Canadians. But in the end, I remain astonished that there has never been a cost/benefit analysis considered by anyone in a position of authority. The general populace has swallowed the safety fetish with no demand for such an analysis.
Canadians offer up hard won freedoms with a meek submissive smile and without asking ‘why’. This despite the fact that all of us make decisions every day involving some sort of cost benefit analysis without even thinking consciously. Crossing the street, driving a car, making workplace decisions, family decisions, financial decisions small and large, lifestyle decisions….why then do Canadians finally get the big one thrown at them and they park their brains and common sense at the door?
The attached analysis should be required reading for those willing to sacrifice freedom for safety in the name of the new deity called Covid. Indeed, Death is not the greatest of evils.
https://cutt.ly/gE463FL