Nor should we allow Halloween masks to substitute for surgical ones even though they, too, keep people from touching their faces. No sense in scaring the heck out of people, especially children and other gullibles.
The Nightly News Monopoly (CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS) is doing just that with their broadcasts, coming from Sanctuary Cities where people already know that packed-in-like-sardines lifestyles are not healthy in case of a pandemic. Most of the top universities are in these cities, where people have read all the novels about runaway viruses, like Dean Koontz’ 1981 The Eyes of Darkness about a Wuhan-based virus that would attack the world in 2020.
The amount of prepper and survival literature listed on Amazon is staggering, read by millions of people everywhere. Survival gardening is at an all time high, especially in small towns and rural areas. Have you already forgotten about my 2017 posting on this site: “Grassroots Survivalism Will Bring Back the Family Root Cellar,” in which I observed that “Survivalism is a healthy response to the existential anxieties that are part and parcel of life today. The practices of earlier generations are making a comeback. The obsession of local television with food deprivation makes it look like many parents have stopped feeding their children. More people realize the importance of food-storage techniques that our grandparents took for granted.”
Some people in Sanctuary Cities already know about being prepared concerning food and other necessities to fit all possible emergencies. Fire departments make sure families have an escape plan. However, many local government officials don’t like to invest in problems that are long-term, rather than here and now.
I also added that “Gardening is increasingly about having emergency food available. The surplus of fruits and vegetables means that eating at home is restoring family bonds. The same goes for various shared processes like canning and cooking.” The coronavirus is giving some people a chance to be at home and to take stock of their lives, an overall blessing rather than just a curse, like camping outdoors. Achieving self-sufficiency through gardening should be right at the top of our renewal thinking.
So, should places outside of Sanctuary Cities with better prepper know-how be subjected to minute-by-minute doomsday broadcasting that evokes uncountable horrors? The mayors almost always look to the federal government for help, rather than admit that they should have prepared their own cities better. Most of us beyond big metro areas favor States Rights over federal intervention. As we go father down the Chain of Responsibility, we end up with the family and, lastly, the individual.
Sanctuary City government has all the wrong priorities, as if it’s okay to be irresponsible, so long as you can blame someone else. Maybe the emphasis should be on urban and rooftop gardening, rather than massive sporting events and crowded entertainment venues. Above all, the huddled masses of illegal immigrants should not be seduced to build welfare-based Voter Identity Groups from Third World countries. Even the Statue of Liberty decided she wanted to have her own little island.
At this point, there’s not enough reason to seal off Sanctuary Cities in order to protect and save the rest of the country from the coronavirus run amok.
