I think another boon we have going into a potential second round of attempted lock-downs is that the powers that be lack the element of surprise this time. I started accruing supplies a good month in advance of the lock-downs and I remember people in my daily life telling me, "Oh, no, that won't happen here" or "There's no way they would do that", and many other platitudes that have no aged well. I understand why it seemed so outlandish at the time - I found myself doubting my own judgement when I was enough toilet paper to survive the apocalypse - but now, we know exactly what they are capable of doing, what they're willing to do, and they've told us many times what they want to do, which gives us time to prepare ourselves accordingly.
It isn't just organization, although that's a factor. It's also that the fraction of the population willing to give the authorities the benefit of the doubt is much smaller this time around. Yes, there are still plenty of menticided NPCs. But, there are also a lot of people who simply will not comply.
A year and a half ago the state I was living in brought back mandatory masking for a month. Personally, I was done with it. I simply refused to wear one. The businesses dutifully put up their stupid little signs, which I blithely ignored. Some asked me to mask up, whereupon I simply turned around and never stepped foot in their establishment again. Most turned a blind eye. At the gym I went to, the only person to say anything was a guy beside me on the squat rack, who lifted his mask to say, bro, I wish I had your balls.
Point being, we don't need *everyone* to disobey. We don't even need a majority to do so. We only need a critical fraction, say 10% or so, to refuse, and to do so publicly, spreading as much social friction as they can every time someone tries to force compliance.
Definitely a wise choice. I had plenty of other reasons to move, but my safety, freedom, and generally getting distance from the unraveling mess that is Austin was very high on my list of priorities.
I moved from Phoenix back to my flyspeck hometown in 2018, partly because I knew some serious shit was going to hit. I couldn't have predicted this particular sequence of events, but it was clear that things could not keep going the way they had been.
Go to tacda.org for free education to prepare your family for natural and manade disasters like plandemic 2.0. I just wrote an article in the journal of civil defense titled farmer's markets solution for the coming American food shortages you should enjoy.
Very nice! A major difference between now and then is that this time we're already organized.
I think another boon we have going into a potential second round of attempted lock-downs is that the powers that be lack the element of surprise this time. I started accruing supplies a good month in advance of the lock-downs and I remember people in my daily life telling me, "Oh, no, that won't happen here" or "There's no way they would do that", and many other platitudes that have no aged well. I understand why it seemed so outlandish at the time - I found myself doubting my own judgement when I was enough toilet paper to survive the apocalypse - but now, we know exactly what they are capable of doing, what they're willing to do, and they've told us many times what they want to do, which gives us time to prepare ourselves accordingly.
Another good point!
It isn't just organization, although that's a factor. It's also that the fraction of the population willing to give the authorities the benefit of the doubt is much smaller this time around. Yes, there are still plenty of menticided NPCs. But, there are also a lot of people who simply will not comply.
A year and a half ago the state I was living in brought back mandatory masking for a month. Personally, I was done with it. I simply refused to wear one. The businesses dutifully put up their stupid little signs, which I blithely ignored. Some asked me to mask up, whereupon I simply turned around and never stepped foot in their establishment again. Most turned a blind eye. At the gym I went to, the only person to say anything was a guy beside me on the squat rack, who lifted his mask to say, bro, I wish I had your balls.
Point being, we don't need *everyone* to disobey. We don't even need a majority to do so. We only need a critical fraction, say 10% or so, to refuse, and to do so publicly, spreading as much social friction as they can every time someone tries to force compliance.
Same. I moved To West Virginia from Maryland to keep my family safe
Definitely a wise choice. I had plenty of other reasons to move, but my safety, freedom, and generally getting distance from the unraveling mess that is Austin was very high on my list of priorities.
I moved from Phoenix back to my flyspeck hometown in 2018, partly because I knew some serious shit was going to hit. I couldn't have predicted this particular sequence of events, but it was clear that things could not keep going the way they had been.
It was perhaps the best choice I've ever made.
Go to tacda.org for free education to prepare your family for natural and manade disasters like plandemic 2.0. I just wrote an article in the journal of civil defense titled farmer's markets solution for the coming American food shortages you should enjoy.