Seemingly a majority of the nation’s political leaders, particularly at the federal level, and the national News Media are intent on convincing the American citizens that the COVID-19 virus is so deadly that we should totally abandon our normal way of life.

So today, on the eve of the day of the once-great nation’s independence, we have the government imposing its will over the people who created it.  The government is shutting down and crippling the nation's economy irrevocably supposedly due to a minor virus and gets away with saying that the safety and security of the collective trumps that of the right of the individual.  Subsequently, as the economy declines due to the government's actions to restrict the freedoms and liberties of the individual and the mighty energy that is created by a free people and that has dominated all other nations since America’s creation, there’s the stifling air of appeasement and capitulation growing. The popularity of the nanny state becomes more enticing and alluring to more citizens like a cyst that grows and grows until there is no longer any room for freedom in the body that once gave it life.

Today, I believe that we are witnessing the sun setting on the America as many of us once knew it from our founding and the too often regurgitated phrase and belief of this being the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.  Under the cloud of the COVID-19 Pandemic governments all over the world have grabbed huge fistfuls of power simply by edict, an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.