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Posted On: 12/30/2020 8:00:48 AM
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Re: Rubraquercus #70264
Very nice... almost Swiftian.... except I don't think it was meant ironically.
Rubra wrote:
Bunch of posts decrying lockdown.... from the Better-to-die-free-than-think-about-the-common-good Dept. Suggest we all check out George Washington's reaction to a smallpox epidemic (he not only locked down Boston, he locked it in). The Founding Fathers were not so narrow minded about the meaning of the word freedom.
Rubra wrote:
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This horrid pandemic has found the crack in societies obsession with consumption.... I want to pay cash for a new truck and upgrade my farm cabin to a house....
Bunch of posts decrying lockdown.... from the Better-to-die-free-than-think-about-the-common-good Dept. Suggest we all check out George Washington's reaction to a smallpox epidemic (he not only locked down Boston, he locked it in). The Founding Fathers were not so narrow minded about the meaning of the word freedom.
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