To Lockdown Lunatics

I May Hate You. It’s a Struggle.

Hate is a powerful emotion.

I struggle to not allow my anger to devolve into bitterness, or hatred. My anger has propelled me into positive action, which has been healing, but sometimes, as I am only human, I can’t help but hating.

What is able to get me to hate at the speed of light? If one of my family members is hurt or being threatened. On the eve of the 19th anniversary of the murder of my son Casey in Iraq, 0n 04 April 2004, my hatred for the Military Industrial Complex has expanded to hate the lockdown authoritarians and their compliers.

There is a young person, who is representative of so many young people, who I am very close to that is having horrific emotional issues because right at a very critical time in his/her emotional and mental development, he/she was thrown into isolation from his/her peers (so important to most people, but for pre-teens, essential), his/her school was shuttered for over a year, he/she was forced to diaper his/her face, parks and other recreational opportunities were closed, and all extra-curricular activities were banned. That’s as much of his/her story as I can share: the place where his/her story, and my story, as someone who loves him/her, intersect.

Why? There was NEVER any good science or justification for this criminalization of healthy young people. Impressionable young people may internalize aspects of this as older, more mature brains may not have: am I so ugly, I need to cover my face? Am I so dirty, I can’t get within six feet of anybody? Am I so stupid, that I am having a hard time learning from this disembodied NPC on my Chromebrook that is droning on, and on about something that really has no meaning in a world that is telling us we are nothing but dangerous germ vectors? Nah, let’s open up YouTube and watch Mr. Beast and pretend we are listening to the NPC on the Chromebook.

My dear loved one is not the only young one that I see with issues, every one was touched, or traumatized in some way by the insane lockdown measures. Babies and toddlers missed important face and bonding time with the world. Their language development and other important benchmarks are far below normal. California, one of the harshest places for lockdown lunacy completely failed its students as its hovering just right above Mississippi as the 50th worst state in terms of education metrics.

Here in this California, pediatric mental health providers and clinical relief are jammed-up, with waiting lists—even if the family has good health insurance. Suicidal? We’ll see if a counselor is available by Zoom.

“Children are not affected by Covid-19 like adults” we heard from the beginning. Yet, in the name of their own neuroses, people with the privilege to stay home, collect the same salary as they worked from home, have their groceries delivered by essential workers at Instacart and other essential workers at Amazon delivering other essential goods, thought it was cool to force their neuroses on the rest of us.

Sweden never closed schools or criminalized life for those under 16 and have had much better outcomes for their children—but, it seems like here in the U.S., child (and elder) sacrifice is not only permitted, but rewarded. They will say, “kids are resilient” but they wouldn’t have to be if the adults weren’t such effing cowards and authoritarian monsters. Imagine a world where our first thought was for the well-being of children?

Could there have been a better way to handle things after “two-weeks to flatten the curve?” Of course, if the dictators were serious about public health, but they were serious about funneling the herd into the covax line—FOR PROFIT.

We can’t go back to early 2020 and change what did happen, but I believe the fascist adults in the world may have pushed the so-called resilience of children past the breaking point this time. In a world where commonsense is canceled, or ridiculed, here are a few steps that can be taken, or, that should have been taken in 2020.

1. Take a freaking breath to wait and see if the disease is an extinction event. (Covid wasn’t)

2. Combine teachers and admin who do want to teach in person with students and families who also want that. The “vulnerable” and scaredy-cats can do the distance “learning” if that’s their jam.

3. Put the holistic health of children and elders as the primary goal and allow the rest of we healthy to live productive lives which would enhance community health and well-being.

4. NEVER close, or criminalize, the places where children (and adults) can be out in fresh air and sunshine, getting play-time and exercise.

5. STOP LYING TO MAKE YOUR BUDDIES IN BIG HARMFUL EVEN WEALTHIER.

6. If you’re going to drive everybody bonkers with your confusing and counter-productive measures, prepare for the coming shitstorm.

If the fascists really were concerned with public health (then they wouldn’t be fascists), there would not NOW be the need to put a defibrillator in every school, or public place; Pediatric mental health services wouldn’t be at a crisis level; and we could go on with our already stressful lives without the burden of the Covid measures FAILURE fallout.

I don’t want to hate the privileged Lockdown Lunatics, I really don’t want to hate anybody, but it is hard when so many children are so profoundly harmed, because so many children were already marginalized by this cancerous society, to begin with.

Don’t ever again avoid life, or put any minute of precious time of it on hold out of propagandized fear. Remember that the establishment NEVER tells our truth and NEVER has your best interest at heart. If you are able to understand all of this, then we won’t get caught with THE STATE of being co-abusers of our children. Ugh, I never want to partner with the murderous U.S. government on anything, let alone child-sacrifice.

I think the people who kidnapped indigenous children from their families and tribes, cut their hair, and forced them to learn English and Jesus, thought they were doing the right thing, as well. THEY WERE NOT!

Our credo should be like the now laughable motto of medicine: First, do no harm, then, triaging the collateral damage would not be so necessary.

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