Congrats - that's the right way to approach this madness. If my daughter hadn't decided to come home 'to be safe' - we'd be doing the same thing

Luckily she spent the night at her boyfriends - so we did a good session in tonight

The difference between an optimist and pessimist is the pessimist has better info.

Martial law means a suspension of the US Constitution. Translation: we have no rights and liberties.

There is no constitutional foundation for martial law. Period.

I'm always optimistic. That doesn't mean I've stopped thinking.

I'll continue to enjoy outdoor activities until I wind up at Leavenworth as iconoclast w/o habeas corpus. Who needs rights and liberties???

I don't buy in to the Great Corona Frenzy of 2020. There's something more ominous lurking behind corona.

I've survived SARS, bird, swine flu and other sundry really frightening stuff with nary a sniffle. There were no draconian responses to previous really scary epidemics. Why draconian response to corona?

I think you've missed the point. No one is criticizing or resenting. I'm merely questioning motive and trying to determine causation. Knowledge is power. Believing without proof in blind faith in a corrupt political system.

Not experiencing a stain of virus does not justify draconian response. We resolved many viral stains that had no cure without destroying what little rights and liberties we have remaining. Corona response is hugely disproportionate to alleged danger.

Necessity of quarantine is your opinion. I'm not buying it. My opinion is corona is proxy for a far more ominous disaster.

Socialism is always destructive to host countries. Socialism is an economic construct. It can give only an illusion of viability when it's supported by a complementary oppressive political construct. Bernie Sanders is a socialist. That's an economic construct. No one has pinned him down to the political construct he'll need to give the illusion of viability to his socialist construct because he does not want to reveal that Americans will exist within a de facto totalitarian state.

Here's my opinion, which would justify draconian response. If Americans awake to financial insolvency due to being sold out to globalism, there was be pandemic social unrest that government probably won't be able to quarantine:

"You’ll still have dollars, but they’ll be local currency like the Mexican peso, for example. But its global dominance will end.

Based on past practice, we can expect that the dollar will be devalued by 50–80% in the coming years.

A devaluation of this magnitude will wipe out the value of your life’s savings. You’ll still have just as many dollars, but they won’t be worth nearly as much."

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Imagine awaking to our New World Order in which Americans will envy Venezuelans along with Americans' wealth wiped out. Now that would cause a draconian response.

There is no such thing as money for nothing. What most Americans don't realize is free stuff buys their enslavement on the cheap.

We can't print at least 7 trillion of funny (fiat) money without a corresponding comeuppance. By then it'll be too late.

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
---Friedrich Nietzsche

Americans want to believe what they're told. They'd be far better off with trust but verify.

Hi Leil,

The question was: "With all this nastiness going around with the coronavirus has your sex life changed?"

The assumption implied was that corona was causal of changing sex lives. Elementary logic: if your premise is wrong, your conclusion will be wrong.

Knowing causality is essential for predicting actions. Hence, my desire to know causality. If it is corona, draconian response is unprecedented. If it isn't, what is the real cause of shutting down our country?

Here is what I do know: Plato's Noble Lie has manipulated mankind before he assigned terminology to propaganda.

Every single day I run across more and more people who are doubting corona as causal for shutting down government. Doubt is mounting on the 'net. People are becoming suspicious.

James Rickards (search engine him for his illustrious vita) along with plethora eminent economists have predicted USA economic collapse for decades due to deficit spending. Since Mesopotamia (earliest civilization) through Venezuela and other now collapsing countries, debasing countries' money has always preceded countries' destruction. Every time the Fed Reserve prints fiat money, it debases value of it (inflation). It will end in collapse. What no one knows is when. But it will collapse the USA. That is factual. Facts are not optimistic or pessimistic. They stand alone as facts. How we respond to facts will determine whether we'll wind up envying Venezuelans or preserve our republic.

Another inconvenient fact: someone must work and earn money and have the product of his labor confiscated by government to give to another who believes he has property rights in labor of others. The logical conclusion of that construct is destruction.

My incredibly hilarious sense of humor that has cracked up patrons a half-hour inside of happy hour and begging for oxygen by last call keeps my life in balanced perspective.

So, again, in answer to the initial question: there is mounting doubt about whether corona alone is causal of draconian response, and to its effect, the draconian response to corona has screwed up more than sex lives. Hence, corona ain't the problem. Government's draconian response to it is the problem.

George Carlin saw government's draconian response to media generated frenzy 20 years ago. Cut 'n' paste it. Humor is therapeutic.

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Laugh while you can, for if the US dollar is replaced as the world reserve currency, you might wake up with 50% to 80% of your net worth wiped out. Then it would be cryin' time.

I was lucky enough to be quarantined with my girlfriend over the past month after almost 6 months of not seeing each other. The short version is that we spent almost every day having sex. The long is that she's pretty sexually inexperienced with another woman and it was the perfect time to spend learning each other. Using some of the toys that I've got as well as just becoming more comfortable sexually. The largest development of all is that for someone that long thought of herself as vanilla, the girlfriend found out that she is pretty kinky.

So sorry...