Bits & Pieces

Biden and Middle East: A long line of republican White House regimes made Afghanistan’s crisis possible. First cause, however, is Afghanistan itself and its people. They live as though there is no consequence for allowing religious tyranny to run amok in their land. They also live without taking responsibility for their own conditions.

Other nations have entered their land to help. Yes, those nations had ulterior motives, but Afghanistan is an uncontrolled culture that is deadly to itself. Two core reasons defeat the nation before any solution is available. The first is the rampant religious tyranny. Whether Muslim, Christian or any other sect, peaceful co-existence has not been achievable in Afghanistan. Women’s rights truly do not exist. Religious freedom does not exist. Only violence and iron control rule the land.

Second core reason for national defeat: the economic rule of drugs in the land. Afghanistan grows more opium and derivative drugs than most nations. That produce fuels warlords, Taliban military, and corruption throughout the nation. It is why American aid was wasted all this time. Our aid did nothing to eliminate the drug crops. Building a nation along the lines of commerce, manufacturing, education and careers never had a chance in Afghanistan. Drugs. Taliban. Religious poopery. That’s it.

If Afghanis desire a better life, they have much to do for themselves before that can happen.

Healthcare & Anti-Vaxxers: When patients with heart attacks or strokes are pushed away from hospitals because anti-vaxxers need hospital care for an avoidable cause, then something is wrong with public policy. COVID is abatable, avoidable, and manageable through vaccines, masks, social distancing and commonsense. Most of the public are taking steps to avoid the disease doing these things. We still have a way to go before we can declare COVID over.

We can do this. We have been doing this. The only reason COVID remains an issue is due to its amazing ability to mutate variants. With unvaccinated populations vulnerable to COVID infection, the disease has free reign to continue spreading.

Here is the thing: if people truly believe vaccines and government policy are the problem, then they need to isolate themselves from the rest of us. Why? Because they continue to prolong the viral spread the rest of us are collaborating to control. We are engaged in the solution to the problem; the others are the problem.

Public health policy is not the problem. Nor is government. The problem is the disease. Focus on that and conquer it. That means all of us. Not just the masses so a ‘self-selected chosen few’ can live their freedom. The rest of us have freedom by living responsibly. That is the root of freedom.

Be the solution or get out of the way. Isolation and quarantine are the only avenues left.

August 17, 2021