“COVID-19 is like 9/11 Every Day” is the Newest Evil Trend

I suppose it was only a matter of time before 9/11 was fashioned into a cudgel to beat people into COVID submission. Although demagogues like Andrew Cuomo started back in March, It’s now common to read articles and tweets brainlessly comparing the reported coronavirus death counts to the Americans who were murdered on September 11th, 2001. The COVID-19 panic porn apparently had yet another level of mindless stupidity to ascend to.

Take an article published today by Jana Riess, writing for Religion News Service entitled “I am appalled by America.” Of course like every good leftist, she brings a reflexive disdain for freedom, but this piece ramps it up to a new level of evil. She hyperbolizes the compromised and farcical coronavirus death stats:

We’ve been in the grim throes of this pandemic for nine months now, and our nation has lost over 276,000 souls so far…

It bears repeating: the novel coronavirus is not adding to total mortality in the United States. It is absolutely clear that deaths being attributed to the virus are (almost without exception) people who (sadly) are dying anyway. Of course to people like Riess, those of us who recognize death is a part of life and refuse to accept the false choice between safety and freedom might as well be flying the planes into the twin towers ourselves.

Riess then characterizes people going to the store, or (God forbid) trying to keep their family businesses alive as blatantly selfish. In the “coronavirus is 9/11” comparison, anyone not complying with big brother is the terrorist.

It is laughable that this even needs to be said, but the novel coronavirus is not the same as mass murder, despite what these Branch Covidians are saying. Not only does every bit of data we have indicate that restrictions on freedom have no effect on the spread of the virus, but the idea of accepting a scenario where every American is a potential killer or murder victim simply by living their lives as normal is a morally reprehensible notion that is only acceptable to those who have already succumbed to the government is god worldview.

This evil fool Riess then callously likens economic freedom to her vacation, and refers to traveling and getting together with friends and family as privileges:

So, my vacation is canceled. It was depressing to pull the plug on that potential spot of fun in the midst of so much sadness and uncertainty. But travel is a privilege I can’t have right now. Getting together with family and friends is a privilege I can’t have right now.

I shouldn’t have to be the one telling someone of her Columbia pedigree that free association is a Constitutional right, not a privilege.

Idiots like this compare freedom-insistent Americans to Islamic terrorists when in reality they are the ones who would be the first to rat you and your family out to the Gestapo. The sentiment in her article and the “free people are murders” moral paradigm have no place in a free country, and indeed are one of the great lies that underpin Marxist authoritarianism. This is the kind of upside-down morality that leads to mass murder under the auspices of safety for the masses, and it must be rejected by free people on principle, no matter how deadly they think a virus with a 99.98% survival rate is.

The fact that compliant Masketeers have to resort to such comparisons is strong evidence of the untenable ridiculousness and immorality of their position.