Opus 2020-063: Geezer Alert

The elderly are the new children.

You have noticed if you are paying attention that the way the Progressives* get things done is to claim that “it is for the children”.  Now we have a cause that does not seem to touch the children so they are calling for the same types of government intervention only this time it is “for the elderly”.  I can see some legislation called “No Geezer Left Behind”. 

Keep in mind that these same people were okay with the death panels of Obamacare and withholding medical treatment for those who no longer make a contribution.  Now that group must be preserved at all costs.  We hear about the frail and helpless people in nursing homes.  The sobs are almost heart breaking.  We are closing our schools.  Is it to protect the children?  No, they don’t seem to be at risk in the current panic unless they get caught in a toilet paper stampede.  We are closing our schools to protect the elderly who populate the good paying jobs associated with being a teacher or professor.  It might make more sense at the college level to force the students to stay in the dorm and not go home.  That way their parents and grandparents would be safe and the only ones at risk would be the left-wing mind warpers running the mediocrity mills. 

So get ready for a lot of laws you would never imagined.  Picture speed limits around nursing homes and cars carrying anyone over 65 to have special blinking warning lights.  Perhaps we could have social worker visits and licenses required for anyone keeping their parents at home.  My mind boggles at the potential for new invasions of our liberty.

But keep in mind, it is for the elderly.

*(Liberals, educators, socialists, communists, elites, Rinos, Democrats, leftists, Never Trumpers, etc)

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