You know the song and all the parts of the 12 days of Christmas. You may not quite recall how many drummers, pipers, or dancing ladies or leaping lords, but you’ve got the first few nailed down. Charlie Baker has decided to change those. Beginning on Day two (the day after Christmas), all the other days are capacity restricted.
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“Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 26, Massachusetts will implement temporary capacity limits to stop the spread of COVID-19 as cases and hospitalizations rise,” the governor announced. “Businesses must adhere to the following capacity limitations.”
The new restrictions reduce the gathering limit across the Commonwealth to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors.
So you can’t even ask the maids a-milking (8), Ladies Dancing (9), lords of leaping (10) pipers (11), and drummers (12) to stay in the back yard. That’s 50, double the allowed limit. Maybe half out front?
There’s nothing about animals, so all the swans, geese, calling birds, French Hens, Turtle Doves, and that Partridge are okay outdoors or in if you want 23 birds inside with you, (uncooked).
Baker’s Rules mean no actual people above the ordained sums, until further notice. Not just the 12 days but all the days. Not that this tactic has worked anywhere else it has been tried. But then neither has socialism, but here you are living with covidism. A belief that public health fascism is in the public interest. It’s not.
Liberty and individual rights are in the public interest in a free society, which is not any way to describe the cradle of liberty. Massachusetts is a constitutional Monarchy, or perhaps an oligarchy eating itself alive.
A decline abetted every time someone puts on a useless mask or allows a public health police state to confine, restrict, quarantine the movement and assembly of healthy or even asymptomatic people.
A power they will never willingly give back. You will have to take it from them.
What that looks like depends on where you are and how you exercise your will. We recommend the soapbox and the ballot box. But a few hundred years ago, Massachusetts stood up for Liberty against far less tyranny.
Do they have it in them still, or has that been worn out of them over years of submission to progressive power and politics?