Make the Conservative Case for Overriding Various COVID restrictions

[JohnT]

To be honest, GD isn’t the place a person who is 25% Scottish by genealogy and 40% Calvinist by upbringing/disposition.

I wrote to the conservative case here:

Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

For starters, my apologies for not seeing your reply earlier. I’m going to use a word which was, and is, largely verboten around here, at least until recently. What I understand of morality, Octopus, is pretty much your typical Western Civ suburbanite layman’s understanding of ethics: Just do as the 10 commandments and the Golden Rule tell you, and you’ll be fine. To act otherwise is a ‘sin’, and, if you accept the eschatological implications of Christianity… as, again, most typical West Civ …