Omicron found in North Carolina: Get ready for the liberal cities to lockdown

After nearly 2 years of this crap I can't believe that there are people out there that are still listening to their ineffective governments and believing that their tactics to combat Covid have ever accomplished anything at all and that anything they do moving forward is going to have any sort of impact on the virus.

As I have mentioned many times before, my community stopped complying to ALL mandates both Federal and State well over a year ago. The community banded together and spoke to our representatives and basically informed them that if they tried to enact tyranny on us that we would not comply and we would also see all of them removed from office.

This is one of the benefits of the rather convoluted separation of powers that exist between the federal, state, and local level. While the ones above you on the tier ultimately CAN force your area into compliance, they do so only by removing someone from office that the people of that community can vote to immediately reinstate. This is one part of the USA's governing system that I actually appreciate. One of the few. Your locality can basically determine what is best for that community and not have someone in D.C. tell you what is best for you.

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In the never-ending cycle that is Covid fear, the news is making a big deal about the fact that there are a few states where the dreaded Omicron variant has reared its ugly head and North Carolina is one of those states. I am quite certain that the liberal areas of this state will almost immediately freak out, close the schools, get the mask police back on the streets, and even quarantine and lockdown certain areas. We already know that Craven County will not be one of them.

The people in my relatively low-population county have made our voice very clear. We will not comply and our local leaders are on our side with this. I realize that a lot of this support from them may very well be fake and that they are simply interested in keeping their jobs but if that is what it takes, than so be it.

This has been circulating a lot online lately and this is basically how my part of the country feels about Covid in a general sense. Without complying with basically anything that the government has told us would result in our own demise, we have seen figures that are right in line with the rest of the country per capita. Even the places that have had the strictest restrictions in the country have around the same percentages per capita as we do. How much more information do people need?

I'm very happy that my community and county seems to be one of the sane ones and while I am certain there are a few people here and there that disagree with our nonchalant attitude towards Covid, we believe that it should be their personal responsibility to take whatever extra precautions they deem necessary. It should not be forced on the rest of the population against their will.

This is the very essence of freedom in my mind and if that makes me a backwoods redneck then it is a title I gladly accept and will wear with pride. We will not comply no matter how many variants they discover.