Crazy Horse on the role of Government in a pandemic

For many reasons, the US government of the day decided to remove freedom from the American Indians and confine them to reservations.  This was an effective method of controlling the Indians and removing their rights to roam their traditional lands.

They stopped Indians mixing with other tribes, by limiting the reservation to their own tribe.  They restricted the Indians from practising their own Spiritual beliefs and forced them to rely on the government to provide food or the means to buy food.

The government encouraged spies within the reservations to report any breach of the rules or any signs of uprising to the police of the day.  They gave police open power to ensure the Indians were compliant.

Soon the government allowed in missionaries to replace the Spiritual beliefs of the Indian with those of their own.  They began to educate the Indian in white man’s ways, but the education was limited.

The result was a culturally weakened Indian suffering a loss of independence.  The government representing them, controlled them. To a significant degree, two centuries later, this situation remains.

It is a proper and reasonable action for a representative government to take, to isolate people in a pandemic, so as to limit its spread, thus save lives.  The people must agree and want to do it.

Where a pandemic results in a dramatic loss of liberty and an unhealthy reliance on the government, there are warning signs emerging for the public.  Further warning signs appear when all the government talks about is isolation and there is not a clearly laid out exit plan for the people.

Representative governments represent the people, not control them to an unnatural degree other than what is required to restrict the spread of the pandemic.  It is called a pandemic because it has spread internationally.  The aim is to restrict the pandemic, not the people.

In isolating you, Governments are not doing wrong, it is the extent of the isolation, including the loss of rights, which if allowed to go on for too long, becomes the new norm, that is cause for concern.

If the number of pandemic cases is shown to have dropped over three weeks there is no reason for ongoing extreme isolation. If isolation continues without valid explanation and in the absence of a fully documented exit plan. ...............

From my guide Crazy Horse through Ian Rogers Director Sphinx Spiritual