The powers that be have eliminated the mask mandate in Lincoln and at UNL.
My policy, as always, is one of liberty. If you wish to wear a mask, please feel free to do so. If you wish to go without a mask, please feel free to do so. Everyone is welcome in Property!
Whatever
your views about the now-expired mandate, I hope that you will not become too used
to having your life so heavily regulated by government for such a long
period of time. It is like boiling a frog slowly; you get used to the
warm water as the heat slowly increases and the next thing you know you
are boiled alive. Here is something Jefferson wrote to Abigail Adams in
1787:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere."
And here is something Reagan said along the same lines:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men [and women] were free.”
You are the next generation. I will be gone soon (never having enjoyed my retirement home on Lake Tahoe). It is up to you to decide whether you will live as free men and women, or as obedient subjects of the bureaucratic state tipping your forelock to the great Lords and Ladies of Government.
Finally, here is a lament about lost liberty from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
