COVID Mutations Will Be the Tyranny That Keeps On Giving
Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Never trust anyone who wants to split a dessert.
It was a busy Monday, what with all the hours spent trying to log on to the newly relaunched Parler. Finally got back on late last night and it felt good to know that there was one more social media outlet available for all of us to complain about Facebook and Twitter when we’re not on Facebook or Twitter.
These are truly magical times.
We are a little less than a month away from when the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu began wreaking havoc with, well, everything. Last February, we weren’t worried about “protocols,” the government wasn’t telling anyone to stay at home, and a curfew was something you imposed upon your teenage kids. What was odd back then is, sadly, commonplace now.
There have been a great many of us — myself included — who have questioned a lot of what has been done in the name of public safety. Given what we’ve been learning about Andrew Cuomo lately, it’s obvious that it would have been helpful if more people had been skeptical. Some curious journalists would have helped too.
A year later, the conversations among sane people aren’t about how well it all worked but rather how long it’s all going to go on.
We’re all painfully familiar with the script to this bad B-movie we’ve been living in since last March. First, it was fifteen days to flatten the curve. Then it was a weeks-long lockdown that was supposed to do something, but that something was never really clear. Lockdown 1 became Lockdown 2 and, in many places, Lockdown 3.
Some of us were getting the feeling that the lockdowns weren’t really working all that well.
A lot of us were insisting that all of the panic about COVID would magically disappear once Biden got into office. He only needed the crisis to get elected, after all. I was saying that for months.
What many of us were forgetting is that Democrats like to play the long game on these crises that they salivate over as opportunities. Sometime last December I realized they were going to look for ways to keep terrorizing the public in the name of public safety.
It behooves the Democrats to keep producing COVID panic-porn for the inevitable day when Ol’ Gropes starts tripling up on his public senior moments and is babbling a lot about trouser ferrets and the leprechaun who brings the weed to his treehouse. They’re going to need an excuse for keeping the most powerful and visible man in the world out of the public eye.
Thank you, bat flu!
The vaccine was supposed to hasten a return to normalcy, yet that’s not playing out so well, especially given the fact that vaccines are always in limited supply and our idiot elected leaders have been playing politics with the distribution.
The hope of returning to whatever the “new normal” is supposed to be by the end of this year isn’t strong. Whenever I’m asked for an estimate I say it won’t be until at least late in 2022. The problem, as we have also discussed before, is that the petty tyrants who’ve been capriciously enforcing protocols aren’t going to relinquish power easily.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is a prime example of how this can go on in perpetuity. A physician/bureaucrat who specializes in the moving of goalposts, he delights in just making things up to mess with us.
One of my best friends has been saying since the first of the year that people who think things will be less restrictive are delusional because the petty tyrant class will merely use the new variants of the virus as an excuse to keep the panic ratcheted up.
He isn’t wrong:
CDC director warns states against dropping mask mandates amid concern about COVID-19 mutations. @nkagetsu @EvanKirstelhttps://t.co/tTtT0MY76C
— Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeissman) February 16, 2021
Welcome to the real New Normal.
They’ll keep this up because so many blindly follow them. The COVID panic-porn purveyors have now been weaponized by the election of Joe Biden, so they have no incentive to factor the rights or livelihoods of the hoi polloi into their decision-making.
Have a wonderful day. I’m off to do my part to #resist Big Mask.
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OMG.
It’s all fun and games until you’ve woken up for the 27th day in a row realizing that Biden is actually president.
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PJ Media Senior Columnist and Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political Zen in the Age of Outrage,” both of which address serious subjects in a humorous way. Monday through Friday he edits PJ Media’s “Morning Briefing.” His columns appear twice a week.
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