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Leaving COVID Wonderland
American Thinker ^ | 14 Oct, 2021 | William Sullivan

Posted on 10/14/2021 3:05:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

If Gavin Newsom succeeds in making this irrational fear, these theatrical inanities, and medical tyranny permanent features of life in California, you can count us out.

On the Saturday before Labor Day weekend, my son’s football team played its first game in almost two years. An omnipresent feeling of gratitude could be felt in the air of my little adopted Northern California burg. The sun was shining, Old Glory was flying, fans were laughing and cheering, and our boys were playing football. Save the occasional mask, you wouldn’t know there was anything different about this year than any other.

Then, at the end of the game, something silly happened that dragged us all back into COVID Wonderland. Rather than having the boys line up and shake hands at the end of the game as usual, both teams lined up on their respective hashmarks facing the other, and waved from a distance.

I couldn’t believe it, and as I gathered from the loud chuckles among spectators, neither could they. I looked at a fellow coach, whom I suspect is far to my left politically, and whispered, “Can you believe this?” He just smiled, shook his head, and said, “Nope.”

After all, we had met all the other team’s coaches earlier. No masks, but there were plenty of handshakes and conversation without adhering to the entirely made-up standard for social distancing that everyone came to know in 2020. No one in the crowd was distancing from one another, either, and the boys had just been all over each other without anyone having the slightest concern. But somehow, the players and coaches shaking hands at the end of the game was just too dangerous?

That stupid visual of us waving at the other team was, like so many other things

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 10/14/2021 3:05:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 10/14/2021 3:05:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Yup—I expect international Nuremberg trials as well for Big Pharma execs, boards of directors, and politicians pushing mandatory vaxxes.

Ten years sounds about right—by that time there will be plenty of time to fully understand all the vaxx side effects.


3 posted on 10/14/2021 3:10:29 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MtnClimber

Great article, and spot on!

Thanks for posting it.


4 posted on 10/14/2021 4:32:28 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: MtnClimber

Our overlords must be thrilled that they have been able to control us so easily, and for so long.


5 posted on 10/14/2021 5:03:38 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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