Posted on 03/12/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The reaction to Covid showed Americans the system wasn’t going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.
When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time.
The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques. For the average American who assumed his political leaders still shared the belief that all men are created equal, it was a cruel betrayal.
Coronavirus lockdowns alerted Americans to an uncomfortable reality: the institutions to which they’d entrusted their liberties were no longer trustworthy. If the 2024 election is any indication, they got the message.
In the Covid times, hardworking people were deemed “nonessential” and lost their jobs while watching Tony Fauci’s net worth climb. They were banished from church while thousands gathered in the street to worship George Floyd. They watched their kids fall behind in school while Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot broke the rules to get their split ends trimmed. Their dying loved ones left this world alone, while Obama danced with Hollywood stars at his 60th birthday bash. To add further insult, those loved ones were denied proper funerals, while 10,000 people gathered to eulogize a drug-addicted criminal in a gold casket on television. Only some Americans were authorized to print their opinions online, while others were punished and censored.
The delusion that we were “all in this together” didn’t survive for long. A certain set of rules applied to the BLM protesters, the Democrat politicians, and the Hollywood elites, and another set of rules applied to everyone else. Americans started to realize they were being had.
When Covid vaccine mandates rolled out, the dichotomy was even clearer. For the vaccinated class, there were jobs, service academy appointments, college acceptances, and social acceptance. For the unvaccinated, there was talk of denying them entry to airplanes, restaurants, and stores, or even putting them into camps.
Once the double standard was exposed, it became visible everywhere. The Bidens got away with selling White House access because of their last name, while Trump was relentlessly prosecuted for made-up crimes because of his. Peaceful pro-life protesters were dragged to prison while abortion supporters got away with firebombing pregnancy clinics. Ukrainian oligarchs got billions while we watched the buying power of each paycheck shrink. Our government seemed more interested in caring for citizens of other countries who broke our laws than in looking after its own. Our president was more interested in apologizing for using the term “illegal” to describe Laken Riley’s murderer than he was in apologizing to Riley’s family for inviting her killer across the border. Our speech was muzzled as a “threat to democracy” while partisans gleefully dismantled our republic....SNIP
I still occasionally see people driving alone and wearing a mask,
I often see Leftist protestors outside with the overwhelming majority of them wearing masks...
“COVID” taught me that the vast majority of people are feckless, fearful, selfish, ignorant, gullible, dangerous retards. It showed me how much of a threat the majority of people are to freedom, and how easily they can be manipulated into supporting the violation of other people’s rights.
Yup! Some saw it for what it was. Compliance test. We are non participants.
Such weak minded fools.
There were also separate rules for illegal aliens.
The other stunner—the “my body my choice” abortion crowd decided that the slogan did not apply to those who did not want vaccines.
Yep. Incredible. I do also see, out and about in public, some still wearing them. In some cases, older, more frail-looking folks. But in many (maybe most?) it’s healthy-looking kids in their early 20’s. Not sure what’s going on there. Perhaps a bit of PTSD, or perhaps, they think, a political statement of some kind?
“I still occasionally see people driving alone and wearing a mask”
Just the other day for me.....because security cameras are are everywhere nowadays, I suspect it’s more about concealing their identity than anything else.
BTW, my observation is that it’s almost always a certain ethnicity.
well I still see a lot of sheeple wearing masks... I even see an occasional solo driver wearing one as they drive down the street.
That WAS rather revealing, wasn’t it? It also brought into the discussion a fact I’d never much thought about previously, that as healthy, battle-capable male, the government had ‘control’ of my body for most of my life through a thing called The Draft.
Everything I learned had been said by Dr. Zaius in “Planet of the Apes”.
I think the author has it a bit backwards. The division that already existed between those dependent on government and those with a healthy distrust of it was made just as apparent as the other preexisting divisions she mentions.
The people who learned were the rioters. They learned that two sets of rules existed and they did not have to act like humans.
The worst part of the Covid hoax was the “essential versus non-essential” businesses. Since when is any legitimate business nonessential. The owner, manager, employees, and landlord of that business highly disagree.
“…or even putting them into camps.“
How I wish they’d tried that one. But they got away with doing all but…so why push it?
I can understand some older folks making an effort to wear them even though they actually don’t do much good. Some medical treatments can severely weaken immune systems so they are trying to protect themselves and this lowered immunity.
But all the young adults? They are just plain brainwashed and now it is a lifestyle. Their god the government put the fear of god into them and it will now stick for life. They will be psychologically traumatized by fear for life.
What those insane radical extremist State Governors did to these kids was absolutely criminal.
, and Obama’s part elite at Martha Vineyard, the smart people who knew how to social distance with high IQ’s that could party together while the rest had drones flying over to make sure there was isolation, no churches, no singing.
The fact that churches, schools, and most small/family-owned businesses were deemed "non-essential", while liquor, cannabis, and big-box stores were allowed to remain open, further exposed the "COVID" fraud as the audacious lie that it was from the beginning.
Agreed.
... and some people truly do not understand this nearly-complete loss of trust and integrity ... and are “surprised” by a widespread distrust of what health “experts” say and recommend. This loss of credibility is not a good thing for our society ... but it’s real and it’s completely understandable ... to me, anyway.
If you’d have told me before covid that millions of Americans would blindly and without question follow directions to wear a mask, get a little if at all tested experimental injection, stay 6 feet apart and walk down grocery store isles in only one direction I would have called you a lunatic.
I never would have thought in a million years that so many people in this country were that weak minded.
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