Posted on 03/11/2021 4:39:03 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s been a year. A whole calendar year since we faced the first lockdowns and traceable spread of COVID-19. Much of the year we stayed patient. Many of us were scared. Most of us sincerely worked hard to protect one another and ourselves. But not all of us hoped for a way out. In fact, on this one-year anniversary, there are some who obviously plan to make COVID-19 a way of life and a permanent fixture of American culture.
We know what this virus is now. We understand whom it attacks. Many of us caught it and never knew we had it. Many of us got very sick. The oldest and sickest who caught it (with rare exceptions) sadly lost their lives. It isn’t that we don’t understand it can be serious for some. It’s that we know it’s not fatal, statistically for most. For most, that makes it yet another illness we don’t want to catch but we can’t endlessly shelter in place to avoid. It’s simply not the human condition.
The therapies and treatments are well known. The vulnerable know who they are. We know kids don’t spread this disease or even suffer from it in any meaningful numbers. Yet many schools still remain closed a year later. Why? You know the answer. This stopped being about the virus long ago.
Last year at this time, Dr. Fauci said masks weren’t necessary and we didn’t need to worry about changing our way of life. Today, he advocates wearing two masks and takes every holiday, special event, and change of season to warn the country we should shelter in place at all times.
Once upon a time, we were told social distancing was sufficient. Today, many restaurants and small businesses still have to go rogue or close altogether as blue state mayors and governors continue to insist social distancing isn’t enough. Social distancing AND masks aren’t enough. Being inside together - no matter the distance - is unsafe they falsely claim. Governor DeSantis of Florida made fools of all of them.
If American news media weren’t an insane cesspool of partisanship, they’d honestly report what the Trump administration managed to accomplish inside of one year. It’s the stuff of greatness in presidential leadership. Truman and the bomb, Ike and the interstate highway system, FDR and the New Deal – “Operation Warp Speed” was one of those.
To clear the way and lead the charge to get three vaccines developed cleared, and into the arms of Americans within an eleven-month period is jaw-dropping. The vaccines are here. They’re now being injected into more arms than there are cases of COVID in the United States.
Yet, it’s still not good enough to let our guard down. This week the CDC and Dr. Fauci now suggest the vaccine might not be sufficient to allow us to travel. Just because you got the shot, they say doesn’t mean you can’t still pass along the virus. There’s even discussion the vaccine might not last all that long. "We can’t be sure," they say. Huh? So, it’s important to get the shot? Or it doesn’t matter?
And the variants of the virus! Don’t forget the variants! Brazilian, South American, and U.K. variants are now of concern because they “can’t be sure” the vaccines protect against those either.
Gosh, it’s all very confusing, isn’t it? We had to wait, wait, wait until a vaccine was here to get life back to normal. Then a vaccine arrived. Three to be precise. You’ve probably seen people in your social media feed celebrating, proudly displaying their vaccination card. "What a relief! I’m safe now," they’re likely thinking.
But of course, that’s not what we’re hearing now. Now, we’re treated to eggheads on cable news and in editorial pages of prominent publications wondering aloud if masks are here to stay. Maybe the vaccine isn’t enough? Maybe we should always be afraid of getting sick?
So, one year later ask yourself why. Why do the people who keep telling you if we just follow their simple instructions life will return to normal, then yank normal away like Charlie Brown’s football just as we reach their stated goal and we land flat on our locked-down backs all over again? The answer is not hard to understand. Fear is a useful tool for those who love control.
If you live in a red state where restrictions have been lifted or have never been in place, this may sound very foreign to you. For those living in communities and states where preening bureaucrats cling to their power by locking kids out of schools, shutting worshipers out of church, and ordering businesses shuttered at half or no indoor capacity – this is the one year anniversary of a prison sentence that simply won’t end. And the prison wardens are county commissioners, school board members, mayors, city councilmen, and governors more cruel and corrupt than the guy who ran “Shawshank.”
It’s been a year. That’s enough. It’s time to reclaim normal from those who have no intention of allowing normal’s return.
Eight Is Enough
Enough is enough from fauxi. Someone pop that pimple on
his shoulders. Crime against humanity.
“Eight Is Enough”
That’s what Cuomo said
Yes, it is time to reclaim the “normal” which was taken away by tyrants and fools. But how? I can’t make the bars and restaurants stop this stupidity, other than not giving them any business, and that doesn’t help them. I can’t go grocery shopping without a mask if the store won’t let me in that way. And since no amount of science or evidence that this has all been an enormous sham will convince the Karens or the few sincere but misguided political and bureaucratic hacks to stop all of it, how exactly do we make it end?
another homepage bump! FReepers have MAGA homepages
My girlfriend and I met one year ago (Sat 14th of March) we had a nice chat and then went out for pizza that day. Everything was closed down the next week before we could have another date. We liked each other and with no activities to go to spent a lot of time walking and talking over the next months. I gave her a ring last week.
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CONGRATS
The dems used this virus to win the election. They were the first to say don’t politicize it. Then they did it. Used it for mail in votes that the laws were passed illegally. Used it to pressure the shut down. I wonder if fauci isn’t a plant for them to give advise that set up power over the people knowing the steal was in and they would gain crazy power over what they could do and limit what we could do. Leaving the citizens depending on the government.
The time to put a stop to this bullsh!t was before it even started.
As I told business associates of mine a year ago: If you tolerate this sh!t for 15 minutes you'll tolerate it for the rest of your life.
From the article...
“Fear is a useful tool for those who love control.”
From FReeper Vlad...
(Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
If there is anyone I’d like to see publicly shamed and humiliated it’s the jackwad who came up with “15 days to flatten the curve.” Nearly everyone, including Trump actually believed it. That’s why he thought Easter was a target for reopening. In reality it was always crap and “they” knew it.
The problem was that someone in his position was inevitably going to be driven by politics, not rational thought.
From my FR profile page (posted last year):
We're all getting a first-hand look at how a society operates when it's run by people who are always catering to the mindless whims of suburban Karens. Our leaders are invariably going to end up making decisions that are idiotic and irrational ... and they're going to feel completely unaccountable when they fail.
Congratulations! Wishing you many years of happy marriage.
How sweet. Congratulations!
Run!!! 🏃
WuFluCoup
And it worked.
^There it is^
/was one of the “street corner ranters” from day one
Awesome. LOL.
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