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Good Riddance, 2021
Townhall.com ^ | December 31, 2021 | Michael Reagan

Posted on 12/31/2021 3:50:12 PM PST by Kaslin

Edited on 12/31/2021 4:17:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

It’s New Year’s again and time to hope for a happier future.

Last year at this time we were hoping for a better year in 2021, but that sure as heck didn’t work out, did it?

Forget the damage done to the economy by the hapless and relentlessly clueless “Joe Biden” regime.

Forget the Biden-made disasters at the Mexican border and in Afghanistan.

The worst mistakes the Biden administration made were in its failed “War on COVID.”

Biden, Dr. Fauci, the blue state governors, the CDC and the government’s so-called public health experts were wrong about everything – the high cost of lockdowns, the efficacy and safety of vaccines, the protection provided by cloth masks, the benefits of social distancing, boosters, mask mandates, vaccine mandates….

What’s left?

Whatever it is, if it had anything to do with fighting the virus in 2021, the Biden administration and its panic-pushing cheerleaders in the mainstream liberal media got it wrong.

Whether you’re masked or unmasked, vaxxed or un-vaxxed, or holed up 24/7 in your basement, COVID or one of its variants is eventually going to get you.

I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do to stay safe. I wear a mask when told. I’ve been vaccinated. I’ll get my first booster next month.

But after two years of following the strict and ever-changing rules, I look around and see most public places in Los Angeles closing down again because of omicron, a variant that is more transmissible but not nearly as dangerous as the original strain of COVID-19.

I also see long lines of people waiting to get a COVID test. I think to myself, they don’t look sick.

If you’re slightly sick, if you’ve got the sniffles and a cough and a little temperature, do you really need to get tested immediately for COVID – and possibly infect other people with whatever you have while you stand in line?

Shouldn’t you just stay home and take some therapeutics until you see whether it’s really COVID, the flu or, more likely, just one of about 200 cold viruses out there we can catch?

I’m no Dr. Fauci, but I do know a lot of people have lost their minds during our government’s losing battle against COVID.

The other day I was having lunch with my daughter in a restaurant and when they sat us down, a mother and her grown-up son at the table next to us just about had a heart attack.

We were wearing our masks. But they called over the manager and said, “We have to move. We’re too close!”

The son nodded to me as he left, signaling “My mother’s crazy. Don’t worry about her.”

But then the table next to them also moved away. Pretty soon there wasn’t a table within 20 yards of us.

If that older woman was that paranoid – and clueless – about catching COVID in a restaurant, why was she even out of her house?

Likewise, if you’re that terrified of getting COVID on an airplane, why are you even on a plane? Get in your car and drive to where you’re going– or stay home.

In 2021 we learned many important lessons about what works and doesn’t work in the failed war against COVID.

As we enter 2022 filled with the hope that we’ve learned from our mistakes, we’ve recently discovered that COVID vaccines – originally touted (and pushed) by Biden, Dr. Fauci and the panic media as the magic medical bullets that would save us all – don’t actually protect you from catching the virus. Sometimes catching it twice.

At best, it appears the vaccines and their boosters only stop you from getting deathly ill.

In two years more than 800,000 Americans have died of or with COVID. We can safely predict that no matter what we do, thousands of additional COVID-related deaths are coming in 2022.

So be careful. Stay safe. Don’t let the frightened people run or ruin your life. And have yourself a happy New Year – if they let us.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19; covidians; karans

1 posted on 12/31/2021 3:50:12 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

As long as we have democrats/marxists in the WH, we are screwed. Nuff said.


2 posted on 12/31/2021 3:57:03 PM PST by CodeJockey (Think for yourself. (While it's still legal))
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To: Kaslin

Party like its 1929!

3 posted on 12/31/2021 4:04:08 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Kaslin

I say that too, but actually it was a good year.

I didn’t catch Covid, the flu or anything else of note.


4 posted on 12/31/2021 4:06:37 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Kaslin
The worst mistakes the Biden administration made were in its failed “War on COVID.”

That's only the worst mistakes we know about. (Shuffles off, muttering darkly...)

5 posted on 12/31/2021 4:07:47 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Kaslin

Let’s look on the bright side. We said farewell to Harry Reid, now Satan’s problem.


6 posted on 12/31/2021 4:12:17 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing has changed. Same President, same problems. Same Media etc.

It’s 2020 too.


7 posted on 12/31/2021 4:18:39 PM PST by CrappieLuck
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To: CodeJockey

“As long as we have democrats/marxists in the WH, we are screwed. Nuff said.”

AS long as we have Democrats in any leadership position in any aspect of government we are screwed. Them, and their bro’s in the RINO Neo Con department of the Republican Party.


8 posted on 12/31/2021 4:19:56 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: Kaslin

2022 will be much worse every year has been worse than the year before for the last decade or two.

It won’t get better until this whole thing really does come to a head, and only then where they’ll be a great reset. And believe me, it will be a huge event. And it won’t be voluntary.


9 posted on 12/31/2021 4:21:15 PM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: RasterMaster

10 posted on 12/31/2021 4:23:24 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

Good riddance, the last 2 years. They totally stunk.

I’m cynical and not counting on it getting much better.

Happy New Year. It’ll be happy if we stop this childish cowardice and petty tyranny.


11 posted on 12/31/2021 4:23:29 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Kaslin

12 posted on 12/31/2021 4:30:13 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaslin

Good or bad our time here on earth is a gift from God. I am thankful for that. Thankful also for Freeperdom.


13 posted on 12/31/2021 4:34:25 PM PST by xp38
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To: RasterMaster

Don’t you mean 1933? That’s when prohibition ended.


14 posted on 12/31/2021 4:39:45 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Kaslin

Saw a cartoon of a car driving along the highway and pulling off at an exit marked “1980” instead of staying on the road headed to 2021.


15 posted on 12/31/2021 4:40:25 PM PST by firebrand
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To: SoCal Pubbie; RasterMaster
Party like it's 1933!

There's a New Day Coming--Sam Ross & His Silvertown Orchestra (1932)

A new day is coming as sure as you're born!
There's a new day coming. Start tooting your horn!
While the cobbler's shoeing, the baker will bake;
When the brewer's brewing, we'll all get a break...

16 posted on 12/31/2021 4:53:50 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Kaslin

By the end of 2022, we’ll be looking back on 2021 as the good old days.


17 posted on 12/31/2021 5:36:10 PM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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