Posted on 03/04/2022 10:25:41 AM PST by Kaslin
For all intents and purposes, the pandemic is over, even in our bluest states and cities. So what happened? Wasn’t the mainstream media panicking about the Omicron variant just last month? The New York Times warned us about a “persistent threat,” claiming “the pandemic has not ended.” Hospitalizations and deaths were front-page news, just like they were for the last two years.
Now, COVID-19 is relegated to a media afterthought. Ukraine dominates the headlines (and for good reason), with the coronavirus being treated like flu-like symptoms or car accidents—sort of important, but not important enough for the front page.
Democrats are toeing the same line as their media allies, rolling back restrictions en masse for the first time in two years. According to Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Americans are “sick of the whole damn thing.” Ryan just so happens to be representing a politically competitive district and running for an open Senate seat.
Therein lies the reason for the shift in COVID-19 messaging. There was only ever one reason: The 2022 midterms. Democrats have seen the writing on the wall, and the writing is public opinion. Across America, people are fed up with COVID-related mandates, recognizing that mass vaccination has brought about the end of pandemic hysteria. The coronavirus may be endemic and it remains a concern, but not to the extent that it warrants government overreach. When even California shifts to an “endemic” phase, you know that normality is long-overdue.
But Democrats wouldn’t be pushing for normality if polling wasn’t overwhelmingly on the side of Republicans, who have rejected pandemic hysteria since the beginning. According to the Boston Globe (yes, the left-leaning Boston Globe), seven in 10 Americans believe it’s time to accept COVID is here to stay and “get on with our lives.” Even 47 percent of Democrats are sick and tired of pandemic-era politics. Numerous polls confirm public disillusionment with left-wing mandates.
Not surprisingly, resident Biden bears the brunt of the blame. Nearly 60 percent of Americans consider resident Biden’s first year in office a failure. And only 45 percent approve of the Biden administration’s handling of the virus—down from 66 percent in July. According to Gallup, COVID-19 is the third most important issue in America, behind economic malaise and subpar government leadership. With inflation rising at the fastest pace in four decades, Democrats like Biden are scrambling to change the subject. But it’s too late.
Elected officials who were once mandate-obsessed should be punished for their overzealousness. And they will be, with Republicans poised to expand the electoral map. The Left’s encroachment on individual liberty had nothing to do with “science” yesterday, just like today’s pivot has nothing to do with “science.” With two-thirds of Americans fully vaccinated, the Omicron variant—the least severe variant yet—was not deserving of the overreaction it triggered. But the polling had not shifted yet.
Tomorrow won’t be a brighter day because of the Left’s caution and prudence, but rather because Democrats are scared to death of 2022. Indeed, Democrats are proving what Republicans have believed for two years: The pandemic was all about politics—nothing more, nothing less.
Despite their incessant virtue signaling, Biden Democrats don’t care about public health or human life more than other Americans; they simply care about expanding government and retaining power. There’s a reason why, even now, Democrats exploit the “pandemic” to promote liberal policies like mandated paid sick leave. It’s about power.
Don’t let “them” have it in 2022. Those who tout “science” to tread on individual liberties do not deserve your vote. Those who determine “science” for the rest of us, based on new polling, deserve to lose. Those who play politics with public health deserve to fail.
The “red wave” is coming, and Democrats caused it themselves. As COVID-19 wraps up, Americans know which side believes in freedom—and which doesn’t.
See? Biden got rid of COVID!!! We knew he would!!!
Signed,
The faithful (and very blind) left
FREEPER “day10” offered this a couple of days ago:
DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you. Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last
two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation. Visited family. The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.
They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.
Do not forget what they have done. Do not forgive them. They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmare
of the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best thr Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose
their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us. Project. Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).
DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity. Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a
“public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.
NEVER FORGET.
REMEMBER in NOVEMER!
We went from the unvaxxed are killing people that should be immediately fired from their jobs, given dishonorable discharges from the military, forced shut into their houses, shunned by family, shunned by friends, denial of medical care, not allowed to visit dying parents/grandparents and not allowed to buy food or sit in a restaurant…
To…
My bad. No hard feelings!
Oh no....Fook you.
See? Biden got rid of COVID!!! We knew he would!!!
—————More like “ Putin cured Covid”. When he invaded the Ukies, suddenly the masks came off, the mandates disappeared, the Covid passports disappeared, and millions of MRNA vaccines are left rotting on the shelves.
“Vote them out”
Great reminders but also remember voting is a rigged game.
Until fauci announces the deadly mid term variant.
People who have gone bankrupt tend to have long memories as to how and why it happened.
The vote them out war cry is just hollow words. Unfortunately, i don’t have the opportunity to vote against the ones responsible.
So predictable.
Unfortunately, there are hordes of ignoramuses who will vote “D” every time, no matter WHAT.
In the immortal words of Emily Litella: Never mind.
Except for the unvaxed healthcare workers who are apparently going to have to follow ridiculous “accommodation” rules forevermore. And the airline passengers who are required to remain masked with no end in sight. And let’s not forget the traveling American citizens who still have to produce a negative covid test before being allowed to return to their own country (the alternative being to walk across the border & try to blend in with the chosen ones.)
Yep. We will see another wave due to a new variant in the near future. Can't say when. But probably in 6-12 months.
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