Posted on 04/05/2022 12:04:52 PM PDT by lightman
Last week, Biden made a push for even more COVID funding as part of his administration's new strategy of “living with the virus.” Curiously enough, small government conservatives have been saying that this would have to be the strategy from day one.
Looking back, perhaps one of Biden’s worst mistakes was when he promised the following on the campaign trail in late 2020: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under control, I promise you.” Controlling the virus and learning to live with it are two very different things.
Two years later and Biden's message is now this: There will be no final and definitive defeat of COVID. The masks can come off and people should go back to work for good. We have to live with it.
Why has it taken the Biden White House so long to admit what so many Americans knew to be reality from the get-go? Why has the Left spent so much time killing jobs, strangling the economy, and devastating livelihoods all in the name of a goal that was never anything more than a fantasy?
One obvious answer is the age old adage that freedoms lost are never regained. Why would Democrats and their friends in our unelected bureaucracy want to yield back the power they have gained in the past two years?
To be fair, Biden has always been a bit behind the times. Throughout his long and cushy political career, he has flip-flopped on fracking, the filibuster, and crime, to name a few key policy issues that he just can’t seem to make up his mind on. It makes sense that he would do the same with COVID. CARTOONS | Tom Stiglich View Cartoon
Any plans that the Biden administration has made to “beat” COVID have been resounding failures. The six-pronged plan from last Fall contained a horrendous anti-worker, anti-business vaccine mandate that was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court. The free tests boasted by the White House take so long to arrive that the patients in need of them are already recovered by the time they receive the tests. And despite the Biden administration's purported preparedness to handle COVID, it still wasn't able to handle the Omicron surge this past Christmas.
What makes the Biden Administration’s handling of COVID especially infuriating, though, is when we reflect upon how conservatives’ approach to the virus has remained consistent and principled throughout the pandemic. From the beginning, conservatives railed against economic shutdowns, correctly arguing that shuttering the economy for months on end would be disastrous. You only have to take one look at the current state of the economy to see how conservatives have been vindicated.
According to the latest jobs report, the U.S. has only just reached a 90 percent restoration of all the jobs lost during the pandemic–and by lost, I mean forcibly killed by politicians via lockdowns. But this fact hasn’t stopped Biden from taking credit for adding jobs to the economy during his tenure.
The bottom line is that conservatives fought against blanket mandates, government spending, and school and business closures even before polling began to indicate that people were tired of COVID restrictions. Conservatives stood up for freedom before it was politically convenient because they genuinely care about securing a prosperous future for this country and its people. Recommended The Left Is Melting Down Over Senator Tim Scott’s Vote on Judge Jackson Katie Pavlich
Thankfully, the US will never pursue a “zero-covid” strategy, similar to what the Chinese Communist Party has employed, as much as the Left would like to see that happen. This is because supporters of small government have been steadfast in their defense of freedom. We owe it to those who stood-up for businesses that were forced to close; for those who fought to keep children in school; and for those Americans who pushed back against anti-science vaccine mandates.
Supporters of small government have been right all along. We knew that the virus was here to stay, but those in power continued to subscribe to the ridiculous notion that we could shut Covid-19 down for good. They did not want to admit that certain things (like viruses) are simply outside the government's control. Of course, when confronted with this fact, the powers that be are happy to blame anyone but themselves. The people, afterall, must be ruled.
Reality check.
COVID-19 is airborne.
That means, “in the air, everywhere”.
It is ENDEMIC.
We will ALL get exposed..over and over.
MANY of us will “test positive”, mostly without symptoms.
SOME of us will be “symptomatic”, and a subset will be really sick.
And (unfortunately) a FEW of us will die.
This is NOT the Bubonic plague.
This is NOT the Spanish Influenza.
You can’t mask it away.
You can’t [anti]”socially distance” it away.
You can’t even “deep clean” it away.
And {{{shudder}}} YOU CAN’T EVEN VACCINATE IT AWAY!
Tear off that face diaper.
Breathe deeply. Inhale some COVID.
Breathe deeply again. Inhale some more COVID.
Build up your immune system.
And LIVE!
Let’s see. Didn’t much care two years ago and things have remained static. It IS SHAMdemic. At least the response.
ALL things Covid will be sterilized! And there are no exceptions!
Brandon said he would shut down the virus. Enough idiots believed him.
You mean the cold and flu will always be around?
I am just soooo shocked. /s
COVID flu is here to stay,
It will never die
It was meant to be that way,
Chicoms all know why
I don’t care what Fauci say,
COVID flu is here to stay
COVID flu will always be
HCQed in the end
It’ll go down in history,
Wear your mask, my friend
COVID flu will always be,
Social distanced history
Mask baby mask (oh baby)
Mask baby mask (oh baby)...
welensky just said those over 50 need their 2nd dose now and their third booster in the Fall. No kidding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L97yF2_P3ng
live now
The coronavirii have been here on Earth for an estimated 55 million years according to scientists. Who in right mind thinks we can get rid of it?
Have you ever had a cold? That is caused by two coronavirii. How about ppneumonia? That is caused another type of ‘rona. There is another that causes bronchitis.
It is probably going to be around for another 55.
There is no cure for any of them because of how often they mutate.
The same people that think we can stop natural inevitable climate change
The new more virulent variants only show up in election years, thus justifying Zuckerberg ballot drop boxes. Fauci will make sure of this with his Chinese and big pharma friends.
The best defense against the flu and the various ‘ronas is build you immune system by daily taking Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, and Zinc.
Who or what is bigger and more powerful?
Man or Nature?
It was never their intention to shut "COVID" down, or to control it. Their intention was to seize as much unconstitutional power as they could, and use it to ensure that they would never lose that power.
EVERYTHING about "COVID" is a LIE.
To hell with them all.
Have SARS and MERS stayed.. ?
“Distinguishing COVID from flu can be difficult because the symptoms overlap so much,” explained Dr. Brooke Bozick, an NIH expert on respiratory diseases.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/doctors-see-increase-in-prolonged-cold-flu-symptoms/
I saw this earlier and it absolutely surprised me!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4052478/posts
“We went from 12 million flu shots in 1980 to almost 200 million in 2020.”
And the charts from CDC in the post show that this made NO DIFFERENCE in deaths from influenza...
“You only have to take one look at the current state of the economy to see how conservatives have been vindicated.”
Vindication is a paltry reward, considering the economy we all still have to live in.
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