by STEPHEN KRUISER
So…how are you spending your COVIDversary? It was a year ago today that everything really blew up. We were quickly plunged into a confused collective misery that we thought was going to last just a few weeks.
Bad joke is on us, right?
A year later I’m pretty comfortable saying that we will never return to whatever the heck we thought was normal. “The new normal” is a meaningless phrase. It has to happen for a while before it’s normal. We can’t simply slap a tag on it and say that’s what it is.
We’ve been open here in Arizona for about six months now. It’s the typical COVID-era limited capacity stuff, but based on what I’ve seen the last few times I’ve been out, a lot of places have been coloring outside the lines regarding the protocols. Thankfully, I live in a place that doesn’t have a lot of “tell on your neighbors” freaks.
One of the things I most remember from the two grand reopening experiences we had here in May and September was the unbridled joy on the faces of everyone who was out in public for the first time in a while. Well, once we all sat down and took off our masks, that is. It’s hard for me to believe that everyone wouldn’t want to experience that.
Yet here we are.
Even the states that have experienced the most onerous lockdowns are beginning to open up. Sure, New York and California are only doing it because their governors are both neck-deep in trouble, but it’s still happening. What’s stunning to those of us on the pro-freedom side of things is that so many people still want to be miserable. The “follow the science” crowd is only following the narrative that’s been used this past year to keep people in a state of acquiescence. It was acquiescence at the beginning, anyway. Eventually, half the country decided that they were morally superior if they just rolled over for every whim that petty tyrants like Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo decided to inflict upon them.
The drooling idiot who is wasting space in the Oval Office read a teleprompter for a bit last night, informing us of the miserable vision his handlers have for pandemic America. Tyler has the details:
On Thursday, President Joe Biden held out a promise of returning to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic that perfectly encapsulates the depressing nature of his presidency. After meandering and dead boring remarks about the toll of COVID-19, the existence of drive-in vaccine centers, and the progress Biden’s administration has made in the past 50 days, the president got to the part of his speech that was clearly intended to be uplifting.
Instead, it will likely hit Americans like a ton of bricks.
In leading up to his grand vision of a restored America, Biden started to get a bit creepy.
“I will not relent until we beat this virus, but I need you, the American people, I need you. I need every American to do their part. And that’s not hyperbole, I need you. I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn and you can find an opportunity, and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors, get vaccinated as well,” he said.
There is no beating the virus. The pandemic can be stopped, but the virus will always be lurking out there. Part of the b.s. narrative the tyrants and this moron asterisk POTUS have been spreading is that the virus will be banished forever.
Biden’s puppet-masters don’t really believe in science, they believe in power. And they’re not willing to give any of the power they’ve gotten from COVID away soon. Gropey Joe told the American people that we might be able to have some fun by the 4th of July.
Sorry, Drools, I’m already having fun and enjoying the company of my family and friends. You don’t get to dictate that kind of activity in my life. Or rather your handlers don’t.
Anyone like me who celebrates freedom is still ridiculed by the fake science invertebrates. They’re still clinging to the “killing grandma” stuff, portraying anyone who wants to eat in a restaurant as a mass murderer.
Irony.
These same biden-handlers don’t see any problem with thousands of illegals pouring across our Southern border while 25% of them have covid!
In fact, they refuse to allow them to be detained while covid positive, preferring to put them on buses into our country’s interior.
Nothing wrong with that picture!?
Perhaps they “forgot” how it only took two illegals with bird flu to sneak in then lie on their applications to take jobs in the chicken and egg industries to cost Americans billions of dollars.
How about the one illegal who took a job on a dairy/breeding cattle ranch while infected with TB?
He also cost us billions of dollars.
It was also a year ago when Democrats finally shifted from denouncing Trump for taking “dictatorial powers” to accusing him of “doing nothing” to control the spread of the virus. Along about now in 2020, Democrats stopped promoting parties and crowds and started supporting shutdowns and suppression.
@Nan G: Oh, and while the left supports keeping our schools closed, packing illegal immigrants into facilities at 100%+ capacity is just fine. Pack them in, make sure the virus gets spread around REAL GOOD, then release them into the population.
What do you get? A resurgence in the spread of the virus, which gives Democrats more opportunity to shut down civil liberties and freedoms and control more lives. Who will they blame? The “Neanderthals” that dared to dip their toe into normal life and LIVE.
So you confine the undocumented (illegal) immigrants in processing centers(cages), a quarter of which are covid positive for 4 days (so as to infect the remainder) and then bus them all over the country. Use your imagination as to what comes next.
@Ken Laycock: Then we’ll have a mysterious new “strain” that allows them to take more rights away.
April 11, 2021 – Michigan’s COVID cases surge to alarming levels, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rejects new mandates –
“Right now we’re in a fourth surge,” said one doctor.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/michigans-covid-cases-surge-alarming-levels-gov-gretchen/story?id=77003950
4 vaxx sites have been shut down due to seroious side effects for a condition that has a recovery rate in the 99 percentile. This experiment on the citizens needs some reconsideration, testing positive after the jab, what good is that?
As of April 10, 2021, the current mortality risk for a U.S. resident who becomes infected with COVID-19 was 1.8 percent. The U.S. mortality risk has has declined from a high of 6.23 percent that was reached on May 8, 2020.
(refer to Case Fatality Rate chart, here: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid )
183 million Americans have now been vaccinated. Serious reactions to the vaccine have numbered fewer than 1 out of 100,000 and most are quickly resolved. There have been NO confirmed instances of deaths as a direct result of being vaccinated.
Many people who recover from COVID-19 illness are left with longer term health problems related to the infection.
NOT getting vaccinated is the experiment.
Meanwhile, as Michigan sees another spike in Chi-com flu cases, Whitmer’s top aide Tricia Foster has a good time taking pictures of herself and friends, while maskless, having a good time in Florida while Michigan has a travel ban going.
Gotta love the blatant hypocrisy of Democrats.
And to think all it took to convince Governor Whitmer not to impose recommend countermeasures to control a new surge of variant COVID infections was a foiled kidnapping plot and multiple death threats…
The failed kidnap plot led by an FBI agent? All public figures that try to crush citizens get death threats. Putting covid patients in with the elderly and infirm might have peeved off a few. Look where the most deaths come from. Biden even put one of these mentally ill psychos into HHS. Its pretty ugly that it took her mother out of a home before her murder spree.
Meanwhile, back in reality, the B.1.1.7 COVID mutation is spreading rapidly among those who haven’t been vaccinated. That’s the variant that’s slipping out of control in Michigan. It’s more contagious and produces more serious symptoms in younger people. Then there’s the recent Israeli study of the South African B.1.351 mutation, suggesting the possible emergence of a vaccine-resistant COVID variant.
Government officials who pay close attention to what the experts are telling them are not the threat.
How can they make these claims when the CDC itself admitted they had not isolated the virus, its fear porn, the flu cases have dropped drastically. Without an original isolated virus how do the identify a mutated form? Even your NYT admits the covid tests are 95% fake
The genome of the COVID-19 virus responsible for the earliest infections was fully sequenced and published by the Chinese over the weekend of January 11, 2020. It was subsequently confirmed by other laboratories. Automated sequencing of a virus now takes 2-3 days. It’s being done constantly to monitor emergent variants.
From Science Daily, January 31, 2020 – Whole genome of novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, sequenced
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200131114748.htm
Yeah, Greg.
Instead of the symptom-free Covid 19 that most younger people have already had without even realizing it, this new strain has “more serious symptoms.”
More serious than NONE.
The symptoms actually are:
Cough, the most common symptom in those infected with the new variant, reported by 35 percent. Other common symptoms were: fatigue/weakness (32 percent), headache (32 percent), muscle aches (25 percent), sore throat (22 percent) and fever (22 percent).
It’s a cold!
562 thousand Americans are not dead from colds. A year of this, and some people still don’t understand. Nearly as many people in Michigan now have COVID-19 infection as did during the nation’s worst surge. The state’s current 7-day positivity rate is 16 percent. Michigan’s hospitalization rate is approaching the highest point it reached during the pandemic. That’s with 39 percent of residents having had at least 1 dose of vaccine. This is because of the rapid spread of the B.1.1.7 variant.
Despite this, fewer people are bothering to get vaccinated. This is irrational behavior. Unfortunately, it won’t only affect those who choose to be irrational.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/2021/04/12/michigan-coronavirus-cases-up-to-747697-death-toll-now-at-16512/#//
Great news the AMA now state hcq is an acceptable early treatment