A post-pandemic retrospective:
The pandemic is over, isn’t it? We are not deluged, day after day, with alarming statistics, and Americans seem to be enjoying life-as-we-once-knew-it again. Would you believe? Anthony Fauci has announced that he will resign his position at the National Institutes of Health at the end of the year. One supposes he has made enough money peddling vaccines and can afford to retire. BTW, did you know that his annual salary is greater than the U.S. president’s? Herein is where the power lies, don’t you know?
But I digress.
The Democratic Party still hold to the official story concerning the origin of COVID-19 and refuses to conduct a Senate investigation in order to get the unofficial story into the national spotlight. The puerile American news media still censors those who know the truth of the matter, even as more scholars are risking their careers and reputations by speaking out. The pharmaceutical industry has now focused on monkeypox as the next cash cow. Monkeypox is a cousin of small pox, and Big Pharma is playing that card for all it’s worth.
We have learned that COVID-19 did not directly cause most of the deaths reported. Rather, the virus acted as a trigger to aggravate pre-existing medical conditions. And we have learned that tens of thousands died from the hastily-marketed vaccines. These deaths could have been avoided had Americans not paid attention to the mouthings of Chief Cheerleader Fauci and instead listened to old country doctors who advocated drugs already on the market, drugs which attacked the virus directly, instead of its symptoms.
The greater disaster, however, was in the economic and social arenas. To wit:
• Social distancing: We weren’t allowed to get near anybody unless (s)he was a family member. We were told that we had to stay away lest we got infected, or we infected others. We became a nation of fear-ridden units, strangers to one and all; civil society was placed on hold until such time (if ever) as the Powers-that-Be determined it was safe to give somebody a hug/kiss.
• Masks: Wear one if you went out of doors or stay home and be a hermit was the dictum. If you didn’t wear a mask where it was posted to do so, e.g. a grocery store, a restaurant, or a theater, you weren’t allowed to enter. Masks over your disease-ridden faces teamed up with social distancing to further isolate the average American.
• Lock downs: Select businesses were actually ordered to close their doors in order to prevent the spread the virus, even if they posted the no-mask notice. The burden fell mainly on small businesses which lost customers by the thousands and so could not afford to re-open when the all-clear was sounded. Curiously, not one single major corporation had to close down; they were declared essential businesses, don’t you know? If they were shut down, we were told, the national economy would collapse on the instant. Employees, especially employees in the health-care industry, were required to report for work or risk being fired.
• Mandatory vaccinations: Many employers went a step farther in the show-up-or-be-fired directive by requiring their employees to be vaccinated. Hard choices were made by the majority of the American labor force.
Because the Trump and Biden administrations wanted to take the easiest and the fastest way out of a major dilemma, which they did not understand in the first place, we lost the rights guaranteed to us by the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Not even that great protector of civil liberties, the American Civil Liberties Union, could find a judge to adjudicate a lawsuit. And not even our so-called representatives in Congress were willing to risk their political careers to stand up and say, “Hey! You can’t do that!”
The great American experiment in self-government is now on the chopping block, and the axe is descending.
Just a thought.