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I smelled a rat immediately after George Floyd. One moment we can literally kill grandma by our very act of breathing, and the next moment thousands of people, including aforementioned grandmas, are hugging, crying, shouting, and marching arm in arm in dozens and dozens of cities and towns. Led by governors who wouldn't let Joe's Framing and Art shop open up, but encouraged mass gatherings. Not to mention the rioting that happened within a few miles of my home, that I'm now being told I hallucinated. I thought for sure The Public Health Authorities will do something about this. They did something all right---they backed it and encouraged it.
I further smelled a rat when I momentarily emerged from my shelter-in-place cocoon to take a trip to Lowes (sometime after Memorial Day) to get a necessary item, only to find the place MOBBED. Hmm. You mean those rules that killed my tiny business that never has more than a few people at a time don't apply to these giant corporations?? I'm on unemployment and Bezos makes trillions. I guess that's just how Public Health works.
Here's another thing that made smell a rat. If Covid is so deadly that it kills on contact, why do we throw away used masks into regular trash cans? Why don't we use those red biohazard bins, combined with medical incinerators? Does Covid turn harmless the moment you throw your used mask into trash?
And that is why we gotta vote for Darren Bailey in 2022. He's the one who sued Pritzker last year to end the lockdowns. That said, people won't be voting so much for Bailey as for Not-Pritzker, similar to how they voted for Not-Trump last November.
From what I see in other states, Illinois might be the last to fully re-open.
Except perhaps New Mexico, where another Dem governor is determined to keep the state poor.
People are now so distrusting of governments mishandling this, should there ever be another pandemic; they will resist and ignore to a much greater extent.
From what I see in other states, Illinois might be the last to fully re-open.
Except perhaps New Mexico, where another Dem governor is determined to keep the state poor.
People are now so distrusting of governments mishandling this, should there ever be another pandemic; they will resist and ignore to a much greater extent.
I resigned myself to the fact that Illinois will NEVER fully reopen until 2022, when Pritzker is replaced by Bailey, and IDPH is rendered toothless like they deserve. In the meantime, I'll get by. A ll I'll miss are overpriced, overcrowded (even by conservative standards) festivals, and the nightclubs with $15 cocktails and snooty women. I still have my conservative friends who are comfortable with being social and having parties. And in my area, once you go west of Fox River, nobody really follows those liberal Covid fantasies, anyway.
I have mixed feelings, on one hand. it was only days after COVID emerged that "the usual suspects" (most of them self-proclaomed "progressives", of course) started cimbing aboard Big Brother's (and Sister's Bandwagon, and it wasn't long after that that a fringe began talking about suppessing any dissenting views.
But with the possible exception of the "Spanish" influenza of 1918, this was the first occasion upon which a fully-developed, information-driven and globalizing world was confronted with a pandemic, nor do we know when another might emerge. There may be a lull in the fight, but there's no guarantee that viruses won't mutate, or that some other threat (ebola, perhaps?) is not out there.
So we've learned a few things for the next round; but I have absolutely no doubts that a less-scrupulous few will closely study the patterns of behavior during this crisis in pursuit of their own ends. They are not so much obsessed with monetary gain as with power -- and power is a far more dangerous obsession.
As with the gradual disillusionment over the war in Vietnam half a century ago, or the pressures that drove a President from office a few years later -- this story is far from over.
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Admittedly, I'm personally aware of only a handful of COVID cases, but no person, or source of which I am aware, has ever elaborated as to what percentage of COVID victims were stricken, more or less spontaneously, in the prime of life, and what pecentage had pre-existing conditions, or poor health habits which contributed to, or aggavated their illness.
And unless that issue is addressed in mainstream journalism, with specific figures to answer the questions raised in the previous paragraph, I am prepared to wait until there are ice cream parlors in Hell.
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