I live in a relatively conservative county within a liberal state. In fact, most of the counties in my state are conservative and it’s only due to the preponderance of a few urban populations that my state still manages to remain ‘deep blue’. Nevertheless, even in my conservative county, there’s a deep divide between one half that responds to Covid restrictions with some skepticism and the other half, largely with obedience to the Fauci/CDC/Democrat axis. It’s striking, the difference. You can see it when you go into stores. Go into a store in the skeptical half of the county and you’ll see mask use presently at about 25%, about what you would expect from the numbers who chose not to be vaccinated. Go into a store in the obedient or fearful half of the county and mask use, which is now rarely explicitly mandated, and yet you’ll see about 90 to 95% usage, that majority of them vaccinated as per local statistics. Public schools are all still masked to the great detriment of the children.
Now that the Omicron variant has made coronavirus infections far more widespread, a great many of those benign, we can perhaps hope and expect something closer to true herd immunity but even if not, even if Covid becomes a seasonal recurring pathogen, it’s now widely disseminated that the pandemic is being shifted to an endemic status, at the behest of the current federal government that finally realized just a little late, that a permanent and pervasive state of emergency would not reflect well upon their electoral ambitions.
I was recently in a doctor’s office where almost 100% staff had just experienced an outbreak of the coronavirus within the month. If I had to guess I’d say that most of them were vaccinated, maybe all of them. Since the entirety of their patients are older and more vulnerable, I think it’s also reasonable to assume that almost 100% of their patients are also vaccinated. Nevertheless, this office is still rigorously enforcing masks. While their patient demographic might warrant that rule, I wondered, what’s the end game here; will there ever be a return to normalcy here? Afterall, flu and other respiratory illnesses claim many older vulnerable patients each year. Masks were never mandated before.
What actually would it take? Certainly not science, even though a doctor’s office is ostensibly dedicated to medical science. A few patients voluntarily wore n95 masks, some did not. Some staff wore them, some did not. I was handed a mask that was even more cosmetic than the gator that I was wearing and that fit about as well as the paper dress that you are handed at some medical visits. I had to conclude that there was no true critical pretense of science behind the comprehensive internal mask mandate. This is representative of everywhere.
What’s the end game? What is the desired end state? Forever emotion-based regulations? The natural and medical sciences don’t appear to provide answers to that question; thus it’ll be the social sciences that enlighten us.
While I believe that most people – the herd oriented among us, act out of simple fear, indifference, and uncritical obedience, surely there are those that are truely engaged and invested in an outcome. For that class, Covid presents us with a full comprehensive psychological ecosystem dedicated to fulfilling the psychotic tendencies of every self-identified Progressive ‘Karen’, be they male and female. What is their endgame? Intended or not and based on my observations, I see three things.
Permanent crisis: We’ll never emerge from an emergency state. They’re invested in it.
Permanent isolation: It’ll never be safe enough for you to be around people again, even when they make exceptions for themselves. They’re depending on you to keep them safe.
Permanent fear: Visceral fear is a way of life now. It’s genuine, deep, now etched into their emotional DNA
Is this any way to live? There’s no bright and sunny day at the end of the tunnel for these people. If perchance Covid ever recedes, than there will be another SARS, pneumonia, or flu outbreak. They’re now counting on it. They’ve found their niche, their passion, their life fulfillment in being surrounded by fearful terrorized and obedient victims. Life before Covid will be now forever be regarded as so foolish and ignorant of the pathogenic threat that stalked us relentlessly before we, meaning they, were enlightened. There’s a whole class of people who are opting for communal oppression now in order to attain lasting and universal communal misery. If you are a person with higher-than-average understanding of history and etymology, you may correctly see the word communism built into those characteristics.
The prescription for taming Covid and a quick return to normalcy are straightforward:
Expose and fire the Covid fear regime. Fauci and Walensky should be turned out immediately.
Press to complete the judicial processes of outlawing mandates and unconstitutional emergency powers of federal and state executives
Keep healthcare choices including Covid ‘vaccinations’, voluntary. Mandates are immoral.
Focus on protecting the vulnerable, not the low risk.
Stop neglecting or even suppressing Covid treatments, particularly at the policy level.
Free our children from Covid tyranny before it’s entirely too late and an entire generation ends up stunted and victimized.
Let people live their life.