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COVID and SUVs
While reading an article this morning on Yahoo Finance’s page bemoaning the perils of small business in the current economy, I was struck with a curious deja-vu moment. The article spoke ominously of the effect of COVID-19 on American small businesses and missed no opportunity to affix blame for staffing and supply chain stresses squarely on CV’s shoulders. People were quoted. Examples were raised. And the clear conclusion was that COVID-19 has really done a job on us.
I’ll be honest. As I finished the article, I felt oddly unsatisfied. Something was missing. COVID, perhaps in the words of our president, is definitely “A Bad Dude”, a supervillain antagonist. But as the article concluded, COVID-19 was left standing alone, like the proverbial cheese in the old Farmer-in-the-Dell nursery rhyme. It had single-handedly ruined everything and left us struggling to pick up the pieces. Case closed.
The thing that put me off was that no mention was made of the actual policies and protocols created by governing entities – and touted by left-wing and mainstream media (or are they the same?) in reaction to COVID. The virus notwithstanding, it has been these enduring and now-languishing policies and threats of dire outcomes for insubordination on mask, vax, and behavioral fronts which continue to severely impact our ability to recover and return to something approximating “productive normal”.
So, here in the (God willing) waning days of this pandemic, we’re being coached to believe that COVID appeared and, besides killing people around the world in astounding numbers, now foists upon us labor shortages and supply chain dysfunction, driving our economy to torment us. And all apart from the action of any human hand. No one is responsible. It just happened to us.
So, the deja-vu part to me was the echo of a tragic Christmas parade last year in Waukesha, WI – in which we were told repeatedly that an SUV tragically plowed into a crowd of people, bringing with it death and destruction. Another supervillain wreaking havoc.
I’m pretty sure, as its name implies, this deja-vu is gonna come back a lot in the months to come.
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COVID is also like “systemic racism,” in that it can be asserted without causative elaboration.
Of course, COVID is real. It has, like other coronaviruses before it, sickened billions of people and killed millions. Systemic racism was once real too, though I’d argue it isn’t anymore in any meaningful way, other than as a domesticated pet and occasional junk yard dog of the activist left.
It’s convenient for people who foist extraordinarily bad ideas on us to have something to point to when their ideas make everything worse.
Covid did very little to us. It killed off perhaps 100,000 previously healthy people, a terrible toll to be sure, but a nation of our size could accept that loss in stride.
Our overlords did all this to us in the name of Covid. It was their response, not the virus, that has laid our society so low.
Iw onder if the full, true story will ever be told. Clearly not, if the media continues in its predictable role.
Sigh…
Damn straight.
Although I’m not a medical expert I probably know as much about the Corona Virus as outraged recording artists. I will defer to their superior knowledge about drug, and alcohol rehab.
I see Corona Virus as a supercharged cold virus. I see the vaccines as helpful for individuals that have underlying health conditions, to include the elderly. The vaccines do not prevent an infection, they can mitigate the severity of the infection.
There have been cases of hospitals that admitted members of their local gun and knife club to the ER claiming the Corona Virus as a cause of death. A lead overdose is not an underlying health condition regardless of a hospital’s claim on their paperwork that it was.
“Lead overdose” — classic
I was wondering where you were going with this. The rogue SUV had a little quicker timeline, but I see the similarity. When they were spewing their garbage about the SUV I was saying to myself people can’t be that stupid. I don’t think the Ministry of Truth cares if we believe it or not. It just needs to fit the narrative. When it doesn’t, they will re-write it again. Just like COVID.
This made me think of the housing crisis. Greedy bankers were villainized. Few fingers were pointed to the politicians who started the mess.