New Villain? Fear The 'No Covids'
The latest round of overbearing public health rulings stokes anxieties in never-ending mask debate
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There is a new enemy in the fight for sanity and reason as we continue to live with this nagging virus called COVID-19.
It’s not one person, one politician. Things would be easier if it were.
No, the villain is unbeatable, making the situation that much more disheartening.
It’s “No Covid” the unattainable aspiration of the feds, state public health agencies, school boards and others whom remain steadfast in the belief the virus can be wiped off the face of the earth.
It can’t. It never will be.
One doesn’t have to be a scientist to understand that.
I’ve been highly critical of state politicians and public health agencies since I started The Kerr Report a year ago.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has been a frequent target, mostly due to his criminal actions in locking out youth sports and unlawfully closing down businesses to gain political leverage with Republican foes. Voters in this state have 15 months to decide of Pritzker deserves a second term. I will continue to use this publishing space to hold him accountable and lobby for his exit from Springfield for ruining lives, many whom will never recover.
Last week, Pritzker officially announced his re-election campaign. In his press conference, he played the role of the crafty politician he inarguably is.
He didn’t say top down virus-related shutdowns were coming. He didn’t threaten youth sports (he never cared about football or basketball or athletics anyway.) No, he said any government intervention would be of a more targeted approach, such as in counties that border the state of Missouri. Those counties are seeing spikes in positivity rates, which Pritzker partly attributed to the high state positivity rate in Missouri.
“Missouri is…the worst state in the nation right now,” Pritzker said, according to Illinois Policy. “And it’s right on our border. And (COVID-19) is pouring over, unfortunately, across the border into Metro East and southern Illinois.”
Pritzker did hedge a bit by not ruling out more restrictions. But he didn’t say any future directives would involve schools and masking. It’s campaign season, after all, and there is no more divisive subject right now than masking in schools. Pritzker is savvy enough to avoid that talking point, sticking true to his preference for local control.
Based on what he said at that press conference and in ensuing public statements, I don’t think Pritzker poses the most looming immediate threat to freedoms restored. Could that change? Sure. But I don’t see him locking down the state or exerting control over schools in the months ahead, not with a gubernatorial re-election campaign to run. He should not remain as governor past January 2023, but that’s a year and a half away.
No, most hazardous pressing menace to our freedoms is the crazy idea that we can eliminate Covid forever.
Tuesday, the Centers For Disease Control released a bit of news.
The federal agency, two months after advising vaccinated people against mask wearing indoors, changed its position. It recommended people vaccinated against the coronavirus should resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces in parts of the country where the virus is ‘surging.’
C.D.C. officials also recommended universal masking for K-12 teachers, staff, students and visitors in schools, regardless of vaccination status and community transmission of the virus.
What are we to make of this?
A suggestion—that the federal government continues to lie to the public, pushing deceitful messaging that runs downstream to the state and local levels.
Earlier this year, the Frankenstein of Fear, Dr. Fauci, spoke into every microphone he could about the efficacy of the vaccine. It’s consumption on a mass scale would “eradicate” the virus and result in a return to our normal lifestyles.
As we roll through the hot summer months, it’s become more and more clear how that pipe dream, sold to us as gospel, is not happening.
Breakthrough infections are becoming more commonplace and as a result, the feds are returning with a predictable response.
More masking. No Covid.
Decisions made by public health agencies, such as the latest by the C.D.C Tuesday, are allegedly made after careful scientific analysis. But apparently that analysis does not include data from other parts of the world.
If so, they’d discover other continents and countries, such as Australia, or France or South Korea, are worse off by believing No Covid can be achieved.
Australia and South Korea have closed themselves off from the rest of the world throughout Covid. They’ve been rewarded by global press for their efforts. It hasn’t worked.
Because the virus is gonna virus.
Either accept it, or stay in the basement with blinds closed.
The positive news out of this past week has happened at the local level.
Numerous school boards have met and voted on mask optional for the coming school year. By doing so, they’ve preceded the feds and state agency flip-flopping and planted flags in their own soil.
Now what they must do is stay faithful to those pledges. The trifecta pledge of personal choice; on masking, testing or vaccination.
This week, we’re hearing the same talking point quote from Democratic politicians and their state medical advisors:
“This is no longer a pandemic of the people, this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Really? What microbe boogeyman should the jabbed be afraid of now? The new variant? Come on, this thing is going to keep mutating. That’s what viruses do. It’s Delta today, Fox Trot tomorrow, Whisky Tango next week.
Influenza, the most common virus in this country, has been mutating for 100 years. Some folks get sick every flu season after taking the vaccine, some never take the vaccine and don’t get a fever or runny nose.
We don’t urge mask-wearing during flu season.
So why endorse masking amongst the COVID-19 vaccinated?
Because Big Government can’t quit their authoritarian habits. They can’t quit the fantasy of No Covid.
That’s the new villain of 2021.
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