It’s a grim milestone, as state-run media used to say.
Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the insane order by then-Gov. Charlie Baker to close down the colleges, prohibit gatherings of greater than 25 folks and shut all eating places in Massachusetts aside from take outs or deliveries.
Eight days later, each “non-essential” enterprise within the state was shut down.
On Might 1, Pricey Chief Baker ordered all comrades to put on face masks in public.
Pointless, completely pointless, to not point out profoundly harmful. The worst public-health folly in American historical past, a complete overreaction, one which the society will want generations to get better from.
I requested my radio listeners this week to reminisce about a few of COVID’s Best Hits.
Do you keep in mind the COVID snitch traces, to rat out your neighbor who wasn’t apprehensive as a result of he might… learn charts, and perceive statistics?
How concerning the COVID demise counter on the backside of the cable TV screens, all of which have been eradicated as quickly as Dementia Joe Biden was put in as president in January 2021.
On weeknights, the COVID curfew went into impact at 10. However on weekends, you might keep out till 11, as a result of the Pink Chinese language virus wished to offer you a break on date nights.
Fourteen days to flatten the curve.
The apparatchiks modified the dictionary definition of “pure immunity,” so Large Pharma might pocket tens of billions.
No haircuts or manicures for you, however sneaky appointments on the magnificence parlor for Nancy Pelosi and Lori Lightfoot.
The nomenklatura likewise appeared the opposite approach for a maskless Barack Obama celebration for a whole bunch of Stunning Folks on Martha’s Winery as a result of his company have been, as The New York Occasions grovelingly reported, “subtle.”
This was the second when thousands and thousands of individuals stopped watching their native TV information. They lower the wire for his or her cable TV and canceled their newspaper subscriptions, as a result of why trouble? The media stopped reporting information.
It was all COVID agitprop, on a regular basis.
Recall Charlie Baker’s midday press conferences, surrounded by non-doctors sporting white coats (stethoscopes elective), sternly ordering “the oldsters” to observe his newest lunatic diktats.
Each afternoon got here the breathless studies from the MWRA on COVID particles within the wastewater, i.e., sewage, reported as “breaking information.”
Keep in mind the a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} stolen in fraudulent COVID welfare, and never simply by Democrats and unlawful aliens – am I proper, ex-GOP state Sen. Dean Tran?
Certainly one of my texters from the 617 space code recalled: “Misplaced my job. They closed my church. Closed my youngsters’ colleges. Spied on us at Thanksgiving. Pulled over in RI as a result of I had out-of-state plates.”
From 781: “Davis Sq. Somerville large theater signal out entrance: ‘Vaccinated Solely.’”
From 603: “I’ll always remember nor forgive Baker, Fauci, Wallensky et al. for forcing my expensive father to die alone within the BI. To my timeless disgrace I didn’t go to jail that day.”
From 781: “All my AA conferences shut down, but when I wished to I might nonetheless go to a bar or packy. Belief the science!”
From 508: “I heard on the radio that the widow of John Glenn had been struck down by COVID. She was 100 years outdated.”
Out of the blue, all people with a job was both “important” or “non-essential.” Authorities staff have been all just about “non-essential,” and so they have been damned completely happy about it. They stopped going to work, and a whole lot of them have by no means gone again.
However 5 years into their countless holidays, they’re nonetheless getting paid. Or have been, till Elon Musk.
Public-school lecturers thundered that they couldn’t return to their school rooms, ever, as a result of it might be lethal… for the youngsters. Though in fact no kids have been dying, none.
Then after their “distant studying” holidays began, fats lecturers started posting photographs of themselves on social media partying in swimming pools within the Caribbean, gulping frosty drinks with little umbrellas in them.
After which a few of those self same public workers who hadn’t labored for months, or years, obtained “bonuses” for his or her heroic COVID goldbricking. Aside from the public-safety staff who have been truly anticipated to work by way of the Panic, however then obtained fired for not getting the vaccine.
Now, the identical federal hacks who celebrated being “non-essential” for all these years are getting laid off, and so they’re whining that their firings will decimate the Republic.
As certainly one of listeners requested:
“Would the Democrats be okay w/DOGE cuts in the event that they knew the employees’ vaccination standing?”
And now, a number of flashbacks from Dementia Joe Biden:
Flashback 1: “A completely vaccinated booster particular person is essentially the most protected towards COVID.”
Flashback 2: “Go to vaccines dot gum dot gov vaccines dot gum or textual content to your textual content your zip code to 438829….”
Flashback 3: “Hearken to Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci assured that COVID-9 vac-tines, vaccines have been secure.”
Flashback 4: “On vaccines alone, we – if we don’t make investments 20 million billions to vaccinate the nation, doesn’t that make sense?”
Till 2020, it was at all times towards the regulation to drive with an “open container” of alcohol in your automobile. In a single day, native eating places might promote, together with their takeout meals, “open containers” of alcohol.
Likewise, banks had indicators, typically bolted to the partitions simply inside their entrances, warning that it was towards federal regulation to put on a masks right into a monetary establishment.
But instantly the identical banks had paper indicators, typically hand-lettered, taped to their entrance doorways, saying that no buyer might enter the financial institution except he was sporting… a masks.
They took the hoops down off basketball targets. They shut down seashores. They shut down clam flats. They blocked entrances to public parks with concrete blocks.
After some time, you have been permitted to play golf, properly, form of. You and the remainder of your foursome might drive collectively to the course in a single automobile. However as soon as you bought to the greens and have been outdoors, everybody within the occasion needed to have his personal golf cart as a result of… science.
And you might get pleasure from a gentle drink within the cart, however no beer as a result of, repeat after me, science.
Headline from 2021: “Psaki: White Home ‘Flagging’ COVID ‘Disinformation’ for Social Media Censors.”
And now it seems that every one that disinformation – that the virus got here out of a Pink Chinese language lab, that vaccines didn’t essentially shield you, that wholesome younger folks weren’t in danger, and so on. – was just about true.
And that the whole lot the “consultants” mentioned was pernicious BS.
It was the return of the outdated Soviet Union as described by novelist Elena Gorokhova:
“The principles are easy: they misinform us, we all know they’re mendacity, they know we all know they’re mendacity, however they preserve mendacity to us and we preserve pretending to consider them.”
It’s 5 years for the reason that Deep State started oppressing us with the Greatest Lie in American historical past.
It’s a grim milestone. Always remember.
