They have blood on their hands. They’re engaging in experiments with human sacrifice. They just want to kill grandma. For weeks, ordinary, nonideologically driven Americans have faced scorn and smears from the commentary class for demanding that the government allow them to return to work. No matter that masks and social distancing appear to be effective at mitigating transmission of the coronavirus or even that the summer sunlight will likely offer us a brief respite from the infection. Their minds were made up: The desire to see a friend, patronize a local business, or just earn a living was tantamount to outright disregard for the elderly and immunocompromised.
Yet strangely enough, the “you just want to kill grandma” crowd went silent as thousands of violent protesters across dozens of cities burned cars and looted businesses in the name of peace. Most of them, it should be added, appeared to scream and cough and breathe over each other without any semblance of mask-wearing or social distancing.
We killed a minimum of 30 million jobs and who knows how many businesses after a period of real wage growth and a half-century unemployment low to keep the healthcare system from being overwhelmed. People who spent decades building businesses to employ dozens of people have been holding onto whatever hope their government betters would allow them — only to see violent mobs destroy a lifetime of hopes and dreams.
Owner of DiJune’s wine and liquor on Dewey Ave says he won’t recover from damage and stolen product. Closing up shop after 60 years in business. @13WHAM pic.twitter.com/4FrXrsfCgE
— Tanner Jubenville (@13WHAMTANNER) May 31, 2020
To recap: Robbing Korean beauty shop owners brings justice to police brutality 1,000 miles away, but shame on the rest of us for going outside. How dare you have a drink or patronize a local business while social distancing — if only you were somewhere lighting fires and stealing television sets, thus promoting justice.
Case in point: if you’re enjoying a meal with friends at socially distanced tables in sunlight, which kills COVID, you’re a selfish asshole. Light cars on fire and destroy them, and you’re “speaking up” to stand for America. H/t @DJDenz21 pic.twitter.com/0GFNACxB7A
— Quarantiana (@TianaTheFirst) May 31, 2020
And why? Because for a certain contingent of zombie elites, credulous over whatever propaganda Beijing is spreading on any given day, the mask was never just a tool to minimize coronavirus transmission. It was an ideological symbol — a statement. Now that it’s not as useful anymore, it can be tossed aside.
