Hearing “experts” and the media advocate for canceling family gatherings this holiday season makes you wonder if these people really just hate the idea of seeing their own relatives for Thanksgiving.
A couple of such experts wrote Tuesday in the New York Times that everyone should once again “hunker down” for the holidays because though we’re told a vaccine for COVID-19 may arrive for distribution as early as this year, it will still be some time before it’s available to everyone.
“Fifteen days to slow the spread” issued by the White House back in March has evolved into “your grandma can sit this Christmas out.”
The COVID-19 goal post never stops moving. There are, in fact, multiple goal posts, and we’re told that unless all of them are hit in sync, we can never move forward, not even with a “new normal.”
It was first about staying home for a couple weeks to prevent the healthcare system from being overrun. Then, it was about reaching unlimited, on-demand testing. Then it was about a national “contact tracing” program. Then, it was about every single person wearing masks 24 hours per day, even when driving alone, biking, or sleeping. Then, it was about a vaccine. Now, it’s about a vaccine that everyone has to get and take, which will almost certainly never happen.
I’d say they’re living in a delusion, but they’re actually quite lucid. Democrats, liberals, and some of the “experts” have long given up the pretense that this is about “saving lives.” This is about exerting power and maintaining control.
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the media’s standard in effective COVID-19 governance (that means he presided over the worst outbreak in the country with more deaths than anywhere else), is already pushing the notion that the Trump administration can’t possibly distribute the vaccine in a trusted way.
“The Trump administration is rolling out the vaccination plan, and I believe it’s flawed,” he said this week on ABC. The problem, he said, is that the government could not ensure that impoverished communities got the vaccine at a quick enough clip.
The point, however, is just to make it available. Some people need it more than others, but it’s supposed to be pushed out in as quick and safe a way as possible, to as many people as possible. Why would Cuomo express doubt about that happening if not because he believes there’s yet more need for lockdowns and “social distancing”?
This isn’t a secret. Joe Biden, who will apparently be sworn in as president in January, has issued a plan on the pandemic that tries to control everything in granular detail, right down to a little yard sign he wants to give businesses to declare their establishment safe for customers (so long as they’ve reduced their revenue by at least half after they’re unable to fill the place to capacity).
It can’t be stated enough that this is all for a virus, which, even among the most vulnerable age cohort of 70 years and up, has a 95% survival rate.
A vaccine, we’re told, is on the way, so just give up what might be our last Christmas with mom or grandma. As always, the goal posts need to shift again.
