Late last summer, I jokingly told my dad that the virus would magically disappear on November 4th because that was the day after the election. Looking back, I can see I was a bit naïve. The magic date wasn’t November 4th, it was January 20th.
You see, if the virus situation improved before January 20th, Trump could claim at least partial credit. But, if things got better after Biden took office, Joe Biden would get all the credit. So, for the 11 weeks between election day and inauguration day, Democrats kept up the ridiculous charade that is COVID-19.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that some high-risk people die after contracting the virus. But people die all the time with or without the virus. The difference is that deaths that have been classified as caused by COVID-19 have been and are being used for political gain.
The “flatten the curve” initiative was never about saving lives. It was about finding the maximum acceptable death rate. The same number of deaths are represented beneath the flattened curve as the non-flattened curve. The only difference is the length of time over which the deaths occur. For maximum effectiveness, the deaths couldn’t happen too quickly. They needed to keep that fear going until they reached the magic date.
But now we’ve passed the magic date, and the Democrats no longer need COVID-19. It has served its purpose. It’s time to move on.
Hours after Biden was sworn in, the World Health Organization stated that the preferred method of COVID-19 testing results in a huge number of false positives. These are the very tests used to justify the lockdowns across the country which have been decimating our small businesses.
Why the change? We’ve known about this for months. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It is unreasonable to believe that the WHO magically came to this conclusion on the afternoon of January 20th. It’s more likely that they knew this all along and decided to make the announcement after hiding it was no longer politically advantageous.
Governors in California, Michigan and New York have suddenly decided that the economic destruction caused by their lockdown orders is no longer tolerable so they’re relaxing restrictions and allowing businesses to reopen. Those businesses that are left anyway.
The virus situation hasn’t magically gotten any better. In fact, in California, by some measures it’s actually worse than when the latest lockdown began back in December. The only thing that has changed between today and a week ago is that President Trump is no longer in office. The only thing that changed between November 3rd and January 20th is that Joe Biden is in office.
While they were working hard to suck all of the political advantages they could out of COVID-19, and to make sure Trump didn’t get any credit, people were suffering. Hell, people are still suffering. People who have lost their businesses, jobs and homes are going to suffer for years to come. Tens of thousands of small businesses have gone under because they weren’t deemed to be “essential” and millions of people have lost their jobs. Many families will never recover.
How much of that suffering could have been prevented if the Democrats had not decided to delay progress until after Joe Biden took office? How many businesses might have survived, or jobs might not have been lost, or families might not have been financially destroyed, if the Democrats hadn’t been so interested in making sure they squeezed all the political benefit out of COVID-19 that they could?
The COVID-19 “crisis” was undoubtedly leveraged for political gain. But don’t worry. The Democrats will make things better, now that we’ve passed the magic date.
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