My wife went in for a check-up. The medical staff found her heart was in Atrial Fibrillation. They took her to the emergency room at the local hospital.
I went to the emergency room on December 31, 2019, at 9:30 a.m.
The emergency room was packed. People were lying on beds in the hall. I asked a nurse what was going on. The nurse said, "It's the flu".
Later in January, my wife and I went to New York City. Every person we saw who appeared to be from the Far East was wearing a face mask. We wondered why.
About six weeks later, we found out.
I don't remember the exact day, but we drove by our local Publix and the parking lot was full. Everybody was buying toilet paper.
The Covid-19 crisis was in full bloom. The NBA canceled the remainder of its season. Major League Baseball postponed the start of its season.
Tom Hanks got it. We thought we were going to lose Tom Hanks.
They (the government) requested everybody give it two weeks to "flatten the curve". Here, they said, watch this show about an amoral zoo keeper in Oklahoma.
They (the media) told us that the Covid virus originated in a Wet Market which sold bats and pangolins instead of a lab that just happened to study viruses. To claim otherwise was to be a sinner. One of the knuckle-dragging mouth breathers who have soiled our good nation for too long.
Last week, The New York Times published a column titled: “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives.” Just like Tonto said to the Lone Ranger-"What do you mean 'We' kemo sabe?"
The column should have been titled, "You Were Badly Misled About The Event That Changed Our Lives By Us".
It turns out all the really smart people, for whatever reason, decided like Colonel Nathan Jessup that we couldn't handle the truth and put forth the goofy Wet Market story. Then accuse anyone who wouldn't tow the supposed scientific line to be a twenty-first-century Bull Conner.
The crisis elevated Saint Dr. Anthony Fauci to be the nation's PCP. He came up with the Mask mandate. Which turns out didn't work. And social distancing. Which turns out didn't work either.
Fauci has admitted there was no science (besides him being Science incarnate) behind the Mask mandate or social distancing. Scientifically speaking, he pulled the Mask mandate and social distancing out of his butt.
Another problem was the rules that were created for us in steerage to follow.
A lot of the rules in Covid-19 were my favorite legal phrase: arbitrary and capricious. The government decided which businesses were "essential". Small business was not. Wal-Mart was. Funny how that works.
I was able to obtain my vaccine earlier than most because I worked for a health system even though I'm not a clinician of any sort and I never saw any patients because I worked out of my home. Grocery store workers, who literally were on the "frontline" of Covid became eligible for the vaccine in the second stage of the rollout.
Michael Brendan Doughtery said, "It’s fearful to consider how much of our law and Constitution just seemed to evaporate and how swiftly and completely it was replaced with the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking, however brain-dead or self-serving. The Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking is why kids wore masks for a year after a vaccine was available to adults. And why schools had bizarre barriers on desks, and why it suddenly became okay to congregate outside so long as it was a Black Lives Matter riot and not something else protected by the First Amendment, like a Jewish funeral in Brooklyn."
In case I'm ever in front of a Senate subcommittee, I think Trump lost the 2020 election, but the day Biden was declared the winner, a group of celebrants were outside of the White House, unmasked, and drinking champagne from the same bottle without even wiping off the top. Nobody said a word to them because the virus wanted Trump to lose.
For all his Trumpness, he did fast track the vaccine so the national could go back to normal. There were those who said we couldn't trust the vaccine Trump rushed through because, hey, you can't rush these things. You might take the vaccine and grow three heads.
Until Joe Biden became President and then you had to take the vaccine or lose your job.
I took the vaccine. I had no problem with it. I thought (and think) everybody should take the vaccine.
But, President Biden had COVID-19 three times in two years after taking the vaccine and the boosters
I worked with an individual who went deaf in one ear after taking the vaccine. Things like that happened.
Some people were very, very against the vaccine.
In strolled in our entertainment class to scold Americans they disagreed with.
We had a late night talk show host say "Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in. We'll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy."
The "horse goo" was Ivermectin, which is an actual drug. NIH said in October of 2020 paper, "There were no severe adverse drug events recorded in the study. A 5-day course of ivermectin was found to be safe and effective in treating adult patients with mild COVID-19."
Howard Stern who has transformed from a "shock jock" to our national nag said, "We have no time for idiots in this country anymore. We don’t want you,” Stern said. “We want you to all either go to the hospital, stay home, die there with your COVID, don’t take the cure but don’t clog up our hospitals with your COVID when you finally get it. Stay home, don’t bother with science, it’s too late. We want you to go away. We want you to leave the country. Go somewhere where they have ultimate freedom, wherever that is, some bizarro world where you don’t have to take the vaccine. I don’t know when nonsense became such a thing."
The man who created "Fartman" wonders when nonsense became such a thing.
I'm glad COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror. Did our betters, our smarty parts, our cultural influencers handle it well?
No.