Late this past spring, even while the Delta Variant was spreading in Europe and elsewhere, Gropin’ Joe went on TV in the White House Rose Garden, pulled off his mask and declared the pandemic over, calling it “a great day for America” — following later this summer with what had to be the weakest, most pointless COVID vaccine policy ever. Regular testing and a mask  requirement? That’s it? Not “get vaccinated or get fired”?

Needless to say, the Washington Post and crew were right on top of it, cranking out articles about how wonderful it is to be re-emerging, to go back to “normal”, sometimes vaguely insuinuating that people still wearing masks in the grocery store were “the new weirdos” — as opposed to the knobs who thought they were being muzzled and forced to breathe their own CO2, who were last year’s weirdos.

Yeah… that sure aged well, didn’t it? Seems that Biden & Gang are employing the same strategy Trump did after the last election.

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California… prophet on the burnin’ shore… where Gavin Newsom is whipping the kids back to school so he can whip their parents back to work, where new cases of COVID-19 are up 165% in Los Angeles County at least partially due to brilliance like this:

“…Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva stated that the mandate will not be enforced as it is ‘not backed by science’ and contradicts the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommends only that the unvaccinated wear masks.”

— “COVID-19 cases rise by 165 percent in California since lifting of restrictions in June”, wsws.org 07.22.2021

The reputation of the LAPD and the L.A. Sheriff’s Department was already so deep in the toilet they couldn’t possibly make it worse — until the goddamn sheriff of L.A. County decided he was going to be their goddamn doctor, too.

A hundred and sixty-five goddamn percent.

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Getting up to date in our Thinning Out The Stupid Gene Department: Florida, gung-ho for reopening, beaches crowded as hell, has set a new one-day record for new COVID19 cases; even as one state after another begins mandating mask use, the governor of Georgia has stuck a blow for freedom by barring municipalities from mandating masks and, elsewhere in the Covidiot Universe, the co-founder of ReOpen Maryland — one of many groups standing up for our Constitutional right to manicures and ice cream — tested positive for COVID19 just a couple of weeks ago.

But as it’s often said — Freedom Isn’t Free.

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