Posted on 03/04/2022 10:01:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Down goes the vaccine mandate in Chicago. Off with the required masks in Los Angeles. In COVID-19 America, Hawaii is now the only state with an indoor mask mandate, with Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island all lifting theirs in recent weeks.
Leading from behind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also loosened its mask-wearing guidelines for most Americans, tying those guidelines to hospitalizations rather than infections—a policy that made sense two years ago, let alone now.
Democrats are toeing the same line as their media allies, rolling back restrictions en masse for the first time in two years. According to Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Americans are “sick of the whole damn thing.” Ryan just so happens to be representing a politically competitive district and running for an open Senate seat.
Therein lies the reason for the shift in COVID-19 messaging. There was only ever one reason: The 2022 midterms. Democrats have seen the writing on the wall, and the writing is public opinion. Across America, people are fed up with COVID-related mandates, recognizing that mass vaccination has brought about the end of pandemic hysteria. The coronavirus may be endemic and it remains a concern, but not to the extent that it warrants government overreach. When even California shifts to an “endemic” phase, you know that normality is long-overdue.
But Democrats wouldn’t be pushing for normality if polling wasn’t overwhelmingly on the side of Republicans, who have rejected pandemic hysteria since the beginning. According to the Boston Globe (yes, the left-leaning Boston Globe), seven in 10 Americans believe it’s time to accept COVID is here to stay and “get on with our lives.” Even 47 percent of Democrats are sick and tired of pandemic-era politics. Numerous polls confirm public disillusionment with left-wing mandates.
Not surprisingly, President Biden bears the brunt of the blame. Nearly 60 percent of Americans consider President Biden’s first year in office a failure. And only 45 percent approve of the Biden administration’s handling of the virus—down from 66 percent in July. According to Gallup, COVID-19 is the third most important issue in America, behind economic malaise and subpar government leadership. With inflation rising at the fastest pace in four decades, Democrats like Biden are scrambling to change the subject. But it’s too late.
Elected officials who were once mandate-obsessed should be punished for their overzealousness. And they will be, with Republicans poised to expand the electoral map. The Left’s encroachment on individual liberty had nothing to do with “science” yesterday, just like today’s pivot has nothing to do with “science.” With two-thirds of Americans fully vaccinated, the Omicron variant—the least severe variant yet—was not deserving of the overreaction it triggered. But the polling had not shifted yet
Tomorrow won’t be a brighter day because of the Left’s caution and prudence, but rather because Democrats are scared to death of 2022. Indeed, Democrats are proving what Republicans have believed for two years: The pandemic was all about politics—nothing more, nothing less.
Despite their incessant virtue signaling, Biden Democrats don’t care about public health or human life more than other Americans; they simply care about expanding government and retaining power. There’s a reason why, even now, Democrats exploit the “pandemic” to promote liberal policies like mandated paid sick leave. It’s about power.
Don’t let “them” have it in 2022. Those who tout “science” to tread on individual liberties do not deserve your vote. Those who determine “science” for the rest of us, based on new polling, deserve to lose. Those who play politics with public health deserve to fail.
The “red wave” is coming, and Democrats caused it themselves. As COVID-19 wraps up, Americans know which side believes in freedom—and which doesn’t.
How conveeeeeeeeenient.
Standby for another soon to be plan-demic; have to keep people unsettled.
Where’s President Fauci? Haven’t heard from the idiot in awhile.
...and no mention of the homeless.
Not quite. Washington state still has an indoor mask mandate until March 11.
...and no mention of the homeless.
...now back to our regularly scheduled "programming".
In a sane world everyone would never forget the totalitarian behavior and lies those in power peddled over this virus.
Unfortunately, things are insane right now and we rarely have a chance to genuflect and consider what just happened because something new kicks the old off the front page.
Ah, liberal “science”.
99% politics/bulls***/idiocy, 1% actual science
Yes, I have noticed that "Dr." Fauci has been AWOL for some time.
We’re about to pass the one million dead from COVID threshold. We probably passed it before the SOTU. There will be a battle to suppress
Not quite. Washington state still has an indoor mask mandate until March 11.
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That’s because SCIENCE! The virus gets a later room checkout time in Washington state.
Don’t worry-—these mandates will be back. There’s no way they’re going to give up that power so easily.
It was hype exploitation and manipulation.
There are still the vulnerable people who die from it.
Maybe now they can be helped and the infection in vulnerable populations can be focused on.
Somehow Gov. Dimslee knows that the virus will be contageous until 23.59.59 on March 11 then POOF! It's not.
He's a genius. A GENIUS I say!!
It’s temporary, the Dems polling is terrible. They will take credit for conquering COVID and the sheep will believe them. If polling is still bad in the run up to the midterms they will implement what ever is necessary to steal the election and that includes another fake pandemic.
FREEPER “day10” offered this a few days ago:
DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you. Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last
two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation. Visited family. The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.
They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.
Do not forget what they have done. Do not forgive them. They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmare
of the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best thr Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose
their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us. Project. Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).
DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity. Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a
“public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.
NEVER FORGET.
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
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