At the beginning of the pandemic \u2013 when we were still making jokes about coronavirus and Corona beer \u2013 there was a lot of confusion. As the magnitude of COVID became clear, people were erring on the side of caution; fair enough. But over a year into this thing, we can still see signage in stores telling us which direction to push our carts. If anyone ever abided by these rules, it was only for a short while, and that was a long time ago. If you were one of those people who tried to scold me for going the wrong way down an aisle last June, to which I told you, \u201cshut the hell up,\u201d I\u2019m still not sorry. Here\u2019s a prediction: no one will bother to conduct a study on exactly how many lives were saved by one-way supermarket traffic. And if an accurate analysis does come along it will arrive at this conclusion: Zero.<\/p>\n It could\u2019ve been sillier\u2026 they could\u2019ve put in traffic lights<\/em><\/p>\n Throughout the presidential campaign, the left and their media hammered away at this point. If Trump had acted properly, the pandemic never would have happened. Trump is responsible for every death. There are hundreds of thousands dead because of Trump. Somehow, a substantial portion of the electorate bought into the nonsense. It\u2019s a virus, and a highly infectious one at that. Trump did what he could, and in fact initially received praise from just about every Democratic governor in the country. If anyone is to blame for COVID, it\u2019s China and the World Health Organization. But perhaps nothing better illustrates the ridiculousness of this claim than when Joe Biden, less than a week after taking office,\u00a0explained<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we can do\u201d about the virus. Well, I\u2019ll be darned.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember all those times I said I was going to kick COVID\u2019s ass? Well, I\u2019m going back to my basement to hang out with Corn Pop now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n From virtually the very beginning of the pandemic, it was clear that school-aged children were far less susceptible to infection and severe symptoms, and probably not vectors of transmission. Statistically, kids are the least in danger. But while the rest of us were back working in stores or driving trucks, and subjecting ourselves to genuine risks, teachers\u2019 unions across the country continued to push the narrative that it\u2019s too dangerous for teachers and kids to return to school. Like every other industry, at-risk kids and teachers could have been allowed to stay at home while the rest went back to normal. Instead, we inexplicably kept schools closed, gave students a significantly inferior education, and took away opportunities for social interactions that will never come again.<\/p>\n Finally parents became fed up with school closings, but far too many Americans nodded in agreement and played along<\/em><\/p>\n The media would prefer that we all forget their accusations, but we mustn\u2019t. They\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0President Trump \u201cxenophobe in chief\u201d for his actions, and Nancy Pelosi went to San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0Chinatown<\/a>\u00a0in February to tell everyone how safe things were. Trump had suspended travel from China at the end of January, and in retrospect the only legitimate criticism you could make of Trump is that he waited too long. But to categorize his actions as xenophobic was absurd from the beginning. The virus came from China, and that\u2019s a fact; and it\u2019s not racist or xenophobic to point it out or to act accordingly.<\/p>\n If your policies don\u2019t work, just call the other guy (who happens to be married to an immigrant) a xenophobe<\/em><\/p>\n The idea itself isn\u2019t absurd at all, and in fact it\u00a0originated<\/a>\u00a0with the Trump White House. We didn\u2019t know the trajectory of the disease in mid-March 2020 when the initiative began; we didn\u2019t want to overwhelm hospitals, and we needed to \u201cflatten the curve.\u201d It took closer to 30 days to reach the goal, but we succeeded, and we achieved those objectives. There wasn\u2019t a location in the country where COVID patients couldn\u2019t access care, and we indeed flattened the curve. What\u2019s absurd is that the approach has continued for almost 400 days now in some places. Many states such as Texas, Florida and Mississippi have been essentially back to normal for months, but other states (mostly of the Blue variety) can\u2019t bear to let go of that power, as lockdowns and mask-mandates continue.<\/p>\n Did we say 15 days? We meant to say 30\u2026 no, make that 90\u2026 no, no, we meant 400 days<\/em><\/p>\n The\u00a0claim<\/a>\u00a0came in December before he took office, and much of the rhetoric was focused on the economic impact on COVID, but Biden repeatedly made assertions that he would \u201cfix\u201d the federal government\u2019s handling of COVID. By the time Biden was inaugurated, there were already one million vaccinations occurring each day, and one of his first promises was to achieve 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days, which would have meant actually\u00a0decreasing\u00a0<\/em>the trend graph for vaccines. Way to set the bar low, Joe. Essentially the only issue in which the Biden Administration has approached COVID differently from Trump is with their authoritarian fixation on masks. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n Rest easy America, Joe Biden is coming to save us<\/em><\/p>\n Prior to COVID, most Americans were only vaguely aware of the WHO and their efforts. If we heard, \u201cThe WHO,\u201d we would immediately think of Roger Daltrey swinging his microphone and Pete Townshend smashing his guitar. Once we\u00a0learned<\/a>\u00a0how they screwed the pooch with the early days of the pandemic, and of their coziness with China, everyone started paying attention. The virus likely originated at the lab in Wuhan \u2013 though probably unintentionally \u2013 and China thoroughly mishandled the initial infections. Once the virus began spreading, the WHO provided cover for the Chinese by downplaying the extent of the spread and China\u2019s role in it. The organization which gets much of its funding from our tax dollars was in bed with China and covering up their incompetence. President Trump was absolutely correct in pulling our funding, and if Biden had an ounce of integrity he\u2019d do the same thing.<\/p>\n Chinese President Xi Jinping pays a visit to his puppets at the World Health Organization<\/em><\/p>\n The media spent the first six months of the pandemic essentially engaging in journalistic copulation with Democratic governors like New York\u2019s Andrew Cuomo, while simultaneously vilifying and openly rooting against Republican governors like Florida\u2019s Ron DeSantis. DeSantis would \u201chave blood on his hands\u201d they told us, while concurrently paving the way for issuing an Emmy Award for Cuomo. In reality, the performances were the exact opposite of their narrative. Cuomo was dreadful in his handling of nursing homes in New York, and it was clear from the beginning he was covering up the results; a scandal which may eventually result in his removal from office. Meanwhile DeSantis was stellar in managing the virus in a state with the second oldest population in the country. The worst four states in the country for\u00a0deaths-per-million<\/a>\u00a0are all blue states (#1 New Jersey, #2 New York, #3 Massachusetts, and #4 Rhode Island), and Florida is in the bottom half of that list and going lower. Democrats, unsurprisingly, were absolutely horrible in their handling of COVID, whereas Republicans did pretty well overall.<\/p>\n Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (left) showed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the proper way of handling the COVID crisis<\/em><\/p>\n This is some of the most bizarre messaging we\u2019ve ever seen. We were blessed with three miracles: the vaccines by Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J. All three are not only highly effective at stopping infections, with efficacies of between 75% and 94%, they\u2019re almost 100% effective at preventing hospitalization and death in the unlikely scenario you are infected. So what did Biden and the Democrats do? They told everyone that even if you\u2019re vaccinated you need to keep social distancing and keep wearing masks. Those communications begged the question: if I have to keep doing all that stuff, then why should I get the shots? None of it made any sense. If you get vaccinated: 1) it\u2019s highly unlikely you\u2019ll get infected, 2) you\u2019re almost definitely not going to be hospitalized or die from it if you do, and 3) you will not be able to transmit the disease. In other words, if you get the vaccine you can go back to normal.<\/p>\n Democratic Party propaganda, brought to you by their sycophants in the media<\/em><\/p>\n The beginning of the pandemic was chaotic, and it would have been understandable if Dr. Anthony Fauci had simply made a mistake when he told us we didn\u2019t need masks. But it wasn\u2019t a mistake. He lied to us and admitted doing so. Fauci justified his deceit by\u00a0claiming<\/a>\u00a0concern that masks might not be available for health care professionals. Then Fauci decided to stop lying to us and told us to wear masks, but wouldn\u2019t even follow his own directive. Fauci threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals opening game last year, and forget that he threw the ball like a little girl; which, if anything, is insulting to little girls. He was wearing a mask despite the nearest person being sixty feet away. He then proceeded to sit in the stands directly next to a friend, at which point he removed his mask. Then late last year Fauci decided that it would be best if we wore two masks, without any evidence to support his notion. Like lockdowns, there\u2019s still no evidence that mask-wearing had a significant impact on the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has zero credibility at this point, and if you\u2019re following this recommendation by wearing two masks, then you are a moron.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hello-i-m-nik-2gBEgpwUhBA-unsplash.jpg?itok=9F7FOoVy\")
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#10 \u2013\u00a0One-way traffic rules in supermarket aisles<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#9 \u2013\u00a0COVID is Trump\u2019s fault<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#8 \u2013\u00a0Teachers can\u2019t go back to work, but everyone else can<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#7 \u2013\u00a0It was xenophobic for Trump to halt travel from China<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#6 \u2013\u00a0Fifteen days to slow the spread\u00a0<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#5 \u2013\u00a0President Joe Biden: \u201cHelp is on the way\u201d<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#4 \u2013\u00a0The response by The World Health Organization<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#3 \u2013\u00a0Blue states did it better<\/u>\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#2 \u2013\u00a0Get the vaccine, but keep doing all of the other stuff<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n#1 \u2013\u00a0Wear two masks<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013<\/h2>\n