Covid and its (not so) useful idiots...
So I’m writing this in early March. And, as I write, American and other authorities are beginning to cautiously suggest that maybe, perhaps, we are coming to an end to the Covid Pandemic. Unless another, even more virulent, and vaccine resistant version of the disease should reappear, we may finally seeing the proverbial light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.*
This is good, and we should hope that it is true.
What worries me, though, is how the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and other Covidiots will react. Rest assured, they won’t be breathing a sigh or relief and saying, “Thank goodness that’s over.” No. They will be saying that there was never a pandemic…it was a “scamdemic”…and the only reason the authorities are starting to ease off the controls now is that they, the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, were big and strong and tough and refused to comply with vaccine and mask mandates. In other words, they will announce that it was their victory, not that of the doctors and medical professionals.
And what will that mean? It will mean that these people will continue. They will teach their children and their grandchildren that there was no pandemic and that doctors are not to be trusted and that conspiracies against “freedom” are everywhere. They will teach, as well, that those Americans who used masks and got vaccinated were weaklings and fools.
And then…?
Then something worse will come along. Some disease as communicable as Covid, but much more deadly. Maybe it will leap from some animal reservoir. Maybe it will be…it’s possible…a biological weapon unleashed by one of our numberless enemies.
After which…millions upon millions will die. They will die because they will refuse to take precautions. They will refuse shots and masks, having been taught to believe that they are useless. They will reject medical advice, because they have been told it is fraudulent.
So…they will perish from the earth.
For here is the grim reality. Willful stupidity is as dangerous as any virus.
And worse…
It has, if possible, even less capacity for pity.
~mjt
Copyright©2022 Michael Jay Tucker
Sources:
*“Fauci: US exiting 'full-blown' pandemic phase of coronavirus crisis,” By Chloe Folmar , The Hill, 02/09/22 09:55 AM EST, https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/593456-fauci-us-exiting-full-blown-pandemic-phase-of-coronavirus-crisis