IS THAT YOU BEHIND THE MASK KEMOSABE?

I heard the other day that the best way to get rid of the new covid variant was to turn off CNN. No matter what television I try to watch, the only news available is about covid and masks and vaccines. The CDC issues one opinion then within mere hours, they issue another in opposition with the last one. It's virtually impossible to know what is real and what is just politics. 

 

That brings us to the point of this column. I have said before that covid seems to be more of a political weapon than an actual disease. There is no doubt the Democrats used covid to defeat Trump. They are continuing to use it to control the American people. A huge number of mayors and city administrators as well as school boards are chomping at the bit to further restrict and restrain free American people. Well guess what? A recent poll shows over seventy percent of those polled are not going to put masks back on nor are they going to turn over their lives to dictators. 

 

This country was very nearly brought to her knees by the last big covid scare and we are still not out of those woods. 

 

I have had my vaccination. I had two shots. I am supposed to be protected from this virus. If you are not vaccinated, that is your choice. If you get sick, that is on you. What you do or don't do has no effect on what I do. Now the latest news coming from "science" is that even if you are vaccinated, you still should wear a mask. Why? If I am protected by my shot, how could I carry this disease to someone else? And if someone who hasn't received the shot gets this disease, how is that my issue?

 

The big problem we have here is screwed up messaging. That's the politics of this issue. Here is some truth that seems to have been conveniently forgotten. When this disease first raised its ugly head, Trump not Biden put pressure on the scientific community to come up with a workable vaccine. Both Biden and Harris said that if Trump had anything to do with the vaccine, they would refuse it. How stupid can you be?

 

The vaccine was produced and in record time. Millions of lives have been saved by this accomplishment. Again, it was Trump's accomplishment, not Biden's. 

 

Because of stupid pronouncements coming from stupid politicians, millions of people are still not vaccinated. The longer the virus travels around, the more variants will be spawned. Some people very close to me have not been vaccinated. That, of course, is their choice. For some reason I cannot understand, many black Americans have decided against the vaccine. It probably goes back to screwed up messaging. Following the science is very difficult because the science keeps changing. Fauchi has lost all his credibility with me. He appears to have traded his medical license for a politician's license. 

 

The near future is going to get weird. One would think that anyone wanting the shot would have gotten the shot. Yet, the big push is on. I have heard that some cities are paying people to get this free shot. Some government agencies are now requiring proof of vaccination to enter and even with that proof still require a mask. There is a real possibility some businesses are going to shut down again due to this new variant. 

 

If the American people allow this, it will happen. If the American people refuse to allow it, it won't happen. The choice is ours.

 

Ron Scarbro August 3, 2021