Democrats: we'll maintain the panic show until the entire world is vaxxed, or in other words, forever
/Yes, yes, I know that Bill Maher hates Trump, and doesn’t think much of Republicans, but he does “get”, and speaks cogently against the woke cancel culture and, increasingly these days, the COVID show, which he’s sick of. Unfortunately, his fellow Democrats aren’t.
"Real Time" host Bill Maher railed against ongoing COVID restrictions, declaring the pandemic "over."
"Just resume living," Maher told his audience. "I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It's over. There's always going to be a variant. You shouldn't have to wear masks. I should be to … I haven't had a meeting with my staff since March of 2020. Why?"
Also, vaccine, mask, pick one! You've got to pick. You can't make me mask if I've had the vaccine," Maher added.
The Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan told Maher she had "broken up with COVID" after the first year of the pandemic, comparing it to an "abusive" boyfriend.
"And I got the vaccine. I walked out of the CVS. I hadn't been that thrilled coming out of the drugstore since I got the birth control pill in 1981," Flanagan quipped. "I've had cancer. I'm triple vaxxed. If it gets me, fair play to it because it will put up a fight against me but I'm not staying in my house again."
So far, so good, but it’s the Democrat political on the panel who gives his party’s game away.
Maher then pressed his guest, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., since "it's the Democrats" that keep enforcing COVID restrictions.
"I travel in every state now, back on the road, and the red states are a joy and the blue states are a pain in the a--. For no reason," Maher said.
"One of the critical things that's being discussed right now by President Biden, one of the things we have to recommit ourselves to, is supporting vaccination around the rest of the world," Coons responded. "There's still a lot of countries that are very, very minimally vaccinated because if a variant develops out in the world that is able to defeat the vaccine, we are all the way back to the beginning. So in the United States, in most of the western world, we're ready to be done with this, but we're not done until the world is safe and we're not safe as a world until the world's vaccinated."
"Except the world recognizes natural immunity. We don't," Maher pushed back, "because everything in this country has to go through the pharmaceutical companies. Natural immunity is the best kind of immunity. We shouldn't fire people who have natural immunity because they don't get the vaccine. We should hire them. Yes?"
"If someone is having tested with antibodies," Coons conceded.
There have always been individuals and groups who thirst for power over their fellow man, but the scope of their ambitions, and the ability to achieve them has exploded over the past few decades and is approaching the terminus as they’ve been able to combine the twin panics of Global Warming and Chinese Bat Flu to seize control of everything: the means of production who will produce, and what, and when, how individuals will act, where they will live, how they will think; total control.
The arrogance and egotism of our would-be masters is awesome to behold. They sincerely, I think, believe that they can and should dictate the billions of individual economic decisions made every day, they can decide better than individuals where they should live — in multi-towered high-rises served by coal-powered trolly cars, for instance — or whether they should be allowed to work at all — what they can wear, eat, even what temperature they can keep their houses.
But their grandiosity extends beyond their belief that they can successfully rule 7 billion people, they believe that they can control the weather itself. They are as gods, and they approve.
Of course, the rulers at the top, and probably their dupes, don’t envision a world where they wiil join the working class in their misery; the nomenklatura class will be small, but surely there will be room enough for them.
Which would be hilarious, if we weren’t already in the pit as they were shoved and toppled in to join us.