The Pandemic Lock-down Is Over!

It is a truism that politicians often see which direction a vocal mob is marching and then try to get in front of the parade.  They do, after all, rule with the consent of the governed, or they are nothing more than prison wardens.


As such, when mobs locked inside for months found causes worth protesting, politicians on both sides picked up their batons to lead "76 Trombones."

American traditionalists took to the streets to say they'd had enough of the quarantine, so Republicans from President Trump on down came out vocally in support of getting back to business as usual, though perhaps requiring social distancing and masks as temporary interim measures.

Shortly thereafter, Democrats found their own cause célèbre, "Black Lives Matter."  Big city mayors have literally genuflected before their new masters, the masses taking to the streets under the banner of "Black Lives Matter."

For now, let's frame this subservience as politicians standing up for worthy causes on each side

The big question many of us have is why politicians in Democrat-controlled cities, who continue to say law-abiding citizens may only go out for exercise or to accomplish specifically approved "essential" tasks like buying groceries, have now given carte blanche to anyone marching for the latter cause?

Why have major life events for young people, like high school proms, graduations, birthday parties and play dates, been cancelled for the public safety, if it's okay to crowd together with strangers in the middle of city streets, blocking cars of people on "essential" tasks?



I half expect to see Dr. Fauci crowd-surfing face down in a mosh pit of protesters on the news.  In recent days, however, he seems to be coming around publicly to stating schools should resume.

However, the latest news seems to reveal that President Trump knew more about at least one COVID-19 treatment, Hydroxychloroquine, than the good doctor, who undoubtedly is sincere but, having not treated a patient in forty years, has no idea what it's like to be saving lives with that cheap malaria drug administered along with Azithromycin.

It turns out the "research study" upon which the WHO relied was written by five non-physicians and a stripper.  Okay, maybe I misheard that, but it is a very small organization that now admits flawed methodology.

Quite frankly, I have my doubts that the reactions to this pandemic were proportional to the risk compared to most flu seasons, though it is undoubtedly a terrible disease.  Too bad many Democrat-controlled states banned doctors from using a cheap cure found effective for thousands of patients.



As my sister remarked today, one good outcome of these demonstrations is that the left, which often has rules for the rest of us which they don't enforce on themselves, has been shown for exactly who they are.

That may have greater long term implications than the Democrat Mayor of Washington, D.C. painting "Black Lives Matter" in caution yellow paint on the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza leading to the White House.

It's amazing to me that just a few years ago while President Obama was in office, Black Lives Matter was chanting, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon."  Now it's considered a mainstream constituency.

In fairness, it should be noted that B.L.M. is a decentralized group, like the Tea Party and Al Qaeda.  Anyone can pick up the hashtag of B.L.M. or spray it on a city wall on the grounds of protesting killing of "blacks" by police.

Interestingly, this is the first time B.L.M. has been resurrected during 3 1/2 years of the Trump Era, probably because the economy had been booming until the shutdown and citizens were generally otherwise engaged working and enjoying life, at least relative to any prior era.  That doesn't seem at all surprising from a human nature perspective.



Regardless, most of us would like to eliminate injustice, regardless of skin color.  Conservatives and traditional Liberals might say all lives matter, and that we should live in a color-blind society, but of course that would be called racist by the Post-Modernist left.

Perhaps the most long-lasting legacy of the B.L.M. movement could be to eliminate police forces in favor of community organizers and psychologists, as advocated by the most radial voices among protesters.

Minneapolis, where the trouble all began and riots first broke out, currently has dismantling its police force under serious consideration.  This is less surprising when you understand that vocal Minneapolis City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison is a self-described supporter of Antifa, which reportedly has delivered bricks to provide less-peaceful "protesters" with non-NRA approved ammunition.

In Los Angeles --- among other Democrat-controlled cities --- politicians are talking about simply cutting back police forces, trimming a hundred million from the budget, which itself seems kind of odd to most of us in light of them not getting control of arson and looting until the National Guard was called in.  That action fed into the left narrative of a dangerous militarization of the police.



It is all a bit too much when the same mayors saying we MUST stop going to work and lock ourselves inside to protect "the most vulnerable among us" now want to make their "sanctuary cities" into Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest free-for-alls where I must assume they believe all gangs and criminals will lay down their guns and put flowers in their hair.

Maybe this is the Age of Aquarius after all, right?

At a minimum, let's hope this means we will be cut loose to go back to pursuing our own American dreams, free to do whatever we want as long as we don't hurt others.

And that includes TRAVEL!