Coronavirus: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 21:58:25 PST 2022


Remember, it's about applying the most authoritarian force
that people can "tolerate", not suggesting they voluntarily
follow actual science or what makes sense and works
for them. Endquote -- Your Govts.



Will The UK's Return-To-Normal Force Biden's Hand?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/will_the_united_kingdoms_return_to_normal_force_bidens_hand.html

https://www.euronews.com/2022/01/22/covid-19-vaccine-passport-protests-in-europe-draw-thousands-of-people
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/01/the_political_timing_of_the_end_of_the_pandemic.html

Tick, Tick, Tick…. Is the End Nigh?

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was facing an immediate
political death sentence, so what did he do? He declared the pandemic
over.

The question now on this side of the pond: Will Joe Biden—himself
facing a political death sentence, though admittedly a few months
away—learn anything from Boris Johnson?

As the already relatively-weak omicron variant wheezes towards its
nadir, the calls to end COVID-related restrictions—to remove the
elephant that has been sitting on the congested chest of the
world—have grown louder and more insistent.

This increasing clamor has already appeared to cause an attitudinal
shift amongst the denizens of the “caring-industrial complex,” with
the groundwork to prepare the pandemic pathologicals amongst us for
the upcoming change already begun. Reporting “with COVID” instead of
“from COVID,” death rates instead of case rates now being referenced,
and quarantine timings being shifted – all of these recent changes in
media coverage and the CDC’s pronouncements are a hint of what is
coming.

Looking at the evidence: Britain’s action, Denmark’s decision
Wednesday to follow suit, massive public protests over the weekend,
and a piece from The Lancet (the formerly well-respected science
publication that unscientifically crushed the discussion of the COVID
lab leak hypothesis) on the coming end of the pandemic. There can be
no doubt a paradigm shift (in the actual meaning of the term) is
underway.

All of this makes the argument within the administration even stronger
for Biden to take the risk and claim victory by ending the pandemic.
While it is true that Johnson—for political reasons—was unable to
finesse the timing and had it thrust upon him (just as Marge Simpson’s
sister, Selma, had celibacy thrust upon her), the decision can still
be instructive to the Biden administration.

Image: Biden (edited in befunky). YouTube screen grab.

The Biden team will be watching the public reaction to the move
intensely for it will allow them, to use a football analogy, a “free
look at the defense” before they throw what could be seen as a
political “Hail Mary.” Furthermore, they can now point to the U.K. and
say “Hey, they did it and it worked out fine,” bolstering their own
argument, reasoning, talking points, and the inevitable “no, this is
obviously not political” claim. Finally, it will also put pressure on
Biden to declare the pandemic over because keeping the status quo in
the face of a “successful” end will become even more difficult. (If
it’s a disaster, that’s a whole different cup of tea.)

Timing is still a serious and delicate issue, with a number of
political observers on the left fuming over the possible end to their
“emergency” powers, while observers on the right find it hard to
believe that, due to the massive political advantage bestowed on the
Democratic-entwined power brokers, the pandemic will ever end. But it
should be noted that, while timing an announcement for Labor Day will
leave people irritated for the entire summer, that scenario has one
significant advantage: Due to its proximity to Election Day, it could
be claimed that it would be too late to change the current “pandemic”
voting systems.

That way, the pandemic is still officially over but the systemic
edge—everyone gets mailed a ballot, drop boxes, harvesting, etc.—that
has so indisputably and clearly benefited Democrats up and down the
ballot could remain in place.

Declaring victory earlier could make for a more comfortable summer
(spring, even?) and a nice bump in the polls, but it’s unknown how
that would translate into November voter support, something Biden and
his party desperately need. It would also mean that an even vaguely
“legitimate sounding” (not actually real-life, honestly legitimate,
just legitimate sounding) argument for keeping the systemic advantages
in place would become far more difficult to make.

Finally, oddly for Biden, his calculation must consider, not so much
his political opponents’ reaction, but that of his supporters. People
who have been calling for this for months and years will simply shrug
and wonder what took so long. People who have lived their lives in
stunted fear and abject obedience could take a long time to return,
kicking and screaming, to reality.


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