Goodness. This day has started swimmingly. I was supposed to get this dental issues finished up today, finally. (I broke a tooth the night before Easter, and it’s taken forever to try to get an implant done. Every time I go back, they aren’t finished with the work, something else needs to be done, and it’s going to cost me another couple of grand. What’s the Bad Orange Man’s line? That’s probably happening, y’all. Next year. After you finally finish this shit.
With that in mind, please pardon the snippy tone. I was going to say I’m angry, but “annoyed” might be a better way to describe it. I have a feeling what I’d pulled to write about isn’t going to brighten my mood any. Let’s go…
COVID (Flashback to 2020)
COVID policies were the very best of authoritarian force in action. While there were examples where private companies overstepped, those are easier to deal with than the man with a badge and a gun. I can just refuse to spend my money with you. It’s a lot tougher to do that when you’re mandated to frequent a particular provider.
(Aside: I’m probably going to fire this Dentist after all the recent tomfoolery…and thinking back, they were 10,000% into the COVID precautions; swish with this hydrogen peroxide before we even start the exam.)
I don’t feel a lot different about what I wrote about concerning Dr. J. in 2020, and the LP in the election.
Biden won promising to beat COVID-19. He executed those prescriptions perfectly. See? And that was before beating Medicare.
COVID, and the responses to it, were disaster from “both sides.”
Naturally, Reason serves up supporting results by the bushel.
Eric Boehm’s piece is still pretty spot-on. Robby Soave’s piece on what happened to civil liberties in the name of fighting this disease that’s rarely more than a bad cold for most people.
And there’s been nearly no political blowback for what authoritarian politicians did.
Nono, the stuff we did was perfect, but the other side were bad.
I disagree. You all failed in monumental ways. The party alignments changed. And few things were actually fixed. But, hey, you did invent a bunch more currency to pay for it, so I guess there’s that.
But you did ostracize a bunch of people. A curt “Good Job,” probably doesn’t convey the proper message of, “Fuck You.”
I might have chosen this flashback after seeing Fauci’s senate hearings, where he took the fifth over a hundred times. Rodent.
In spite of the public health failures for COVID, look at all the things the government does perfectly. You know, like the nationwide Air Traffic Control. (Interesting that that was from Canuckistani news, and they didn’t have the same problems.) Tagging the USPS or the DMV seems overplayed at this point.
Why is there such confidence that the US Government can do anything right, or well? The expectations of state and local governments are lower, but they failed, too. They did fail with more authoritarian tactics, so there’s that. Pouring sand on that skate park undoubtedly saved tens of thousands of lives.
Changing the people running these failed organizations doesn’t make them better. That’d come from firing them. Like my dental practice.