St. Patrick’s Day 2021 is more sham than shamrocks.
Last year St. Patrick’s Day was one of COVID-19’s first victims. Parades, celebrations, events were all cancelled because state social distancing guidelines could not be met.
A year later some things have changed for the better.
Things are better because infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID are down. Vaccination distribution is up. Survival rates, if you do get sick, are well above 99.5%.
With the better, however, comes the bizarre. Medical experts, infectious disease specialists and politicians, with their fear mongering and almost despotic restrictions, just do not seem to want to let go of COVID.
If you listen to the authorities, you can still sip your green beer and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year but only if it is done virtually, digitally or from a social distance.
The CDC continues to press the mute button on celebrations and life in general with a tyranny of policies and restrictions they feel will bring us to a Zero COVID level. The idea here is to eliminate COVID entirely in order to return to normal.
The fact that this could take years, or more likely will never happen is immaterial.
We are now being warned that spring break and the travel associated with it are supposed to bring on another virus surge. The CDC’s overreaching advice here is stay home even if you have been vaccinated.
For 2021, the CDC is hoping to head off outbreaks and repeating its holiday guidance against travel. “CDC recommends that people not travel at this time, and delay spring break travel until 2022,” a CDC spokesperson told The Washington Post. Even those who have been fully vaccinated are urged to avoid travel.
We are expected to believe that washing our hands, keeping our distance and staying put will keep COVID and its second cousin variants from raging across the country much like a hoard of illegal immigrants – who apparently are on their spring break too.
The truth is St. Patrick’s Day, spring break, and anything else that brings light into your life are sadly turning into symbols of apocalyptic pandemic power. Big government gets to tell you what to do. What big government will not do is let go without a fight.
A prime example of this is Joe Biden’s butt headed mandate alerting citizens what they can and cannot do even after they are vaccinated.
“The more people are fully vaccinated, the CDC will continue to provide official guidance on what you can do in the workplace, places of worship, with your friends, as well as travel,” he continued, urging people to listen to Dr. Fauci. “In the coming weeks we will issue guidance on what you can and cannot do when fully vaccinated.”
Biden’s message is all too clear. Behave. Watch your step and by July 4th chances are you could be having your loved ones over for hot dogs in your own backyard.
“If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by July the 4th, there’s a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a barbeque and celebrate Independence Day.”
Before you are tempted to believe in any of this understand that between the hype and the hope is a message of tyranny that is couched in the form of a warning.
“A July 4th with your loved ones is the goal. But a goal—a lot can happen; conditions can change. The scientists have made clear that things may get worse again as new variants of the virus spread.”
St. Patrick’s Day, spring break and the like are just the fall guys for a virus that authorities and politicians rely on to stay in power. The pretense on the part of big government is that countless restrictions and mandates and lockdowns are designed to keep us all alive.
The reality is what keeps us alive is also what is slowly killing us. That is the sham.
