When do we know that COVID hysteria has become so yesterday? Maybe when establishment media begin to say so, too. In Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Daniel Henninger shouted it:
Today, it’s fair to say that no one but the hopelessly credulous believe much of anything Mr. Biden, Jen Psaki, Anthony Fauci or Rochelle Walensky says about Covid and Omicron. The list of doubted authorities worldwide could extend to the horizon.
This by Mark Landsbaum on americanthinker.com.
When it’s obvious enough that mainstream media recognize it, it’s probably actually arrived. If you’re marking your calendars, mark this day or week or month as 1 A.C. (for After COVID). A new era has arrived.
Here’s what it means: when the government isn’t trusted, people stop believing it. When people stop believing the government, they stop obeying it. When they stop obeying it, government becomes at best an annoyance, like your wacky old uncle that no one pays attention to. Like Joe Biden.
Although [Pretendent] Slow Joe has been wacky for at least an entire year, it seems that most of America is only recently finally acknowledging the fact. Better late than never. Doesn’t that feel wonderful?
If the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is any measure, Biden has succeeded, although not in the way he hoped to. He has succeeded in getting people to stop obsessing about COVID.
Henninger’s column sums up the issue: “People are flying the pandemic white flag: They’ve stopped caring what the government, the politicians or ‘science’ is telling them about Covid.”
Henninger quotes from a recent Associated Press-NORC poll, which asked, “Thinking about the problems facing the United States and the world today, which problems would you like the government to be working on in the year 2022?”
“Naturally,” Henninger wrote, “some 68% said the economy—with the worst inflation since 1982—needed some thought. But astonishingly, the percentage who want the government to work on Covid-19 is 33%, a 20-point drop from a year ago.”
Isn’t it fascinating that percentage also is just about the identical percentage that believes that Joe Biden is doing a good job as president? For perspective, we used to remind readers that 15% of Americans thought Elvis is still alive, decades after he was dead and gone. That’s the company Biden’s keeping.
That doesn’t mean that COVID has disappeared. Indeed, as Henninger noted, “[i]dentified U.S. Omicron infections are arriving at hundreds of thousands a day. Sagas abound of burned-out hospital workers and depleted workforces. Holiday air travel was a historic nightmare. The promised supply of rapid antigen tests is today’s equivalent of the bridge to nowhere. Cloth masks worked until they didn’t. School’s out—forever.”
What it does mean is that people just don’t put any value in what Biden, Fauci, et al. have to say about COVID.
The general population isn’t the only group tuning out Biden and company. You may have noticed the Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote derailed Biden’s executive mandate for vaccinations for 80 million-plus employees of private companies.
The Regime, however, is defying the ruling, having had Biden state that companies still should impose the jab on their employees.
But at least now, the mentally challenged occupant of the White House, who recently likened people who disagree with him to domestic terrorists, is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
If we can’t achieve a small, limited federal government, at least it’s a good sign that it’s becoming an irrelevant government.
There will be much damage to repair following this radical leftist stint at the helm of power, however, the Republicans and Conservatism must first regain control.
We may be a little encouraged that the pendulum seems to be swinging back our way, however, let us keep in mind that a wounded democrat becomes “more dangerous after a painful public rebuke.”
God speed to Conservatism.
