The Democrats' perpetual pandemic
The Democrats' perpetual pandemic
by Eddie Scarry
March 24, 2021 12:10 PM
To read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website is to believe that we have essentially ended the pandemic: "Vaccines are available;" "schools across the nation are reopening;" "testing is widespread;" "hospitalizations and deaths are declining."
Daily new cases are averaging about one-fifth of what they were at the start of the year. The market is flooded with three vaccines that are more effective than anyone had predicted.
And yet, here we are. President Biden, Democrats, and the "experts" keep telling us we're stuck. And because we're stuck, that means economic lockdowns in our biggest cities remain in place. And with economic lockdowns in place, Democrats push for more welfare, though they usually refer to it as "relief."
Has everyone not yet realized that this was the goal? During the campaign, Biden said he would "shut down" the new coronavirus. Once he got into office, he declared, "There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic."
A lot of people thought that was true all along, yet the public was led to believe that Biden would oversee the pandemic's eventual end. But Biden and Democrats don't have an end in mind.
Remember last year when liberals insisted that we needed unlimited testing, contact tracing, and vaccines to "stop the spread"? You don't hear about that anymore. Now we hear about "new variants" of the virus that threaten to render our current vaccines obsolete.
They've laid the groundwork for a perpetual pandemic. And, with a pandemic that never ends, that means more welfare.
Democrats have already gotten started by securing thousands of dollars in monthly payments that go directly to people with children for no reason other than that they gave birth.
As Biden said Tuesday, "If you have two children, $7,200 will be paid on a monthly basis."
That's a lot of unplanned pregnancies that you, the taxpayer, are now going to finance.
That pricey government giveaway lasts through the rest of this year, with the hopes of Democrats that they can make it permanent. They'll probably succeed.
They talked a lot about the "new normal." A perpetual pandemic is what they meant.
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