By David Iwinski

As the COVID situation continues to spin off in ever new, unplanned directions, we see the inevitable rise of the far left standing up and clapping in support of Joe Biden's naïve and unfounded belief that he has somehow ascended from possible presidency to confirmed emperor.

Let me assure you, he has not.

Virtually every story in mainstream media that talks about COVID-19 finds it necessary to insult, denigrate, and show contempt for anyone who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid, with nary a thought or sentence devoted to to how we arrived here.

This information about COVID has been flowing hard and fast since the first reports from Wuhan started to leak. So how is it, exactly, that tens of millions of people have simply lost all confidence in not only what they read in popular media but also in organizations that claim to stand for Science (and I did mean that with a capital S).

Let's start with the fact that when President Trump announced he was putting the combined forces of government research and funding together with private industry to try to come up with a vaccine at Warp Speed, faster than ever been done in history, who were the ones leading the charge to say they would never take the vaccine? Why none other than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

They both said in nationally televised interviews that they would never take this vaccination. Now perhaps Joe’s befuddled mind has convinced himself that he alone conducted the research for the vaccines, but that work was long in play back when mentioning the possibility of him getting more votes than Obama would have provoked little more than a hearty laugh.

Then we have to look at the Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, of course, our kindly surrogate for Marcus Welby, M.D., (yes, I am that old) Dr. Anthony Fauci. Rather than stick strictly to hard science and analysis, these organizations and people have become hopelessly politicized with opinions changing on masks, therapies and effectiveness of vaccines depending on which way the wind is blowing. You can watch on social media hours of video showing the same people saying essentially the opposite thing depending on how it serves the political interest of the moment.

Then, just as it did in the election, the leftward leading social media organs have taken it upon themselves to ban virtually any news that doesn’t run in complete parallel with the orthodoxy proposed by the Biden administration. We are not simply talking about strangers ranting on Tik-Tok (of which there are many) but some who are experienced, well-educated and capable researchers pointing out weaknesses in the various vaccine regimen to the point where now even posting ideas contrary to what is being pushed by the left might get you to have your accounts frozen or even cancelled.

Last, but most importantly, no true American smiles as the harness is buckled on and freedoms are ripped away, never to return. A virtual certainty in political history is that freedoms won by strife, battle and historical commitment once lost, are gone forever. Joe Biden now thinks he can control the lives, decisions and the virtual financial survival of every man, woman and child as he is petulantly pouting that they will be ruined unless they submit to his regiment. And he is losing his patience! Of course, the far left eagerly embraces this because their game isn’t medicine, but sheer power and they know that you should never miss a chance to use a crisis.

It isn’t that the folks on the right weren’t paying attention because they weren’t smart enough, but because we did pay attention, we discovered that the reliability and credibility that many of these institutions and organizations have built over decades and centuries of reliable stability has been thoroughly co-opted. Why then would we ever we trust our life, our health and that of our children to an administration with a solid record of disaster and non-performance?

More simply put, does anyone really think it’s prudent to trust your life and health to the engineers of the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan?

This is America and if you trust those folks, then take the shots, take the boosters, wear the masks and social distance for the rest of your life. Of course, it might be a little hard for us, through all of your masks, to hear you singing, 

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
o're the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Still, I have a feeling the rest of us will adapt.