Retirees, teens/young adults in college, and highly-paid professionals are the only ones still buying into COVID doomsday-ism and supporting lockdowns. When I see anyone driving with a mask on, more often than not there is white hair above and shriveled skin behind. Or they appear to be sophomores in college. Or they’re driving a Lexus. These people have no conception of the pain that being thrown out of work can cause. Mainly, because they’re either retired, still on the parental dole, or they are able to work from home, they can indulge in the cinematic aspect of “crisis!” For them, “lockdown” is entirely theoretical. This gives them the opportunity to indulge in the worst of the idiocies being promoted by the Doomsday cult of COVID. There is no cost to it, reality doesn’t grab them by the neck and slap them around while demanding that they snap out of it.
Others aren’t so lucky.
An example: I briefly spoke with a man in his late 30’s, married with three kids, and the topic inevitably turned to COVID. He’d lost his job in the oil field due to the deliberately-induced economic collapse that lockdowns caused. Needless to say, his opinion of COVID was far more nuanced than, say, the married attorneys who work downtown. More nuanced than my 60-something neighbors who are enjoying a secure retirement and can indulge in fantasy.
This man, not retired, working a real job, doesn’t have the privilege of believing a lie. He knew that COVID was nothing more than a mild cold for the vast majority of infected people, and he knew that lockdowns were a crime. I affirmed that, yes, they are crimes against humanity, and that millions are suffering today because this fantastical belief in a boogeyman virus won’t go away.
