via Bill

A letter or editorial of some sort that makes a good point:

On April 27, 2020, the Portland Press-Herald reported, "Rye [New Hampshire] police are advising surfers to catch a wave elsewhere or face the prospective of a fine.

"Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh said his officers are weary of chasing off surfers in groups as large as 10 who are ignoring beach closures.

"Many are parking in church lots and on private property, so Walsh is seeking permission from these property owners to ticket and tow the vehicles. Police may also start issuing tickets to surfers for trespassing on the beach."

Chief Walsh's efforts were in vain. Guarding 19 miles of ocean from 10 surfers did not work. Covid spread across the state. 

Masks did not work. 

Social distancing did not work. 

Plexiglass did not work. 

Bumping elbows instead of shaking hands did not work. 

Separating loved ones from their dying relatives did not work. 

Shutting down the economy did not work.

Vaccines don't seem to be working, either. Israel, the most vaccinated country in the world, is suffering its worst covid wave yet.

Sweden didn't lock down, and it did little worse than anyone else and fared better than some. It is time to live again.

Americans need to live like Americans again. Two centuries before Chief Walsh, another New Hampshire leader—General John Stark, the hero of the Battle of Bennington—wrote to his men, "Live Free Or Die."

We need to be worthy of General Stark and go back to being Americans.

Yes, everybody with an ocean
Across the U.S.A
Go out and be surfin'
Even Californi-a
Go put on your baggies
Huarache sandals too
This is, this is what we do
Surfin' U.S.A.

General Stark and his men and the Green Mountain Boys of the Republic of Vermont fought a Revolutionary War amid a smallpox epidemic in which one-third of those infected died.

Not 0.5%.

33%.

They did not Zoom the war. They fought. They were not going to allow an actual plague to keep them from living before they died.

What has living like inmates locked down on death row achieved?

Nothing.

The New York Daily News reported, "Daily coronavirus cases are four times higher than they were following Labor Day weekend of last year, with the number of daily deaths twice as high as they were this time in 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

"Since the global health crisis emerged in late 2019, the United States has recorded more than 40 million COVID-19 cases, including just 4 million in the last month alone.

"Health officials noted the biggest difference between this year and last is the delta variant. They blamed the 316% increase over last year’s daily infections on the highly contagious covid 19 mutation as well as a large number of Americans refusing to become vaccinated against the fast-spreading disease.

"According to data from Health and Human Services, hospitalization rates are also up 157% compared with Labor Day weekend 2020, leaving medical facilities packed to the brim and their staffs exhausted and overwhelmed.

"What’s more, intensive-care units across several states are inching closer to full capacity, which could force doctors to make life-and-death decisions."

The report is a bunch of Bolshevik propaganda.

But the Pandemic Panic Press inadvertently makes my point. A year ago, we had no vaccine. Now we do, and with half the population vaccinated, cases have quadrupled, so nothing works.

Blaming the unvaccinated for the increase is ridiculous. Last year no one was vaccinated, and we had one-fourth the cases we have now.

We know why.

The government and the media are manipulating the data.

At some point, we have to quit being babies and go back to being Americans.

Oh, sure. Take precautions. I am not really sure just what those precautions are because none of them have stemmed the spread of covid. I was vaccinated. That seemed to work. But you do you.

Above all, live.

You can nitpick the above argument (I can see some holes in the reasoning), but can you really deny the claim that nothing has been working? I think herd immunity is our best defense. Those of us who can afford to get infected (and that's most of us) should get infected, then benefit from the resultant immunity. Soon enough, the virus will have nowhere to turn to.

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