An enheartening FauxVid reminiscence.
In the summer of 2020, when the entire nation seemed to have gone mad with fear of the COVID virus, some Long Island retailers gave only lip service to the draconian lockdowns, masking dictates, and “social distancing” requirements. They published the “rules,” but put little or no effort into imposing them on their customers. Those were the ones I patronized. Yet it was all too obvious that most Long Islanders had been cowed by the bellowings from Fauci and the politicians who saw in his pronouncements an opportunity to increase their power over us.
Masking was ubiquitous. People avoided coming close to one another. The floors of supermarkets were festooned with markings about social distancing. Some put up signs making the aisles into “one-way streets.” It was beyond depressing.
But I do remember one bright spot. It occurred in a Walgreen’s pharmacy / general store. I was there to collect a prescription: blood pressure medications. On my way to the pharmacist’s counter I spied a young woman accompanied by three small children. The young woman was shopping as casually as anyone I’d ever seen. Her kids followed her quietly, exhibiting perfect public behavior rarely seen in toddlers today. And none of the four were masked.
The young woman smiled when she noticed me looking at her and her children, for I was unmasked as well. We greeted one another and exchanged some small talk as the children clustered around us. Her English was excellent. It developed that she was a widow, a recent immigrant from Eastern Europe who’d just been granted resident alien status.
Of course the conversation eventually came to the pandemic and the lockdowns. I complimented her on not giving in to the fear campaign. It made her eyes brighten. She smiled and nodded.
“They did this sort of thing to us in my native country,” she said. “Arbitrary rules, pulled out of the air. There wasn’t even an excuse for it, much of the time.”
“It gladdened me to see another person who won’t bend to the madness,” I said.
Her smile acquired a tinge of pride. “I didn’t come here to put up with more of that nonsense,” she said. “I came here to be an American.”
It kept a smile on my face the whole day.
As well it should’ve, Francis. These days people like her are much more truly American than all too many who were born and raised here, alas.
Here legally too, no less—a rarity indeed. Refreshing all the way around, I’d say.
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I’d gladly take 100 of her in exchange for one that swam the river
The damn government virus that they loosed upon us had unintended consequences, as all such things do. I know of several people that believed everything the damn corrupt medical establishment had to say – doctors after all – and now they know the truth: the government always lies, and any organization that gets any funding from the government will lie right along with them.
And now we have Trump anyway and he has more power than ever. Their plan failed, and now they must be worried about the consequences of what they did.
The memory that warms my heart is the unknown Rando who put together a fisherman mannikin, complete with rod and tackle in a beach chair, plopped it on the beach, and waited for the Tyrants In Blue to come along to Protect and Serve, and who, once meme-tarred with a steaming bucket of Shit-For-Brains-Just-Following-Orders, thus became more viral than COVID-19 itself.
That guy, sir, is a Real American Hero™, and there should be a bronze statue to the Unknown Jester, with a blank visage. A true patriot, known but to God.
Government needs, nay, demands a good hard kick in the balls like that at least once a day, to keep it in its proper place.
And today I see the story whereby RFK Jr is telling all about how Bill Gates bought a million shares in an mRNA research company exactly as he and The CDC and John’s Hopkins were doing their WuFlu Dry Run in 2019. Of course the stock soared and just as it was being widely known the Vaxxes were Useless he dumped the shares for a 242 Million Dollar profit.
And here is a KENNEDY, a descendent of one Joe Kennedy, stock inside trader and manipulator par excellence, divulging the misdeeds of one Bill Gates, a supposed brilliant businessman and investor, and his sleazy insider dealings.
What a world, what a world…
Well, at least I’ve always known Gates was a corrupt and dirty man 🙂