Those of us in elementary school in the 1950s remember “duck and cover”. We were told that in the event of nuclear attack we should crawl under our desks, with our arms over our faces.
As kids do, we turned it into a subversive prank. In the middle of a class, when the teacher’s back was turned, one of us wise-asses would yell “Duck and Cover” and all the kids would jump under desks. The school principal put a stop to that by threatening to expel the perpetrators.
We now laugh at the idea that adults expected us to believe hiding under our desks would save us from nuclear weapons. I suspect that in the future, today’s school-age kids will view mask mandates the same way — if they don’t already. A silly idea, conjured up by freaked-out adults.
Today’s adult mask mandate fanatics are just as foolish as the “duck and cover” adults were back then. And the kids who are masked will be laughing at them just as we boomers now laugh at the ’50s adults who told us to hide under our desks when the Russians drop the big one.
After Delta-COVID nearly killed me last August, and spending 13 days hospitalized, the VA ‘COVID team” was monitoring my recovery. One of the team would call me at least weekly checking on my progress, providing me with oxygen and vitamins while compiling stats.
At least they were… until I declined the vaccine. Which makes little sense. If you want to compile valid stats, you need variable factors. But apparently the government vaxx jihadists don’t want to risk stats that could undermine their narrative.
I’m a highly educated man, with advanced reading skills who was trained as a medic by the Air Force – so I can comprehend medical literature. I know that having survived COVID, I have acquired natural immunity, precluding the need for the vaccine and its high risk of potential side-effects on someone (like me) with a heart condition.
But the VA won’t even test for the immune antibodies. So I went to a private lab, tested positive for the antibodies, and still am after six months despite being told by the VA that natural immunity from COVID “probably lasts only about 90 days at the most”. Yeah… right!
Trying to get a straight answer from the Biden administration VA about COVID is a waste of time. All they do is parrot the official administration line of “get fully vaccinated” – whatever that means, since they keep changing the definition by requiring more boosters. Which is great for the pharmaceutical companies’ bottom lines.
No wonder they supported Biden overwhelmingly in 2020.
One doc did tell me “privately” that the COVID virus is acting differently than any he’s seen before, and he can only conclude that’s because it’s man-made (like maybe in a Chinese lab?) rather than naturally evolved. But to say so publicly is heresy that could get him fired.
The same goes for masks. I said when the masking started that they would become a fashion accessory, and sure enough along came all the decorative cloth masks. There are questions about whether ‘cloth’ masks even work. Doctors don’t wear cloth masks in surgery, for a reason.
Every doc I’ve asked about cloth masks says they are useless against viruses. One put it this way, “Using a cloth mask to keep out a virus is like using chicken wire to keep out mosquitos.”
Given the government’s questionable track record (and motives) why should we believe anything that comes from it about COVID? Maybe that’s why so many of us boomers, who were told to ‘duck and cover” to survive nuclear war, don’t take masks and vaccines as seriously as the government and their fanatic acolytes demand we should.
This ain’t our first rodeo when it comes to dealing with crazy mass paranoia, foisted on us by government bureaucrats. We figured out as kids that it was nonsense then. I’m pretty sure today’s kids have figured it out too.
Gary Beatty lives between Florida and Pagosa Springs. He retired after 30 years as a prosecutor for the State of Florida, has a doctorate in law, is Board Certified in Criminal Trial law by the Florida Supreme Court, and is now a law professor.