Can Our Leaders Stop the Ridiculous COVID-19 Nonsense?
By: George Chambers
Tags: Thanksgiving, Leadership, Politics, Government, Covid 19

Government officials telling us what we can and can’t do in our homes is a tactic that was used in the Soviet Union

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay

You need to read more history if you didn’t know that was a Marxist tactic.

COVID-19 provided our leaders with the perfect opportunity to expand their authority over us. The only thing politicians want is more power. They may enter office with good intentions, but they don’t last long. Once they compromise their beliefs and what they ran on, it’s time to vote them out.

Elected officials all over America told us not to see loved ones or travel for Thanksgiving. We’re all supposed to be good subjects and stay inside for “safety” reasons. The AP told us if we saw grandma at Thanksgiving, she could be dead by Christmas. That’s insulting because the government doesn’t trust us to make our own decisions. Our dear leaders think they know better than us on how we should live our lives.

It would be easier to take our elected officials seriously if they followed their own rules. There are different standards for gathering depending on what the reason is. If it’s for a left-wing social justice cause like Black Lives Matter then go ahead and mob the streets. Don’t you dare protest the lockdowns or go to a Trump rally when the election was happening. Left-wing causes get celebrated and the media attack conservative ones.

Our dear leaders think they know better than us on how we should live our lives.

Some officials can’t seem to remember what they said hours ago when it comes to restrictions, warnings, or lockdowns. Mayor Michael Hancock (D)of Denver made world news when he ignored his own Thanksgiving travel advice.

The following tweet didn’t age very well.

Hours later he boarded a flight to Houston before heading to Mississippi to meet up with his wife and daughter. He later issued an apology which said:

“I made my decision as a husband and father, and for those who are angry and disappointed, I humbly ask you to forgive decisions that are borne of my heart and not my head.”

His conduct is infuriating. It shows he and other politicians are oblivious to what they are doing to families while they go about their normal lives. He must be incredibly stupid to think it was ok to fly or gather with people after Governor Gavin Newsome (D) got shredded on social media for having dinner with lobbyists at a restaurant that most people could never dream of affording.

Left-wing causes get celebrated and the media attack conservative ones.

Is Hancock that out of touch? He probably is since he’s been mayor since 2011 and won reelection in 2019. There’s also a chance he doesn’t give a damn. He won’t face any repercussions like a recall or getting forced to step down. The Republican Party in the city of Denver and the state of Colorado is a joke. He won’t face any consequences except a couple of tough days on Twitter. There was a day of local news outrage, but the story will be gone by Friday.

Some officials can’t seem to remember what they said hours ago when it comes to restrictions, warnings, or lockdowns.

It’s getting more difficult to trust our leaders every day with all their do as I say, not as I do governing style. There are no “experts” on COVID-19. It’s impossible to be an expert on a brand-new virus. “Experts” have changed their minds multiple times on the same issue like masks. The U.S. Surgeon General told us to stop buying them in February because they don’t prevent the general public from getting COVID-19. He said in the same tweet that healthcare works need them or else they and their patients are at risk.

Our elected officials don’t have a clue either. They resort to one size fits all solutions to a virus with a survival rate of over 99% if you are under 70 with no underlying health conditions according to the CDC. They choose those simple solutions to protect themselves from criticism and because they require little thought. A small-town CrossFit gym in Crested Butte, CO doesn’t need the same state regulation as 24-Hour Fitness in Denver.

Time is running out for our leaders to act like hypocrites and issue rules that kill livelihoods by not following the science and data. If Democrats claim the mantle of “science” as they do on lawn signs, they should act like it. The public should put aside partisanship and ask leaders who break their own rules to step down. Plenty of Republicans in power deserve the same criticism and pressure. Our only hope is our leaders don’t do mess up the vaccine distribution too badly, so we aren’t stuck in this forever.