The phrase “Not wasting a crisis” really means to “exploit” the crisis. Do you have any doubts about this? Well, to borrow another cliché, the other shoe dropped this past Sunday night.
Pelosi returned from her hiatus on Sunday and quickly put the kibosh to Senate Democrats working with their Republican colleagues on a rescue package to deal with the Great American Shut Down. She abruptly introduced a competitive measure which is larded with the Green New Deal, attempts to reverse the Supreme Court’s Janus decision, Sovietizing health care, and wokeness run amok. For her and the party’s left, the panic is the perfect vehicle to force down the people’s throats what a large majority of them wouldn’t tolerate in their right minds. This ain’t about the fight against a pandemic. It’s about a lefty jam-down.
The longer the shut down persists, the deeper the social and economic damage, and the greater likelihood of the emergence of a different kind of panic. It’s the stampede to the omni-competent state; everything else being laid waste. We are teetering on the precipice of losing the very basis of our way of life — a possibility heartily desired by the Antifa, the Squad, and the activist base of the Democratic Party.
The medical situation is what it always was: a health care challenge that arises every few years. Some threats are more serious than others, but this one is no excuse to shut down a way of life.
The sensible response involves a reliable test, and all those obviously sick and those who test positive staying home. We don’t need any more task forces, other than the search for a reliable test, vaccine, and treatments. For everyone else, go to work and get on with your life. Go to church. Get your kids ready for soccer. Visit a restaurant; go see a movie; go shopping. Stop this social and economic strangulation of a people, and reacquaint yourselves with the fact that life comes with risks — always has.
RogerG