Spin Docs Pulled the Plug on Mandates
Now you see'm, now you don't! It has nothing to do with public health.
I guess you’d have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that when all the blue states trashed their mask mandates all at once it might somehow, just maybe, be …. coordinated? Nah. We’re following The Science, right? And The Science said the time was right. Right?
Nope. The only science Democrats have been paying attention to is political science. Back in the dark days of Donald Trump, the woke Covidians were apoplectic that Orange Man Bad was running around without a mask, calling to reopen schools, end lockdowns and holding super spreader events in the Rose Garden. In other words, advocating for a normal life while Americans were living in terror.
Problem was, a good chunk of America wasn’t living in terror anymore. Once Biden was in office, Democrats scurried to fix the terror deficit pronto with dire warnings of severe disease and death while the media poured on the fear porn: grim shots of overcrowded hospitals, ventilated patients and close-ups of grief-stricken survivors who had lost loved ones to the insidious foe. Cue the white knight Dems coming to the rescue with mask mandates, vaccine mandates, mass testing, bans on unvaccinated plague rats and bazillions more in Covid relief funny money.
I’ll have to guess the opinion pollsters were telling Dems from dementia Joe Biden on down that Americans expected their government to do something. So they laid on the some things here, there, everywhere.
But beneath the surface, a new contagion was quickly spreading. Schools had reopened and millions of moms - including Democrat moms - were outraged that their children were not only forced to mask up to eight hours a day, but subjected to all kinds of abusive indignities, like being forced to eat lunch outside, isolated, in freezing winter weather, while the ruling class was frequently spotted wining and dining maskless in glowing posh restaurants and hobnobbing in catered meeting halls where only the help wore face coverings. Wanna-be governor Stacey Abrams caught flak for visiting a grade school where all the kiddoes were muzzled while Stacey got to breath freely.
The mama bears got support from the medical freedom movement, now a diverse stew of MAGA Trumpers and disgruntled Democrats, laid-off workers, pissed off nurses, die-hard anti-vaxxers, former business owners and the vaccine injured. Millions more were just fed up. We’d had enough and discontent was spreading faster than Omicron.
February, 2022 was the turning point. Like dominos falling, California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington D.C. and Virginia announced the end of mask rules in schools or indoors spaces. Oregon and Washington followed suite, but clung to rules until middle March. The deal was sealed when the nation witnessed 70,000 bared faced fans cheering at the Super Bowl despite Los Angeles’ strict mask rules. (Even LA Mayor Garcetti broke them.)
This spontaneous capitulation was no accident. Opinion pollsters were reporting widespread discontent and predicted a bloodbath in the 2022 elections. Here’s the analysis (below) from Impact Research, a progressive consulting firm that specializes in data analysis and message development.
Their message to Democrats? Claim victory and move on. The public has had enough. They want you to STOP doing something and let life return to normal. They didn’t sugar coat it: “If Democrats continue to hold a posture that prioritizes COVID precautions over learning how to live in a world where COVID exists, but does not dominate, they will pay dearly for it in November.”
Keep doing what you’re doing and YOU WILL LOSE.
It’s not about public health. It’s never been about public health.