Somehow it escapes the attention of those people who have deprived us of our liberty and freedom that 99.98 percent of positive COVID cases recover. I’m checking now—since this bloody panic (yes, I meant panic) began several months ago, 12,000 cases have been confirmed and 138 deaths reported in Santa Barbara County, which has half a million residents.
AARP reported in a recent article that of the 285,000 deaths in the United States, 40 percent have occurred in long-term care facilities (yes, that would include hospice where no lifesaving assistance is administered).
So instead of protecting the vulnerable in those facilities, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other governors on March 25 ordered COVID-19 positive patients back into nursing homes providing no equipment or other assistance to prevent the spread of the virus. Tens of thousands of elderly patients died at the hands of this Emmy Award winner for his stellar news conferences.
There is an escape clause to the lockdown. Protests. Of course the BLM and Antifa hooligans have run the course and don’t really pass muster. France has come up with a new one. The streets of Paris are alive with protesters for farmers in India. Who would have thought Parisians knew where India was. Wasn’t it the British that colonized them?
That’s the beauty of this lockdown. Essential services and protests are accepted exceptions to the stay-home order. No, no, no. Not so fast, masked man. Protesting the lockdown will get you locked up (that’s kinda’ funny). So all we have to do is come up with a protest that hasn’t been done to death (apologies for perceived insensitivities).
Let me reach into my top hat and, yes! Let’s protest for the circus workers. Entertainers who have been shut down and probably don’t get government checks and have been replaced by officials. Yes, they have been replaced by county officials and Sacramento politicians who’ve never missed a paycheck through this long nightmare.
So let’s organize a protest for the circus workers. Especially the clowns.
Jan Lipski
Vandenberg Village
This article appears in Dec 17-24, 2020.