Letting Go Of Masks

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I don't know if it intentionally or not, but
you're being misled in the news coverage of the vaccine
for kids, no doubt about it. Oh yeah, yeah, and uh,
you know, not to get ahead of ourselves, but I
I read, I hear so many stories every day about
masks on kids, masks in schools, the rest of it.
And the journalist who actually includes in the story the

(00:25):
risk or lack thereof to children from the COVID is
a rarity, folks, that's a rare diamond in a field
of coal. Who will even bring into the story the
very idea of does it matter anyway? Two kids and
their health, which is an oversight so astonishing it can't

(00:47):
be an oversight. My brother got the COVID, said he
was pretty sick the other day for one day. He
was really sick, same as what happened to me. He said,
I can't imagine what it would have been like if
I wasn't vaccinated. So we're we believe exists. I know
it exists. We're still losing. We're losing two thousand people
to day still in the U. S. Though deaths are
down about I believe it kills lots of people. Usually

(01:08):
older people with health problems. But but it ain't dangerous
for kids. It just isn't. Yeah. Yeah. Interestingly though, and
this is a sweet, sweet vengeance. Maybe more polling organizations, um,
from Axios to Politico to this is from the Dispatch
are talking about the absolute electoral ticking time bomb, that

(01:30):
is resentment over the arbitrary, nous, hypocrisy, inconsistency, stupidity of
so many of the COVID measures. And this is a
great example of the sort of thing you don't realize
your point of view is so widely held until people
go to the polls and they start voting. A great

(01:51):
example the Virginia race, uh Glenn yuncan Terry mccauliffe, which
was to a huge extent about should the kids be
in school? Shure the kids not be in school? Who's
with the teachers union, who's with the students? And that
that that election shocked the American media elite, but um,
everybody agrees. And the three school board members getting booted

(02:15):
in San Francisco, great example, great example with the lefty
mayor saying these people are lunatics. Yeah yeah, so. Chris
Stirewalt has an interesting piece in the Dispatch and he
talks about the concept, and we've talked about this a
lot through the years, how much more useful to a
politician an issue is than a solution, And and he

(02:37):
uses a couple of examples, including the great classic example
the border immigration. If you solve the problem, you can
run on it once, maybe twice. You can say, remember
that back six years ago when I saw that, wasn't
that great? Maybe you can run twice. If you intentionally

(02:58):
failed to solve the issue, you can run on it
over and over and over again. You can fundraise on
it over and over and over again. It's just an
unkniable truth of politics. And the more of people who
recognize that the smarter politics will become I don't think you.
I don't think it has a tail near as long
as as you do. I think like, if you were
pro gay marriage, the moment gay marriage became legal, you

(03:18):
get that's over. It doesn't make any difference anymore. Yeah,
I was trying to be generous. I was probably stretching it.
You're right, um, and so Starwalt Mega wants to make
it clear and the way that you must these days.
In fact, we just did it kind of. He says, Look,
I get it. Families of nearly a million Americans who
died with or from COVID should not be expected to

(03:39):
have detached views on the subject. The millions more have
been seriously ill for others who've had serious health problems,
have spent years in fear of contracting the virus. Vigilance
has become a way of life. So he grants that,
But for the Democratic Party as a whole, coronavirus response
has become a serious liability after two years in which masks, sanitizers,

(03:59):
dis sing enclosures became powerful shibalists for the American left,
meaning symbols that really are just symbols. They don't do anything,
there's no need for them. I've I've compared it to
wearing a red hat in a lot of ways. Um uh,
letting go. H oh, I'm sorry. Uh So, after all

(04:20):
that became powerful shibalists for the American left, letting go
is proving very challenging. Hardline coronavirus policies did not just
seem serious and scientific, they were weapons in the culture
war against those right wingers who rejected even sensible precautions
from the start. And he talks about some of the
faults on the right, which undeniably exist at the whole.

(04:42):
It's no worse than the flu crowd. You people were wrong,
You're dead wrong anyway. Uh he talks about how you know,
I'm gonna I'm gonna gonna summarize Trump is not in office,
and the coronavirus is is a tremendous almost entirely diminished

(05:03):
threat and certainly will be within a month. But they
have nothing to write on. Coronavirus was their issue, the
stupid right wingers who want to kill their children, teachers
unions literally saying there will be child sized coffins lined
up outside the schools. That was an incredibly powerful, you know,

(05:24):
electoral fundraising message. And so now they're stuck. They got
no Trump, they got no coronavirus. So they're desperately trying
to hold onto the masks on the poor little kids,
as if that's still a thing or necessary, and as
if anybody who resists it is still a right wing

(05:45):
knuckle dragging thug who wants children dead because that's the
only way to get people to the polls. At this point,
tell me what the Democrats have if not that