Lori Lightfoot Has Covid (and So Does AOC)
Unexpectedly, Groot Surrenders to the Teachers Unions

Groot says she has mild, blight-like symptoms and feels fine.

Groot doesn't just have a fivehead. Nor just a sixhead.

She has, as they might have said in Shakespeare's time, a se'enhead.

Covid-shamer Geraldo Rivera also caught covid.

AOC caught covid just after partying maskless at a drag club in Florida. I wouldn't begrudge anyone going maskless and living their lives as they like, but of course she's the sort of cow who would call DeSantis a killer, and then enjoy the very freedoms still allowed to people living in and visiting Florida.

Relatedly: The Chicago Teachers Unions has approved a proposal to bring them, kicking and screaming, back to work. Under the provisions of the proposal, kids will be randomly tested for covid.

The proposal also allows teachers to work from home-- which is what they want -- whenever certain conditions are met, like teacher absences.

In addition to a return to in-person teaching Wednesday, the plan the House of Delegates approved will set conditions by which an individual school would return to remote learning, determined by the rate of staff absences and students in quarantine or isolation, as well as whether it’s during a period of high community COVID-19 transmission, where a lower threshold would apply.

So teachers can call a sick-out and thereby force a "remote learning" period.

So yes teachers are "returning to work" but with the ability, now enshrined in an agreement with the city, to return to "remote learning" kind of whenever they decide to.

So Groot surrendered. What a surprise!

Via Instapundit, this article by Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Epoch Times explains how the covid panic ends: When the covid panickers all get covid.

For nearly two years, we've wondered how this will end. In retrospect, the clue is in how it began.

The initial lockdowns had a strong class-based component. The working classes were assigned the job of delivering groceries, tending to the sick, driving the trucks filled with goods, keeping the lights on, and keeping the fuel running. The professional class, among whom were the people who pushed lockdowns in the name of disease avoidance/suppression, were assigned the job of staying home in their pajamas and staying safe.

It all happened seemingly in an instant. We all had to figure out whether our job qualified and what we should do. More striking at the time was the very notion that government bureaucrats could slice and dice the population this way, deciding what can open and what cannot, who must work and who must not, what we can and cannot do based on our station in life.

So it now seems obvious to me. This whole disaster would finally come to an end (or at least the end would begin) when it became obvious that the great strategy of class division and demarcation would fail to protect the Zoom class from infection.

That day has finally arrived, with cases soaring in many parts of the country and hitting everyone of every class, whether they are being "careful" and adhering to the "mitigation measures" or not. What's even more striking is how even the vaccines, which were supposed to codify the wisdom of class segregation, have not protected against infection.

All of this seems to have taken place over the course of December 2021, with the arrival of the seemingly mild Omicron variant. Still the other variants circulate widely, causing various degrees of severity with or without hospitalization much less death. In other words, millions from among all classes of people are finally getting sick. At this point, we seem to be seeing a big shift in attitudes.

A lot of this comes from casual conversation. A person comes down with Covid, perhaps confirmed by the newly fashionable at-home tests. "Did you get vaccinated?" the person is invariably asked. The answer comes back: yes and boosted. That's when the chill happens. It appears that nothing can ultimately protect people from this. In which case, it is time we change our tune.

"Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid. They shouldn't be ashamed," headlines the Washington Post.

Feeling ashamed about getting covid-19 isn't healthy or helpful, experts agree.... Remember: You're not a failure. "Millions of other people have gotten sick," (Seema) Varma says. "Unfortunately, you're not alone. You're not the only one. You're not the first one to get covid, and you won't be the last." And that positive test, she reiterates, "doesn't make you an irresponsible person."

So on the piece goes, with a complete flip of the narrative they have long preached: anyone who gets Covid has failed to comply, disregards of Fauci's advice, probably lives in a Red state, rejects the science, and otherwise bears the mark of selfishness and the desire to put freedom ahead of public health.

Getting Covid has heretofore been part of a human stain, consistent with the very long history of demonization of the diseased and the attempt to attribute sickness to moral sin.

He added:

The driving ambition here, though never explicitly stated, was to assign the burden of bearing the disease to the lessers among us. That is a conventional model used in illiberal societies throughout history. The elites who had both granted and benefited from lockdowns took it as axiomatic that they deserved disease purity and health more than those who worked to keep society running. And that scheme seemed to work for a very long time. They stayed home and stayed safe and kept clean while the virus circulated in season after season.

Below: "What [the vaccines] can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

Below, Sarah Palin reacts to Donkey-Chompers' now week-old claim that anyone pointing out her mask hypocrisy is just secretly longing to sleep with her.

posted by Ace at 04:47 PM

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