Get a grip, people!

Enough with the snowflake hysterics!

Just because someone coughs in the supermarket does not make them Covid Mary. Its allergy season, for crying out loud! Not to mention that they were more than six feet away from you.  Are they carrying the virus? Who the hell knows? Even they don’t. But people have to have groceries. Few people were stocked up to handle a week of isolation, let alone a month. Which is where we are.

The “experts” pretty much agree that, sooner or later, everyone will contract Covid-19 unless a miracle vaccine is developed in the next two or three months.  The social distancing urged upon us was meant TO SLOW the spread of the virus, not to STOP it. That can’t be done. Not yet.
And the slowing was meant to save our hospitals, our medical personnel and our supplies from overuse. And this, even in places like New York City, has been achieved.

If I were King of America – and thank God, I am not – I would decree that all citizens under the age of 35 go back to work tomorrow, or at the very least Monday. The only exception would be those who have known underlying health conditions. We have enough experience now to know that very few of those who get the illness in this age group get seriously ill.

We also have enough “experiential observation” (the media calls it “anecdotal,” but that’s an attempt to skew public opinion) to realize that Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate works really well to relieve the symptoms of Covid-19, in most cases allowing the patient to resume a normal life in a few days.

We can argue about the phrase “normal life.”

I would mandate virology (antibody) testing for all workers ages 36-60. If they have the antibodies, give ‘em a gold badge and send them back to work, if the jobs still exist. Then I would do the same thing for 61-70, if they are still in the work force.

And, finally, I would encourage the nervous Nellies of our country to study history. Real history, not the BS that the progressive professors peddle. Read novels. Watch old movies made before the thought police took over production. Learn that the world has always been a dangerous place. Epidemics, pandemics, recessions, depressions come and go. People die.

They are also born. Many thrive. Just as most of us will look back at this a year from now and wonder why we over-reacted. Yes, we will mourn our losses, but we will also celebrate our victory.

It’s called life. Let’s get on with it.