On CBS’s 60 Minutes, Joe Biden was asked if the pandemic is over.  He replied that it is over and then gave some qualifications after that.

Biden commented that you can see all of the people around not wearing masks.  But the whole reason that masks became a big thing in 2020 is because of government officials and COVID hysterics pushing them.

Masks were a placebo so that some people could feel safer while somewhat continuing to go about their lives.  They were an excuse to “safely” go to the grocery store and eventually do other activities that are of less necessity, like going out to eat and shopping for clothes.

Masks also served a purpose for the ruling elite of making it feel like a pandemic.  When you go to the grocery store and nearly everyone is wearing a mask, you feel like you are in a hospital.  It really does it make it feel like the plague for some people.

I don’t refer to what has happened since March 2020 as a pandemic.  I just try to not use the word unless I am using it in quotes or if I am referring to it in the context of what other people are saying.  I actually cringe when I hear people who are generally on my side (pro liberty) refer to it as “the pandemic”.  I think it only serves to legitimize the reactions to COVID.

I am sensitive to those who have lost people supposedly due to COVID.  I say “supposedly” because the tests are inaccurate and most people supposedly dying of COVID had other major ailments.  In addition, hospital staff mistreated people testing positive for COVID on many occasions.  It wasn’t just negligence either.  It was giving them remdesivir and throwing them on ventilators.

If the government had just treated it like a bad flu season, I’m not sure how much damage would have occurred.  Without hysteria and lockdowns, I think there would have been fewer deaths, and many of the people who supposedly died of COVID were probably going to die soon anyway.  I admit there may be exceptions.

But according to Biden, the pandemic is over now.  Maybe it is because there is an election coming up and he is way down in the polls.  But if the pandemic is over according to Biden, what about all of the mandates and emergency powers still in place?

Repeal the Emergency Powers

While I don’t think 60 Minutes is the worst show in terms of propaganda (they actually have some interesting things at times), it would have been nice for the interviewer to point out that emergency powers are still in place and there are still people getting fired to this day for not being “vaccinated” against COVID.

The U.S. Open tennis tournament was just held in New York, and the best tennis player in the world was unable to play because he was not allowed to enter the country.  If you are not a U.S. national or resident, you are not allowed to enter the country without being “vaccinated”, unless you want to walk across the Mexican border.

So there may have been people playing in the U.S. Open who weren’t vaccinated if they lived in the United States.  There were certainly many people in attendance who were not vaccinated.  Yet, Novak Djokovic was not allowed to enter the country to play.

Many military members and other government workers are still required to get vaccinated.  Many universities are still requiring it, even if it isn’t coming as direct orders from the federal government.

The vaccine mandates are immoral and unlawful.  They also make no logical sense.  Unless you are living in a cave, you can see with your own eyes that people who are “vaccinated” are still testing positive for COVID.  They may be getting it at an even higher rate than those who did not get jabbed.

Biden’s whole scheme to “forgive” $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower was predicated on emergency COVID powers.  That is how he is attempting to get around the law and the Constitution.  But if there is no pandemic any more, why does he still have emergency powers?  Again, nobody asks him this.  And anyone who would ask him this is forbidden from asking him any questions.

There has been great damage done over the last 2 and a half years.  We will be paying for it for a long time.  We are really paying for it now with the economic mess that was exacerbated by lockdowns and more digital money printing.

The vaccine mandates that were attempted are probably the biggest infringement on liberty, domestically speaking, in at least a generation.  I think you would have to go back to the draft during the Vietnam War to have something as bad and widespread as the vaccine mandates.

I am no fan of most Republicans in Washington DC, but remember that no Democrats in DC opposed the vaccine mandates.  They are all tyrants.  We must never forget the great damage done by their authoritarian policies.  Now it is election time, so they can just declare the “pandemic” as over.  They will try to resurrect it or come up with something new when the time is right.