But Good News Doesn’t Sell

Excerpt from Jim Treacher’s article found at:

https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/vaccinated-people-are-shrugging-off

Remember when everybody freaked out about Lindsey Graham getting COVID-19? It was just two weeks ago. The libs were all high-fiving each other, cheering for him to die. It just reaffirmed their belief that those dirty Republicans deserve illness and death, and they’re all anti-vaxxers, and other such nonsense. But Graham didn’t die, because he’s vaccinated. By the time the news broke, he said he was already feeling better. And within a day or two, everybody had forgotten about it. I wrote a whole thing about it, and I barely even remember it. Just a blip. Barely newsworthy.

Rush Limbaugh called these liberal hysterics “the drive-by media,” because they just spray a bunch of crap at their target and then speed off to the next one. They don’t care about the consequences of their actions. They don’t listen to the people they leave behind. They achieve nothing, learn nothing, and amount to nothing, and they get paid for it. Why would they want to change?

Well, here’s their next target.

The bad news is that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has COVID-19. The good news is that he’s vaccinated and feels fine. 

These vaccines work. That’s good. That’s the whole idea. This is how it’s supposed to work.

And, also, in addition to that, Gov. Abbott has slapped down mask and vaccine mandates in Texas. He believes in liberty. He doesn’t think the state knows how to run your life better than you do.

Abbott got the virus he admits he can’t stop, and liberals see that as some sort of vindication:

Abbott doesn’t allow government to require it. He doesn’t allow government to require it.These libs can’t even hear themselves.

What does one thing have to do with the other? Abbott hasn’t banned masks. If you want your kid to wear a mask, he isn’t stopping you. And he isn’t stopping anybody from getting vaccinated. If anything, he’s a test case for why you should get vaccinated. He’s a vaccine success story.

If something is good, authoritarians like the fellows above will tell you the government should mandate it. Abbott disagrees, and so do I. If you choose to risk illness and death by taking no precautions against a deadly virus, it’s not the role of government to force you.

I find mask zealots just as bewildering as anti-vaxxers. Unless you seal yourself in an airtight underground bunker for the rest of your life, this virus is going to get into your body eventually. It’s just inevitable. It’s a virus. That’s what viruses do. But you don’t have to get sick and you don’t have to die. A cloth mask isn’t going to keep you from breathing it in, but these vaccines will keep it from hurting you.

But everybody has gone insane, and they have every incentive to stay insane because that stokes fear. And fear generates money while keeping people compliant.