Our long, national, Covid-19 nightmare is drawing to an end
The news that first Pfizer and then Moderna have developed a Covid-19 vaccine, each of which apparently have a plus 90 percent effectiveness against the disease could not be more welcome. Very soon, we can all line up for our shots and then throw away those stifling masks and get on with our normal lives. We can look forward to boring the grandchildren about the Great Coronavirus Plague of 2020 and how bad it was for all of us.
Now we can go back to dining out, going to the movies and the theater, and otherwise having a good time without fear of coming down with a disease that has a slight chance of causing a slow, horrible, twitching death. Almost as important we will no longer have to put up with Internet trolls who delight in telling the rest of us to “wear the damn mask!” so that we might not kill Grandma and Granddad with our noxious viruses. Yes, we’re wearing the damn mask, so shut up!
All depends on you anti-vaxxers not ruining the prospect of herd immunity by refusing the shots. In that case, “wear the damn mask” will be replaced by “take the damn shot.” The fact that some won’t take it because of the Bad Orange Man proves to one and all that Never Trumpers are not only crazy, but dangerous.
Of course, besides those trolls, the end of the Great Plague of 2020 will be hard on a few other people, such as politicians and their paid experts who want us to cower in our homes forever. Some people like the plague because it gives them license to tell other people what to do.
The end of the plague is also likely to be hard on President Donald Trump. Covid-19 probably put an end to his presidency, even though he handled the crisis about as well as anyone could be expected to and likely better than most (I’m talking to you, Joe Biden.) Indeed, Trump caught Covid-19 and warded it off as he has most threats, albeit with the help of the best healthcare available. Meanwhile, Operation Warp Speed, which Trump started, has produced the vaccines and hence the end of the plague in record time.
Sadly, Biden’s enablers convinced enough people that Trump botched the plague. The bitter irony is that by the time Biden puts hand to Bible and recites the oath of office, Covid-19 will be on its way to becoming a bitter memory, unless the new president botches it.
(By the way, we are ignoring the possibility that Team Trump will prove massive voter fraud at the last minute and overturn the presumed results of the election. If that happens, then what follows is not operative, and we would not be more pleased.)
Besides a death toll on the scale of a world war, the economic devastation, and the lives made desolate from ruin and loss, the main horrible effect of the Covid-19 plague will be a Biden presidency. Some will welcome Biden’s ascension to the Oval Office because the Bad Orange Man will no longer be president. But make no mistake — former President Obama was likely right that no one should underestimate Creepy Joe’s capacity to f — — things up.
We don’t know what is in store for the next four years. A new war in the Middle East? An economic slowdown because of tax hikes? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the cabinet? The list of possible disasters are almost endless.
Perhaps none of those things will happen, since the Republicans will likely run the Senate and, after 2022, the House. But one thing is virtually certain. By next October at the latest, posters of Trump, grinning like the Cheshire Cat, will start appearing with the caption: “Miss Me Yet?”
Yes, we will.
