From: imbibe@mindspring.com   
      
   Johnny wrote:   
   > By Eddie Scarry    
   > Published June 28, 2022    
   >    
   > Nothing quite revealed what absolutely horrific human beings that    
   > liberals could be quite like the COVID pandemic. The annoying things    
   > they've always done—nag, whine, lecture, tattle—came with the most    
   > precious gift in 2020: the backing, approval and moral authority of the    
   > state, as it’s conceived in the left's mind.    
   >    
   > With the sanction of the government to insert themselves in everyone    
   > else’s business, liberals felt free to pole vault atop the highest soap    
   > box and reign down their most wretched sanctimony—all in the name of    
   > "The Science."    
   >    
   > From their greatest hits list:    
   >    
   > "Where’s your mask?"    
   > "You’re putting others at risk."    
   > "Why are you traveling?"    
   > "Stay home!"    
   > "We’re all in this together."    
   > "Follow the science!"    
   > "Trust the science!"    
   > "Six feet apart!"    
   > "Practice social distancing!"    
   > "Why don’t you wear your mask." (Always phrased as a question, even    
   > though it wasn’t.)    
   >    
   > Insufferable is the word.    
   >    
   > It was like the end of "Grease" when Sandy—formerly a plain Jane, now    
   > donning a leather jacket and makeup—suddenly has the nerve to act like    
   > she runs the place. Except the audience loves Sandy for going the extra    
   > mile to win a love interest. Liberals were simply acting out their most    
   > exotic dreams of being able to tell everyone what to do, snapping at    
   > innocent people while feeling good about themselves. Nobody loved that    
   > or the people acting it out.    
   >    
   > This remained true even into 2021. In March of that year, a full year    
   > after the initial pandemic alarm hit the U.S., Democrats and liberals    
   > were still hyperventilating over its spread: 82 percent of Democrats    
   > and Democrat-leaning voters believed the new coronavirus was a "major    
   > threat" to the entire US population "as a whole," according to a Pew    
   > Research survey. Just half as many Republicans, 41 percent, agreed.    
   > This was well after learning that COVID was relatively harmless to the    
   > vast majority of us, with something like a 98 percent survival rate.    
   >    
   > https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-loved-covid-pandemic   
   they-wanted-you-love-it   
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   Their drug of choice is pushing people around and spending    
   other people's money, and they can't get enough of it!   
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