Good Riddance, 2021
Making Sense by Michael Reagan
It’s New Year’s again and time to hope for a happier future.
Last year at this time we were hoping for a better year in 2021, but that sure as heck didn’t work out, did it?
Forget the damage done to the economy by the hapless and relentlessly clueless “Joe Biden” regime.
Forget the Biden-made disasters at the Mexican border and in Afghanistan.
The worst mistakes the Biden administration made were in its failed “War on COVID.”
Biden, Dr. Fauci, the blue state governors, the CDC and the government’s so-called public health experts were wrong about everything – the high cost of lockdowns, the efficacy and safety of vaccines, the protection provided by cloth masks, the benefits of social distancing, boosters, mask mandates, vaccine mandates….
What’s left?
Whatever it is, if it had anything to do with fighting the virus in 2021, the Biden administration and its panic-pushing cheerleaders in the mainstream liberal media got it wrong.
Whether you’re masked or unmasked, vaxxed or un-vaxxed, or holed up 24/7 in your basement, COVID or one of its variants is eventually going to get you.
I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do to stay safe. I wear a mask when told. I’ve been vaccinated. I’ll get my first booster next month.
But after two years of following the strict and ever-changing rules, I look around and see most public places in Los Angeles closing down again because of omicron, a variant that is more transmissible but not nearly as dangerous as the original strain of COVID-19.
I also see long lines of people waiting to get a COVID test. I think to myself, they don’t look sick.
If you’re slightly sick, if you’ve got the sniffles and a cough and a little temperature, do you really need to get tested immediately for COVID – and possibly infect other people with whatever you have while you stand in line?
Shouldn’t you just stay home and take some therapeutics until you see whether it’s really COVID, the flu or, more likely, just one of about 200 cold viruses out there we can catch?
I’m no Dr. Fauci, but I do know a lot of people have lost their minds during our government’s losing battle against COVID.
The other day I was having lunch with my daughter in a restaurant and when they sat us down, a mother and her grown-up son at the table next to us just about had a heart attack.
We were wearing our masks. But they called over the manager and said, “We have to move. We’re too close!”
The son nodded to me as he left, signaling “My mother’s crazy. Don’t worry about her.”
But then the table next to them also moved away. Pretty soon there wasn’t a table within 20 yards of us.
If that older woman was that paranoid – and clueless – about catching COVID in a restaurant, why was she even out of her house?
Likewise, if you’re that terrified of getting COVID on an airplane, why are you even on a plane? Get in your car and drive to where you’re going– or stay home.
In 2021 we learned many important lessons about what works and doesn’t work in the failed war against COVID.
As we enter 2022 filled with the hope that we’ve learned from our mistakes, we’ve recently discovered that COVID vaccines – originally touted (and pushed) by Biden, Dr. Fauci and the panic media as the magic medical bullets that would save us all – don’t actually protect you from catching the virus. Sometimes catching it twice.
At best, it appears the vaccines and their boosters only stop you from getting deathly ill.
In two years more than 800,000 Americans have died of or with COVID. We can safely predict that no matter what we do thousands of additional COVID-related deaths are coming in 2022.
So be careful. Stay safe. Don’t let the frightened people run or ruin your life. And have yourself a happy New Year – if they let us.
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Copyright 2021 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.
Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to reagan@caglecartoons.com and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
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Right Michael. Failed pullout of Afghanistan that your humpty trumpty started. The economy is nearly as strong as what Obama left for your clueless hero. The fight on the covid front is HUGELY better than again, your hero started. You have obviously tried to take a page out of your dad’s playbook. You know, that ‘TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS THINGY” that worked so well that the gap between the haves and have nots has been increasing at an astronomical pace ever since. Learn something buddy. It never trickled down.
Oh yeah you are right about one thing. 800,00 deaths in two years. Have a little piece of news for you. Almost 500,000 of those deaths came during Trumps time in office. Get a clue you simpleton.
Michael. Possibly those people in the restaurant moved away from you and your daughter for perhaps a different reason than you think. It might have been the stench of arrogance. Blue-state governors were wrong, you mean like the massive number of Covid cases and deaths in Florida? That “blue” state?
I wonder which president stated: ” If we don’t test, there won’t be so many reported cases”?
How come the trickle down didn’t work after the wonderful Trump tax cut…and now we are worse off financially?
Where did you get your medical training that indicates that Dr. Fauci and so many other medical people were wrong about Covid and how to prevent getting infected? Oh, never mind, you don’t have any such training.
Yes, we should have a good year, as long as the Republican-fueled mob doesn’t go off the rails again. Maybe you can donate some money from the Reagan Foundation to that they can buy more guns. That might keep them pacified for awhile.
So happy New Year to you. Perhaps you can console all the people who will die from Covid due to the ineptness, cruelty, and desperate need to stay in power of the red-state governors and the previous administration.
Hit the nail on the head perfectly again Dr. Miller
The problem, Micheal Reagan, is that your ideological blindness prevents you from acknowledging facts. It’s tragic that you actually believe the nonsense you’re spewing. Although alien to you, here are FACTS about the economy:
When Biden took office, the economy was badly damaged, largely because of the pandemic and inept response by the Trump/GOP regime. In March, without a single Republican vote, Biden/Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to jump start the economy. It worked. The jobless rate dropped from 6.2% in February to 4.2% in December. 4.1 million jobs were created in Biden’s first year, more than during 12 years of the Trump and G.W. Bush administrations combined. Child poverty was reduced by half and 4.6 million Americans who were previously uninsured, obtained coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
As more people became vaccinated, consumers bolstered U.S. companies, many of which showed profit margins higher than they’ve been since 1950. Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. economic output increased 7% in the last three months of 2021, about 6% for the entire year. They predict overall growth for 2021 should be about 4%, the highest rates the U.S. has seen in decades. This compares
with forecasts for China of 4% and Eurozone countries of 2%. The U.S. is outperforming the world and this is reflected in the strength of the stock market which closed out the year at near record highs. Bloomberg’s Matthew Winkler stated, “America’s economy improved more in Joe Biden’s first 12 months than any president during the past 50 years….”
Along with COVID relief, the Infrastructure and Build Back Better bills are part of Biden’s bold vision for America that replaces failed GOP trickle-down economics with bottom-up investments that finally provide help where it’s needed.
As for your comments regarding COVID, they are equally without merit. I’m surprised The Independent publishes such misleading dribble.
Correction: Overall growth of 4% is predicted for 2022, not 2021.
Thank you Mr. Kramer for stating here everything I wanted to say, but could not articulate. I have never spent a day in a college classroom, but at 77 years old I know right from wrong. These folks that keep spewing this nonsense about the Trump regime never cease to amaze me.