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Re: Life After COVID A marvelous column by P.J. O’Rourke! P.J., I am forwarding your column to all my friends. In fact, I am going to include it with my XMAS newsletter! Tusen Tack, P.S. A thousand thanks in Swedish – Lois P.J. O’Rourke response: And Tusen Tack back at you, Lois! Meanwhile, I’m not allowed to write the Xmas newsletter at our house because I tend to... lie. As in: “Our eldest, Muffin, continues her passion for synchronized swimming. The Tokyo Olympics were canceled this year, but Muffin is so impressive that the Olympic Committee decided to give her a gold medal anyway. Middle daughter, Poppet, is still following her bliss at MIT where her recent work in theoretical physics untangled the last knots in string theory. Youngest, Buster, got his driver’s license and promptly won the Daytona 500. Then, in February...” Re: The Sunshine State of Mind Buck, I voted with my feet one year ago, I left tri state area for Palm Beach County, FL... I loved your take on Miami... btw... everything is cheaper in FL... tolls, utilities, literally everything. And public works projects get done in a fewweeks; not years. They did a major beach replenishment in 7 weeks! For $6 mil! Not 6 years and $600mil! DeSantis does not get enough credit. – Roy B. Buck Sexton response: Roy, I’m happy that
With few exceptions, the conservative radio hosts and politicians jumped onto the COVID bandwagon with enthusiastic abandon. Howmuch of the mail-in debacle was aided and abetted by the conservatives who maintained their steadfast allegiance to the sanctity of the establishment medical industry’s party line of widespread death and mayhem from a virus with a 99.6% survival rate? Howmuch of the Left’s ability to engage in disastrous, unscientific and unconstitutional lockdowns and mask mandates has been aided and abetted by those in the conservative precincts nodding along, like toy dogs on the back shelf of the 1982 Nissan Sentra, with the establishment mantra? You are a smart woman, possessing keen observational skills. What are your thoughts? Am I off the mark or is the COVID response of conservative spokespeople and politicians distinctly emblematic of what we have seen of the never-Trump, go-along-to-get-along, big war/big government, Bush/McCain/ McConnell wing of the GOP? Thanks for your time and attention. – Charles K. Trish Regan response: Charles, I don’t think anyone quite anticipated how deadly the coronavirus would be. However, our approach as a society was misguided. Instead of shutting our entire economy down, I would have preferred to see us protect the people considered the most vulnerable while still allowing the rest of the economy to function. There is a way to safely operate in the pandemic, but unfortunately, the issue became very political.
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January 2021
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