Leading up to the Christmas holidays, we were treated to incessant Christmas songs, one of which is Winter Wonderland. This year, instead of Santa Claus handing out presents in a winter wonderland, we had Dr Anthony Fauci handing out threats of another year of bah and humbug.
The above song lyrics can be modified this year in honor of Dr Fauci, “He’ll say, are you vaxxed? We’ll say no man. So you can stay at home all alone.” Dr Fauci said just that, telling Americans to disinvite unvaccinated family and friends from gathering, instead staying home, all to avoid the inevitable spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, which for most individuals is just a bad cold.
We are back to the same public health measures being pushed again that for the past almost two years have not ended the COVID pandemic, this time with hopes for a different result. Isn’t that the definition of insanity?
Why are public health officials, including the purported experts such as Dr Fauci, doubling down on the same ineffective measures that gave us our second COVID Christmas with highly vaccinated countries, cities, universities, cruise ships, and sports teams seeing COVID case spikes or setting new case records? The US, now almost two years into COVID, with vaccines and therapeutics, and ongoing restrictions, set a single day case record. What’s going on?
Instead of introspection and a change in course, we have Dr Fauci constantly on television, suggesting new and even more draconian measures including masks on airplanes as a permanent feature of flying the friendly skies. Or vaccine mandates for air travel, another nail in the coffin of an already oppressively unpleasant form of transportation. President Biden will recommend a domestic travel vaccine mandate as soon as Dr Fauci tells him to.
What if Dr Fauci got his each and every wish, in essence a Fauci Wonderland of COVID rules and mandates? What might such a world look like? Would it be New York City or California? I recently had the opportunity to travel to such a place over Christmas with my family.
I speak of a beautiful country in the Southern Hemisphere, Peru, featuring the Andes Mountains, high desert, and a Pacific coastline. I’m not sure if Dr Fauci is a fan of ceviche or churros filled with dulce de leche, but in terms of COVID rules, this would be his Shangri La. Traveling from an America locking down again for the umpteenth time, I thought visiting a Southern hemisphere country during summer would allow me a breath of relief, literally and figuratively. That notion ended before exiting the airplane.
