Her eatery is partially opened, but forbidden to service
more than half its regular clientele, many of whom will disappear if the eatery
is not permitted to make a sustainable profit to pay the business’s overhead and
its dwindling staff.
“If this place can be opened now, why couldn’t it have been
opened” under the same severe regimen “three months ago?” the befuddled
waitress asks.
Good question, but the common sense answer to the waitress's
question will not be forthcoming from Governor Lamont or its waylaid
legislative leaders, all Democrats, in the state’s seriously suspended General
Assembly. The common sense answer to the question is simple and unambiguous.
There is no reason why restaurants in the state should not have remained open
during the pandemic four months ago. If social distancing, facemasks, frequent
disinfections of eating areas, and reducing by 50 percent a restaurant’s usual
clientele, work now to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the same measures
would have produced the same result four months earlier.
An elementary school teacher asks this question: why were
elementary schools closed during the politically caused crisis?
Good question. We know – and have always known – that
lethality among school children 14 years-old and younger infected with
Coronavirus has been hovering near zero. Why then were elementary schools in Connecticut
shut down? The most frequent answer to this question is highly problematic.
Children who are asymptomatic and who very likely had developed herd immunity,
the historic prophylactic in viral contagions, can infect older adults. And
these older adults are much more likely to die from the infestation than young
children. Elementary school closures are, in fact, a “save the elders” project.
Very good, how has Connecticut gone about saving the elders?
In Connecticut and New York about 60 percent of those who died with
– not of – Coronavirus were sequestered in nursing homes. We were
protecting these elders by forbidding their relatives from eyeballing their
care while, at the same time, failing to provide protective gear to the staff,
heroes all, of nursing homes. And politicians in Connecticut knew – right from
the beginning of the Wuhan infestation – that elders of a certain age, many of
whom had medical preconditions that lethalized Coronavirus, were most
susceptible to the Coronavirus grim reaper.
Well now, there is a bill before the gubernatorial suspended
General Assembly right now that removes partial immunity from police officers
across the state, all of whom will be susceptible to asset-swallowing suits
filed by “defund the police” political agitators. Will partial immunity be
removed from those politicians who are principally responsible for the carnage
in Connecticut's nursing homes?
Never mind the oversight, we are told, the problem has now
been corrected by Lamont, his political cohorts, and Dr. Close-The-Barn-Door-After-The-Horse-Has-Left.
Not to worry; elder habitués of nursing homes who survived the political
inattention of preening politicians are now, at long last, safe.
People wonder why the death count in Connecticut and New
York are down, a cousin unable to attend the funeral of his uncle remarks –
they removed the deadwood and are now taking their bows for having solved problems
they themselves had created. They’re like the firefighter-arsonist who sets fires
so that he can put them out and read about his courageous exploits in the morning
paper.
It is perhaps unpragmatic at this point to hope that
businessman Lamont and the Democrat leaders in the General Assembly will
realize that Connecticut’s economy, artificially sustained by President Donald
Trump’s military hardware acquisitions and the Wall Street casino, is weak at
its core and will be further weakened by unnecessary shutdowns. Businesses lost
to the Lamont shutdowns are irrecoverable, and there is yet another ten year
recession grinning evilly at the state from the political wings.
Connecticut, now a beggar state, will attempt to
squeeze money from the Washington DC larder. Even now, Blumenthal is hoping to
wrest billions of dollars from the impeachable Trump administration, and there
is not a journalist in sight who will summon up courage enough to ask him
whether he would favor yet another Connecticut tax bump so that Democrats in the General Assembly
will be spared the indignity of cutting union labor costs.
When Connecticut –which has much more in common with dispensable
nursing home patients than the state’s sleepy media realizes – finally disappears
beneath the waves, who will be permitted to attend its funeral?
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