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self-isolated was now encouraged to avoid guidance and assistance. A more suspicious
physical contact with one another altogether. person would also likely wonder how these
That wasn’t enough. Businesses were forced rules might effect our elections.
to close or reduce their operations. People
No, I’m not an election denier. I don’t
were forced to wear cloth masks that we
think Donald Trump colluded with the
were told would limit the spread of the virus.
Russians. I also don’t think that Stacy Abrams
Never mind that the openings in the fabric of
had the governorship of Georgia stolen from
most of these masks were many times larger
her. In fact, there is clear evidence to support
than the virus. The argument was that these
my opinion. A more suspicious person might
masks would stop the spread of the virus by
get the wild idea that all the relaxed voting
containing droplets from sneezes and coughs.
rules in 2020 allowed for questionable results.
So if one is neither coughing nor
Isn’t it perfectly reasonable to assume
sneezing, it stands to reason that a mask isn’t
that a man who has difficulty speaking
necessary. Yet, we were told, asymptomatic
in coherent sentences would be the most
people needed to wear masks. Aren’t
popular man EVER to run for President?
coughing and sneezing symptoms? Forgive
Never mind that he had a long track record of
my ignorance if they aren’t. Remember, this
accomplishing nothing productive in his life
is all part of an effort to save your life… from
save getting himself elected to public office.
a disease which is statistically unlikely to kill
Never mind that in previous attempts to
you.
run for President, he had never won a single
Some people who did not fear COVID primary. Never mind that the mainstream
were shamed into compliance because media had exposed him numerous times for
anyone who did not follow the strict rules plagiarism, misrepresenting his personal
was endangering the lives of people who were history, and uttering racist comments.
following those rules… a contention whose
What’s important is that we had the
logic escapes me.
most secure election in history. That scares
If I were the suspicious type who did me, because it means that past elections were
not implicitly trust my government and the nowhere near as secure. If we knew that our
motives of those who act under its auspices, elections were not secure, how did we know?
I might wonder why was all this dread fear And how do we know that this one had been
engendered? I might consider it an attempt the most secure in history? Let me gaze into
to sabotage the economy, in the hope that my crystal ball… no, wait… let me turn on the
people would blindly turn to government for TV and let it tell me what to think without
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