Terri Mitchell

Believe it or not, I don’t think we talk about the pandemic enough. I don’t think anybody realizes just how catastrophic it was for literally every person on the planet. Not the disease, no. I had Covid. I got it in late 2022 when nobody cared anymore. It was the nastiest bug I ever had for four days, and my sense of taste was gone for a month. It sucked, but it wasn’t the worst thing about the pandemic. The worst thing about the pandemic was the mass hysteria followed by the removal of all personal liberty. Whether that liberty was surrendered or stolen is still something I go back and forth on. We were ordered by our government to stay home. So we did. We shut down businesses, wrecking the economy and everybody’s livelihoods. We masked and social distanced, and were scolded to trust the science. We were told to take a brand new vaccine or lose our jobs. None of it worked. None of it. It was all for nothing. Covid is still around, but it’s been reduced to nothing more serious than a cold or the flu. …if it’s nothing more than a cold or flu now, isn’t that what it always was? And all the measures we took? All the stuff that dominated and ruined our lives for two years? We just… stopped when the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s vax mandate? Isn’t that indicative that we didn’t need to do any of it? Like at all? Like it was all a massive power grab? Like I said, I go back and forth on whether or not our liberty was stolen or we just gave it up at the first sign of trouble. None of what happened could have happened without us going along with it. Yes, the government should be held responsible for what they did, but shouldn’t we also be held responsible for allowing it? Think of all the times you were scolded in public for not wearing a mask or standing too close to someone. The government wasn’t doing that. The people were. Willingly. Think about all the friends who cut you off for not getting the jab. Think of every person who went Akon with everything the government told them to believe and do. And gleefully so. No, the American public does deserve some share of responsibility and culpability for how we acted during those horrible two years. While Covid itself has been reduced to a common sniffle, the effects of what we did remain. Everything that costs more than it did in 2019 can be directly tied to the pandemic. Everybody’s life is different now. The pandemic was a great reset that affected every single human on the planet. The course of our lives were drastically altered against our wills. I want people to think about that when we vote next week, because the people behind it are still seeking power. They want to do it again. Maybe not the same way, but they want that control of your life back. They got a taste of what it was like and they miss it. Don’t think they won’t snatch all your freedom back from you at the first possible chance. Think about who was advocating for the loss of freedom two years ago and who was fighting for us to get our freedom back. Remember and vote accordingly.