This is the nightmare some of us have been warning you about. You probably thought, for the last 3 or 4 months at least, that with highly effective vaccines in distribution, you might get your life back soon- maybe even by the summer of 2021. The masks would come off, schools and restaurants would all open, even weddings and concerts would be back in action.

Think again. The Lockdowners and mask cultists have other plans for you.

Now the media tells us with the pace of vaccinations and the spread of new strains, covid will be around for years, maybe even decades. It will become endemic, “like the flu.”

At a minimum, this means arbitrary, idiotic “mitigation” measures like mask mandates, filling out test and trace forms, and random temperature checks could become the new normal forever. And it will probably be far more intrusive and destructive than that.

One thing is for sure already: they’re going to drag out the pain, misery, and control as long as they can. Too many people have too much emotional investment in their “belief in science” (itself an absurd idea). It just feels so virtuous for MSNBC watchers to sneer at the evil anti-mask Trump supporters while working class people delivery their packages and food to them.

No, they aren’t in any rush to let you have your life back. Quite the opposite. They’ve conditioned much of the American pubic to become brainless sheep who do whatever bureaucrats with stethoscopes tell them, or at least what feckless politicians claim the experts say.

They’ve effectively created a turnkey totalitarian society. Do you really think they want to give all that power back before at least giving it a test drive for a year or two?

The Left loves to leverage a crisis, and this one lets them literally control your ability to breathe.

So they will find endless excuses to extend the Covid lockdown misery. You may have already figured this out, seeing as that totalitarian smurf in a lab coat Dr. Fauci has said that double masking is probably a good idea, until the virus is totally gone.

Actually, Fauci said two masks was logical, then he said there’s no science behind it, then Biden advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm said publicly two masks were worse than one, then Fauci said two masks can’t hurt, then he said they’re waiting on data from CDC to show whether two masks are in fact better (anyone wanna place bets on what that will say?). This all took place in about a week.

“Listen to the science!” they bleat.

This has become a rallying cry for those too frightened to think for themselves or too infatuated with controlling others to understand that life comes with risks and there is no perfect security.

Here’s what the science tells anyone who is being honest about it: open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives. Not next fall, or next year- now. The lockdowns did not work, and weren’t necessary. Florida is the real life experiment that proves it. This debate should be over.

But instead of embracing the truth- and the freedom that would come with it- the lockdown Left is doubling down. They want to tell you to mask up next winter, and the one after that too. Get ready for years of this madness.

Americans can either take back their freedom, or have it doled out to us in small doses like squirts of useless hand sanitizer.

REunited?

And just like that the rioting and looting has ceased overnight. And now the half of the country that pummeled America like a battered wife is telling her to put on sunglasses, hide her black eye, be a good girl and “come together as one.”

 Her answer? “Go fuck yourself.”

The United States is in a titanic struggle with the People’s Republic of China for the dominance of space.

Although the Americans have been to the moon and sent multiple, advanced probes to the surface of Mars, since the end of the Cold War, U.S. space policy has languished in neutral. Due to this, new competitors, namely China, have arisen to challenge the dominance of the Americans in the ultimate strategic high ground of space.

China has grand ambitions for space. Not only does China plan on beating the Americans to the Martian surface by the end of the decade, but Beijing wants control of the vital orbits around the Earth. By controlling these orbits, China’s military would enjoy significant advantages over the American military. Beyond that, China plans on strip-mining the moon for valuable resources.

The Americans, though, have always had a silver bullet in its competition with China for space dominance: a vibrant and innovative private sector. Specifically, the growing number of private space start-ups, such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Thanks to his reusable rocket design, Mr. Musk’s company has already cut down on launch costs by a staggering 40 percent. SpaceX insists that it can cut those costs down further. What’s more, SpaceX rockets are entirely indigenously produced. And as the ongoing race to Mars between the United States and China intensifies, Mr. Musk’s new deep space reusable rocket Starship, might just be the vehicle that gets American astronauts to Mars before China can get its taikonauts to the Red Planet.

Certainly, the Starship reusable rocket is unproven. In another America, this experimental craft would elicit wonder and its development would be encouraged. The Trump administration exhorted SpaceX to vigorously move ahead with its Starship program.

The United States, however, has a new president. And President Joe Biden is making his space policy preferences increasingly clear: America will remain grounded for the time being.

On Jan. 28, SpaceX was set to put its Starship rocket through another test in the blue skies above Texas. The objective of the test was to get the massive rocket up to 12.5 kilometers — about seven miles — above the Earth and then spin the giant rocket around so that it could make a vertical landing.

Sadly, the visionary goal of getting Americans to Mars first came crashing down when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which, under the Trump administration had allowed for SpaceX to conduct their important test flights, ordered Mr. Musk to cancel the Starship prototype test.

The FAA did not cite its reasoning behind ordering the cancellation of the launch. Many have speculated that the cancellation was brought about due to safety concerns. After all, in December 2020, SpaceX did a test of the experimental rocket. The Starship prototype made it to a height of 41,000 feet. Once it reoriented itself, in order to allow for the rocket to land vertically, the great silver spacecraft promptly did a bellyflop that ended in a massive explosion.

Despite this, SpaceX learned many valuable lessons from the December failure that were to be applied to the Starship launch in January. In science, the only lasting failure occurs when one does not test a new idea or hypothesis. This axiom is especially true in the context of the new space race between the United States and China.

It’s likely that the FAA’s decision to cancel the launch is part of a wider Biden administration effort undo the Trump administration’s vibrant space policy. Plus, former President Trump’s space vision was explicitly aimed at countering advances made by China in space. It is unlikely that the Biden administration seeks to continue that policy, as the Biden team attempts to stabilize deteriorating relations with Beijing over the next few years.

Concern over Mr. Musk’s Martian intentions is likely another factor for the FAA’s cancellation of the Starship launch. Last year, Mr. Musk indicated that any future SpaceX Martian colony would not be “ruled by Earth-based laws.” The problem for Mr. Musk is that SpaceX has been awarded lucrative contracts by the Earth-based U.S. government. If SpaceX were to create a colony on Mars, because of the company’s contractual relationship with the U.S. government, Washington very much expects that colony to be an American endeavor.

Lastly, Mr. Musk has been publicly supportive of the recent “GameStonk” controversy. A group of anonymous, individual investors on Reddit decided to engage in a little activism by inflating the stock price of Gamestop, a video game retailer. Melvin Capital, a storied Wall Street investment firm, was forced into bankruptcy by this move (they took the other side of the bet, attempting to short the Gamestop stock).

The “GameStonk” event was so significant that the Biden administration is vowing to prevent something similar from happening again. Congress is even getting involved. Because of Mr. Musk’s prestige and his vocal support for the Redditors who helped to take down Melvin Capital, it is possible that the Biden administration was punishing Mr. Musk by canceling the Starship launch at the last minute.

It is not only Mr. Musk who suffers from the FAA’s cancellation of the SpaceX test flight. We, the American people — and the entire effort to beat China to Mars — suffer. The Biden administration’s decision to increase regulations on the private space launch services sector and slow down their operations, as evidenced by the recent Starship launch cancellation, will only help China in its ongoing mission to defeat America in the new space race.

for some, it is completely serious.

These are the same people that "think" switching to electric cars will eliminate burning fossil fuels.

We keep going back and forth about this and I hope you are right but I still picture the evil ones coming into the free states with tanks like Tiananmen Square.

People can be born stupid. Liberals choose to be the way they are. That's worse than being stupid.