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Libertarian Institute, January 26, 2021<\/h3>\n

Testing Positive for COVID-Bootlicking<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span> | Jan 26, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The COVID pandemic has shown how easy it is to make people hate anyone who is not as frightened as themselves. Since last March, politicians and health officials have fanned fears to commandeer far more control over Americans\u2019 daily lives. And millions of Americans have been happy to condemn any violators of the endlessly changing rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the start of the COVID pandemic, my local Harris Teeter grocery store in Montgomery County, Maryland voluntarily made extensive changes to safeguard its employees and customers. But one panicky customer wailed to the local health department that he felt unsafe while buying his bagels or whatever at the store. A health inspector swooped in and compelled the grocery store to restrict access and services in numerous pointless ways. One of the two wide doors at the front of the store was designated as \u201cExit Only,\u201d with four signs attached warning customers not to enter.<\/p>\n

On a recent Thursday, I was making a quick mid-afternoon run to that store and headed for the doors I always used adjacent to the parking lot.<\/p>\n

I saw a customer getting ready to exit so I paused 10 feet away from the door. He was a heavyset guy in his 40s with a cop-style haircut. He was wearing a fashionable flimsy face mask that provides as much protection from COVID as wrapping your head with wet toilet paper. He was pushing his loaded grocery cart through the wide doors\u2014until he saw me. He instantly pulled his cart back and the second set of automatic doors closed while he stared at me like he\u2019d seen a viral demon poised to strike him down.<\/p>\n

From safely behind the glass doors, he anxiously pointed his arm to the other side of the store, where the designated \u2018Entrance Only\u201d signs paved the path to compliance.<\/p>\n

I just stood there.<\/p>\n

He pointed again, even more fretfully.<\/p>\n

I just stood there.<\/p>\n

He finally pushed his cart forward and the automatic doors opened.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHIS IS THE EXIT\u2014exit only!\u2019 He exclaimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYa,\u201d I replied nonchalantly as I waited for him to get out of the way so I could enter.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t go in here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNope. I\u2019m entering.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not allowed,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe separate exit and entrance for the store is a health department dictate that makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have to follow the rules to keep us safe,\u201d he said with the air of someone reminding a village idiot of a self-evident truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Health Department said grocery store customers have to hop around on one leg, would you do that, too?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2014are you like the people who stormed the Capitol?\u201d he barked as his eyes bulged.<\/p>\n

I laughed. \u201cYou\u2019re a bootlicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat!?!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a bootlicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNO I\u2019M NOT!\u201d he sputtered.<\/p>\n

I gave him a Chesire grin which he could maybe appreciate because I wasn\u2019t wearing a facemask.<\/p>\n

He stomped his feet and pushed his grocery cart off into the parking lot while muttering about someone being an \u201casshole.\u201d I wasn\u2019t sure who he was referring to so I didn\u2019t take offense.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County, Maryland is probably one of the most pro-government locales in the nation, thanks in part to being populated by government workers, government contractors, and other people ruined for life by high school civics classes. There is practically no spot inside its borders exempt from indignation against people who have not submitted to the latest edict.<\/p>\n

I was recently walking along the C & O Canal Towpath, talking to two friends. None of us were masked \u2013 despite a histrionic health department dictate that everyone should cover their faces any time they step out of their house.<\/p>\n

Coming in the opposite direction was a geezer, walking slumped forward with a long white shirt, big floppy hat, and a six-foot walking stick. He suddenly stops and points his stick at me and shouts:<\/p>\n

\u201cDISTANCING!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cYOU\u2019RE\u00a0NOT\u00a0DISTANCING!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what are you supposed to be, an Old Testament prophet?\u201d I said. \u201cGreat\u2014so now we got the Prophet Isaiah casting damnation on all Towpath violators.\u201d I should have counted my blessings that he wasn\u2019t like Coleridge\u2019s Ancient Mariner, buttonholing people and forcing them to listen to a 45-minute poem about a dead bird.<\/p>\n

That Towpath turned out to be a hotbed for righteousness. A few weeks later, I was walking along with a group of fellow hikers, chatting about how the 2020 election had completely restored out faith in American democracy. As we neared a wooden bridge, a 50ish guy coming the other direction suddenly stopped and looked as horrified as a vampire who had spotted a Crucifix.<\/p>\n

He lifted his shirt up over his face to provide double protection along with his facial covering, and shouted, \u201cYOU\u2019RE NOT WEARING MASKS!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re outside. It\u2019s sunny. The wind is blowing,\u201d I replied. The dude was perhaps unaware that COVID transmission hinges on \u201cviral load,\u201d which wasn\u2019t happening on that hike.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re violating the rules!\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>\n

We just kept walking past him.<\/p>\n

He turned and shouted at me: \u201cSo what\u2014is your beard supposed to be your mask!?!\u201d<\/p>\n

I kept going.<\/p>\n

And then he hollered: \u201cYour beard is ugly!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JpbDurn! Now I finally know why my applications to be the cover model for GQ have always been rejected. Me and Rodney Dangerfield\u2014no respect.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there will likely be far more Americans screaming at each other thanks to President Biden\u2019s new mandate compelling people to wear masks on all federal property and while traveling across state lines. Biden\u2019s edict, like many other Washington decrees, contained an unwritten \u201cPoohbah Exemption.\u201d Hours after signing the mandate, Biden and family members were not wearing masks when they visited the Lincoln Memorial. At a daily press briefing, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki scoffed at a reporter\u2019s concern over the apparent crime: \u201cHe was celebrating a historic day<\/a> in our country\u2026We have bigger things to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s mask mandate is being touted as one of the silver bullets against COVID-19. But 80% of Americans \u201chave been wearing masks since July. They didn\u2019t meaningfully alter the pandemic\u2019s course,\u201d notes economic historian Phil Magness<\/a> of the American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>, which has done some of the best debunkings of COVID hysteria.<\/p>\n

Federal, state, and local government restrictions have failed to prevent more than 100 million Americans f<\/a>rom becoming infected with COVID. But that hasn\u2019t cured blind faith in the Iron Fist of government decrees\u2014perhaps the only item of faith remaining for affluent people hunkered down and fretting about their next grocery delive<\/strong>ry. The<\/em> New York Times<\/em>, in a piece headlined, \u201cSocial Distancing Informants<\/a> Have Their Eyes on You,\u201d noted, \u201cIn some cities and counties, vigilantism has been encouraged by municipalities that have set up special phone numbers, apps or online forms to report violations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighborhood websites are overflowing with complaints, such as the Boston area resident who was outraged because \u201cfour teenage girls with lacrosse sticks and white hoodies just walked past our place.\u201d \u201cMassachusetts residents burning up the COVID-19 snitch line<\/a>,\u201d proclaimed a Boston Herald<\/em> headline in October. Two hundred thousand complaints were registered, including against a neighbor accused of \u201cspitting,\u201d a maskless female stripper at Kittens Gentlemen\u2019s Club, and a deluge of accusations against people whose masks had slipped beneath their nose.<\/strong> Shortly before Thanksgiving, Oregon Governor Kate Brown urged neighbors to summon the police if they noticed neighbors having too many guests for the big dinner\u2014a proposal that one Oregon local official declared \u201cturned people into \u2018second-rate slaves\u2019<\/a> in their own homes,\u201d the Daily Mail<\/em> reported.\u00a0 The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> reported, \u201cSome liberals said they thought that calling out violators was a civic duty and a matter of public health.\u201d Many East Germans felt the same way about notifying the Stasi about subversive comments they overhead while waiting in line to buy cabbages. But some Americans should heed the warning a British publication gave to its readers: \u201cIs constantly monitoring COVID rulebreakers wrecking your mental health<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of the rage against folks who do not obey the latest commands stems from blind faith in \u201cscience and data\u201d\u2014the endlessly recited slogan of politicians and bureaucrats dictating new restrictions. But the unrecognized storyline of the pandemic is that the \u201cscience\u201d is continually changing and much of the data is crap.<\/strong> Revered experts flip-flopped on issues such as whether surfaces are deadly contagious or whether asymptomatic individuals are perilous threats. False positive tests and catch-all definitions of COVID fatalities have made a mockery of accurate record-keeping. These problems were compounded by the World Health Organization promulgating much a stricter standard for Covid diagnoses<\/a> on the day Biden was inaugurated, ceasing to count as Covid vast numbers of cases that were previously labeled as such. The new standard paves the way for a speedy reduction in Covid cases thanks to Biden\u2019s benevolent leadership.<\/p>\n

But Pandemic Security Theater will continue to spur snitching by people who view other Americans\u2019 freedom as the deadliest threat to their own health. That guy who blocked the door at my local Harris Teeter may never have been called a bootlicker before. Sadly, this is a title that millions of Americans have earned over the past year.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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