By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – April 13, 2021 After yesterday's romp through just a few of the questions that the "experts" should have to answer about Covid-19 and PCR testing, our nation's four million dollar man gave his regarding what happens after you get vaccinated. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci while interviewed on MSNBC and the current administration's four million dollar "expert" on all things Covid, nothing is to change. Masking, social distancing, hand washing, and no nonessential travel from home is to continue. Fauci went on to say that non essential businesses are to remain closed, and absolutely no indoor dining or drinking is to be permitted, vaccinated or not. This comes at a time where the nation's CDC announced that vaccinated people are able to return to many "normal" activities such as travel on airlines and eating and drinking indoors sans mask and distancing. So, whats up? Who are we to believe? For a bit over a year now we continue to get mixed messaging from all of the "experts" that we are supposed to trust. Still, this kind of tug and pull leaves many questioning more and more the need to follow anything that we are being told. Can we even trust the numbers being reported in the Main Stream Media, by Public Health, or even our political leadership? Can we trust the many Medical talking heads that assure us that they have the answers? Vaccines work, testing is accurate, the numbers are honest, what are we to believe? Michigan, a State where the mandates continue unabated has had a surge of Covid related incidents. Texas and Florida, states which have for the most part done away with mandates, are hardly being affected and are experiencing a decline of Covid reported infections. Here locally in Del Norte County the public health officer is reporting a surge in positive tests, yet no recent deaths or a surge of hospitalizations. We continue to be threatened with return to "purple" status which would close us down again. Not that we have been open much in the last year. So where exactly has this "great threat to mankind" gotten us, It seems to have crushed several local businesses, something we can ill afford. It has wasted over one calendar year of education in this County, not that it was great before the Pandemic. It has all the appearance of a typical flu year with a similar death toll and hospitalization number. Influenza and the Common Cold have disappeared, that is if the numbers are to be believed. We are told that is because of the masking, except why hasn't it had the same effect on Covid-19? The bottom line is that it hasn't done the citizens of this Country a whole lot of good, nor has it made them feel very safe. It has had the effect of making a few select companies and people very rich! It has given those that seek power a vehicle to have power in excess. With the Country in this current state it will be hard to return to normal even if it was possible to vaccinate the entire world. I suspect Dr. Fauci would have something to say about that. Until enough people have the desire to return to normal, as J says, last spring's fifteen weeks will turn into fifteen years.