By Samuel Strait – July 1, 2020 I don't know how often I've read or heard the following moronic statement and have given it a pass because of the gulp! gulp! sincerity behind the hysteria of the person delivering the message. Makes me wonder how often the child in what is supposed to be adults, at least by age if anything else, bubbles to the surface when they realize, if they ever do, what a completely idiotic utterance they have allowed to pass their lips. It follows that I have left it up to Bill in a recently posted comment on the CrescentCityTimes web page to illustrate the insanity. From Bill "And let's hear it for Governor Newsom for having the courage to order you to wear a mask to prevent you from killing others. And yes, killing others is a crime." Of course I'm quite sure that Bill is very proud of his obvious virtue signaling, and even thinks that it makes him feel very grown up. However with all things that sound virtuous, it takes the mental maturity to understand that it can only be virtuous if it in fact is true. More often than not modern virtue signalers know very little beyond the pandering that they seem to wish to emulate, let alone be able to make an informed and thoughtful critic. As in Bill's statement, it predicates that he knows for certain the following. First, that I have the Wuhan virus, second that I am infectious, third that I have been anywhere near someone I can pass it off to, and finally that the person is in such a state that they may die from the virus. Of course since Bill doesn't know any of that, his claim immediately becomes suspect. What Bill also doesn't realize is that his faith in Governor Newsom is badly misplaced, for the Governor could care less that the citizens of California stay at home, social distance, or wear masks. His goal is to remain as a petty little dictator for as long as possible in order to experience the thrill of absolute power for as long as possible. He is more likely to learn in the very near future that his meddling has made the situation far worse. While Bill, being the good little boy that he must for his hero, has failed to engage his brain to ask the simplest of questions that seemed to have eluded so many adults in this time of Pandemic. When you look at the most recent numbers of those that have been tested as positive for the virus, after five months, it still remains at well under one percent of the over all population of the United States. It has a mortality rate that is plummeting faster than the Titanic on its final dive, likely soon to reach that of the common flu at one tenth of a percent. Those are just a few of the numbers that are at odds with the continuing media and political hysteria that "We are all going to die!". For Bill's sake let us hope that he does not die from mental anguish over absent face masks, from the Wuhan virus, not likely. Perhaps it may ease Bill's mental anxiety to know that most who have tested positive have few or no symptoms of the virus and have an extremely remote chance of passing it on. Most of those that remain, are unlikely to be wandering around the community to spread the virus, unless they are like Bill who must think that kissing strangers, or being asked to cough in their face is a practical way of sharing the pleasure of the virus. Let face masks reign. It appears that contact surfaces are out as a means of transmission, and remaining inside, as in lockdowns or stay at home orders, are also not particularly a successful strategy. It has been some time since the peak of infections occurred in the first week of April, yes, nearly three months ago, yet we are still being regaled nightly with warnings of troubles from the virus ahead. Couldn't possibly be from the extended time that the virus was allowed to remain in the population due to lockdowns could it? Or from social distancing and face masks? Couldn't possibly mean that the media and the monkey's dressed up as medical experts were wrong? Never! What heresy! Then, again, it seems that we are not through with what doesn't work as rumblings of returning to lockdowns that are ineffective and mandatory face masks and social distancing are to continue. I guess we must all resort to filling the street in protest as that seems to be the only solution to replace economic chaos, spikes in suicides, increased opioid deaths, and spousal abuse in the news. Perhaps that will satisfy our reliance on the Pandemic to fill the nightly news and the lack of attention by those in authority to control the chaos in the streets of major metropolitan cities. At what point are the adults in the country going to say enough already. What you are doing doesn't work, will not work, and let us treat it like a virus that it is…. There was this urge to continue on with much more which squarely places this nonsense in the category it should be, utter nonsense with the intent of power hungry politicians and the media, including FOX, to dictate and be meaningful only to themselves. Nobody seems to have gotten the message that this is nothing that hasn't happened before, without resorting to lockdowns, social distancing, and face masks. GIVE IT A REST ALREADY!