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Let us attempt yet again to separate COVID reality from the cocktail of hysteria and propaganda that continues to be served up by governments and their sycophants in the media.

REALITY: My mother once again has tested positive for COVID (no specific variation has been shared).

She is an 85-year-old woman confined to her bed in a long-term care facility. She has had COVID once before while staying there, exhibiting basically no symptoms, but testing positive. Since then she’s had various vaccines and boosters.

She’s lived since all the COVID mania began in a facility at which visitors at first were banned, and then had to be masked to enter. Staff members not only wear facemasks, but of late now wear clear plastic face shields, too.

But still my mother has tested positive again, and has been moved to the Red Zone, into solitary confinement.

My brother got her on the telephone earlier today and said she seems fine, but is disgusted yet again to have tested positive and therefore to have been denied visitors, despite all the vaccines and boosters. What was the point? Indeed.

REALITY: Even the VaccinNazis have had to ratchet down their rhetoric from the starting-point fallacy that vaccines are the be-all and end-all in preventing infection, to the vaccines work at a high level in preventing infection, to although they don’t prevent infection at least the symptoms aren’t as severe, to maybe they do little if anything to prevent infection but they sure do make a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies.

REALITY: England finally got it and announced Wednesday that it is ending vaccine passports, mask requirements and work from home mandates. In other words, the dog and pony shows, the Kabuki theater, the Potemkin villages are being dropped in a concession to the reality that they are all show and no go.

REALITY: I know plenty of people who have come down with COVID and zero have ended up in the hospital due to it. This would be passed off as anecdotal evidence. But, at some point, personal experience means more than some crackpot models cooked up by academics along the line of scientists who once cited statistics that bumblebees should not be able to fly due to wing mechanics vs. body size. The fact that most of us have seen bumblebees fly is merely anecdotal evidence.

REALITY: Speaking of flawed models, one concocted at Penn State ignores falling COVID death rates since the onset of the Omicron variation, and similarly ignores that the COVID case rate is falling in 34 states, including Pennsylvania. Despite all this, the model predicts a surge in COVID deaths in our near-term future.

REALITY: Reports from around the world note top-notch male athletes – vaccinated athletes – keeling over in competitions. There are studies indicating vaccines increase rates for various maladies, particularly in young men. Under the anecdotal evidence category, a friend of my son, a thirty-something JAG officer in excellent physical condition, came down with COVID and had little in the way of major symptoms. But the military, in all its genius, required him to be vaccinated, and that vaccination did more to him than the virus itself.

OPINION: Historians are going to view this COVID mania in much the same how-could-this-have-happened? wonder formerly reserved for exercises in public lunacy such as Holland’s Tulip Bubble.

Before I layer up, grab a snow shovel and go to work on the 12 inches or so of white stuff that needs rearranged around my house and vehicles, a word about the politicization of COVID-19.

It’s a subject into which reality never seems to intrude – at least when COV-IDIOTS and MaskHoles are doing the talking.

Perhaps you’ve heard that 270 “doctors” have called for the silencing of podcast host Joe Rogan for the sin of doubting the need for and effectiveness of vaccines.

This is a familiar tactic by the radical left and its lapdogs in LameStream media, who repeat their distortions without any of the so-called fact checking they are so fond of performing on conservative voices.

Recall how DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!!!!! had to be referred to with her doctor title whenever she uttered a few disjointed thoughts on the subject of the virus? Well she does have a doctorate, but she’s not a physician. Her doctorate is in educational leadership! She’s no more qualified to issue medical advice than a philosophy professor or a math PhD, or any of us.

And so it is that the 270 doctors coming out against Rogan include, by one author’s post on Zerohedge.com, “50 PhD academics, around 60 college professors, 29 nurses, 10 students, 4 medical residents, and even a handful of . . . science podcasters.”

Bet you’ve never seen or heard that kind of breakdown of the “270 doctors” offered by the left-leaning “journalists” in the LameStream media.

Rest assured that you would have, had the “270 doctors” come out against the need for vaccines.

Why does the left lie and distort with such regularity? Because it works on the sheep who consistently vote them into power.

Consider another item from Zerohedge.com, a report on a national poll by Rasmussen Reports that found that 45 percent of likely Democratic voters approve of the government placing those refusing COVID-19 vaccinations in interment camps.

It gets worse.

A full 48 percent of these mentally challenged voters are OK with the government fining or imprisoning anyone who questions the efficacy of vaccines on any platform.

The First Amendment be damned!

And, finally, 59 percent of these clueless sheep would go along with the government confining to their homes, except for cases of emergencies, anyone choosing not to get COVID-19 vaccines.

If you’re on the right side of this issue, both politically and morally, you must understand this is the deranged sheep mentality you are arrayed against.

It’s not just the general populace among the left that is academically questionable. You have a Supreme Court Justice making up statistics to bolster her case, and eventual vote for, Biden’s vaccine mandates for private companies that six of her fellow jurists saw as the unconstitutional power grab that it was and is.

Understand, also, that these people on the left never quit. They always are pushing to take away the freedoms of those who do not agree with them.

They only can win if you continue to accept it.

Rome was not built in a day, and it didn’t fall in a day.

Both processes took hundreds of years. But I’m sure there were many observers during the closing days of the fall who had missed the ample signs of decline along the way.

Equating the rise and decline of Rome with the ascent and fall of the United States is a familiar topic and not without merit.

Pay attention and one can see the parallels.

Our governments – Democrats and Republicans alike — have debased the nation’s money supply, accelerating the process when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971.

Ancient Romans “clipped” coins, taking a little silver or gold off the edges to the point where the coins were unrecognizable. The government went along by substituting base metals for gold or silver in the coins.

The U.S. long ago went down that road, suspending convertibility of currency into gold or silver and taking the gold and silver out of coins, except for investment coins that trade not on their face value, but on the value of the underlying precious metal in them.

Roman rulers attempted to distract the masses from the problems with their bread and circuses (free food and entertainment).

Is that really any different than our current and past regimes with their “stimulus” handouts, various other government freebies, and a general bent toward dividing the populace against itself, lest it turn its attention to the failed leadership?

Romans and Americans alike experienced dramatic reduction in the standard living for the common folk, a vast and widening gap between rich and poor, and taxes verging on the confiscatory.

The story goes that many in the outer reaches of Rome’s empire welcomed invading barbarians because their take from the people was less than the Roman government’s taxation.

Erosion of our nation is evident by taking a trip to stores and being greeted by empty shelves or extremely limited supply where once there was an abundance of choices.

It’s evident at the checkout line where the prices rise steadily, or at the gasoline pump – same thing.

What is pathetically sad about all of this is how many governmental types, or sycophant economists, proclaim not to have been able to see this coming. Really?

You goose the money supply at an historic rate, keep interest rates at historic lows to encourage wild borrowing and speculation, yet you are surprised when the classic recipe for inflation – rising money supply and declining supply of products – produces price inflation?

The decline goes beyond rising prices and decreased availability of products.

Major cities, often under socialist-liberal leadership, are becoming hell holes of violence and general lawlessness.

Service levels almost everywhere are in the toilet. Teachers don’t want to venture to their classrooms and teach. Truckers don’t want to deliver goods. Sales people in stores run the other way if you make eye contact, indicating you might be seeking help.

People in various walks of life might show up at their jobs but they’re not going to put much effort into it.

Just the other day my son had his family stop at a failed link of a national fast food chain. Among the service gaffes were no utensils for the kids to eat their pancakes. The order was handed across the counter with no syrup for the pancakes. No chocolate milk for the kids. No soda for the adults. And on. And on. And on.

All should have been there, as ordered, but these items weren’t provided without extra requests. A guy stood for a time at the counter and was ignored. He was looking for napkins. My son eventually got some for him, too.

My mother is in a long-term care facility at which there are quarterly meetings with family members, ostensibly to address any concerns.

But bring up staff failures – ranging from consistently poor and inaccurate food trays, to failing to follow doctor’s orders and administer medication or tests – and the blanket defense is “no one’s perfect.”

We heard this ad nauseam a few weeks back.

Imagine that, no one’s perfect. We’re not seeking perfection, but rather some semblance of consistent competency.

We might as well howl at the moon.

And, mark my words, these situations, both in our personal life and in the national experience, will continue to worsen as failed leadership coddles the under-performers and tries to buy their allegiance, or vote, or both, with more handouts.

Eventually the pot is empty and there is no more money for handouts.

Can we dream of barbarians showing up at the gates to rescue us? Doubtful.

Bumbling Joe Biden had a very bad week, even by his standards, which are lower than whale dung.

Begin with the Supreme Court, which got past politicized and erroneous statistical jawboning by one questionable jurist and struck down Overreach Joe’s vaccine mandates for private businesses.

Score one for freedom. And pause for a moment to note how curious it is that Clueless Joe and his minions so often are at odds with freedoms guaranteed and enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.

Blathering Biden’s approval ratings for his overall job performance and also his handling of virus matters, both plumbed new lows. A Quinnipiac survey found Blundering Biden at 33 percent approval.

This begs two questions, what’s wrong with the 33 percent who think he’s doing a good job? And, should these people be institutionalized for their own protection?

Along the line of ignoring the Constitution, Biden was hoping to ram through legislation by eliminating the Senate filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes, much better than a simple majority, to pass major laws. Boastful Biden can’t even get all his Democrats onboard. One of those, Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, has gone on record that she’s not along for that ride to kill the filibuster.

A grave PR gaffe was made when Biden took the microphone in Georgia and pretty much indicated that anyone who disagreed with him on his voting rights agenda, which he needs that end of the Senate filibuster rule to shove through, are bigots, racists and generally disreputable people. By that standard, Sinema falls into the category, along with the majority of people in the nation that Biden pledged to unify during his campaign.

I don’t think name-calling is the best unifying technique.

Then again, Biden also vowed to defeat COVID-19, tame inflation, fire up the economy, and return the country to better place. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. And Wrong.

Joe has shown himself to me more than a bit tone-deaf through his checkered political career.

This also was a week of much discussion about how Burrito Biden’s porous border policy is allowing Fentanyl to flood into this country even as drug overdoses have been identified as the leading cause of death in adults 18-45.

Bilious Biden’s energy policy has ramped up the price of gasoline to seven-year highs and many analysts say the price is going to hit or surpass $4 a gallon on average across the nation within months if not weeks.

Meanwhile Geriatric Joe is finding even his fellow Democrats are critical of his inability to get virus tests into the hands of the masses.

Those disgruntled Dems also are griping about Blowhard Biden’s inability to deliver on all his left-wing promises to turn our country into yet another experiment in socialism. Considering socialism’s track record – all failures – those critics should be thanking Biden for his ineptitude in getting bills passed into laws.

But Jawboning Joe did have one small victory when a NewsNation poll found only 31 percent of participants still buying the propaganda that Fearful Fauci is selling regarding the pandemic.

Besting Fauci 33-31 percent in approval and credibility is not exactly cause for celebration, but it’s all Ballot Box Biden has going for him these days.

We have a local group, Vision Together 2025, trying to raise the population of the Greater Johnstown area by trolling for refugees. Except you can’t call them refugees, but rather “legally vetted immigrants.”

In the way that the guy (or girl) collecting your garbage might be called a sanitation engineer but is still a garbage collector, so it is that the Vision people are big on semantics and euphemisms to make things sound less harsh.

Let’s concentrate on the term “vetted.” It makes one think of Supreme Court justices, high level political candidates and Cabinet appointees, among others, all being vetted to make sure they have what it takes.

When done right, it’s a thorough examination of a person’s character and qualifications for a job. But who will be vetting these “legally vetted immigrants?”

That is not a detail you will find on the organization’s Facebook page. Myopia problems for Vision Together?

What you will find are assurances that all will be legal residents of the United States. Of late the topic of a possible inflow of immigrants here has turned to discussions of displaced Afghans.

A quick internet search showed that Afghan refugees (I will use the word) are unhappy in general with slow progress in awarding them citizenship, but hold out hopes for speedier legislative solutions.

A Green Card is a temporary measure, but a holder of a Green Card is not a citizen.

Also, it was interesting to read that some Republican lawmakers on a national level have doubts about how good the vetting process will be for Afghan refugees.

Recall that the Biden regime made a mess out of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and do you really trust these same boobs to guarantee no undesirables got on planes or other transportation headed to our country?

Early in the discussion about immigrants in general being recruited to settle in Johnstown, terms “skilled workers” and “highly skilled workers” were tossed around.

It was implied and sometimes stated outright that they would readily find employment here and not be a further boost to our growing industry of life spent on the government dole.

Again, what does that “skilled” or “highly skilled” verbiage mean? A person with a talent for making mud bricks could be said to be skilled, but does that translate to landing a job here?

Statistics vary, but the best literacy rate I could find quoted for Afghanistan is 43 percent, meaning that underwhelming percentage of people 15 years of age and older can read or write – in their language. The global literacy rate is reported as a touch over 86 percent.

Are we to presume that all of our refugees will come from the 43 percent able to read and write, albeit not necessarily in English?

As is customary with such issues, anyone who would like more information, who would like to see specifics cited and not just the vague generalities, is labeled as a racist, bigot or otherwise undesirable person not fit to breathe. Homophobia is not yet being tossed around to tar critics, perhaps because homosexuality is widely disapproved of by followers of Islam.

Last, the refugee recruiters are trying to inflict guilt on those not eagerly going along with it all, noting this is a region that once was a hotbed for immigrants.

That is true. But those immigrants, as some have noted, came for plentiful jobs in steel mills or mines, neither of which are anywhere near as widely available now. And those jobs back in the day were not described as skilled labor.

Also, the immigrants who settled here long ago, bought into the melting pot philosophy. They might speak the language of their home country at their residences, but they understood that their children had to speak and be taught in English and had to know English for the workplace.

This is not the common philosophy these days in America, particularly among many refugees/immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries. This helps explain why the local Sears store, before it was closed, had “Caballero” signs above the men’s dressing rooms.

It explains, too, why virtually every time you need telephone assistance, an automated voice has you press 1 or some other number for English and yet another number for Spanish.

Can press 3 for Dari and press 4 for Pashto (the two official languages of Afghanistan) be in our future?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The news is populated with entertaining stories, almost as many as there are amusing animals in the Old MacDonald Had A Farm song.

Let’s marry the two.

AOC she has CO-VID.

E-I-E-I-O.

Went down south and flipped her lid.

E-I-E-I-O.

She went mask-less here, mask-less there.

Here no mask. There no mask. Everywhere no mask, mask.

AOC she has CO-VID.

E-I-E-I-O.

Hunter, Joe and Kazakhstan

E-I-E-I-O.

Making dough, they had a plan.

E-I-E-I-O.

’twas a photo op here, a photo op there.

Here an op. There an op. Everywhere an op, op.

Hunter, Joe and Kazakhstan

E-I-E-I-O.

Nancy P. will send you dough.

E-I-E-I-O.

To buy votes both to and fro.

E-I-E-I-O.

With a handout here and a handout there.

Here some pork. There some pork. Everywhere some pork, pork.

Nancy P. will send you dough.

E-I-E-I-O.

Chi-town teachers won’t attend.

E-I-E-I-O.

This demand they will not bend.

E-I-E-I-O.

With a virus scare here, a virus scare there.

Here a scare. There a scare. Everywhere a scare, scare.

Chi-town teachers won’t attend.

E-I-E-I-O.

Let me tell you about our neighborhood game that I call Parking Grab.

If ever it becomes a board game, Parker Brothers of Monopoly fame would be a natural to distribute it.

Until then, we must content ourselves with live-action Parking Grab.

There is no limit on players. The goal is to occupy the most on-street parking places with the fewest number of cars.

To spice up things, as in gymnastics or diving, a degree-of-difficulty factor can be introduced by factoring which households park the fewest percentage of their cars in driveways, garages or other off-street spaces.

For a long time I got my entertainment as a spectator. Now I’ve devolved into full-fledged participant.

This game was popular when I first moved into this neighborhood more than three decades back. Dedicated players included the people to my right, who were outraged if someone parked in “their” spot.

These are the same people who were put off when I asked them to move their car a tad so I could park a moving van and commence moving into my house.

Across the street at the time was a family with a wife I called Ann of a Thousand Parking Spaces. They had a garage, driveway and a pulloff spot in the alley behind the house. But Ann was particularly attracted to on-street parking, especially in the winter when someone had shoveled out their vehicle, left to run an errand and returned to find Ann’s car plunked in the spot.

But Ann and family moved, other players either died, moved away or lost interest and Parking Grab went on hiatus.

The game has experienced a rebirth in the past five years or so. I credit the people to my left.

The man of the house, at least that would be his assigned birth gender, accumulated vehicles through the years. A two-car garage was erected, but as far as I can tell, none of the family vehicles ever has been inside it.

A car could be parked along the side of the garage that faces the alley. A couple of cars could be parked in a gravel pulloff area beside it. But the family believes it has dibs on the street parking, too, of any number of spaces they should desire. Woe be to those who do not recognize this claim.

This became a problem one day a few years back when my son came to visit with his family and parked on the street. The neighbor raced out cursing at my son, a fact I was made aware of when one granddaughter burst into our house to get me.

My son’s sin? He’d parked on the street. IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!. It was raining fairly heavily at the time, so I went onto the porch to see what was up. The neighbor’s wife ran into my yard to scream at me.

I found it all amusing since she was getting drenched and I was under my porch roof.

The reaction of that family, when it was pointed out street parking was first-come, first-served, was to make sure to park all four of their vehicles (three cars and one sad blue truck) on the street for an extended period of time, often two of them in front of my house. When one vehicle left, others were pulled in ways to preserve the spot.

A side benefit of all this was convincing my wife that I was correct in long ago branding the folks as petty morons.

Fast forward to 2021/22 and I have accumulated five vehicles, although I’d never let one of my Mustangs parked unattended on the street. They spend most of their time in the garage, either the one at my house, or one I rent that is nearby.

But I do enjoy parking two of my wife’s cars in front of our house, using the old parking grab technique of letting half a car length between the front of Car No. 1 and a neighbor’s driveway and half a car length between Car No. 2 and Car No 1.

This creates great angst for the people two houses up, who have a rule that none of their visitors can park in front of their house.

It also plays havoc with the long list of poor drivers on this street who cannot parallel park and when their traditional resting spots required that rather simplistic skill, they were fond of seeking out the sometimes open spots in front of my house.

Those spots seldom are open these days.

Just yesterday, when I lent wife’s Car No. 2 to my son, a neighbor kid from across the street rushed out to plant his SUV in the vacated spot. It has not yet moved again. I think if I opened the door and listened, I could hear the victory celebration.

On my walk today, I saw one parking-impaired sort had pulled into a spot that the people two houses down consider their property. As I came back from the walk, that car had moved and the husband of the aggrieved family was rushing to clean off the wife’s car parked in an alley pulloff spot, which he promptly started and drove around the block to plant it in the vacated parking spot in front of his house.

The game has spread, like Omicron, to the people in the next block. Again while walking – last week — I saw a woman in a car pull up in front of a house and honk the horn vigorously. A half-dressed man rushed out, jumped into an SUV, and pulled out as she slid into the space.

He drove to the back of the property and pulled into a garage. Apparently he’d been a placeholder.

As mentioned earlier, I used to get my kicks just observing the Parking Grab phenomenon, recalling the saying of a high school friend to describe the players: Little things amuse little minds.

Alas, my mind now has shrunk, too, as I delight in playing the Parking Grab game my neighbors have taught me. Currently I’m indulging the idea of buying a couple of beater cars, just to have more pieces with which to play the game.

COVID hysteria has hit new highs (plumbed new depths, too) in recent days as a runny nose has become cause for alarm and quarantine.

Just today our area had its first measurable snowfall of the winter, and while temperatures have been warmer than usual for the most part this season, there have been some very cold days and nights.

For anyone who might be reading this in the tropics and has little firsthand knowledge of cold weather, it can cause one’s nose to run, a euphemism for when nostrils drip mucus.

Cold, dry air irritates the moist nasal linings, causing mucus glands to go into overdrive to compensate and some excess mucus tends to get expelled through your honker. It’s nothing that a tissue, or your coat sleeve, can’t handle. I’m just kidding about the coat sleeve.

The runny nose phenomenon was generally accepted as nature at work, at least pre-COVID. I recall that I took the SAT as a senior in high school with a severe cold, causing me to ram tissues up my nose to staunch the flow. Even at that, some excess mucus made it to the test sheet.

I scored quite well, but looking back I can’t be sure if it was me, or mucus filling in the correct answer bubbles.

These days, I’d have been barred from taking the test, denied my college entry certification, and sent home to stay in my room for days if not weeks.

Already this week, a neighbor was sent home from the hospital where she works because – horrors – her nose was running. A COVID test had to be taken and she was left to sit at home awaiting the results.

Supposedly if someone is detected with a runny nose there and doesn’t self-report it, they are open to vague punishment.

Turns out her runny nose was just a runny nose.

Meanwhile, one granddaughter was told at preschool she really should stay home if she has a runny nose. A four-year-old kid can have a runny nose on a cold day. Imagine that!

There were members of my extended family who as children had runny noses about 200 days a year. They sure would have missed a lot of school.

But how can we expect rational, informed thought from the lower echelons when a Supreme Court Justice, pondering whether or not Joe Biden can force COVID vaccines on people, misstated both statistics on the Omicron variation of COVID and flew in the face of just about all medical opinion when she said it is as deadly as the Delta variation?

Yes, critics say this woman is on the court largely to fill two affirmative action categories. But give us a break. Anyone paying even scant attention knows the consensus in the medical field is that Omicron is highly contagious, but not highly dangerous. Just two days ago WebMD reported Omicron hospitalizations run at about one-third of the Delta numbers.

And to present erroneous statistics to back up the fallacy that they are equals as health threats speaks to just how low our legal system has sunk.

The lesson here is that Covidiots and Maskholes are everywhere. So, if you have a runny nose, for God’s sake be sure to disguise that symptom lest you are required, ala Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” to be branded not with A for adulterer, but with RN (Runny Nose) and ostracized from polite company.

You’ve been warned.

While Joe Biden and friends try to distract from his failing regime by rewriting the history of Jan. 6, 2021, there’s a real insurrection going on in Kazakhstan.

You are forgiven if you were not aware of what’s happening in this ‘Stan because our lapdog media is too busy trying to prop up Biden with distortions of what happened the past Jan. 6 to report on it.

Fact: The only person actually killed on this date last year at the U.S. Capitol was an unarmed white woman protester who was shot by a skittish black Capitol policeman who feared for his life because this waif of a woman was reaching through a broken window.

Fact: Other deaths related to the Jan. 6, 2021, protest were heart attacks, an overdose, a stroke victim and several subsequent suicides by police officers and maybe others.

Fact: Kazakhstan officials admit to having dozens of anti-government protesters or police killed in their ongoing strife. Said protesters are reported to be armed – more heavily since breaking into a government armory. Banks are being looted. The sound of machine gun fire is heard. Threats are being issued on both sides of the dispute. This is an insurrection because it is not merely unarmed protesters breaching a government building. If that’s the standard, many Antifa and Black Lives Matter protests are insurrections, but curiously are not labeled as such.

Fact: Despite efforts of our usually AWOL vice president to emerge from hiding and paint Jan. 6, 2021, as Sept. 11 terror attacks and Pearl Harbor all rolled into one, the facts, as usual, don’t support her harangue. It is generally accepted that 2,996 people died from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, including 19 terrorists. Pearl Harbor had 2,403 U.S. casualties including 68 civilians. Go back to remedial math, Veep.

Fact: Hyperventilating left-wing media mouthpieces had been predicting a huge amount of carnage today as frustrated Trump supporters were expected to stage violent protests and dare we say it, insurrection. But such dire predictions have been found to be just more hyperbolic blather, on par with the Comet Kohoutek (1974) and Y2K (2000) hype that produced . . . nothing!

Fact: Why is Joe Biden even still president? As a candidate, during an October 2020 debate with President Trump, Biden cited 220,000 COVID deaths and held Trump responsible, saying Trump should not be president due to that. Well, more than 400,000 additional COVID deaths have been logged since Biden took over the Oval Office, so probably his irrational babbling today should have included his resignation.

Fact: Insurrection is not necessarily a bad thing, just like change isn’t necessarily a good thing despite it being sold as such by the Obama guy. Perhaps the protesters in Kazakhstan have legitimate grievances with their government that are not being addressed. I’m not sure. I do read that a rise in energy prices (sound familiar?) was the catalyst to ignite protests over long-term underlying issues such as human rights. What I do know, since I attended public schools at a time when history was still being taught, is this country was formed as a result of insurrection against England. But our Revolutionary War had many more casualties than one unarmed woman and thus legitimately could be labeled an insurrection.

Prediction: If the Democrats and their hodgepodge of socialist group lackeys want to keep pushing for insurrection, they just might get the real thing. See Kazakhstan.

The words of the day, the week, the month, the year, are Mass Formation Psychosis.

Mass Formation Psychosis is a phenomenon in which large parts of a society become fascinated by a leader and/or idea, fixated on them, and thus are able to be led in directions with little basis in reality.

Dr. Robert Malone used the term on a recent podcast with Joe Rogan that basically got the good doctor’s Twitter account shut down. Rogan didn’t escape unscathed, having the interview removed from YouTube and Twitter.

Dr. Malone likened our COVID hysteria, and the governments that are taking advantage of the situation to push the bounds of what infringements on basic rights the people will accept under the guise of fighting the virus, to the sorrow of Nazi Germany.

For the younger crowd who no longer are taught history, Nazi Germany was a chilling example in which many otherwise decent people bought into the ravings of Adolf Hitler and either accepted or ignored atrocities committed at his behest.

Flash forward to recent video of the woman passenger on an airplane screaming at, and assaulting, an elderly gent for taking down his face mask inflight in order to eat. Even as this woman bellowed at the guy, her mask was nowhere near deployed over her mouth and nose, instead looking like a support bra for her chin.

Why was this woman acting out like this? Because she’s bought into the COVID fear cult. We’re all going to die unless everyone gets vaccinated, boosted regularly, and wears multiple masks while observing social distancing and general isolation.

In her mind, the man trying to eat his meal on that plane was no better than a suicide bomber playing with the lives of all onboard.

Why someone so inclined felt the need to get on an airplane at all is an unanswerable contradiction, but not an uncommon one.

There also has been a report since of a Michigan woman flying from Chicago to Iceland who felt some throat discomfort, rushed to the bathroom with a rapid COVID test she just happened to have along, tested positive, and confined herself in the lavatory for five hours of the flight to save the rest of the passengers from certain death (not to mention making it more difficult to relieve themselves).

Could it be she just wanted some attention? Repeated video updates by her suggest so.

She also claims to have been fully vaccinated and updated with boosters. I’m betting she will survive, just like about 99.6 percent of all COVID sufferers.

There are reports that searches for Mass Formation Psychosis have skyrocketed after Dr. Malone’s Rogan podcast and Google has done one of its absolutely non-political, just-looking-out-for-you adjustments to search results to highlight attempts to debunk Dr. Malone’s take on our world and the COVID fear merchants.

I checked for myself. Upon using Google to search for “Mass Formation Psychosis” one is directed to LameStream media attempts to debunk Malone.

Type the same “Mass Formation Psychosis” into duckduckgo.com, the non-tracking, apolitical search engine, and the first hit you get is a generic discussion of the syndrome and application to investing. The big debunking attempts don’t make it to the top five of search results.

This selective search manipulation, along with the rise of “fact” checkers who would be more at home in the ministry of propaganda, hints that the ideas they try so hard to suppress just might have more than a smidgen of truth to them.

William Shakespeare identified the phenomenon long before the digital age in his play “Hamlet” with the line “the lady doth protest too much.” General meaning: When the denials become too fervent, often the opposite is true.

Already governments of the United Kingdom and Canada have been forced to admit intentionally overselling fear in trying to steer the unwilling members of the populace to COVID vaccinations.

If you think the United States isn’t just as guilty of this, you are extremely Pollyannish.

And lest you think Mass Formation Psychosis is a fairy tale, consider the example of Biden voters who still think they picked the right man for the job.

‘Nuff said.