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Madam Jane looked into her crystal ball this afternoon and then told me the good news.  “This mask-wearing lock-down nightmare is finally coming to an end!” she happily declared.  Man oh man, that is really good news!

      “What finally ended it?” I asked.  “Social distancing?  Hand sanitizers?  Face masks?  Restaurant closures?  The lock-down?  Dr. Fasci?  Trump out of office?  The vaccine?”

     “Nope, none of those things,” replied Madam Jane.  “None of those things helped at all.  We coulda stopped the COVID epidemic with just soap, water, Kleenex and whole bunch of vitamin D.”  You’re kidding, right?

     “Not at all.  What really stopped this whole epidemic was that too many people finally got extremely pissed off.”  Oh.

     “Too many people started losing their homes, losing their businesses, watching their friends on Zoom contemplate suicide, feeling helpless while their children struggled with distance learning, and hating being on house arrest for almost a year when it was only spozed to take weeks to ‘flatten the curve’ — plus reading all those statistics about people dying of cancer and heart attacks because they were too afraid to go to a hospital.”

      But what about all those people who died from COVID?  “Most of them were almost about to die anyway.  COVID has a 99.9% recovery rate and at least three different cures.  So.  Now the epidemic is finally over, basically because Americans simply got tired of being afraid — and got pissed off instead.”

      And Madam Jane knows all this how?

     “From my crystal ball, of course.”  And then she looked into her ball again.  “Humm.  I can see a whole bunch of other stuff here — probably nothing that you want to know.”  Try me.

“Well.  The World Economic Forum, better known as the Davos Boyz, just met with that other old-boys’ club the Federal Reserve and with the president of China and Bill Gates and Dr. Fasci and Joe Biden.  They had originally thought that scaring Americans into giving up their freedom, their rights, their jobs, their children’s futures, their property and their moolah was gonna be a walk in the park.”  They did have a point there.  Americans do love them some brainwashing.  Just look at that sorry-arse “war” on Iraq.

     “But then all those pesky indie websites,” said Madam Jane, “just kept popping up with ‘misinformation’.  FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube and Google kept playing whack-a-mole with them but it was still no use.  Alison McDowell and Del Bigtree and Whitney Webb and Robert Kennedy Jr just kept on popping back up.  And when The Highwire showed up on Roku, the Davos Boyz finally realized that their evil scheme had been thwarted.  For now.”

      Uh, what exactly does she mean by “for now”?

“The Darth Vaders and Voldemorts and Gollums of this world are only biding their time.  Mark my words!  They will try this whole mess again in a few years.  Maybe another plague.  Maybe another so-called war.  Hell, maybe even an alien invasion from outer space.  Not really sure.  My crystal ball has just clouded up.  But whatever they try to scare us with next, they will never stop until….”  Until what!?!?!

       But Madam Jane had clammed up.