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Calamity of So Long Covid

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not talking about more masks ’n’ jabs. I’m talking about a new iteration, a mutation. Not a viral one, but a metamorphosis in terms of what Covid represents to the left.

A transition from disease to identity.

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So that’s where Covid comes in. A few weeks ago a Florida school principal and dedicated foe of Ron DeSantis died from unspecified causes. The principal, who’d spent the past two years demanding the masking of Florida schoolchildren, had contracted a mild case of Covid back in June 2020. When he croaked two years later, his loved ones blamed DeSantis, because, since the principal once had Covid, surely his death was “long Covid.”

This case was covered in the June 5 Takimag Week That Perished, and a prediction was made: Long Covid is going to be the next “victim cred” identity vehicle.

And wouldn’t you know it, the very next day, June 6, there was WaPo with a front-page piece about how long Covid is the next “victim cred” identity vehicle. Long Covid is “a mass-disabling event that experts liken to HIV, polio or World War II,” an “entirely new identity” for the “newly-disabled” (they call themselves “Covid long-haulers”) who are banding together to seek “justice” and “confront structural inequalities.”

read it: https://www.takimag.com/article/calamity-of-so-long-covid/