Shutdown Again?

The usual black helicopter sites are reporting with certainty that the feds, specifically the CDC, TSA and Border Patrol, are about to bring back mask mandates, travel restrictions and assorted shutdowns. We'd like to think they're blowing smoke, but check out the headlines here and there in mainstream media outlets:

• Weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen by more than 12% across the country, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a second straight week of this key indicator of the virus climbing. 

  At least 8,035 hospital admissions of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were reported for the week of July 22 nationwide, the CDC said late Monday, up from 7,165 during the week before. 

  Another important hospital metric has also been trending up in recent weeks: an average of 0.92% of the past week's emergency room visits had COVID-19 as of July 28, up from 0.51% through June 28.

  The new figures come after months of largely slowing COVID-19 trends nationwide since the last wave of infections over the winter, and again mark the largest percent increases in these key indicators of the virus since December.

Four-tenths-of-one-percent, and it's getting play over all the airwaves.

And this:

• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in Michigan. 

  "Today we are more prepared than ever to detect and respond to changes in the COVID-19 virus. Scientists are working now to understand more about the newly identified lineage in these 4 cases and we will share more information as it becomes available," CDC spokesperson Kathleen Conley said in a statement to CBS News. 

  Experts say reports of BA.2.86 being spotted in countries on multiple continents — Denmark, Israel, U.K. and U.S. — suggest it is at least capable of transmitting widely and could have been spreading undetected for some time.

As we told everyone (backed by all the scientific research) COVID would eventually infect EVERYONE. Science cannot stop it. And as we told everyone (backed by all of the scientific research) COVID would become more transmissible as time went on....and less deadly, the same as every other virus.

But that isn't going to stop the administration from attempting yet another full scale shut down, a further ruination of the economy and a possibly fatal wounding of the Constitutional protections ignored during the last "pandemic." 

We'd hope Americans would resist this latest tyranny and certainly that the police wouldn't enable it, but we're not optimistic. Last time, Big Tech was going to out us because we didn't follow the approved narrative. We expect more of the same this time around.