Reaping Freedom's Fruit

 CHINA RECENTLY RECORDED its first Covid 19 death in eight months -eight months. Here in the United States of Arrogance the carnage has reached four thousand dead per day, with half a million total Covid dead in sight by the end of February. "Arrogance" replaces "America" because arrogance is what has killing hundreds of thousands of Americans needlessly. Incoming President Joe Biden, ever the good tax and spend Democrat, plans to spend our way out of the pandemic, which is all well and good. After all, we need more testing, more people, more vaccines, and so forth. Outgoing reprobate Trump failed to do enough of any of that, failed  to do anything other than nothing. He told us to drink bleach and not to wear masks, but that's about it. But the real problem are we, the American people, and our smug, self satisfied, arrogant culture. Remember those Memorial Day lake parties? all the water skiing and bikini togetherness? Wasn't that fun? Then too, remember the fourth of July, and our star spangled group activities? Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, all the family and friend togetherness, the drinking and breathing sans masks. the virus is something that other people get, not me. Its a liberal hoax.Real Americans don't wear masks and don't compromise their freedom. Ah, that wonderful half a million man and woman motor cycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, back in August. S fun, so dismissive of impending death, so arrogant. Now the bill has come due, and its time to pay the piper, the grim reaper. Was it all worth it? The Chinese may be sneaky little bastards, stealing our  precious intellectual property and cheap laboring us out of business and all, but give credit where credit is due; they know when to stay home. When their government tells them to stay home, they stay home. They don't have to stay home. If a billion Chinese decided to defy their government and get out and party, no power in "Peking" or Earth or heaven could stop them, not even their authoritarian government. but the Chinese people, lacking arrogance and the determination to show their freedom and individual power have the good sense to know when to postpone the fun and partying till later, and stay home. They know when to respond to reasonable authority and good advice, instead of yelling about freedom and government tyranny, and acting like independent idiots, impervious to deadly viruses. If only we the American people had a little more common sense and humility, and a little bit less freedom and arrogance.