As Predictable As A Sunrise

Prior to September's recall election I often commented that if Newsollini won, Californians would have to be punished for their insolence.  And right on cue:

The State of California is reimposing an indoor mask mandate that will apply to everyone, whether vaccinated or not.

California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced the updated policy Monday, citing an increase in COVID-19 cases in the state since the Thanksgiving holiday...

The new mask mandate is set to take effect on Wednesday and will expire on Jan. 15. It will apply to everyone, regardless of vaccination status.

The news comes as the omicron variant has officially spread to the state, with California reporting 18 cases of the variant as of Friday.

To date, there has not been a single death anywhere on the planet that has been ascribed to the dreaded omicron variant.

For lefties this is all about control, and probably a justification to have more fraudulent mail-in voting in next November's elections.  Some people say that "the fear won't monger itself", but is it really fearmongering at this point, or just naked assertion of power?

Update:  Jibes with what I encountered last summer:

Matthew Walther, editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal and a contributing editor at The American Conservative, penned an article for the liberal Atlantic magazine stating what should be a truism but is actually a shock to the liberal intelligentsia and opinion molders and makers on the coasts.

Nobody really gives a rat’s patootie about COVID...

In my drive through 8 states last summer on my 30-day road trip, I wore a mask only once--on "public transit", a gondola to a mountaintop.  Somehow I survived, and encountered no bodies out in the streets.  "Bring out your dead!"--Monty Python could update the skit.

Update #2:  Even in The Atlantic of all places:

I don’t know how to put this in a way that will not make me sound flippant: No one cares. Literally speaking, I know that isn’t true, because if it were, the articles wouldn’t be commissioned. But outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over, and they have been for a long while.

What ticks off the lefties more than anything is not taking them (or their psychoses) seriously.  I enjoy doing that.