Briefly Noted: Covid Regime Notes

It’s been a slow day for news. Most of what’s being discussed revolves around Ukraine and the crashing poll numbers of the Dem regime.

As far as Ukraine goes, I remain of the opinion that ultimately Russia will get what it wants, whether Zhou redeploys US troops in Europe or not. My suspicion is simply that the rhetoric and possible deployments will make no difference in the real world and are simply being used as cover for what will happen in the end. The American people are being prepared to think that Zhou is somehow and effective, tough leader. The problem with that happy ending for Dems is that the America people are much more interested in issues like inflation. When the war mongering comes to an end they’ll just shrug, say ‘Good’, and ask: What about inflation?—and don’t dare call me a stupid SOB for asking. By the same token we’ve said about all there is to say about the disastrous Dem poll numbers. Things will just have to play out.

Now, as for the Covid Regime.

The news tonight is that a judge in New York has ruled that the governor imposed mandates lack any authority, simply because the legislature’s declared state of emergency has expired. Hochul’s diktats are simply null and void.

You can find some links at CTH, but please be aware—Sundance, as too often, gets thing screwed up in legal matters. He states that “the New York State Supreme Court” issued the ruling. That’s incorrect. New York has some weird nomenclature for their judicial system. The highest court in New York is the Court of Appeals—corresponding to the SCOTUS in the federal system. Below the Court of Appeals is the Appellate Division. The “Supreme Court” is simply the trial court—corresponding to the District Courts in the federal system. In this case, the court that issued this ruling was the New York State Supreme Court for Nassau County. It’s a trial court, despite the high fallutin’ title.

That said, there is some importance to this ruling in political terms and as a measure of the degree to which Americans have become fed up with the Covid Regime. Nassau County is a populous county on Long Island that has voted for Dem presidential candidates ever since Bill Clinton. I’m guessing that the ruling reflects popular sentiment in this important Blue county of New York.

Something similar happened in IL over the weekend. There was an anti-Covid Regime demonstration in Highland Park that garnered quite a bit of local coverage. As in the case of Nassau County, the significance here is that Highland Park is wealthy and very liberal—considered a Dem “stronghold”, as Wikipedia says. Once again, we’re seeing that even in Blue America people are increasingly fed up.

If, as I expect, Zhou will proclaim at his delayed SOU address in March that Covid has been conquered and we should thank him and the Dem party, I don’t expect people across America will—at this point—be overflowing with gratitude. The attitude will be: We knew that long ago. What have you done for us lately. The Dems overplayed their hand with the Covid Regime.