If some of you have had doubts about whether the Government has any idea what it’s doing generally, and specifically about what it’s doing to us, let me set your minds at ease.  I worked for the Government for many years, and, as a lawyer, I’m forced to jump through a number of Government hoops simply to be permitted to work for a living. Understand, I’m a single practitioner.  I work alone, no other lawyers, and no staff.  Despite that, because I do work for the Public Defender, I have to fill out five pages of forms, and pay a $150 fee, so that I can report to a NJ agency the gender, race and ethnicity of all employees I hired or fired in the past seven years.  Ah, zero.  Also, periodically, I must swear that I am not doing business in Northern Ireland or Iran.  I’m not.  The Government pays people your money to compile this information.  And sadly, these people are among the most useful employees on the payroll.  So, rest easy, I can state categorically that the Government is incapable of finding its own ass, using both hands, even if you spot them the left cheek.  But, you may protest, that can’t be true for Government scientists.  Surely, highly trained doctors must know what they’re talking about, even if they work for the Government.  I’m afraid not.  The Wuhan, or Covid pandemic, if you will, has proven that the professionals running the CDC are either inept, or they’re just as corrupt as the rest of the Government.  Remember the rationale for the Covid lockdowns, distancing and masking requirements?  15 days to curb the spread, then 30 days, then months, and now more than a year.  We complied.  Then it was, wait for the vaccine.  We thought that was crazy, but we complied.  Now, more than 143 million Americans have been vaccinated.  Among the unvaccinated, it’s estimated that half of those have already had the virus, making them immune.  Daily new cases are down more than 80% and deaths are down nearly 90%, so it must be time to loosen up the restrictions, right?  Well, yes and no.  Take masks, for example.  What a difference a year makes.  Pre-Wuhan, when you went in a bank, you were required to remove any face coverings, even sunglasses, or no admittance.  Now, you can’t get in without a face covering.  But it’s “the science,” right?  Afraid not.  There’s no science supporting universal masking.  Dr. Jim Meehan, a surgeon and editor of a medical journal says the premise that surgeons wearing masks proves that “masks must work to prevent viral transmission” is false.  Surgical and cloth masks do nothing to prevent viral transmission.  He’s right, even N-95 masks admit particles 10 times larger than the Wuhan virus.  So the Jesse James, “this is a stickup” bandanas are just a cruel joke.  Back to the CDC. On April 1, CDC Director Walensky announced, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, they don’t get sick.  That’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”  The researchers determined that if you aren’t infected with the virus and are vaccinated, you can’t spread it to others who have not been vaccinated.  So we can lose the useless masks, right?  Not so fast.  Other scientists objected, “If Dr. Walensky had said most vaccinated people do not carry virus, we would not be having this discussion.”  It’s true.  There have been cases of vaccinated people contracting the Wuhan, but just how many? Self magazine, on April 15th, reported, “Out of more than 76 million people in the U.S. who are fully vaccinated, about 5,800 people have gotten COVID-19, which is less than 1%.”  Also true, but “less than 1%” is a bit misleading.  It actually amounts to 0.0076%, or 1 in about  every 1,320 vaccinated people.  Ever win a bet that paid 1,300 to 1?  Last year, if the odds of contracting the Wuhan were 1,300 to 1, would there have been any restrictions?  No.  Indeed, there wouldn’t have been a pandemic, the economy wouldn’t have been shut down, Donald Trump would still be President, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.  But the CDC did what it has been doing throughout this crisis, it panicked and back-pedaled.  Announcing “new guidance” as though she was Lincoln again freeing the slaves, Dr. Walensky generously granted the fully vaccinated permission to attend small, outdoor gatherings with people, or dine at an outdoor restaurant without a mask.  But indoors, even the fully vaccinated must wear the useless masks.  On Thursday, the CDC granted permission for cruises to resume from the U.S., with everyone on board vaccinated.  The announcement included this idiocy, “We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity.” No shit!  Breathing isn’t a zero risk activity, you dolt!  Anyhow, the vaccinated can’t get or transmit the virus, and the CDC’s own research proves there’s no credible threat, even to the unvaccinated, but wear a mask anyway.  Why?  I can’t think of a good reason to continue a practice that serves merely to give a false sense of security to the hysterical among us.  It’s merely theater, witness the idiotic Biden speech to Congressmen, all vaccinated, all 6 feet apart, and all masked.  It’s patriotic?  Bull crap.  As Samuel Johnson noted, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”  Sadly, scoundrels are perpetuating this farce.  The New York Post recently published an opinion piece by three college professors who actually make sense.  Wuhan restrictions have ceased to be about public health, and have become a cult.  This new religion has several commandments.  I –  Thou shalt stay forever locked down.  II – Thou shalt wear a mask.  III – The children shalt suffer most.  The fanatics have stolen more than a year of life and education from the most vulnerable among us.  There was no good reason to close schools, and kids are 10-times more likely to die of suicide than COVID-19.  The truth is that the scientific zealots, aided and abetted by the totalitarian politicians who seek to control us as subjects, rather than treat as the American citizens we’re supposed to be, have from Day One mismanaged this crisis.  And since they now admit even they know the dangers which spawned the draconian restrictions no longer exist, and yet demand we continue them, this goes beyond ineptitude, and must be considered corruption.  As the Post professors wrote, although none of us chose to join this cult, we are “now called upon to participate in its bizarre, cruel, and never-ending liturgies.” I say its time to go all Martin Luther on these bastards.  Let’s nail our masks to the Statehouse doors.  We won’t need 95 Theses, just one.  “We reject your religion and we’re going back to our lives.”  To paraphrase, Thomas Jefferson, “A little heresy every now and then is a good thing.”