Whenever a politician tells you that you have to accept “the new normal,” hold on to your wallet and prepare for another assault on your constitutional rights.  It’s nothing new.  We’ve heard that crap before.  “The good old days are gone.  We’ll never be what we were before.”  Go back to 1979, and Jimmy Carter’s depressing “malaise” speech, “We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.  The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.”  Carter was talking about the energy crisis, but we’ve gotten the same sad message from others – “America’s best days are behind us.”  The Bushes and Il Duce Obama sang that song about globalization.  “America can’t lead the world, we’re just one part of it.”  We had to accept the “new normal.”  President Trump proved them wrong.  In so many ways, screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet on this subject.  In Network, Arthur Jensen lectures Howard Beale, “There are no nations; there are no peoples.  There is no America.  There is no democracy.  There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.  Those are the nations of the world today.  The world is a business, Mr. Beale.  Our children will live to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality – one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock – all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”  In the 45 years since that was written, it’s only gotten worse.  The latest call for acceptance of a new normal springs from governments’ reaction to the Wuhan virus.  “You might have had a good time before, attending sporting events and plays, and going to restaurants, but it’s all over now.  Get ready for the new normal.”  Let me make this perfectly clear.  There is no such thing as a “new normal.”  There is only normal and abnormal.  Sadly, that’s a heretical view at present.  Drastic action is necessary.  Your rights will just have to suffer.  California’s Governor Newsome has said there will be no public sporting events until 2021.  According to a group of Harvard disease “experts,” social distancing restrictions may remain in place in the US until 2022 to prevent outbreaks of the virus.  The new normal, right?  Wrong!  Here in the People’s Republic of New Jersey, there’s no end in sight for our lock down, but don’t lose sight of the reason for the restrictions.  The point wasn’t to have everyone hide out till the virus went away, but to “flatten the curve.”  On March 11, Dr. Fauci told us, “If you look at the curves of outbreaks, they go big peaks, and then come down.  What we need to do is flatten that down.”  It was all about hospital capacity.  Dr. Michael Mina, “It’s really all borne out of the risk of our health care infrastructure pulling apart at the seams if the virus spreads too quickly and too many people start showing up at the emergency room at any given time.”  Well, if that was the reason for the restrictions, mission accomplished.  24% of the counties in America never had a virus problem.  More than half the deaths to date are in NY and NJ, and even there, the hospital crisis has subsided.  But “experts” want more restrictions, and ghoulish Democrats actually want more deaths and economic disruption for the sole purpose of ridding themselves of Donald Trump.  But put politics aside.  Why should we rely on medical experts who have been wrong every step of the way?  The death rate models were wrong.  The experts assured us extreme social distancing was required, and the same experts assure us we turned the corner on the virus only because of the lock downs.  Maybe they’re right.  And maybe not.  Sweden, that utopian society that socialists keep telling us to emulate, did not order extreme social distancing and did not close schools, bars and businesses.  The result?  The death rate in Sweden is lower than that in other countries that did lock down, such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, U.K, France, Spain and Italy.  Belgium closed everything, and its death rate is three times that in Sweden.  The same is true in Singapore and Taiwan, where there were no closures.  Why?  An Israeli mathematics professor, Isaac Ben-Israel, may have the answer.  His statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of the virus peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.  The professor believes that, while social distancing was beneficial, destroying the world’s economy was unnecessary.  Ben-Israel’s being bashed, of course.  “Why, he not a even a doctor!”  Of course, neither is the head of the WHO a doctor, and they still listen to that corrupt imbecile.  I have no idea whether the professor is right, but you can’t argue with his statistical findings.  His model of a 40 day spread, and then a decline mirrors the experience in every country.  The NY experience is no exception.  The first confirmed case of the Wuhan virus in NY was a woman returning from Iran on March 1.  The New Rochelle outbreak started two days later.  Roll ahead 40 days, and the peak for hospitalizations came on April 8.  The first confirmed case in the US was in Washington State on January 19.  Give it a week or so to spread, and 70 days later (April) Washington is far down the list of hot spots.  We can only hope that the professor is right, and let’s face it, he’s got as much a chance of being right as the medical experts.  At least his numbers add up.  We flattened the curve, and now it’s time to sharpen the truth.  Reject the calls for a new abnormal.  Insist on the old normal.  You’re entitled to nothing less.