A COVID memoir
Americans are older, wiser, and still very, very angry.
Mike McDaniel | June 7, 2026
I was recently reminiscing about the COVID hoax. Not the virus; that was real. The hysteria surrounding it, which we now know to have been lies, and a power grab. Public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and politicians got to see how many Americans would put up with near-total infringement on their rights, and really, really didn’t want to give up their power. What they eventually discovered was: Americans hate them, won’t ever be fooled like that again, and absolutely distrust public health bureaucrats. They’ve always distrusted government.
That knowledge came hard and took time:
Yeah. We now know it’s shame on anyone believing that lying, malignant troll and his defenders.
COVID hit during the final year of my teaching career. My school shut down after Spring break. We pretended to teach via “distance learning,” and kids pretended to learn, and they all passed. I never saw 99% of them again.
We flew from Texas to Wyoming to make arrangements for the home we were buying. On the regional jet last leg, we were among only three passengers, and everyone took off their masks and relaxed.
We U-Hauled from Texas to Wyoming. Most quick shops required employees to wear masks, but they largely ignored the hysteria and didn’t mask Nazi us. McDonald’s restaurants, and a few other fast-food chains, were about the only places to eat, and they required masks and six-foot distancing and served, slowly, only with paper bags delivered at arm’s length. Drive-throughs were closed.
I got COVID but missed most symptoms except fatigue. My wife, seven years older, was hit harder and ended up in the hospital for a few days with blood clots in her lungs due to forced inactivity. When I escorted her to her hospital room, the masked nurse pulled her mask down and announced we could unmask in the room, but not the hallways, to which I quipped: “So, viruses only propagate in hallways, but not rooms?” Initially startled, she laughed for five minutes.
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