Wondering what “emergency” would be cooked up to undermine the integrity of the 2024, election, as was done to the 2020 election? Another upsurge of Covid, perhaps? No, that case of crying “Wolf!” appears to have lost its urgency. Or perhaps the new sexually transmitted fungal infection? That might be scary enough.

No, it appears that bird flu is the new health scare du jour. They even resurrected the scarf lady, Dr. Deborah Birx. You remember her, the slightly less fascistic pal of Dr. Fauci. We are told to test cattle weekly. They would like to enforce masking and six-foot distancing as well, but the cattle seem reluctant to comply. We acted like cattle, but actual cattle are more independent. Something to think about.

Maybe now we can go back to millions of insecure mail-in ballots, insecure drop boxes for ballots from unidentified persons, and armloads of insecure ballots unloaded from car trunks in the middle of the night. You know, the good old days of 2020. We used to know the result by election-day evening. Now we know the result before the election. This is called progress.