Letters

It’s comforting to know that there is a vaccine ready for distribution before the end of the year, despite being previously trashed by the media as another Trumpian myth that was unlikely attainable before the following spring. Then, only days after the election, we have sudden fast-tracked approval of this lifesaving serum.

The question now arises: What of those who remain skeptical of the vaccine and are unwilling to be vaccinated and become potential guinea pigs? With the incoming new administration that has vowed to listen to the experts, we can rest assured this will quite likely become a mandatory vaccination, with total disregard to your personal freedoms.

We have a compliant public lapping up every morsel of the dystopian world awaiting us that the media propaganda machine can shovel our way. Our citizens will be gratefully herded, like H.G. Wells’s Eloi, to the awaiting Morlock’s subterranean world.

Once again, science fiction presages reality. The experts have our backs and, in the words of the revered Dr. Anthony Fauci, “Now is the time to do what you’re told.”

Coming soon: Big Brother and a mandatory app to track unvaccinated skeptics, so contact tracers can monitor their every move. Apps that will notify you if it is safe to walk out of your home and legally engage with society until this pandemic crisis has passed. A “Brave New World” — listen to those experts.

It’s comforting to know that Attorney General William Barr did not find sufficient evidence of widespread voter fraud that was enough to alter the outcome of the election without interviewing a single witness that had sworn under oath that they saw crimes committed, nor was there an investigation of substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud brought by front-line workers.

Consider this: November 4 at 1 a.m. East Coast time, Trump had approximately a 16-point lead in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs were late to report. By 7 a.m., Trump’s lead had grown from 550,000 votes to 700,000 votes. By 10 a.m., that lead dropped to 590,000. And by 2:35 p.m., over a million ballots still remained to be counted, but statewide counts found that a whopping 78 percent were now going to Biden. Simply amazing!

In 2005, Jimmy Carter co-chaired a bipartisan report on the Commission on Federal Election Reform that concluded at the time: “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”

What Barr did not say was that there was no evidence of voter fraud, only that it was not in sufficient amount to change the outcome of the election.

Now we can all rest easy knowing we are not yet descended down the path of another banana republic. That is comforting to know.

John Porta

Westhampton