As Gerald Celente long has been saying, “When all else fails, they take you to war.”
Aside from having lost every war politicians launched since the end of World War II, all of the other wars the U.S. has started, military and otherwise, continue unabated.
How is the “War on Cancer,” launched in 1971, going? According to the CDC, “Between 2010 and 2020, we expect the number of new cancer cases in the United States to go up about 24 percent in men to more than 1 million cases per year, and by about 21 percent in women to more than 900,000 cases per year.”
How is the “War on Drugs,” which also began in 1971, going? Another loser. According to the CDC, there are 31.9 million Americans aged 12 or older using illicit drugs. And, the rate of drug overdose deaths from cocaine more than tripled between 2012 and 2018. In 2018, some 70,000 people died from drug overdoses.
No Fun Allowed
And now, despite clear CDC data that people aged 15-24 have very little chance of being adversely affected by COVID-19 and they represent less than 0.2 percent of the total virus deaths, “Colleges Wage War on Parties to Keep Campuses Open,” according to a 23 August article in The New York Times.
Going away from home, letting loose, falling in love, stretching the rules, and having fun is now officially forbidden. Now, going to school is only about getting a degree. You go there to learn about courses and obey the rules… not about growing up, not about life.
The problems with reopening higher education in America, according to the Times article, are that “on-campus restrictions are being undermined by off-campus partying. Student codes of conduct are being signed and promptly forgotten.”
At this time, the new, strict rules include no partying and mandated mask-wearing in all public spaces.
Party Problems
Officials at the University of California at Berkeley said there were 47 new COVID-19 cases due to parties. Without scientific data that infections increased because of the parties, absent in the coverage is that college-age people are among the least vulnerable from being affected by the virus.
And, the reality of the number is that just 47 students out of 30,853, or 0.15 percent, tested positive. The claim college “authorities” make that students will spread the virus to others is, according to an 11 July Washington Post article, not the case since “documented cases of younger students transmitting the virus to their classmates or to adults so far appear rare.”
Across the country, colleges are insisting students do their school work and not party:
- “Penn State students party outside freshman dorms, flout coronavirus safety rules, during move-in week,” was the 20 August Philadelphia Inquirer
- Syracuse University called 23 students “selfish and reckless” and put them on “interim suspension” for breaking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s edict that forces certain out-of-state students to quarantine for two weeks. To date, over 100 college students have been suspended from New York State for “illicit partying.”
- Drake University banned 14 students for two weeks for breaking the “no-party” rule.
- “Mask-less Student Gatherings Mar Return as More Georgia Colleges Begin This Week,” blared the 17 August Atlanta Journal-Constitution They reported the college “was disappointed after a video showed what appeared to be several hundred students partying in an off-campus apartment complex.”
- Purdue University suspended 36 students on 20 August because they were having a party.
- The University of Texas officially banned all parties both on campus and off, claiming it “puts the health and safety of our community at risk and raise anxiety levels.”
TRENDPOST: Beyond the ban on parties, sex is also off limits during the COVID War. As reported in the 30 August New York Times, “Excessive risky behavior (partying, casual sex, the inevitable let-your-mask-down moments) that leads to a rise in new cases might cause campuses to close.”