
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For months, the American people have been longing for a return to normal. ; But is that going to happen? ; Is it even possible?</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While we all talk about a return to normal, there is evolving two different definitions. ; Folks like me hope that we go back to the way we were – no masks, crowded ballparks, kids sitting next to each other in classrooms, and lots of handshakes and hugs. ; And especially the end of the <a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/dr-birx-claims-covid-19-deaths-were-avoidable-but-how/">persistent warnings</a> and death toll tallies. ; That is our definition of normal. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But there are those who foresee – and hope for – a modified normal. ; As a continuation of an over abundance of caution, they see some of the protective measures as permanent features of our post-Covid life. ; They see modified social distancing and mask wearing as a way to reduce the spread of almost any other communicable disease – the seasonal flu or the common cold.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe school kids will never be able to sit near each other in class or an auditorium. ; After all, schools are one of the primary spreaders of head lice.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Methinks that our chance of a return to a normal normal will be thwarted by the big government political left. ; In other words, the Democrats and the Washington Bureaucrats &#8212; who are virtually all left-wing Democrats.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The medical bureaucracy has had the taste of power and access to money due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ; It is not something they will surrender easily. ; Atop that medical bureaucracy sits Dr. Andrew Fauci, who – at $400,000+ per year – has the highest salary of any bureaucrat in the country.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The pandemic has enabled the medical component of the big-government crowd to spend trillions of dollars on new projects, government contracts and personnel. ; Yes, their need for money in their budgets will decline as the crisis passes. ; But – in Washington – that does not mean that they will acquiesce to a shrinkage back to pre-pandemic levels.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We will be told of the essential need to underwrite – in the form of grants – all sorts of medical protective measures. ; Schools will need continuing funds of on-campus medical personnel – and funds to expand the physical size of classrooms.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">County health department will need billions of dollars of “expanded service.” ; Hospitals will need money to increase the beds in their IC units.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Democrat operative Rahm Emanuel presciently said that in politics you never let a crisis go to waste. ; And we can already see how Democrats have used the so-called “Covid Relief” bills to pack that Trojan Horse with trillions of dollars of unrelated pork-barrel spending.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The medical bureaucrats see the Covid crisis as a gift that can keep on giving. ; They gained a motherlode of power and money from the pandemic. ; Now the game is to see how little they will be forced to relinquish by the adults in Congress. ; If history is instructive, it will not be much.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ‘tis.</p>

Will Bureaucrats Let Us Return to Normal?
