Gayle King’s Quarantine Suggestion on CBS Reveals the Real COVID Divide – Opinion

The pandemic is at an end.

We have vaccines that, while they don’t eliminate the virus, provide some measure of protection from the more serious complications of COVID-19. There are therapeutics. We have a wealth of knowledge we didn’t have in the beginning of this mess. We have masks, we have (useless) ongoing bureaucratic mitigation efforts…the list goes on and on. As prepared as any society to confront a pandemic, we are almost as ready as anyone. With over two years behind us, it’s time to move on from this constant state of panic and accept that we now need to learn to live with COVID instead of focusing on dying from COVID.

The virus is not the problem, it’s what the virus has shown us about ourselves.

Our biggest battle right now is an “us vs. them” battle and it’s playing out on national television every day, right in front of our very eyes. We see daily reports about the partying, travel, and vacationing of members of the political elite. that maskless hellhole ruled by Literally Hitler™Florida is ignoring mandates from their states. We’ve seen the mayor of Washington, D.C., institute mask mandates and then head out to party with maskless friends. We’ve seen the mayor of Austin demand people stay home and distanced for Thanksgiving, even though he was recording the message from a Mexican resort where he was attending a wedding celebration. And of course, we can never forget – we should never forget – the infamous French Laundry incident with California Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom has also extended the “state of emergency” in California (moving into the state’s third straight year of one-man rule) yet again, even as he’s on a book tour across the country and even as California is set to host the Super Bowl in Los Angeles.

Meetings at places such as the G20 Summit have seen leaders of the world shake hands, dance and party while they criticize their citizens for not allowing them to spend time with family and friends. Celebrities were seen at red carpet events and took to social media to shame us all who support schools and businesses.

Even in areas where it is allowed for people to remove them, employees are required to still wear masks. It is quite disturbing to observe the powerful and wealthy living their best lives, their faces open and having the time and joy of their lives, while the servants are kept anonymous and muzzled. Hollywood was once known for making movies on this kind of thing. Now they are the distributors. This is a deliberate attempt to cement class distinctions in a country founded upon the belief that class status can be fluid and malleable.

Let’s take Ms. Gayle Kings of CBS Morning News. King was interviewing a guest recently about – what else – quarantining and safety during the Omicron surge. During the segment, she told a TOTALLY RELATABLE™ and DOWN-TO-EARTH™ story about how her daughter recently gave birth and is planning on renting an AirBnB for potential nannies to quarantine at before they come to into the home.

Bryan, how has Omicron changed your life? Because my favorite daughter Kirby just had a little baby and she’s looking for childcare and one of the things that she told me last night is they’re going to look for Airbnb to quarantine someone before they bring them into the house because Omicron is so off the charts. I actually thought that’s a really great idea.

I’m not one to criticize any new parent when it comes to what they’re willing to risk with a newborn. It was hard to remember how it felt at first. You wake up every few minutes to make sure your baby is breathing. I can’t say that I wouldn’t be equally paranoid about COVID, even if the risk to children is minimal. King’s daughter is obviously extremely affluent and can throw money at the problem.

And that’s my point. They live in comfortable, luxurious bubbles. King seemed so casual when it came to the idea of renting an AirBnB for quarantine purposes. As if it’s nothing, as if it’s free. That is her equivalent of what she would find in the sofa change. In the real world, the idea of renting a home for a week to 14 days every time someone wants to come over is a bit…out of reach.

It shouldn’t surprise us. These are the same clueless rich people who still think it’s a good idea to shutter business and school for “safety.” While we have to deal with the very real world problems of figuring out how to pay our bills and find care for our children, they continue life as usual behind their gates, or in the luxury suites of exotic resorts in foreign lands. Nothing for them has changed save that they do more work from home – and who doesn’t like that?

These people project their bourgeois attitudes onto us and shame us for not being able to keep ourselves safe for many years without consequences.

King’s brief exchange on this matter lights up the dark corners of the social justice crowd. This is just lip service. For most people, King included, it’s not even nefarious. It’s simply ignorance. Gayle King is a long-time beneficiary of privilege and she now lives in a bubble on the coast. She cannot understand how her audience lives modestly paycheck to paycheck. The idea of shelling out thousands of dollars to quarantine visitors on the tail end of this pandemic rolled off her tongue so easily, one wonders if there’s any hope of her ever really getting it; and that’s a problem when it is the upper and political classes controlling the conversation at this point.

The pandemic does not have anything to do with our health. This is the American bourgeoisie’s rise. They want to take over the world and make the rest of us pay.

CBS’s Gayle King says it would be “a great idea” if AirBnB was used as a place for people to quarantine *before* staying with family, friends, etc. Because of the omicron.

Problem with that is….WHO has the extra money these days to spend to camp out somewhere so they test negative? pic.twitter.com/dmlTXPxNKt

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2022