Our New Normal Is Not Normal or Even Necessary

Darrell Castle talks about what the journalists and “experts” describe as the new normal that we are all just going to have to get used to. Transcription/Notes: NEW NORMAL IS NOT NORMAL OR EVEN NECESSARY Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday May 29, 2020 and on this Report I will be talking about what the journalists and “experts” offer us as the new normal that we are just going to have to get used to. Today would be day 70 of house arrest for the Castle family or 10 full weeks without outside human contact, but we are free now having gone back to our Law Office on Tuesday of this week. The family daughter remains marooned on a small island at the bottom of the world but at least she is free of the virus. The return to the office with all my staff has been uneventful so far. The staff voiced no concern or fear at coming out of their homes and into the world. So right now, I have my staff back and all I need are the clients back and we will be at least approaching a state that we once referred to as normal. Sixty-Six days of quarantine which Joan and I faithfully adhered to finally comes to an end as eventually all things do. Strangely, although normal obviously varies from person to person, there are some who believe they know what the future normal will be for all of us and they are not shy about telling us. My hometown newspaper published a long article last Sunday entitled “Our New Normal. “In that article, the writer makes many statements which I presume she believes to be factual and she assumes that her readers will believe them to be factual as well. For example, she writes, “The new normal is not just referring to life after the pandemic, for we have no idea when that day will come. Until we get a COVID-19 vaccine, and it has been proved (sic) effective, the highly contagious coronavirus will be a threat to our health and our lives. It will be a part of our daily lives and consciousness. The sooner we accept and realize this fact, the better off we will be as a people and as a nation.” So, she states that we must accept and realize the “fact” that she gives us. Well, Ms. Norment, I beg to differ and I submit that very little of the long article is fact and a great deal of it is simply the opinion of the writer and possibly the editorial board of the Commercial Appeal. She voices the same level of fear bordering on paranoia that I have seen and heard from many people since this has been going on. The interesting part of all this is that even the once alarmist CDC no longer agrees with Ms. Norment about the terrible long term affects of this virus on our daily lives, possibly forever. It doesn’t seem to matter what anyone says, however, because many strong advocates of long-term lockdown, or lockdowners, if I may use that term, hold that view with religious zealotry. They passionately believe that the end justifies the means and that to leave confinement will expose everyone to an apocalyptic scenario. The CDC in its latest report, which was printed in the New York Times, last Sunday edition, now says that many of the things it told us early on about the dangerous effects of the virus turned out to be incorrect. For example, it now seems that that virus is only transmitted by human contact and through close quarters breathing, coughing, sneezing, etc. and not by touching a doorknob, sink, etc. It also said that the virus is almost impossible to transmit outdoors so there is nothing wrong with going to the beach or for a walk or bicycle ride. To enforce rules against such things in light of this new information must be to exhibit some type of totalitarian psychosis. That is my assessment not that of the CDC. How does that statement fit in with the video images we have all seen of Chinese trucks spraying disinfectant up and down Chinese streets, I don’t know? I will admit that it is hard to make sense of anything these days. Perhaps you are one of the true lockdowners who demand that ...