End the ‘hoax’ era

OPINION:

America has witnessed many eras. Is it fair to say we are now in the hoax era?

It appears that we are awash in a sea of deceptions. This may have started when we learned government officials were reporting as COVID-19 deaths passings due to anything from a motorcycle accident to terminal cancer (as long as the person happened to also have COVID-19). Furthermore, we now know that cloth masks are useless in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

The president — who baselessly boasted that his first year was “a year of enormous progress” — engineered a reprehensible debacle in Afghanistan, resulting in the needless killing of 13 military members and numerous others.

We are lectured by a teenage Swedish girl on the cover of Time magazine that we are all doomed because of climate change.

Systemic racism is purported to be destroying our country, yet there is no evidence to back up such a claim.

It has been “discovered” that there are 58 distinct genders.

We are told the southern border is secure — as millions of illegal aliens and drugs invade our country.

A ’mama bear’ testifying at a school board meeting is labeled a domestic terrorist.

We are told that there is no supply-chain crisis when we see with our own eyes that store shelves are empty.

The list goes on. What can be done to end this insanity? It has been said that sunshine is the best disinfectant. Then it is time for all of us wake up and call out these fraudulent activities for what they are — then pray that the hoax era is dumped in the ash heap of history, never to be repeated.

RON PHIPPS

Annapolis