'So Good'

Editor:

Being a man of my word, I began packing early the morning after the election (“Top 10 Stories of 2024,” Dec. 26). Sixteen-year-old car, now with sleeping bag and tent, a bag of clothes and some food. Next stop, British Columbia; good-bye Humboldt and the U.S.A.

Walking down a Vancouver street this December, I slipped on the ice and fell, knocking my cranium against a cold hard cement curb. When I awoke, some considerable time later, the nurse looked surprised and said, “I’m glad to see you are smiling!”

I have been smiling ever since, as the blow rearranged some cerebral connections. Now I’m a believer in 2025, and that makes one smile. It was time to drive back to Humboldt.

Within days of the inauguration, the wars will finally be ended. Most relieving is the pronouncement from our Leader that climate change is simply a hoax; I had been quite concerned about fires and floods and high speed winds. Women may have relinquished control of their own bodies, but they still have the vote!

Also there will be no more worry about pandemics. No more vaccinations and masking; they were annoying and inconvenient. We will go for herd immunity, sacrificing the weak and sick and elderly, but thinning the herd is good for the species overall, much like trimming a rose plant.

Millions of felons will be rounded up and sent “away.” Much better than having to jail them here. And tax cuts galore, with 90 percent of the benefits going to corporations and the financially elite oligarch class, just like eight years ago. Never mind that our national budget will be further devastated.

And, of course, please do occupy Mars. Maybe even stay there.

So, clearly, it is all going to be so good. Just watch the weeks unfold and the smiles spread.

Robert Fornes, McKinleyville