Ain't That America?

 So, Ricky Schroder's little trolley has jumped the track. Not that this is news. Ricky's been struggling to keep it on the rails for a couple years now. Ricky has determined that wearing a mask during a global pandemic is tyranny. 

Wait a minute. Back up. Did you say Ricky Schroder? That cute kid from the remake of The Champ? Or the teen who starred in Silver Spoons? How about the nominal hunk from NYPD Blue that wasn't Jimmy Smits? 

Nah. I'm talking about the loopy guy who recently joined the slow convoy to nowhere. The guy who confronted a security guard at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Museum about their mask policy. Various accounts have him "being booted out" while others have him having a "public meltdown," depending on the outlet you might choose to listen. To his credit, Ricky held it together at the museum a lot better than he did at the Costco. He's had a year or so to get his rhetoric together. He asked the guard if he was there to uphold "man's law" and not "God's law." Which didn't try the patience of the nice man at the front gate who chose not to engage with this resident of the "where are they now" file. Ricky then wandered outside to finish his rant by being aghast at the idea that "Nazis" were now in charge of the museum that stands as tribute to the man who defeated the Nazis. His outrage was dutifully recorded and submitted to Ricky's Instagram account, which continues to be viable in spite of all the "big tech fascists" who are out there keeping him down. 

First of all, if these folks that Ricky has encountered are Nazis, they are among the most pleasant and patient Nazis I can imagine. Or maybe he is just overwhelmed, as we all should be, that the worldwide death toll for COVID deaths has just passed six million. Why does that number sound familiar? Perhaps because six million is a round figure used to describe the number of Jews killed by Nazis in the Holocaust. Federal mandates for vaccines and masks have been put in place to limit the number of deaths. Just the opposite of what Nazis did during World War II. 

I'm guessing that General Eisenhower would have been okay with masks. Until the fight against this deadly disease is over. Ricky? He seems a little confused. Someday this global struggle will be over, and Ricky can get back to whatever scary cause he wants to back next. Because that's America, right?