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By Andrea Widburg<\/strong><\/p>\n One fascinating thing about COVID-19 is how it’s turned every leftist theory and belief system upside-down. All the things leftists have advocated have only made us more vulnerable to epidemic disease. Now, in a supreme irony, there’s a possibility that one of the things they most hate \u2014 tobacco \u2014 will ride to the rescue.<\/p>\n COVID-19, in many ways, may prove to be the undoing of leftism. Here’s a short list of all the leftist ideas that are taking a beating thanks to the pandemic:<\/p>\n Globalism<\/strong>: It turns out that interconnectedness is dangerous and that international organizations, such as the WHO, are intellectually corrupt and in thrall to totalitarian governments.<\/p>\n Open Borders<\/strong>: Countries around the world, including those within the European Schengen zone<\/a>, are slamming their borders shut. Even Mexico wants a working border<\/a> with the United States.<\/p>\n Global Warming<\/strong>: The virus seems vulnerable to warmer, wetter climates<\/a>, which is what we’d have more of if global warming<\/a> were actually a thing.<\/p>\n Urbanization<\/strong>: Contrary to the leftist desire to pack people into cities (ostensibly to beat climate change but, in fact, to increase population control), dense urban areas are Petri dishes for COVID-19.<\/p>\n Public Transportation<\/strong>: For decades, the left has waged war against the comfort and convenience of cars because cars are not green. Cars may not be green, but they are clean, unlike public transportation, AKA a Petri dish on wheels.<\/p>\n Re-usable Bags<\/strong>: I’ve long called them Salmonella Sacks because using them drastically increases the spread of E. coli and salmonella. It turns out that the plastic bags that leftist governments all over America are banning (because Africa and Asia put them into rivers and oceans) are safer in pandemics.<\/p>\n China<\/strong>: Democrats screamed when Trump tried to decrease our dependence on China. He was correct to do so. Not only did China’s Belt and Road project seed COVID-19 all over the world, but China’s also sitting on most of the world’s drug manufacturing. Yikes!<\/p>\n Reality may shatter another leftist shibboleth. The left has been waging war on tobacco for a long time. Before I go farther with this, let me say that I think smoking or chewing tobacco is a health risk because the connection between cancer and heart disease is too strong to deny. I also hate the smell, so I bitterly resent being on the receiving end of secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n However, the left’s war on cancer is so vicious that it goes after vaping and e-cigarettes, which should fall squarely in the camp of letting people make their own decisions. Also, leftists are hypocritical because of their unwavering support for marijuana, which, when smoked<\/a>, also causes lung damage.<\/p>\n Given their fanatic hatred for tobacco, leftists are likely to find horrifying the thought that Big Tobacco claims to have found within the tobacco leaf a vaccine for COVID-19<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read the rest here: American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"