Dr. Jill Has A Cold
One of the best magazine stories ever written - heck, the absolute best - was a 1966 Esquire profile of Frank Sinatra by Gay Talese.
The headline: “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold.”
Sinatra had repeatedly turned down Esquire’s requests for interviews. For years. The magazine was determined to run a profile of Sinatra as he was about to turn 50. Reluctantly, the reticent singer agreed in 1965 to sit down with former New York Times journalist Gay Talese, but at the last minute, Sinatra cancelled.
He had a cold.
That didn’t deter Talese who spent the next several months zigzagging around the country, dogging Sinatra and interviewing everyone in the ailing singer’s orbit.
Talese never got the Sinatra sit-down. Nevertheless, his profile of Frank Sinatra is a masterpiece.
Here’s an excerpt. The rest is hidden behind Esquire’s paywall:
Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence, and it affects not only his own psyche but also seems to cause a kind of psychosomatic nasal drip within dozens of people who work for him, drink with him, love him, depend on him for their own welfare and stability. A Sinatra with a cold can, in a small way, send vibrations through the entertainment industry and beyond as surely as a President of the United States, suddenly sick, can shake the national economy.
I was thinking about this story yesterday when news hit that - wait for it- Dr. Jill has covid. With very “mild symptoms.”
In other words, she has a cold.
At the risk of sounding heartless, who cares? Why is this news?
Jill Biden has covid. Sending best wishes and congratulations on the first positive development of this administration.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) September 5, 2023
Just as Sinatra weaponized his cold, I fear the Bidens and the rest of the covid crazies will be weaponizing hers.
Seriously.
Is this where we are again: Testing, masking and isolating every time someone gets the sniffles? Making grand announcements when some famous hypochondriac swabs his or her runny nostrils and gets a positive test for a virus that has devolved into a nuisance rather than a serious threat?
Will American sheep be back to wearing masks that don’t work simply to virtue signal that they “take covid seriously”?
My prediction: The covid pimps are going to have a harder time forcing sane Americans to comply with their fascist rules this time around.
Naturally, they’ll start with the children. They always do.
A DC area elementary school — Montgomery County, Maryland — is reinstating a mask mandate — N95’s — for third graders over a few kids testing positive for covid. Here’s the letter. They’re coming with masks for your kids again. Get ready. Read this insanity. pic.twitter.com/LZs4N19XLL
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 5, 2023
Yep, Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Maryland is forcing 3rd graders to wear masks to school because a couple of kids have colds.
Any Montgomery County parent who can keep their child home should do so until school administrators stop acting like hysterics.
They’re just testing the water, folks. If parents meekly accept this, these nonsensical mandates will be springing up everywhere.
Doesn’t the Bible say something about what should happen to those who hurt children? Millstones and the sea, if memory serves.
Shoot, even Anthony Fauci was forced to admit that masks don’t work. Listen to the Kamala-Harris-quality gibberish Fauci spews when CNN’s Michael Smerconish corners him with the most authoritative large-scale randomized study ever conducted on masks that conclusively shows that even N-95s don’t keep airborne respiratory diseases from spreading:
The science won’t stop them. They want fear and obedience. The Biden administration and its acolytes in the media are desperately trying to make covid a thing again.
Why not. There’s an election coming.
And, lucky for them, Dr. Jill has a cold.
