Historical facts are a cruel mistress when it comes to dealing with reality and events as they happened, not as we would want them to have.

In December 2020, because the COVID-19 pandemic complicated shipping efforts, there were massive delays in both international shipping and domestic package deliveries by the major distributers of such things like the US Post Office and companies like FedEx and UPS further

Things seemed so bad that as Christmas approached, Fox News reported that,

“Just days before the holiday, both public and private shippers are experiencing major delays, in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic. Increased demand during the holiday rush amid an unprecedented economic crisis while the government is entrusting companies with life-saving vaccine deliveries has led to a maelstrom of errors.”

Perhaps a brief moment of lucidity with Fox reporting the truth without the twist.

Adding places of business slowed down or even closed, workers getting sick and dying, the general practice of social distancing and quarantining, and with a suspicious USPS slow down at the behest of the head postal guy, Dejoy, to the dependence on online shopping as opposed to going to the stores and bringing packages home, the usual difficulties of holiday delivery was exacerbated.

It was really no one person’s fault, but, rather, an ever-broadening circle of events.

Some Christmas 2020 packages did not arrive until February 2021.

I finally got a package in April 2021 that I had ordered in fall 2020. It was annoying, but, unless I swam out to the ship, or flew to China to retrieve the package myself, I just had to accept the inconvenience.

There had been some delays in the three previous years, 2019, 2018, and 2017, but major or minor, these were delays in holiday deliveries.

UPS and FedEx issued apologies in 2013 for delayed deliveries that did not arrive in time for the big day.

In a recent presidential campaign and continuing with an attempted, post-impeachment reelection, we had been told by one candidate that if he got elected, people would be able to say “Merry Christmas” again, and upon his election declared success as during his first Christmas Season, like with all previous Christmases, people were continuing saying it without objection. He claimed a win post facto, and sine veritas

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We were saved from a threat that did not exist and did not materialize, so the former president’s claim seemed true to his adherents who see a War on Christmas every year when no such war exists. They seem to need to get all worked up about nothing just to have something to complain about.

Right now, there may be so many ships off the coast of Southern California it looks like the 405 has flooded, but delayed packages not arriving at Christmas is still an unfulfilled happening. Packages will only be delayed if they do not arrive by Christmas, so with two months left and actions being taken in the ports of L.A. and Long Beach stating there is a delay is a little alarmist, political, and premature

The two major shipping companies outside the United States Postal Service, FedEx and UPS, have stated that with mitigating steps being taken packages will arrive on time for Christmas, provided you do not place orders to close to Christmas, December 15 being their cut-off date if you expect on-time delivery.

But windmills must be created if Don Quixote is to fight what is not really there.

To this end, the creation of a threat so that fiction can be dealt with while reality that should be addressed is ignored is needed, so, while claiming that the CDC under President Biden is going to steal closing Christmas by possibly imposing travel restrictions, the GOP ignores that in December 2020, the CDC under Trump actually did the horrible thing that the GOP now claims the present CDC might do.

U.S. Rep. Jim our locker room has showers? Jordan has fired his first shot in the War on Christmas’s annual appearance by tweeting,

“Christmas presents were never late when President Trump was in charge.”

I offer a quote from the GOP’s Grinch, Dr. Anthony Fauci, That applies just as strongly in this case as it had in the original,

” You do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about.”

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