Posted on 08/06/2021 8:22:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
They have found a COVID scapegoat. It is you.
Persuasion to get the COVID vaccines failed with some Americans, as those who seek to persuade – namely government officials and the media – have no credibility. Onto the next step: a collective effort by the press, corporations, and the government to blame and vilify and target the unvaccinated. This is no coincidence, as such efforts help deflect responsibility from those who caused and created this problem in the first place.
In New York City, you will need proof of a COVID vaccine for indoor dining, gyms, and concerts.
If you want to participate in society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated. It’s time.
You’ll need proof of #COVID19 vaccination for indoor dining, indoor gyms, and indoor concerts and performances in New York City. This is a lifesaving mandate to keep our city safe. https://t.co/hIK99Z8M8A — Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 3, 2021
Writing for The Atlantic, Juliette Kayyem (a former Homeland Security official with the Obama Administration) calls for the federal government to institute a “no-fly list for unvaccinated adults.” She desires there to be the establishment of “norms that restrict certain privileges to vaccinated people,” apparently so other “privileges” can be removed if the no-fly list doesn’t encourage enough vaccinations.
The Atlantic headline, since revised.
Her use of the word “privilege” is intentional. This is because she believes “Flying is not a right.” We disagree. Travel (and thus the manner of travel) is a fundamental right to all Americans, “one of the implied and unremunerated rights reserved to the People.”
Anyway, the unvaccinated “no-fly list” isn’t solely for the purposes of airplane safety. She concedes that the transmission of COVID is “unlikely” during a passenger flight. This is, instead, a proposed punishment to change the minds of the unvaccinated.
Of course, there are millions of Americans who don’t fly. Banning them from flying won’t have the desired effect. From there it follows that they will have to remove additional “societal benefits” until compliance with a vaccine that still doesn’t have FDA approval is 100% (or at least until they get herd immunity).
And on that point, the New York Times states, “the elusive path to herd immunity necessarily runs through vaccinating unpersuadable adults.” If they cannot be persuaded, what are the options? The Times answers that question: Without vaccine mandates, it’s hard to imagine making much progress with this population.”
You know where they’re going with this. The Times’ Ezra Klein proposes policymakers start “raising the costs of remaining unvaccinated.” As if the people haven’t been through enough.
Meanwhile, over on Twitter, morbidly obese writer Matthew Yglesias is offended by your health decisions and fantasizing about forced vaccinations (a position he holds but since deleted).
While they say this is about health, it is clear that it is also political.
The press revels in condemning conservatives for not getting the vaccine. Self-loathing conservatives like David French say Evangelical vaccine hesitancy is a “spiritual problem.” Conservative governors – those with low COVID death rates in their states – are attacked for not doing enough to encourage vaccination.
Paul Krugman takes these arguments to the next level, arguing that conservatives seeking personal autonomy are really trying to preserve their while male Christian “privilege” while making minorities pay the price.
The government – including officials like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins – must be happy with the blame-shifting. Just imagine their delight, after having potentially contributed to the creation of COVID-19, that the unvaccinated are now the accused.
Never one to miss a media appearance, Dr. Fauci is out there saying the unvaccinated are “propagating” the latest outbreak, that we need to “do something to get them to be vaccinated.” This duty that Dr. Fauci advances is the purported obligation to do something to protect others. (One has to ask whether millions of lives would have been saved had they followed this same duty with taxpayer dollars at Wuhan.)
We believe this is just the start. If persuasion has reached its limit (and there is evidence it has), then please, trust them at their word when they advocate restricting your rights and inflicting punishment if you remain unvaccinated.
And in considering the institutions of power setting their sights on the unvaccinated - those whose purported crime is of inaction - I leave you with the words of René Girard:
“The crowd tends toward persecution since the natural causes of what troubles it and transforms it into a turba cannot interest it. The crowd by definition seeks action but cannot affect natural causes. It therefore looks for an accessible cause that will appease its appetite for violence. Those who make up the crowd are always potential persecutors, for they dream of purging the community of the impure elements that corrupt it, the traitors who undermine it.”
because of useful idiots like this prole,
you better be armed to defend your life
against anyone that will, and you can see the signs thet are eventually going to do this, give you the shot by force
all i can say is be the one that shoots first
o let me get this straight.
Covid-19 barely mutated for a whole year but once the terminator “vaccines” were rolled out, suddenly a whole Greek-alphabet of new “variants” appeared...
...and the UNVACCINATED people are to blame.
Even the census people don’t show up at our place anymore. I sincerely doubt needle-carriers will risk the trip.
And the Southern Border’s still open
Give it a whirl.
You have no idea.
Not for me. There is nothing on earth they can do to force me to shoot poison into my body
Unvaccinated.... since a person can’t undo a vaccination, there is no such thing as an unvaccinated person.
I think the correct term is nonvaccinated.
RE: I think the correct term is nonvaccinated.
People mostly understand the term: unvaccinated as never been vaccinated.
“...and the UNVACCINATED people are to blame.”
And the VACCINATED have to wear masks again “to protect the UNVACCINATED” - which was explicitly stated in the new mask mandate at my job. So the obedient have to jump through hoops again to protect the disobedient, which will help ramp up rage against them. Psyops, no doubt.
Imagine the reaction if we’d treated IV drug addicts and HIV patients this way.
Perhaps some future psychological research will highlight this phenomenon but actually, the most implacable and fanatical supporters of draconian measures to force vaccine compliance are those who have been vaccinated.
As their numbers continue to climb, peer pressure to get the jab has been growing virally.
Of course Biden and the democrats will make it mandatory. First air travel. Second. Maybe no in person banking. Third. No banking at all. Fourth. Shut off your credit cards.
The largest number of non-vax are Blacks and Hispanics
thats going to be awkward
Yesterday, a woman-pedestrian crossed in front of my car. I may have seen a T-shirt modified with a “mask” stitched in at the front. (So the T-shirt material could be instantly pulled up—like a “Hoodie”—worn in reverse). I am one state over from Massachusetts, so anything is possible.
Big Pharma has been eager to use their new mRNA tech, but first, in a vital PR move, it had to be redefined as the more trusted word, vaccine.
Why? Because nobody in their right mind would sign up for Pfizer's "new experimental synthetic Messenger RNA gene-modifying injection."
I am not a COVID scapegoat. There are two types of people. Those that give informed consent are in the “Experimental Group”. Those that are non-vaccinated are in the “Control Group”. I am so thankful I chose to be in the control group.
I also chose to be in the control group. Too many drs have tried to make me take medication with dangerous side effects.
I’m 75 years old, healthy, and rarely go out. Very little with which they can threaten me.
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