Posted on 10/13/2020 9:15:17 AM PDT by george76
Lab Coat Tyranny: California is using public health as a rationale to push progressive political goals.
City Journal ^ | 10/9/2020 | Christopher F. Rufo
Posted on 10/9/2020, 3:26:26 PM by RightGeek
Public health authorities in California have unveiled a Blueprint for a Safer Economy that requires counties to meet new health equity metrics in order to emerge from the current Covid-19 lockdowns.
Its a broad experiment in social justice. Under the plan, counties must reduce disparities in levels of transmission in low-income, Black, Latino, [and] Pacific Islander communities before they can move forward with reopening. In effect, local businesses must remain closed until local bureaucrats are satisfied that ill-defined racial quotas have been met.
The underlying assumption of the blueprint is that race-based coronavirus disparities are the result of systemic racism, despite zero evidence that the states coronavirus policies have been discriminatory.
The plan ignores potential differences in culture, behavior, and underlying health, resting instead on the premise that racism is the driving force behind every disparate outcome.
The blueprint also subverts the democratic process. Unelected public health officials are restricting essential freedoms, including mobility, worship, and economic activity, without deliberation by the state legislature or the possibility of review or appeal.
Unfortunately, the California blueprint is just part of a broader pattern of state governments using public health as a rationale for seizing power.
Throughout the pandemic, blue-state politicians have appealed to science as justification for long-term economic lockdowns, mask mandates, and other emergency measures, regardless of whether these policies have been sanctioned by state legislatures or voters. Science becomes the highest authority; citizens must obey.
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Great reset back to 1917 Russia?
“Noting that there is something unusual about the continuing pandemic panic,...”
After April only a real moron didn’t know this was a total scam.
People need to go to jail.
We’ve currently got a lot of that going on.
From destroying our economy to stopping free travel to the Fed stopping printing bills and minting coins and Gates’s Big Pharma cranking up the medical passports for an mRNA vaccine and digital tattoo.
Kapitan Obvious. But about half the people I meet and know are TERRIFIED! It’s embarrassing. I really feel bad about the poor bastards who stormed Iwo Jima, held out on Guadalcanal, or stormed the beaches on D day. They fought, died, were maimed for this generation of F-tards?
America and the world just don’t deserve these heroes.
I’ve been saying this since March/April. Obvious as hell.
UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
This is nothing less than world-wide imposed Socialism. If we dont stand up now, we will all be eating lab grown meat, walking to work or taking public transportation, and being Forced to accept every vaccine Big Brother wants us to take!
They want to engineer the return of Oriental Despotism.
Yes, F-tards everyone of them.
This idiocy started in the mid to late 60’s when the goal of our schools became to discourage individualism and ambition.
I have a cousin, a female who is constantly asking for love and peace. Not understanding that love and peace is purchased with death, blood, fire, screaming hate and well aimed projectiles.
They bought freedom for their families and it’s 80 years later. I think it was worth it to them.
The old guys I knew as a kid were tough as nails and would look at this modern world with a mixture of consternation and bewilderment.
Just to expand on the thought, those WWII vets sacrificed for others. These people today will mortgage the future of there children, their childrens economic viability to save there own skin. You do a shutdown to save old folks and an entire generation of kids don’t get to LIVE, LOVE, WORK, PLAY. Just to save a few vulnerable people we have shut down how people interact, how they meet, reproduce, socialize, earn, learn. SELFISH and stupid.
Time for the winged hussars to ride.
I’m guessing your cousin belongs to the “Why can’t we all just get along” crowd?
Just an inability to have a coherent thought. Raised wealthy, married money. No cause and effect. No historical perspective that the stability and wealth she inherited is because 4000 years ago men banded together and created institutions and laws enforced by fire pain death to ensure that crops raised can go to market and be sold at a fair price.
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