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Lockdown Forever
The American Mind ^ | 07/19/21 | Spencer Klavan

Posted on 07/21/2021 12:50:48 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort

Visiting Los Angeles a week ago—before the mask mandate officially came back—I had one of those moments in which what has become familiar suddenly seems strange, and you see it clearly for what it is. I was in line for coffee at a store where all the baristas had to wear masks. Standing among the maskless patrons and watching my fellow Americans shuffle about behind the counter, I realized that I was witnessing the spiritual formation of a permanent underclass before my very eyes. These kids were being forced into faceless servitude by a regime that makes it too risky for their employers even to let them smile.

This is not going to end if we just play nice enough. It will not let up once enough people are vaccinated, whatever the hell that means. The principle of the lockdown regime is not public health, and the people in charge will not “let us” be free once the public is healthy enough to satisfy them. The principle of it all is power. The instrument of that power is a ceaseless threat of arbitrary oppression, engineered to grind the hearts and souls of ordinary Americans down into a cringing servitude. It will all continue until we reject the premise of the thing outright—until we flatly deny in principle that these unconstitutional measures have any legitimate authority over our actions or our lives. If we want to be free again, we must simply refuse to comply.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: covid; lockdowns; mask

1 posted on 07/21/2021 12:50:48 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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We are being re-programmed for the Great Reset. Months to break old habits/norms, months to establish new habits/norms.

Disconnect sheeple from one another with lockdowns (minimize chatter) and anonymize them with masks (makes snitching easier).

Then require Covid tracing apps (so you are tracked forever after). Then require ImmuniPass cards to enter businesses, schools and events (to ensure you get your dose of whatever is in the vaccine).

This has been well planned by UN, WHO, CDC, Soros, Gates, China, communists, Democrats, Satan.

2 posted on 07/21/2021 1:06:29 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Viva Florida!


3 posted on 07/21/2021 1:07:17 PM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Meanwhile, there are millions of illegals in and around Los Angeles.

How many of them have the Chinese virus? I hazard to guess.


4 posted on 07/21/2021 1:12:52 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (No masks necessary? I guess voting by mail will be eliminated for 2022 and 2024. Yippee!)
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In a honest world,

We’d say screw the vaccines ...

Make and allow the best treatment for the covid’s infected people and let the world begin to rotate again. Stop the political blocking of the cheap drugs, and screw Big Pharma.


5 posted on 07/21/2021 1:23:53 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: polymuser
This has been well planned by UN, WHO, CDC, Soros, Gates, China, communists, Democrats, Satan.

I don't know if Satan had his hand in this, but Soros and Gates are ringleaders. Since 2015 or 2016 they had ever step planned out for the Great Reset, including a virus pandemic. President Trump delayed them, but Soros and Gates are sticking to their plan.

6 posted on 07/21/2021 1:32:54 PM PDT by roadcat
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"If we want to be free again, we must simply refuse to comply."

AMEN. This guy gets it. it's all about SUBMIT!

7 posted on 07/21/2021 1:47:16 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Biden's illegal presidency is a demokkkrat declaration of war on Americans and civilization.)
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I am really glad you posted this. This issue of lower middle class people having to be masked has been bugging me.

I have to go to the office on Friday for a meeting and training thing.

It will be the first time I have been there since this whole farce began last March.

I had been debating wearing a mask or not. I kind of feel I need to so I don’t have to worry about my smirks showing.

This has settled it. I will say, among other reasons, that I am wearing a mask in solidarity with service employees.


8 posted on 07/21/2021 2:38:43 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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I should add, this will drive the virtue signalers at work nuts because I will out signal them and they think they are signalling what good vax takers they are by going unmasked.


9 posted on 07/21/2021 2:40:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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“I don’t know if Satan had his hand in this, but Soros and Gates are ringleaders.”

They are servants to the beast. Both Gates and Soros are quickly changing in appearance to Satanic images of Dorian Grey.


10 posted on 07/21/2021 3:29:43 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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That’s not the message they’re going to get. They’re going to think you’ve finally seen the light and admit that the federal government is actually God in disguise.

Don’t wear a mask but instead bring up this issue of lower-level employees being consigned to a permanent masked untouchables caste. It creeps me out when I see it.


11 posted on 07/21/2021 3:44:52 PM PDT by livius
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don’t feel too sorry for them; they’re being paid hazard pay plus wages to equal up to $20/hr to wear a mask


12 posted on 07/21/2021 4:20:02 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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hazard pay plus wages to equal up to $20/hr to wear a mask

......i SERIOUSLY doubt that....


13 posted on 07/21/2021 7:48:35 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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No, blueplum is right. Wendys is offering $15 an hour to start and a sign up bonus and good benefits . Lot’s of stores like Home Depot and McDonald’s are doing the same.


14 posted on 07/21/2021 8:07:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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here’s proof

https://www.govdocs.com/temporary-hazard-pay-laws-in-california/


15 posted on 07/21/2021 9:15:25 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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