Posted on 08/16/2021 9:24:02 AM PDT by karpov
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bonanza for government officials, allowing them to extend authority that they then exercise with relatively little oversight or restraint in ways that would have been inconceivable in the past. It has accelerated the transformation of previously free societies into permission-based states, where things once done as a matter of right are now considered privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power. Case in point: the Biden administration reportedly discussed making travel within the United States conditional on vaccination status but is holding back out of fear that the public has yet to be sufficiently softened-up for such an intrusive restriction.
"While more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment," the Associated Press reported last week after discussions with administration insiders. "That's not to say they won't be implemented in the future, as public opinion continues to shift toward requiring vaccinations as a means to restore normalcy."
The AP emphasizes that "White House officials say Biden wanted to initially operate with restraint to ensure that Americans were ready for the strong-arming from the federal government." The piece is unusually blunt in the glimpse it offers of an administration that embraces coercive measures to achieve its goals but is trying to co-opt businesses and localities as its proxies until Americans are more ready to do as they're told.
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Why is there no discussion or debate about why the wuhan lab is still in EXISTENCE!
When everybody is vaccinated and there is still infections, then you gotta get a semiannual booster. KaChing
Only because we have weak, corrupt and greedy representation from the federal level all they way down to the smallest city/town council.
They do nothing but screw over their constituents, friends and neighbors.
And they still get re-elected. Time and time again.
After the Afghan debacle, he has no credibility.
I just do what I want. I was kicked out of a restaurant in the Seattle area for not wearing a mask, but They tried to get me back in and I said forget it. Our party of six went to a different place where even the waitress was wearing her mask loose and below her nose, and they didn’t care if we wore one.
Asterisks mine.
Exactly, every dollar you spend is an economic vote for the success of where you spend it. Empty tables will have the donors clamoring for change.
I learned in Business 101 that buying any product is a “vote” for it. I’ve applied that thinking ever since (1972) whenever I purchase something.
Wait! He had credibility before?
Bkmk
The pandemic is to force you to get the vaccine
The vaccine is to force you to get the vaccine passport
The passport is to force you to get the social credit score
The social credit score is to force you to obey the government
The government can now deny you food, medicine, housing, travel...
Hell isn't big enough or hot enough to accommodate all of the people (politicians and other brain-dead morons) who have been supporting all of the COVID crap. Every idiot who said, "Oh, come on, it's just a mask" and "It's for the protection of OTHERS, how can you be so selfish?" All of those imbeciles are responsible for the new nightmare "normal" we live in, where we will have to beg for permission to live our lives as free people.
Uh, no it isn't.
Not only that wisdom, but I am very much a LOYAL BUYER.
IF I find a product I like, I stay with it-—for years.
Castrol oil for my car.
Pennzoil racing oil for my truck. Per engine builder’s instructions-—for both.
Shampoo-— Condiments-—ice cream-—frozen pizza-—bar soap-—Ritz crackers-—Paper towels-— etc.
I have run MY OWN household since I was 18 & am now 81.
I am not alone in such practices.
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