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How They’ll Sell Lockdown 2.0
Daily Reckoning ^ | 1/9/23 | Jeffrey Tucker

Posted on 09/02/2023 3:59:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

National Public Radio was in a frenzy the other morning but it felt like the movie Groundhog Day: they were spreading tremendous alarm about the rise of Covid cases.

We have to stop the spread, the announcer said, and that’s why masks are coming back to classrooms. However, they added, relief is on the way in the form of a new vaccine.

Rinse, repeat — as the shampoo bottles say.

This line of thinking — stop the spread to reduce strain on hospitals, mask up, and so on — is being echoed by all major media organs. Leading the way is of course the New York Times.

I’m a bit superstitious about stories in the New York Times designed to drum up disease panic.

It was February 28, 2020, when this paper threw out one hundred years of editorial policy on infectious disease to counsel panic over calm, thus paving the way for what would come two weeks later: the astonishing wreckage of Covid lockdowns and everything that entailed.

There was a reason the Times was chosen to be the first media outlet to take this line on Covid. It would be exceedingly naive to think that this was driven by an independent editorial judgment. Someone likely put them up to it.

Regardless, I knew that day that the darkness was falling, that this was likely the beginning of a grand experiment in public health that would not only fail to achieve its aims but also wreck American liberty and prosperity.

After all, sectors of the ruling class had been gaming pandemics for twenty years. They needed to justify the endless hours and billions put into the grand project of pandemic planning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2024; covid; effectivepropaganda; hysteria; learntosearch; lockdown; newyorktimes; propaganda; searchworks; wewillcomply
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To: NoLibZone; Eleutheria5

On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman

https://www.mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html


21 posted on 09/02/2023 4:49:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Agreed. No lockdowns. If any state that implements even requiring masks will see a revolt. Even Blue states.


22 posted on 09/02/2023 4:49:38 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Eleutheria5

I wonder if we’ll see the slaughter of a gentle giant next year to get BLM into gear.


23 posted on 09/02/2023 4:50:02 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: lightman

Yep.


24 posted on 09/02/2023 4:51:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback on Covid & no trial jailed Jan 6 protesters.)
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To: silent majority rising

I had my second hip replacement right when this madness started. I didn’t take it seriously. They gave me a mask in the ambulatory ride home, and I quickly discarded it, and they still helped me get down the stairs to my basement apartment. I’m all out of hips to replace now, and astonishingly healthy. They can’t put salt on my tail.


25 posted on 09/02/2023 4:58:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: cornfedcowboy

The first time was pre-brutal suppression of the truckers’ protest in Canada, which caused the lock-down tyrants to back off considerably. People’s attitudes are different now.


26 posted on 09/02/2023 5:01:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Even people who complied last time ain’t buyin’ it. This will be fun.


27 posted on 09/02/2023 5:23:49 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Even people who complied last time ain’t buyin’ it. This will be fun.


28 posted on 09/02/2023 5:26:39 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Eleutheria5
We have to stop the spread, the announcer said, and that’s why masks are coming back to classrooms. However, they added, relief is on the way in the form of a new vaccine.

The good news is that it will only take two weeks to stop the spread.

29 posted on 09/02/2023 5:32:08 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Eleutheria5

Not buying it.

L


30 posted on 09/02/2023 5:33:09 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I got semi-lucky.
Everybody got kicked out of the worksite mid-March.
When we were allowed back in there was a mask/shot requirement. I never went back - retired in the middle of the lockdown so no shot and mostly no mask.
If I had been ready to go back I would have simply told them “Retire me” rather than take the poison. Retirement age was 66, I was 68.


31 posted on 09/02/2023 5:41:42 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: Howie66

Simple solution; release Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquin so people can get on with their lives.


32 posted on 09/02/2023 5:53:49 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

safe AND effective

Two weeks to flatten the curve


33 posted on 09/02/2023 5:57:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Eleutheria5

Lots of COVID ads coming back on TV, radio.

As well as “ScienceMoms” commercials about how climate change is making wildfires worse.

And ads how great a job Biden is doing on the economy, etc.

Who’s paying for all this?


34 posted on 09/02/2023 6:00:59 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: Howie66

We have to many idiots in places of authority.


35 posted on 09/02/2023 6:08:43 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Eleutheria5
It'll work with the usual liberal sheep, but not with thinking people.


36 posted on 09/02/2023 6:16:11 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Howie66

The question now is what will the ruling class in Dc do to people who refuse to obey?
I think many people will at least toy with the idea of bravely saying “no” but something will have to scare them into giving up.

Soylent Green scenes. Euthanasia center and grinding people into food. Prescient for 1973.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=562253820&q=soylent+green+scooping+people&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3oaz1oY2BAxU3m4kEHYu4C8MQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=877&bih=402&dpr=1.82


37 posted on 09/02/2023 6:17:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Eleutheria5

Ignored the communist bastards in 2020, will continue to do so in 2023-2024...

No culling shots... No lockdowns... The only way to go (Particularly at my age, 2 months short of 90)...


38 posted on 09/02/2023 6:23:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Eleutheria5

Fool me once...


39 posted on 09/02/2023 6:24:00 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I hear you. I “played” it to the point where I’d pull up my gator to get into a store then pulled it down. No vax here and I was literally treated as if I had leoprocy at work for 8 months because I wasn’t vaxxed. I was quiet and kept to myself unless shamed then I spewed fact but didn’t comply. Not this time, I’m getting in your face if you mask or vax shame me.


40 posted on 09/02/2023 7:30:09 PM PDT by mikelets456
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