Posted on 09/16/2023 3:40:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Aaron Kheriaty, author of The New Abnormal, examines the persistent COVID mandates for K-12 schools, college campuses, and health care settings.
This is an audio version of The Reason Livestream, which takes place every Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern on Reason's YouTube channel.
It's back-to-school season, and for some parts of the country, that means dealing with COVID restrictions again. Americans are no longer experiencing indefinite school closures or ubiquitous masking, but intermittent school closures, temporary mask mandates, and COVID vaccine requirements persist.
Will it ever end? Or are we in "the new abnormal"?
To examine these questions, Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe spoke with Aaron Kheriaty, the psychiatrist fired from the University of California, Irvine for refusing to get vaccinated. He's a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who wrote a book called The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State, in which he argues that the authoritarian measures implemented during the pandemic are sure to linger and reshape American society for the worse absent concerted and organized political pushback.
Zach and Liz discussed his firing at length, surveyed the landscape of remaining COVID restrictions across America, reacted to clips of both Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom reflecting on their governance through the emergency, and talked about policies that can best help us escape "the new abnormal."
You can thank Quackony Fauxi for this. Yes, as long as the #JihadJunta is in charge.
We’re only “in it” until We the People say “ No more”
The rat is out of the bag, these little nazis all down the food chain in public and private can literally do what ever they want when it comes to covid and restrictions
If you can’t purge the spike protein from your body, this is what will continue to happen.
Homeschooling. Attending public schools is child abuse.
Only for as long as the majority of voters insist on electing Commie Tyrants to public office.
Schools are where people blindly learn to obey government demands about convenient, trumped-up emergencies
So yes, yes they will.
How long until they mandate children take marijuana by the time they are in third grade?
They will be mandating sexual activity in schools.
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