Somewhere, Mussolini’s Ghost Is Smiling

The Salt Lake Tribune calls for martial law to enforce a mask mandate:

Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.

Why is it that now, as the public health bureaucracy is finally starting to come around to what most of us have known about this pandemic for a year and a half, that Big Karen is getting crazier and crazier?

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Well, my take is that, like these ignorant twits, people in many media outlets don’t want to let go of their fear mongering. They like being puppets with their deep state masters pulling their strings. These same people were likely neighborhood and school bullies and no one ever smacked them in the mouth to teach them a lesson.

Odd it would occur in Utah, but Democrats are (unfortunately) everywhere: Democratic Voters Support Harsh Measures Against Unvaccinated

– Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a proposal is opposed by 61% of all likely voters, including 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters.

– Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications. Only 27% of all voters – including just 14% of Republicans and 18% of unaffiliated voters – favor criminal punishment of vaccine critics.

Make them show their papers before they get their white, shot sleeve shirt and tie.

The MDH, when asked what frikkin’ good mask and vax mandates will do when the vaxxed can contract and spread covid, had an interesting response. MDH issued a statement saying that masking and vaccination were the best strategy to use against covid. Not the most “effective,” which might require actual evidence, but the “best,” which is non-falsifiable.
MDH is like a gambler who has devised a statistical “system” for beating the house, and will stick to that “system” despite the evidence that it does not work when actually gambling.
MDH: faith based solutions to real world problems.

You will also notice that, because MDH makes no real claim about the measurable positive outcomes of mask and vax mandates, it is impossible to make a valid judgment about whether they are worth the very real and measurable costs of the mandates to the local economy.

What MP says, and the data I’ve seen indicate that mask and vaccine mandates do nothing to control the epidemic, but do generate a ton of resentment and distrust towards public health authorities. It’s almost as if the left is trying to tear down any trust of bureaucrats.

Epic Kim Iverson rant against “public health officials” for pushing a defective vaxxing regime over all alternatives:
https://youtu.be/GrFKef23CoI