Never Waste A Crisis
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Democrats seized on a flu virus to panic the public into accepting restrictions on civil liberties including ‘fortifying’ the election to defeat Bad Orange Man. Now they want storm troopers to go door-to-door, forcing people to take a counter-measure that doesn’t prevent you from catching the virus and won’t prevent you from spreading it to other people. It’s solely intended to reduce the severity of symptoms in breakthrough cases (which we no longer count as “Covid” cases, since May). And why is it any of the government’s business how severe my flu symptoms are?
Because they saved your life and now they own you. No, literally, that’s the justification. ““The federal government has spent trillions of dollars to try and keep Americans alive during this pandemic,” Becerra said on CNN’s “New Day.” “So it is absolutely the government’s business . . . .”
The arrogance is breathtaking. An earlier generation of Americans would have risen up and exterminated such would-be tyrants for their insolence. Push hard enough and maybe this one will, too?
Joe Doakes
There are seriously times where I wonder how this nation doesn’t break into somewhere between two and six different independent countries.
This year isn’t changing anything.
July 15th, 2021 at 5:35 am
This is a way to funnel tax payer dollars to radical leftist activists in minority dominated zip codes. Nothing more.
July 15th, 2021 at 6:01 am
This year isn’t changing anything.
I think it will be a very tough year, especially if (not when) we get results from soem of the election voting irregularity audits. And news of unconstitutional, tyrannical, despotic and barbaric persecution of 1/6 participants are not going away. And I really doubt creation of STASI by piglosi is going to go over well either.
July 15th, 2021 at 6:29 am
Oh, I don’t know, jpa. I believe that there are still too many sheep out there, especially in Minnesota, that seem to want to have their betters run their lives for them. I’m still seeing many true believers driving, alone, wearing masks. Guess they didn’t get the memo or, maybe they did.
July 15th, 2021 at 9:26 am
Well, one way or the other the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 will deal quite effectively with the anti-vaxxers and the vaccine hesitant. They’ll either die or develop some natural immunity and likely suffer mightily while doing so. However, I do feel bad for the medical folks who still have to deal with those individuals.
July 15th, 2021 at 9:45 am
The ChinaFlu isn’t a death sentence.
July 15th, 2021 at 10:04 am
Does anyone really think that not having someone come to their door is keeping anyone from being vaccinated? A passport system is the answer. Needing to prove being vaccinated or wearing a mask to enter stores and restaurants will increase vaccinations.
July 15th, 2021 at 10:13 am
You know what would really “answer” the vaccination “question”? Forcing people to be vaccinated at gun point. And it’s totally totalitarian!
July 15th, 2021 at 10:32 am
Passports are passe.
Stars, that’s what we need. Gold stars, sewn on your shirt so everyone can see.
July 15th, 2021 at 10:34 am
“I do feel bad for the medical folks who still have to deal with those [unvaccinated] individuals.”
Simple – issue an Executive Order saying they don’t have to. Let the unvaccinated illegal aliens die in the hallways and parking lots. Serves ’em right.
Oh, that’s not who you meant?
July 15th, 2021 at 10:51 am
If these medical folks would not deny treatment, nobody would die. In the meantime vaxed sheeople are getting infected (and dying) and are carriers. Such a wonderful vax!
July 15th, 2021 at 10:53 am
“Passports are passe.”
Inequities will always exist in pretty much every aspect of life. The imperative should be to reduce the inequity that exists in effective ways that do not penalize. This is true with vaccinations as with other areas. The flip side of this is wanting to still allow for personal choice. With the knowledge that choices always have opportunity costs.
Design the system so that those who wish to participate with the rules receive the greater benefit. We shouldn’t begin to implement a vaccine passport system until a strong majority of people who wish to get the vaccine have gotten it. Once we hit that point, the system should have already been designed to accommodate people with foreseeable issues, such as no smartphone, or medical issues that preclude vaccination. We should be sure that those who do not wish to be vaccinated have had the opportunity, but if they decline that opportunity, the cost (e.g., restrictions to travel) is theirs to bear. But if they change their minds, they need only be fully vaccinated to get the benefits previously denied. This is for each country only, but, have a backup system for people from other countries where the vaccine is not as available, perhaps a low/no cost quarantine period.
Good design takes careful thought and planning. This allows people the freedom to decide, but not the freedom to put others at risk.
July 15th, 2021 at 11:09 am
That sounds like a wonderful plan, Smug. Just one question: would you mind pointing to the provision of the United States Constitution which contains the enumerated power authorizing the federal government to implement it?
July 15th, 2021 at 11:34 am
Smug boy proves my 6:29 post. He’s just laid out the plan to control the population, as implemented by every despot in history, which now includes Joey Demento. Show us your papers, comrade. Jesus Christ, dude! How freaking stupid are you?!
July 15th, 2021 at 12:22 pm
boss, trollbot proves how stupid it is with every post. each and every one.
July 15th, 2021 at 1:16 pm
each and every one…each and every one…each and every one…on and on and on.
July 15th, 2021 at 1:24 pm
Local known nut-job (JPA) calls someone else a known nut-job. 🤡
July 15th, 2021 at 5:04 pm
IIRC, JPA has lived in a country where being asked to show one’s paper is a common occurrence, and the question is as serious as a heart attack.
July 16th, 2021 at 1:12 pm
Until you start making life expensive for people who choose to extend the pandemic — people who have ignored and will continue to ignore your “outreach”— this is just shouting into an echo chamber.
People are eating tide pods. You either tax the tide pods, or you stop acting like the tide pod eaters are going to listen to reason about the dangers of eating tide pods.
In other words, people who refuse to wear seatbelts are going to keep going through their windshields.
July 16th, 2021 at 5:42 pm
Yo, smug, given that tide pods are toxic, killing the lining cells of the mouth and inducing a chemical burn , don’cha think that maybe, just maybe, telling people about the consequences might do the trick, and those that don’t listen get their punishment right there?
Same basic idea with the vaccines. Simply explain that there is a certain risk of getting hurt from the vaccine vs. a certain risk of the virus getting way out of hand with a new strain. Let people make their decisions.