Science Evolves

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Every government regulation restricts some individual’s freedom.  It wouldn’t be a regulation if it didn’t.

A government regulation which affects similarly situated individuals must treat them similarly.  That’s what the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment is all about. 

To survive an Equal Protection challenge, the government regulation must be rationally related to a legitimate government purpose.

The U of M concedes the Covid vaccine doesn’t halt the spread of Covid but intends to impose a vaccine mandate anyway.

St. Paul and Minneapolis require vaccine or proof of negative test to enter bars and restaurants. 

All three government entities insist the regulations are based on SCIENCE.  But other government entities in the state have not enacted similar regulations.  There is no scientific reason why restaurants in St. Paul would be deadlier than Maplewood, why Manny’s Steak House would be deadlier than Lord Fletcher’s, why a student with natural immunity is deadlier than a vaccinated student. 

The regulations do not treat citizens similarly.  There is no rational basis for the difference.  The different regulations violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In the olden days, there were organizations which cared about such things, the American Civil Liberties Union, for example.  They ought to be in court every day, suing on behalf of individual rights.  They’re not.  Nobody is.

Why doesn’t anybody care about Constitutional rights more?

What happened to us?

Joe Doakes

What happaned?

Big Left took over the institutions we used to trust to play it down the middle!