Guest Post by Jeffrey A. Tucker
The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international source of scandal that it should be. And let’s add the vaccine mandates here too: even if such had been morally justified, which they were not, there is absolutely no practical reason for them at all.
To have imposed both of these within the course of one year – with zero evidence that they achieved anything for public health and vast amounts of unfolding evidence that they ruined life quality for countless millions – qualifies as a scandal for the ages. It was in the US but also in nearly every country in the world but a few.
Might that have huge political implications? One would suppose so. And yet today it appears that truth and justice are further off than ever. The most passionate of the anti-lockdown governors – those who never locked down or opened earlier than the rest of the country – won on their record. Most of the rest joined the entire political establishment in pretending that all of this is a non-issue. Tragically, this tactic seems to have worked better than it should have.
Meanwhile, a few points to consider:
The US government, through the Transportation Safety Administration, has signed yet another order extending the ban on unvaccinated international visitors until January 8, 2023. This means that no person who has managed to refuse the shot is allowed to come to the US for any reason. This is 30% of the world’s population, banned even to enter the US on their own dime. Something like this would have been inconceivably illiberal three years ago, and been a source of enormous controversy and outrage. Today, the extension hardly made the news.
The Biden administration has once again extended the Covid emergency declaration another 90 days, which continues to grant government vast powers without Congressional approval. Under a state of emergency, the Constitutional structure of the US is effectively suspended and the country remains on a wartime footing. This announcement was not controversial, and, like the above, it barely made the news.
Many colleges and universities, and also other schools and public agencies, continue to enforce the vaccine mandate even without any solid science behind the approval of the bivalent shots or any real rationale behind the push, given that most people have long ago been exposed and acquired natural immunity, and, moreover, it is very well established that the shots do not protect anyone from infection nor stop transmission. They just keep doing this anyway.
Masking is not in disrepute because we never really obtained anything like an honest admission of their failure to control the spread. Even today, there is a percentage of people out there permanently traumatized. On travels, I’m seeing perhaps 10-20% but in some Northeastern cities, regular wearing of masks is also very common. Once they became a symbol of political compliance and virtue, that sealed the deal and the culture was changed. Now we face the threat of mask mandates whenever government deems it necessary because the Transportation Safety Authority has been given the go-ahead by the courts.
The end of vaccine mandates in most areas of life, and hence also the drive for a passport to distinguish between clean and unclean people, is a good sign. But the infrastructure is still in place and becoming more sophisticated. It is hardly a final victory. It might only be a temporary respite, while all the ambitions are still extant.
More than that, the Biden administration (and all that it represents, including the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, and everything else called the establishment) has its own pandemic plans in place. The idea is not to dial back the mandates or cool it on them. It’s the reverse: centralize all pandemic planning to make a South Dakota, Georgia, and Florida experience impossible the next time. Also, spend tens of billions in more money.
The principle seems to have emerged among the agencies, intellectuals, and politicians who did this. Whatever you do, never admit to having made any major mistakes. And never connect the economic, cultural, health, and educational disasters all around us to anything the govenrment did in 2020 or 2021! That would be nothing but a conspiracy theory.
The pandemic racket is so huge at this point that it is even embroiled in the FTX meltdown over the weekend. Sam Bankman-Fried’s brother Gabe actually founded a nonprofit solely for the purpose of providing “support” for the $30 billion that the Biden administration has allocated to pandemic planning. The institution “Guarding Against Pandemics” is very obviously a honeypot for such funding, complete with on-the-record endorsements from many Democrat Party candidates who won election.
Meanwhile, yes, there have been many successful court challenges to many features of the pandemic response. But not enough. The main machinery that took away liberty and property in the name of virus control is still in place in all its essentials. The CDC to this day brags of its awesome quarantine powers that it can deploy any time government deems it necessary. Nothing about that has changed.
In the big picture and rendered in a philosophical sense, humanity seems to have lost its ability to learn from its own errors. Put in more gritty terms, too many people among ruling-class interests gained financially and in terms of the lust for power during the pandemic to prompt any serious rethinking and reform.
In any case, that rethinking and reform is now put off for another day. Anyone seriously concerned about the future of humanity and the civilizations it built must throw themselves into the long-term battle for truth and reason. That will require that we use every bit of what remains of free speech and what remains of the longing for integrity and accountability in public life. The group we have come to call “they” want a demoralized population and a silent public square.
We cannot allow that to happen.
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They couldn’t even lock me down the first time. I can’t imagine they’ll be any more successful this time now that I know what I’m looking at.
I hope these Nazi fags DO keep telling us just who they are. It’ll save hunting them down afterward.
I didn’t allow myself to be locked down the first time. Maybe they allowed me to think that. I will not be locked down unless they end me. Period and the end (of me).
Someone will die, it may be me, but no more bullshit.
Now you know why the police are all running around playing “Army Man”. We’re the experiment and THEY are there to make sure we don’t crawl out of the Petri dish.
Do create t-shirts and wear them at all times when/where you are able to.
Yes. Clothes are good.
“Clothes DO make the man. Naked people have no influence in society.” – Samuel Clemens
He wrote that way before Britney forgot her drawers getting out of her limo.
There is no escape through the existing political system. The 2020 election thefts and the lack of pushback proved the larger concept, the smaller ballot stuffing scheme has been present forever. The 2022 election was the first nationwide use of the technique proven in 2020. Many, many elections were taken in this manner.
Short of properly securing the voting process to ensure only valid ballots are cast by eligible citizens there is no recourse through politics. The communists own the political administration lock, stock and barrel and will never allow such changes to be made.
The tyranny is on us and it is now to us to determine how we will exist within it or otherwise.
CA ran a very successful ballot harvesting trial in ’18 and it was nationalized in ’20.
“…2020 election thefts…”
Just how do you think Obozo got in?
We (americans) sure are slow on the uptake, aren’t we?
McCain actually probably lost. But Romney probably actually won.
Brazil may have found the answer. Civil disobedience on a grand scale. We can do even better here in the U.S. with our tens of millions of angry gun owners just waiting for Open Season. The reckoning will come, and the liberals and their lackeys will pay the price. Any other course of action is just wishful thinking.
This means that no person who has managed to refuse the shot is allowed to come to the US for any reason.
Does this also apply to the 1/4 million illegal aliens coming here every month? Didn’t think so.
tenn.,
i thought the same thing but then i remembered that most of the border jumpers who are caught & released are given ivermectin as a precaution against various diseases,though of course not 4 covid since it has been proven ineffective 4 treating covid–
What logical reason is there to require citizens to have the deathvax but not illegals? I can think of no benign reason.
At this point I support a hard lockdown. You can even do a phony baloney 15minutes of anger “uprising” where the peeps calling out Xi or Mrs. Justina Turdeau, etc. so they can feel better about themselves after holding blank paper(Makes editing easier for the chicoms) like they fought back. Then these protesting sheep will happily lockdown for another year or two without a peep. I liked it when 70% played dead and locked down in their prisonpartment. Let all these quarantine campers, maskers and vaxxers, play their make believe lifetime virtue signaling insane mental game locked up away from me. Just keep it optional. Wanna play make believe? Here’s a Quarantine room, complete with a VR headset food and a pillow. Every 84 days a new booster and your safety is guaranteed. A judgement free toxic masculinity free non gender specific gov’t approved make believe re-enforcing sterile environment. I’ll even throw in a rainbow sprinkled cupcake everyday. But once in you can never leave. I’m not a ward of the state, but if that’s for you then I agree, that’s for you. Just leave me be.
We are screwed….we allowed them to do this to us with a virus with a 99.99 survival rate….imagine what we will allow when something nasty eventually surfaces
We’re not dealing with incompetents here. Yes, they’re hubristic, but they’re doing it all on purpose. All the collaborator normies are just doing what they’ve been programmed to do…comply without thinking about it.
Meanwhile many of us here are just going about our lives, not agreeing to participate in the game of sinking clown ship.
The sooner you realize we live under a them and us two tier despotism, the sooner you can get to work doing the things that actually matter and contribute to a dignified, meaningful life for yourself and those around you–rather than playing make believe.
Ignore them, realize they have no real power over you. None of their schemes work without blind compliance. Which we don’t offer. Just don’t throw it in their face that you’re not playing along. They can’t hurt us all, so they target those who stick their necks out to make examples.
You will need a passport to travel between AMERICAN STATES!
There is No Constitution!….
That’s gonna be a big problem for them. You got any idea how many millions of miles those State borders actually encompass? They can’t even keep the perimeter secured!
Ask yourself why purple LED street lights are going up everywhere? And why 5g towers are appearing all over NYC 5 ft from people’s windows? If you don’t know the answer to those questions you are not awake yet.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/5g-towers-spark-outrage-across-nyc
Hint: Nano Nanoo
It’s funny these purple lights are everywhere here in Canad’uh. So are people driving with their ultra-blinding LED headlights. But we’re always told it was a small batch of these lights by “accident”. Funny I wonder what the correlation between Incandescent lights bulbs and refusing the shot is. In my experience my whole family-Jabbed, use these energy saving flicker rate exposing bulbs. My household Incandescent – No jabs. Plus I’ve noticed in the last couple of years I don’t need to replace them nearly as often. Entire house down to about 2 bulbs/year. The bulbs are lasting like crazy. (both 60watt)
Light bulbs, what the hell.
Its only whale oil for me, killing one is half the fun.
Not much meat on that story.
Nope…not then, not now, not ever…
They can try, but I doubt they succeed. But I am retired, so an employer can’t abuse me.
Welcome to Nirvana ! It ain’t the Shangri-la, but it’ll do for now.
However a lot of people here masked and got tested (even now). For whatever reason- always good, of course. This not a judgment just a fact.
I’ve been hoping it was over but know it’s not.
I can see many head shots this time around….