If an app is "free" then you are the product. Robinhood sells your orders and trade data to Citadel. Citadel is the customer. You are the minnow being fed to the shark. Same with social media, you're the product, your personal data is sold to advertisers who are actual customers.
— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) February 1, 2021
Cost of lockdown: pic.twitter.com/3GZ779GXuZ
— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) February 1, 2021
But, as someone mentioned in the comments, if he’d tested positive for COVID, his heart condition would’ve been immediately blamed on the infection, and publicized far and wide. We would hear Fauci, Birx, the CDC, WHO, proselytize endlessly over this new COVID danger.
What exactly is the standard of proof for post-vaccination adverse events? Does the Oracle of Delphi have to say the vaccine is responsible? Must Jesus convene a fact-finding committee?
Because the normal rules – plausibility, temporality, repeated events – do not seem to apply.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) February 1, 2021
And so now we hear about dogs being trained to “sniff out COVID”, and it smells like BS to me. German Shepherds sniffing out COVID symptoms? Or German Shepherds used as an intimidation tactic to scare a target into compliance? We know the answer.
Why not use rats? They have a far higher success rate at sniffing out disease, drugs, and bombs, they’re easier to train, so why not them? Because the primary use of a dog, either in the war on drugs or the war on COVID, is to intimidate and provide justification for an otherwise unlawful arrest or search.
Prepare for their widespread use for non-virus events. Come on, we knew this would happen. This power is here to stay unless it is consciously removed.
DeBlasio is now using snow to authoritatively restrict people’s movement in the city. We’ve officially graduated from covid, people. https://t.co/cLr5l2ngsr
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) February 1, 2021
I’m sorry, but how in the hell is it legal for the CDC to have this kind of power over all of the United States? They aren’t the government, they aren’t elected, they are unaccountable. How can they force a blanket mask mandate order while also empowering the police to enforce it, even going so far as to add a criminal penalty for non-compliance?
From the Reason article:
“Americans are now required to wear masks in planes, trains, buses, subways, taxis, car services, boats, and transportation hubs, per a new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) that took effect today. Masks must be of a style approved by the federal government and must fit properly. Failure to comply will result in being prohibited from traveling, booted from the transit in question, and potential criminal penalties.”
We have serious problems in the nation if a health bureaucracy can wield this level of power. And the CDC is working in tandem with the TSA to enforce the order. That’s right, the TSA’s mission has predictably crept away from detecting “terrorism”, and is now a weapon aimed at American citizens, and not just at airports.