Month: February 2021

The loudest voices in favor of endless lockdown-ism were shut-ins to begin with

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The advent of endless streaming content, high-speed internet, and screens everywhere, means that confinement is far less unpleasant than it would otherwise be. This seems dangerous, because it makes people far more complacent about forced isolation, forced separation, and forced quarantine. They’ve got their screens, so the loss of freedom doesn’t sting as much as it could and should. And for the people screaming the loudest for endless lockdowns, they were shut-ins to begin with.

The writers for corporate press, the social media addicts, the people whose existence is spent almost entirely in front of a screen, who make their living do so, are the ones providing support for unending pandemic authoritarianism. It doesn’t cost them anything, they feel the deprivation, and they may even have resented all along the people who have actual lives away from screens, a life lived at least partly outdoors, with friends and family and face-to-face interactions.

And these people with real lives in turn have a far less active online presence, which means that their opinions about the entire charade are not made widely known. They don’t have time to troll social media, enforcing a hollow appearance of virtue with inexhaustible vitriol.

The people providing a faux consent for endless lockdowns are the ones for whom “lockdown” means absolutely nothing.

New COVID stimulus package would jack up minimum wage, while also eliminating the tipped minimum wage

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The restaurant industry has been dealt a series of nigh mortal wounds over the past year, and the new Democrat-promoted economic aid package would drive a final dagger through its heart. Specifically, the new aid package would completely eliminate the “tipped minimum wage” of $2.13 an hour, forcing restaurants to begin forking over $15 per hour, which would only have the effect of eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and even restaurants, themselves. We’d be left with a fast food wasteland, and far fewer other options.

The $2 server wage is a stroke of genius, providing a priceless entry-level position for people would otherwise never break into the job market, incentivizing good service in exchange for a good tip, and affording invaluable work experience.

A $15 minimum wage, particularly one imposed on restaurants, would lock millions of young adults out of the job market for years, diminishing their lives and careers dramatically.

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Federal law protects against a COVID-19 vaccine requirement in the workplace

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Both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines have been granted an emergency use authorization by the FDA, not a license. Both vaccines are essentially still in the testing phase, as this article points out, only now the general public is a part of that test, the results of which will not be known for several years.

As more employers ignorantly make COVID-19 vaccination a condition for continued employment, we’ll see a flood of costly litigation that will affirm these federal protections.

Fauci spread AIDS hysteria in the 80’s, directly contributing to the rise of anti-gay hysteria

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This article at AIER is astounding: Fauci was duplicitous on the AIDS epidemic too

He stoked hysteria amid rising AIDS cases in the 80’s, recklessly fueling the rampant homophobia that the decade is known for. Gay men and women were virtually ostracized from society, treated as second-class, as modern-day lepers. Did Fauci experience any blow-back? Not from his employer, the NIH. He’s been comfortably ensconced there, like a true Doomsday Device, ever since.

Now we see similar hatred and mistrust directed toward anyone refusing to wear masks, or abide by the other superstitious pandemic strictures. Violence against the maskless has been fairly common over the past 10 months. Fights, verbal abuse, fines, and arrests have occurred over this ridiculous piece of useless cloth or paper. And Fauci has been there every step of the way, implying that to not abide by mask mandates, “social distancing”, or whatever else has been cooked up, is to invite certain death upon various members of society. What an absolute thug.

 

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In Maryland, a “sound truck” drives around blaring COVID vaccine propaganda throughout neighborhoods

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Bizarre story out of Prince George County, Maryland: the health department has a truck that drives around playing pre-recorded messages designed to combat vaccine “misinformation”, as well as the usual stale COVID propaganda. It’s a story that sounds like it could’ve come out of communist China or Cuba, but it seems surreal that it’s happening in the US. And if they’re resorting to a tactic like this, it must mean that COVID-19 vaccine uptake is headed into a real crisis, as injuries and deaths begin to pile up. Fewer people want it, and fewer people believe the COVID propaganda.