The self-inflicted healthcare apocalypse proceeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAnfKj0S_8

We’re about to find out just how much authoritarianism can be imposed under the guise of a “public health emergency”. Job postings are popping up across the country for “contact tracers”: their mission? To discover who is COVID-19 positive, isolate them, forcibly if need be, and then ‘trace’ all the people that this person has been in contact with.  This has to be the very definition of a Sisyphean task. These “tracers” are going to make a list of hundreds of individuals to locate, each of whom will produce another list of hundreds to trace, and so on? Insanity. We’ll have reached natural herd immunity long before the COVID Stasi even begin to trace COVID origins.

Imagine the abuse and invasion of privacy that will occur during the occupation by this domestic medical army. They won’t come close to their goal of tracing COVID, but they will ruin plenty of lives in the process.

A visit to the grocery store always makes for an interesting experience. The arrows on the floor, directing me which way to travel down the aisles, the big red dots placed six feet apart to remind me to “socially distance”, et cetera. But the age of the people that appear to be most deeply mired in their own paranoia is always the same: the old. I’ve seen a man in his 70’s strapped with an N95 mask, complete with Scotch tape sealing any gaps in between his skin and the mask itself, elderly couples with cloth bags that envelope their entire head, mask-wearing vigilantes in paroxysms of indignation at the sight of the unmasked young people in their vicinity. There have been others, all choking themselves on their own carbon dioxide, secure in the belief that they are risking their lives by venturing beyond their homes in order to buy groceries. This is the power of propaganda, and I believe that the age groups most susceptable to it are the ones who still watch cable TV. If CNN is playing non-stop in your home, you’ll be subjected to a constant barrage of COVID-19 fearmongering. You’ll likely be palsied by fear, and unable to function. The age group most likely to still watch that garbage is, well, the old. They’re soaked in it, and in turn demand that the world shut down, and we all suffer from this coalition of the fearful.

“Spot” patrols the city park and reminds people to keep their distance. How long until that innocent reminder becomes not so innocent? I wouldn’t put it past the Chinese Communist Party to strap a cattle prod, or worse, to the dog, to make the reminder a bit more persuasive.

If we accept this technofascism here, then we probably deserve our fate.

Two Texas women faces 180 days in jail for offering manicures in her home after neighbors rat her out.

H/t Liesl Schoonraad

Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks, has hired a research firm to spy on Dallas shoppers at hundreds of locations to find out how much social distancing is actually occurring among Texans. Predictably, they found that 96% of Texans weren’t complying with the standards, which surely means that Texas is a COVID-19 hot zone, with skyrocketing death toll? Not in the slightest, not that Cuban cares. Cuban is someone who clearly has too much time on their hands, and he needs to find a psychologically healthier hobby than snooping on others. But he’s completely fallen for the pandemic propaganda, and is now wasting his millions by becoming a voluntary busybody for the government. He’s just another not-too-bright receptacle for government propaganda, only one who is much more dangerous to the well-being of Americans’ freedoms due to his wealth and influence.

This type of busybody, hall monitors of the social distancing and mask-wearing directives, that has emerged from the woodwork by the thousands since the 24/7 propaganda saturation campaign began, is known as a ‘Karen’. Someone with an “inflamed and perverse interest in the personal conduct of others”, someone ready to call the cops at the drop of a hat if they see someone flouting any rule. Mark Cuban is a Karen. So is the gas mask-wearing scold patrolling Walmart for signs of non-conformity. They’re the Pandemic Puritans, N95 vigilantes, and they are magnifying the Hell we are already living through.

Another excellent article from Jeffrey Tucker on the flu pandemic of 1957.

The flu, H2N2, killed 116,000 U.S. citizens. At the time, the US population was at 172 million, so a little over half the current population. Meaning that H2N2 was far more deadly than COVID-19. And yet, Americans went on with their lives. There was no cowering in fear, no thin-skinned mayors and governors ready to lock down their communities.

Ron Paul remembers 1957, but doesn’t remember any flu propaganda or lock downs. In fact, he doesn’t remember the flu being a topic of national conversation at all:

Here are lives that the lock-down advocates don’t appear to care about: the lives that will be lost because of the lock-downs. Benjamin Miller of the Well-Being Trust puts that number at 75,000, but it’s surely a conservative estimate. Anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and the general tsunami of despair being felt by the more than 30 million Americans who got the loaded chamber in this lock-down roulette.  So 75,000 deaths are an acceptable sacrifice…for what, exactly? Lock-downs didn’t mitigate “the spread”, and it appears to have made it worse.  We now have a ghoulish, utterly evil and tragic outcome: lock-down deaths will outpace coronavirus deaths.