Every time a 'problem' arises — American culture increases Government and Corporate power

© 2021 Peter Free

 

13 September 2021

 

 

Having thoroughly screwed up public health messaging regarding COVID-19 . . .

 

. . . American Government is now trying to force Corporations to mandate COVID vaccines for workers that the Government itself does not yet control.

 

First, we got a pandemic that no one wanted to research.

 

Then, we overreacted to SARS-CoV-2 with a lot of (unexamined) lockdown measures that made everything worse.

 

And now we're trying to ensure that this same Idiot Nanny State never loses power by mandating a mandatory vaccine response. A move that itself will set a stout precedent for imposing similar Liberty-crushers in the future.

 

 

Consider the strong parallel with the past demise of the Fourth Amendment

 

Decades ago, we started a War on Drugs.

 

And naturally (because Americans are sheep) that meant that we should start to dismember the Fourth Amendment.

 

Because, you know, 'black' Crack People and Mexican cartels were bad. And nothing should get in the way of squashing them with Government's Big Fist.

 

Then, we decided that 'brown' foreign terrorists were also bad.

 

And thus, the Deep State started reading everyone-everywhere's communications.

 

Because you never knew when one of 'us' — at home — might be talking to one of 'them' — over there.

 

 

The result?

 

The Fourth Amendment drowned in the toilet. And virtually no one cared.

 

According to America's interminable hordes of pathetically quivering cowards, the very low probability of getting blown up by a terrorist was much worse than Being Free.

 

That seems to the American public's answer to everything. Which is exactly why Government and Corporatism pay to spew propaganda that keeps our Fear Quotient high and ever-pulsing.

 

 

Regarding SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines

 

COVID-19 is now endemic. Like influenza and cold viruses.

 

And somewhat like them (though arguably at a lesser rate of change), SARS-CoV-2 will keep 'varianting'.

 

It is also likely that our medically half-assed approach to determining levels of immunity will conclude that vaccine effectiveness is waning. Meaning that everyone must get booster shots (probably in perpetuity) of vaccines that are not all that effective, according to traditional measures.

 

The sheep must be perpetually inoculated. That's quite a win for Big Pharma.

 

Follow the money to understand why Government messaging has been so stupidly contradictory and confusing.

 

 

The moral? — Every time a 'problem' rolls in, American culture does the wrong thing

 

The right thing to do about COVID would be talk to people patiently. Just because someone does not agree with a given perspective does not make them a bad person. Or a menace to society.

 

This is, after all a supposed democracy. Opinions will vary. Behaviors, including arguably self-destructive ones, will differ. That's what democracy means.

 

If you are worried about getting COVID and croaking, get the vaccine. What other people do (or not) is a less significant a problem than it seems.

 

Yet, despite the obviousness of what I just said, it is in the Plutocracy's self-perpetuation interest to manufacture social division. And thereby, to expand Elites' totalitarian tentacles into everything American.

 

I am not at all opposed to a vaccine push. But I am opposed to setting yet another precedent for destroying Freedom — purportedly so as to fight a purported Existential Menace that emphatically is not one.

 

This COVID 'stuff' is what medicine calls a self-limiting problem. When enough unvaccinated folks start keeling over, that vaccine-resisting group will start getting its shots.

 

Last, the problem of overwhelmed hospitals (as I have said before) is our Capitalist Culture's self-created one.

 

A too-limited medical infrastructure should not become the constraint that ultimately limits the extend of American Liberty. Since when did the American public exist to satisfy the money-grubbing whims of the Hospital Establishment?

 

In short, COVID-19 — and crafting a reasoned response to it — are not difficult conceptual problems.

 

So ask yourselves — why are feckless Government and blood-sucking Corporatism pushing vaccine mandates?