Coronavirus: Thread

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Nature's Analog Corona Somehow Magically Obeys Politicians Digital Decrees...
https://pagesix.com/2021/06/16/strip-club-sapphire-packed-after-nyc-lifts-covid-restrictions/



Pardoning is not same as complete destruction of all records, cost recovery...
https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-gov-desantis-pardons-violators-of-masks-mandates-social-distancing-rules_3862624.html
Floridians who were were arrested or fined for violating mask mandates
or social distancing requirements will be pardoned. “This action is
necessary so that we can recover, have a good transition to normal
operations, and also just a recognition that a lot of this stuff was
way, way overboard,” DeSantis said.



COVID Propaganda Roundup: Slate Advice Columnist Encourages Woman to
Vaxx Child Behind ‘Toxic’ Father’s Back
by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell
http://www.armageddonprose.com/

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/covid-propaganda-roundup-to-catch-a-predator-style-edition/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-pandemic-era-accessory-a-bracelet-that-signals-your-boundaries-11623076293
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1405226106802872324
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-libya-syria-g7-video-b1865523.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vaccine-passports-g7-countries-agreement-b1859896.html
https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/covid-vaccine-tattoos

The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies,
distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.
Social Engineers Introduce Childlike Color-Coded COVID Bracelets,
Beta-Test Medical Apartheid

Compliant, infantilized peasants are now issued color-coded bracelets
to self-segregate based on their level of COVID-19 fear at social
gatherings:

“Office managers, convention planners and party hosts are distributing
color-coded wristbands, stickers or lanyards designed to signal
preferences without the awkward conversations…. A plastic display sign
provides the code, modeled on traffic lights: Red means ‘no contact’
with ‘no exceptions.’ Yellow means ‘elbow only,’ as in stick to the
elbow bump, pal. As for green, the sign says: ‘Hugs welcome.'”

This is a trial run for COVID apartheid that, if current trends
continue, will inevitably emerge – a cleavage we can see deepening in
multiple contexts, as in this one denoting special privileges for
vaccinated vs. unvaccinated NFL players:

G-7 Agreement Inches World One Step Closer to Global Vaccine Passports

For a year and 3 months, the corporate media attempted to convince the
American public that coming mandatory vaccine passports to function in
society amounted to “conspiracy theories.”

While the corporate media was busy gaslighting viewers into somehow
believing Biden’s disastrous G-7 appearance (in which he again
convincingly played the theatrical role of escaped nursing home
patient), the actual fruits of the meeting went underreported.

Unsurprisingly, it was all bad news for human freedom — most striking
in the apparent resolution among all nations involved in the summit to
cooperate on the rollout of global vaccine passports:

“Health ministers from the G7 nations have agreed to work on ‘mutual
recognition’ of vaccine passports to help global travel and commerce
deal with Covid-19….

Ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the
US said they were committed to working ‘towards a process of mutual
acceptance of Covid-19 certificates.'”
COVID Slaves Decorate Bodies With Uber-Cringe ‘Vaccine’ Body Art

Virtue-signalers pay money, presumably voluntarily, to get their
vaccine status permanently inked on their bodies for social credit.

It all lends new significance to Mike Judge’s 1999 film Idiocracy –
intended originally, ostensibly, as satire.

Multinational Corporations Bribing Americans With Beer, Weed

Beer and weed: the cornerstones of any nutritious breakfast (and immune system).

In the previous COVID propaganda roundup, we discussed the bribery of
Canadian children using ice cream to recruit them to vaccination
centers.

So, it’s ice cream for little Billy to induce compliance and
commercial beer for Mommy and Daddy.

Pause for a moment to appreciate how stupid, low-down, and petty they
think the American peasant class is:

    US Public Health Official #1 ($100,000/yr+ salary): How do we get
these Ohio assholes to cooperate with the program?
    US Public Health Official #2 ($100,000/yr+ salary): Let’s pour
some slop in their bucket, lure them in. [Intern] Skyler, Get Anheuser
Busch on the lime; we’ll get some vouchers for their commercial horse
urine.
    US Public Health Intern Skyler Doofy (Brown University, 23,
Communications Major and DC Social Climber): Yes, boss.

US Public Health Intern Skyler Doofy

The US Public Health intern Skyler Doofys, of the world – the
quintessential bureaucrats —  are just the foot soldiers implementing
the agenda. They know not what they do, both because they lack the
necessary intellectual curiosity and because they are largely too
stupid to figure out what it is even if they were so inclined.

For the real power brokers – the impersonal Anheuser
Bush©-Moderna©-Krispy Kreme©-Pfizer© cabal – it’s a giant PR corporate
circle jerk and they’re all servicing one other. One sinful hand
washes the other.

Why does Anheuser Bush – which, again, sells industrial-grade
substandard beer — care about encouraging Americans to get vaccinated?
Do they really think it will help their industry and are cynically
using public health as a PR rouse, or is the pharmaceutical industry
using the beer as the vehicle to get shots in arms? Where do their
interests converge?

It’s all very incestuous and bewildering. Things have gotten weird in
Neoliberal Candyland©.
Supplemental: Recovering DC Alcoholics Offered Alternative
‘Drugs-For-Vaxx’ Scheme

Slate Advice Columnist Encourages Woman to Vaxx Child Behind Father’s
Back, Labels His Concerns ‘Toxic’

>From Slate’s Advice column, the dilemma:

“A few weeks ago my sixteen-year-old daughter said she wanted to be
vaccinated. I myself had no problem with this as I had gotten
vaccinated myself as soon as I could, however her father (my partner)
felt the vaccine was rushed to market and experimental and just too
risky for her to take. Because I wanted to protect my daughter and
because she wanted to get vaccinated, I went ahead and took her anyway
without telling him.”

The “advice”:

“You were right to get your daughter vaccinated… Your partner’s
reaction has me concerned about your and your daughter’s well-being,
in general. You were so fearful about your partner’s anger that you
felt forced to lie to him. I hope, for your and your daughter’s sake,
that your taking a stand for vaccination is the first step in a
journey out of this toxic household dynamic.”

Slay queen.

“Vaxx them all (for feminism, or whatever) and let God sort them out”:
pretty much the exact advice you’d expect from former Gawker gossip
columnist Emily Gould
Patreon Threatens to Take Down My Account Due to COVID ‘Medical Misinformation’

A faceless entity called Morgan from the Orwellian “Trust and Safety
Team” threatened to take my Patreon account away if I don’t
self-censor what he/she/it calls “COVID misinformation.” Of course,
Morgan doesn’t cite any specific violation of their arbitrary policy
in their blackmail operation email.

As anyone who follows the link in the footer of this article will
notice, I have a grand total of three current Patreon supporters, one
of whom is my fiancé who signed up for moral support. Losing it
wouldn’t be a huge blow, finance-wise.

Anyway, the subscriber count is irrelevant; the ongoing war against
freedom of speech waged by the corporate state is the issue at hand.

Deplatformed or not, I will press on. F you, Patreon.






Vaccine Passports: Are Business Rights More Important Than Personal Freedom?

https://alt-market.us/vaccine-passports-are-business-rights-more-important-than-personal-freedom/
https://en.as.com/en/2021/06/03/latest_news/1622756193_791208.html
https://www.staffsquared.com/blog/what-can-employers-ask-about-an-employees-medical-conditions/
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352?utm_source=24-scientists-determine-death-rate-covid-19-general-population
https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/39-covid-19-deaths-have-occurred-nursing-homes-many-could-ncna1250374
Vaccine Passports: Are Business Rights More Important Than Personal Freedom?

The formation of totalitarianism is often insidious in that it is
almost always sold to the public as “humanitarian”; a solution for the
greater good of the greater number. But beyond that, tyrants will also
exploit the ideals of the target population and use these principles
against them. Like weaknesses in the armor of a free society, our
ideals of freedom are not necessarily universally applicable at all
times and in all circumstances; we have to place some limits in order
to prevent oligarchy from using liberalism as a tool to gain a
foothold.

This battle for balance is the defining drama of all societies that
endeavor to be free. It might sound hypocritical, and your typical
anarchist and some libertarians will completely dismiss the notion
that there should be any limits to what people (or companies) can do,
especially when it comes to their private property. But at what point
do private property rights encroach on the rights of others? Is it
simply black and white? Does anything go? The bottom line is, in the
wake of covid controls and mass online censorship, it is time for
those of us in the liberty movement to have a frank discussion about
where the line is for the rights of businesses.

The problem went mainstream initially a few years back when Big Tech
companies that control the majority of social media sites decided that
they were going to start actively targeting conservative users with
shadow bans and outright censorship.

Here’s the thing: If we are talking about smaller websites run by
private individuals, then yes, I would argue in defense of their right
to remove anyone from their site for almost any reason. Their website
is their property, and much like their home they can do whatever they
want within it. Denial of access to an average website is not going to
damage the ability of a person to live their normal lives, nor will it
fundamentally restrict their ability to share information with others.
There are always other websites.

But what if we are talking about massive international conglomerates?
Should these corporations be given the same free rein to do as they
wilt? Do private property rights and free markets extend to them as
well, even if their goal is the destruction of the very principles of
freedom we hold dear?

And, what if a host of small businesses in a given place decide they
are going to implement freedom crushing mandates along with major
corporations? What if they are all manipulated by government
incentives or pressure?

What if governments do not need to implement totalitarianism directly
at first because businesses are doing it for them? Do the dynamics of
private property change in this case?

I would assert that yes, things do change under these circumstances
and individual rights must take precedence over business rights;
here’s why…
Monopoly Of ideology

In past articles I have outlined why corporations are NOT private
businesses with the same rights as individuals. For example,
corporations cannot exist without government charter and they receive
special legal protections from government through limited liability
and corporate personhood. These are protections that the average small
business and individuals do not have. On top of this, major
corporations receive endless welfare handouts, tax incentives and
stimulus dollars that make it impossible for small to medium
businesses to compete.

Just take a look at the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that
were closed permanently during the pandemic lockdowns versus the
trillions of dollars that were pumped into corporations through
stimulus measures to keep them afloat. These companies have received
so many government handouts over the years that they can no longer be
considered private companies. Rather, they must now be considered
public utilities, and as such, they do not have the same private
property rights. This is specifically true for Big Tech social media.

Some people will argue that this is socialism or communism, and I
would say yes, I agree, except that these companies are given the best
of both worlds – They get protection and tax dollars from governments
while they are also able to operate with relative impunity to
politically discriminate against any group of people they please.

So what is the free market solution? The first option would be to
build competing social media sites that do not politically censor
people. This has been tried with websites like Parler, and I continue
to support such efforts, but look at what has happened so far – Parler
garnered massive attention. It was on its way to growing by tens of
millions of users and Big Tech companies quickly banded together
(illegally) to aid competitors like Twitter and they shut Parler down.
The conservative site is back now but it almost didn’t survive the
attack.

According to Adam Smith’s analysis in ‘Wealth Of Nations’,
corporations (or joint-stock companies as they were called in his day)
are actually destructive to free markets because they are prone to
corruption and monopoly. They are NOT a natural product of the free
market but a government engineered anomaly or cancer on the system. He
viewed such monopolies as a monstrous assault on free trade.

Corporate monopolies must therefore be broken up to allow free markets
to return to a natural equilibrium, and governments must NOT be
allowed to give special treatment to particular companies because this
creates unfair advantages that other businesses cannot compete with.
But what does all this have to do with vaccine passports?

Many people do not seem to understand that there are different kinds
of monopolies that we need to worry about. Monopolies in social media
and communications are one example, but what about monopolies of
ideology in general? You might have a hundred separate small
businesses and big box retailers in a community, but if all of them
decide to collectively enforce covid mandates, or if all of them are
compelled to enforce covid mandates, then all choice has been removed
from the marketplace regardless. This is an ideological monopoly that
is just as dangerous as any corporate monopoly.

Without choice the free market dies, and individual freedom dies along with it.
Bait And Switch

The primary argument the past year among leftist governments in
foreign nations as well as in blue states here in the US has been that
they do not necessarily intend to “force” vaccine passports on their
respective populations. Rather, they will leave it up to individuals
to “choose” vaccination or no vaccination. This might sound surprising
to many in the alternative media because we know that the lockdowns
were viciously enforced by many states and numerous businesses were
threatened or attacked by their local health authorities. Suddenly
these same bureaucrats and politicians care about your personal
freedoms?

What they don’t mention is that the “choice” they are offering is not
much choice at all. Sure, you can refuse to get the vaccine, but if
most businesses in your community demand proof of vaccination before
you can work or shop with them, your refusal comes with the promise of
poverty and possibly starvation. You would be completely cut out of
the mainstream economy.

This is a bait and switch, an attempt to make you think you are free
but then punishing you for pursuing free decisions. In order for this
con game to work, though, the government needs businesses to act as
their taskmasters. Make no mistake, major corporate retailers WILL
join with government to enforce vaccine passports. It is only a matter
of time.

In the case of the state of Oregon recently, the agenda s set right
out in the open, with the government making a declaration that all
businesses must demand that customers produce a vaccine passport
before being allowed to enter. If they don’t have one, they might
still be allowed to shop as long as they wear a mask, but what is to
stop businesses from completely denying people access based on their
vaccine history?

We all know that this is the endgame, we are simply in the midst of
the incremental build up to the day when people who refuse to become
guinea pigs for the experimental mRNA vaccines are legally
discriminated against to the point that they will not be able to
survive.
Private Property Versus Personal Privacy

Medical tyrants have engineered what they think is a Catch-22 for
conservatives – If we argue against businesses being allowed to ask
customers and employees for vaccine passports then we are violating
one of our fundamental principles: The principle of private property.
But is this really the case?

As noted above, monopolies are destructive to freedom. I would go as
far as to say they are intrinsically evil in that they only ever lead
to enslavement of the public. Furthermore, monopolies of ideology can
be legislated, or even artificially created through Color of Law. The
lockdowns were never voted on by a legislature and they were never
voted on by the public, they were pronounced as edicts from on high
without any oversight or checks and balances. Vaccine passports are
being implemented the same way.

Under current law, no business has the right to demand access to your
private medical history when you are applying for a job, and the right
to demand such information from you as a customer is murky at best.
They are in some cases allowed to “ask”, but you are not required to
answer. The mainstream media and state governments have been actively
trying to convince the public otherwise; they are lying.

Under multiple federal and state laws there are protections against
businesses discriminating against employees based on their medical
conditions or requiring access to medical information. In fact, an
employee or potential employee is not required to give personal
medical information in most cases to their employer unless they have a
disability that would prevent them from doing their job effectively.

When it comes to customers, the argument turns of course to private
property rights. The assertion is that a business can “ask a
question”, like “Are you vaccinated?”, as long as it is not
specifically restricted by state law. You do not have to answer. And
if you don’t, medical tyrants claim this gives that business the right
to deny you access. But consider this debate from a different
perspective for a moment…

What if a business owner said that he was going to demand that every
single potential customer prove that they do not have AIDS, or cancer,
or perhaps the flu or pneumonia before they were allowed to shop in
his store? The public outrage would be enormous and legal action and
lawsuits would be pursued. But for some reason we are supposed to
accept such measures when it comes to covid?

The next argument will be that covid is more communicable and more
deadly. That is debatable, since independent studies show that covid
has a 0.26% death rate and that 40% of all covid deaths are among
people in nursing homes with preexisting conditions (meaning we have
no idea if they actually died from covid or they died from illnesses
they already had). It presents no threat to 99.7% of the population
(according to the stats).

But let’s say since there is still a chance of transmission and a
minimal chance of death and that a business has room to be concerned.
It still doesn’t matter. If the vaccines actually work, then what
point is there in asking for vaccine passports?

For over a year now we have been hearing about how people who refuse
to wear masks or get vaccinated are putting everyone else “at risk”,
yet, there has been no examination as to how this is actually true.
Studies show that the masks are essentially useless in preventing the
spread of covid anyway, but let’s say they did hypothetically make a
difference. If I’m not wearing a mask and you are afraid you could get
covid from me, then you are certainly welcome to wear a mask yourself.
And, if you are still worried, then all you have to do is NOT come
near me. It’s easy.

You do not have the right to compel me to wear a mask just so you can
feel personally safer.

By extension, if you are vaccinated and the vaccines are actually
effective then why do I need to wear a mask or have proof of the jab?
Even if I had covid I would not pose a threat to you, right?
Furthermore, if you think you are a part of the 0.26% of people that
are actually at risk from covid, then perhaps you should stay home so
that the other 99.7% of us can get on with our normal lives. You do
not have the right compel me to comply with vaccine controls just to
ease your personal and irrational fears.

Since when do business property rights extend to forcing customers to
submit to experimental medical procedures before they are allowed to
utilize their services? Does this not sound like madness?

It is unacceptable to allow any vaccine passport implementation within
your community because opening the door just a little to this kind of
oppression means setting the stage for incrementalism and full bore
tyranny later. This is one instance in which business rights must be
limited in favor of individual freedoms, because to allow vaccine
passports is to allow far reaching and devastating consequences for
constitutional rights in general.
Public Safety Or Political Cleansing?

Several states including Texas and Florida have banned businesses from
asking for vaccine passports and I fully support this action. When
business rights are exploited as a means to violate all other
individual rights, such as the right to privacy, then a balance needs
to be struck. Carte blanche domain over a customer’s medical history
and health is one line in the sand that we cannot allow to be crossed
by anyone. Their business will not be affected by the lack of knowing
who has the jab and who doesn’t; the information is of no relevance to
their bottom line. And as mentioned, safety should not be an issue if
they believe that the vaccines actually work as advertised.

The only purpose to the requirement of vaccine passports is thus a
political one – Leftist businesses will demand passports because they
are biased and want to keep conservatives and freedom minded moderates
out. Leftists and elitist governments will press for passports because
they want leverage to deny services to conservatives and freedom
minded moderates as a means of political punishment.

This will be an ongoing process over the next couple of years, and
they will continue to tell us that it’s all about choice and property
rights while slowly but surely cutting liberty advocates out of the
economy completely. As we have seen in states like New York, Hawaii
and Oregon, the agenda is not merely businesses making individual
decisions on passport requirements, but corrupt governments and
businesses working hand-in-hand to annihilate political opposition.
The businesses that do not join in with the oppression will themselves
be punished or closed down unless people organize to fight back.

I do not see it as a violation of my conservative values to deny
businesses the ability to aid in the destruction of the majority of
our constitutional freedoms just to preserve their perceived ideal of
unlimited property rights. When it comes down to it, our right to
access to the economy is far more important than their “right” to be
paranoid about covid.