They Will Lock You Down Again
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
November 15, 2022 Updated: November 15, 2022


The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international source of scandal that it should be. And let’s add the vaccine mandates here, too: Even if such had been morally justified, which they were not, there’s absolutely no practical reason for them at all.

To have imposed both of these within the course of one year—with zero evidence that they achieved anything for public health and vast amounts of unfolding evidence that they ruined life quality for countless millions—qualifies as a scandal for the ages. It was in the United States but also in nearly every country in the world but a few.

Might that have huge political implications? One would suppose so. And yet today it appears that truth and justice are further off than ever. The most passionate of the anti-lockdown governors—those who never locked down or opened earlier than the rest of the country—won on their record. Most of the rest joined the entire political establishment in pretending that all of this is a nonissue. Tragically, this tactic seems to have worked better than it should have.

Meanwhile, a few points to consider:

The U.S. government, through the Transportation Security Administration, has signed yet another order extending the ban on unvaccinated international visitors until Jan. 8, 2023. This means that no person who has managed to refuse the shot is allowed to come to the United States for any reason. This is 30 percent of the world’s population, banned even to enter the United States on their own dime. Something like this would have been inconceivably illiberal three years ago and been a source of enormous controversy and outrage. Today, the extension hardly made the news.

The Biden administration has once again extended the COVID-19 emergency declaration another 90 days, which continues to grant government vast powers without congressional approval. Under a state of emergency, the constitutional structure of the United States is effectively suspended and the country remains on a wartime footing. This announcement was not controversial, and, like the above, it barely made the news.

Many colleges and universities and also other schools and public agencies continue to enforce the vaccine mandate even without any solid science behind the approval of the bivalent shots or any real rationale behind the push, given that most people have long ago been exposed and acquired natural immunity, and, moreover, that it is very well established that the shots do not protect anyone from infection nor stop transmission. They just keep doing this anyway.

Masking is not in disrepute because we never really obtained anything like an honest admission of their failure to control the spread. Even today, there is a percentage of people out there permanently traumatized. On travels, I’m seeing perhaps 10 to 20 percent, but in some Northeastern cities, the regular wearing of masks is also very common. Once they became a symbol of political compliance and virtue, that sealed the deal, and the culture was changed. Now, we face the threat of mask mandates whenever government deems it necessary because the TSA has been given the go-ahead by the courts.-- excerpt, rest at link above --