Time to stop masking the real science

Why didn’t the vaccination work for the last four months, only to begin working overnight now? The real question is, have they been lying for the past four months about the vaccine’s efficacy, or are they lying now about the vaccine’s efficacy?...

... It has been reported often that there are many people in this country that do not believe in masks or social distancing, or any of the other draconian and freedom robbing mandates that have been issued, but do them anyway in order to be respectful of others, or to show some pretended empathy or compassion. This is pure poppycock, and is a barefaced lie. If any of these people actually do not believe that what they are doing is right, but are doing it anyway, they are simply seeking an excuse for their cowardice. They do not want to buck their master nor do they desire to have any conflict...

There is much talk about the necessity for Americans to wake up, but that has not happened. In light of the preponderance of evidence concerning the fraudulent nature of this so-called pandemic and “Great Reset,” why has a mass awakening not occurred? It has not occurred because most of the people of this country are now happy with their slavery, and are not willing to take any risk whatsoever to protect their own freedom...

The lockdowns will continue until morale improves.

Ever since the CDC announced its judgment that vaccinated people can congregate indoors without masks, the letter of COVID law has been loosened. But the spirit remains. Many cities and counties no longer mandate businesses to require masks. Curfews have been lifted, capacity limits eased. But the mood has not been lifted or eased. Whether we say it or not, we know in our hearts that it could all come crashing back down upon our heads at any time. Like a perpetual threat, the principle of the thing remains.

The principle is this: for whatever reason, without warning and with only the most flimsy ghost of a rationale, people with power can make burdensome, demoralizing, and ruinous demands upon people without power. We are far past the point where the invocation of an "emergency situation" counts for anything more than a hollow gesture, a contemptuous formality....

... the logic is now, "unvaccinated people are to blame for new variants and rising cases, but also, your vaccine will not protect you from new variants or stop rising cases — so mask up." A masterpiece off Dadaist absurdity. It's futile at this point to rehearse all the well-known truths: vaccines do protect against the Delta variant, mask mandates are completely useless, what counts as a "surge" is hardly a blip, and so forth....

The best description of our present situation remains that articulated by bodybuilder-turned-activist Chris Sky at the beginning of this whole debacle:

    The mask is about compliance.... And then guess what kids? Once you take your vaccine...they're gonna tell ya, sorry, the vaccine isn't as effective as we thought it was gonna be, so now you still gotta wear your mask.... And now they're gonna put you back on lockdown, and bring it all the way 'til July of next year so they can do the same thing again.... It's a way to take your rights, your freedoms, close your business, take your wealth. Why? So you become dependent on the government....

This is not going to end if we just play nice enough. It will not let up once enough people are vaccinated, whatever the hell that means. The principle of the lockdown regime is not public health, and the people in charge will not "let us" be free once the public is healthy enough to satisfy them. The principle of it all is power. The instrument of that power is a ceaseless threat of arbitrary oppression, engineered to grind the hearts and souls of ordinary Americans down into a cringing servitude. It will all continue until we reject the premise of the thing outright — until we flatly deny in principle that these unconstitutioonal measures have any legitimate authority over our actions or our lives. If we want to be free again, we must simply refuse to comply.