Despite pledging in the past that he would never force Americans to roll up their sleeves for a mandatory vaccine, that is exactly what President Joe Biden announced this week to a nation already sick and tired of masks, lockdowns and political infighting. Worse, the US leader stoked divisions inside of the country, where many fear the rise of a medical-style apartheid, by singling out the unvaccinated for blame.
"We've been patient," the 78-year-old Democrat lectured, carefully reciting his tele-prompted words. "But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us." The unvaccinated among us "can cause a lot of damage, and they are."
Biden's mandate would force companies with more than 100 workers to get vaccinated or test for the virus weekly - at prohibitive costs to employers. At the same time, the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid will also need to be fully vaccinated.
American conservatives - borrowing a page from the Liberals' pro-abortion playbook that commands 'my body, my choice' - lit up social media with an array of questions, including the much-repeated riddle: 'If the vaccine works so well, and you are protected, [what] matter is it to you if others refuse the shot?' To date, some 80 million Americans remain unvaccinated.
Not a few of these people are demanding to know what happened to the time-proven biological function known as 'natural immunity.' Will those citizens who survived a nasty bout of Covid in the past, and now have the antibodies, still be required to have the vaccination? Dear leader wasn't showing his cards.
Or what about safety of the vaccines, which remains another concern for many Americans? As documented by VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), thousands of people have experienced "adverse events" after being vaccinated. VAERS received over 7,400 reports of deaths among people who received a Covid-19 jab. It's unclear, though, whether the vaccine was the cause.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma, which is reaping a bonanza from the pandemic, enjoys total indemnity from any lawsuits that may arise from vaccine-related injuries.
In their ongoing quest for information on such issues, the mainstream media have been carefully selective as to which doctors and what sort of advice their audiences are permitted to hear. And, let's be honest, does anybody really trust a single word that comes out of Tony Fauci's mouth anymore?
Biden's brazen move goes against 'American values,' where personal choice is the defining element of democracy. Thus, it seems that the establishment has only itself to blame for the 'vaccine hesitancy' that many Americans are now experiencing; closing down discussion, while coercing people to take a drug against their will, does little to foster a climate of trust.
Meanwhile, aside from the question of personal health, there is the question of politics - bad politics, to be more precise. First and foremost, Joe Biden blatantly lied to the American people when he promised to never force vaccines on the country. At the same time, he snubbed Congress and the states by empowering the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to enforce the vaccine mandate - yet another example of Biden abusing the executive office.
The Republicans, who have gone to great lengths to keep their cities and states open for business during the pandemic, are vowing to fight Biden's "unconstitutional" mandate every step of the way, up to and including a likely battle in the Supreme Court.
Former VP Mike Pence even came out of political hibernation to weigh in on the news, saying that "scolding" the American public was "not the American way - and I expect the response they are going to get across the country will prove that."
Despite the Democratic Party's incessant claims that Donald Trump was a "tyrant" and "dictator," the raft of executive orders that Joe Biden has rammed through Washington, DC are enough to make a Caesar blush. Forcing Americans to submit to medical treatment is Biden's personal 'crossing the political Rubicon' - another one of those "you're either with us or against us" type of moments that colored the Bush-era "war on terror."
In this latest chapter of American history, however, the unvaccinated are at risk of standing in for the likes of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Indeed, given the level of liberal lunacy now infecting every square inch of the America cranium, the unvaccinated could become the targets of a virtue-signaling hate campaign that could easily get out of control, especially when it is considered that there are more guns in America than Americans.
Whatever the case may be, when future historians sit down to write about the America of the early 21st century and its second civil war, September 9 may go down in the history books as the day all hell broke out in earnest.
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. @Robert_Bridge
Reader Comments
No one who has received the 'shot' to date has been vaccinated as the shot is NOT a vaccine.
Remember a vaccine must halt transmission and provoke an immuno response from the body in order to be called a vaccine. The 'shot' does neither.
It's a shot with a higher mortality rate than the supposed virus it's pretending to protect against.
It's NOT a vaccine.
But go ahead....keep calling it a vaccine........that's JUST what they want.
And then, forcing people against their will (taking from Russia's playbook in this case!) almost certainly means total extermination in spiritual terms. Suicide.
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R.C.
Guess which side has most of those guns? Guess which side has been stocking up on imperishable foods? Guess which side has all the experience in survival, farming, hunting and other essential post collapse skills?
We’re not looking for this fight either. A growing contingent of subconsciously cowardly progressives and mainstream liberals are being convinced that these mandates are necessary, and the State will attempt to convince them that a literal fight is necessary after they use false flags to paint the unvaccinated as the ultimate threat.
Once the fight inevitably begins who will the State turn to to do its bidding? They won’t be able to depend on a majority of military personnel or law enforcement. Sedition and desertion will be rampant. They’ll need pliable guns from across the world (UN) and they will likely make use of the thousands of Afghani's they are bringing into the country.
Hell is clearly on its way. Although I honestly don’t see the Fed and it’s blue state allies pulling this off in the end.
However the intelligence agencies remain as opponents and they have proven many times over that they will indeed attack and kill Americans. It is likely that foreign troops will be "invited" in. Both China and Israel have said they would like to see the American population disarmed and China offered to send troops here after the Sandy Hook hoax. Another "ally" might be the UN, which would send in Blue Helmets to keep "order." There are also treaties in existence wherein the federal government can invite Canadian troops in to attack Americans, though it is questionable if our Great White North friends would shoot down American civilians if ordered to.
Sniffy has now said he will get governors opposing his fascist mandates "out of the way," and antifa is already shooting and stabbing people in the streets. "They" will be unified in one goal--crush and enslave the American people, while unfortunately there is no unifying credo or philosophy among Americans unless it would be rallying to support the Constitution, however most Americans today have no idea what the Constitution is or what it means and the power elite have long since trashed, ignored and obscured it.
They are now importing millions of invaders, many of whom likely despise America, many of whom have been given military training by America. You have to wonder--will "militias" be effective against Warthog planes and Depleted Uranium shells and cluster bombs and CX gas? Foreigners have overcome it all. Now Americans may get their chance.
I'd say those invading Wyoming would have problems, except for the lack of cover. Meanwhile, in the South, there's LOTS of cover.
RC
Edit. Oops, that would still leave us with Disney. I say we do a sharkbite up from that to take it out.
RC
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Many military and law enforcement personnel will break ranks, though some won’t. Why they won’t is up for another discussion but they will follow whatever orders they’re given. We can’t know how it’s going to break down. All we know is that it IS going to breakdown and given our observations about American society and the “allies” the power elite have amassed over the years the breakdown is going to be something most Americans are completely unprepared to cope with.
I sincerely hope that you and everyone else here make it out alive.
RC
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RC
*I know that we have some younger SOTTites who get envious on hearing such and I don't blame 'em. Despite gas shortages and inflation that today is about to start to rival**, we managed OK.
** Invest in real estate! (If you have trustworthy friends, join with them to do so!!!) The day that government cracks on homeowners is the sday "it's all going down."
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