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Were the Covid Mandates a Trial Run?
Has anyone seen the OSHA rules on Joe’s vaccine mandate? Are they not available yet?
I can’t help get the impression that the COVID shutdown and the mask and vax mandates are a trial run for a climate lockdown and associated mandates. All in the name of a public health emergency. Anyone else with this impression?
With the Climate Summit about to begin and code red messages emanating from the UN, I fear we’re about to see fossil fuel vehicle bans, rationing of fossil fuels, climate passports, travel bans, commuting in gasoline-fueled vehicles a firing or criminal offense, restrictions on trucking, cooking, lawn mowing, leaf blowing, grilling, gas cooking, construction, heating, cooling, thermostat controls and mandates, and etc., etc., etc. How paranoid he am I?
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I agree. We’re in deep trouble. Three more years of Biden in charge of “climate control” will result in a global disaster.
Not at all. You’re just someone who has studied history and knows it is never about what they say it’s about. It’s about control.
Wrong question. Are you paranoid enough?
It won’t just be climate. Both guns and racism have been declared by some Libs to be public health emergencies. There will be more.
I predict – you heard it here – the next crisis will be a cyber-attack, forcing us to go to a digital currency and the green pass will be combined with the requirement to be marked with a symbol to buy, sell, work, and move about your life. One shoe drops, another is in line……
The truly depressing part of all this is that, even if the GOP retakes Congress and the Presidency in the next three years, they won’t have the will or desire to reverse much, if any, of this. It’ll just be failure theater as far as the eye can see. Oh, they may tweak some stuff if the Chamber of Commerce tells them to, but that’s all.
Trial run? No, this is the run!
Way too conspiratorial- never forget Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I do not doubt the lefts attempt to use a crisis (ala Rahm Emanuel -never let a crisis go to waste) but there is no way this was planned- likely a lab escape and a monumental screw up by the Chinese regime-but all to predictable in a totalitarian society.
I believe you misread the original post.
It’s called seizing the opportunity. Any crisis might have worked. This one was convenient.
Agreed. And once they realized just how much they could get away with under the “public health” rubric they are setting the precedent with which they’ll address other “public health” emergencies.
But now that they’ve seen how successful this one was – how easily and completely a large part of the population capitulated – expect a lot more of this.
Yeah, they’re gonna look for more ways to restrict the little people.
“Emergencies” don’t last for two years. Legislatures have had ample time to act and not ONE single legislative body has done a damned thing. I’m sick of how our government has become a bunch of state and federal dictatorships.
Everything that happens is a trial run for what comes later.
That is why it is important to push back – HARD -against the vaccine mandates. If you don’t fight when you have a chance of winning by the time you do fight all that is left is a last stand.
That seems counter-intuitive, if anything a cyber-attack should force a return to paper/coins.
I thought so, too. But you can never overestimate how badly the Treasury and the Fed can make decisions. Especially if a communist administration official has anything to do with it.
There is no need to ‘go to a digital currency’ much, or most, of the ‘money’ now in circulation is created through keystrokes on computers at the Fed even now. Very little is actually printed or coined and what is coined doesn’t contain anything of value, not that it matters. The value of any currency is directly tied to real GDP (aggregate productivity). Inflation=an increase in the money supply relative to real GDP. By depressing productivity and pumping trillions into the money supply we’ve devalued the currency. That ship sailed long ago.
Thanks. I needed that.
“When everyone is out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking!” – Dr Johnny Fever, WKRP
Also, from a recent meme thread:
Moderna was on the verge of bankruptcy prior to the COVID pandemic being declared by Pres Trump.
The company had spent a lot of time and money attempting to sell the mRNA gene therapy that it had developped.
Only traditional vax manufacturers did not want this mRNA therapy as all the cats and ferrets died during clinical trials.
Interesting to also note that the company’s executives attempted to influence someone, anyone, to buy into its mRNA technology by promoting how it was gene therapy, that could be switched on and off, for various purposes. The top guy at Moderna even explained how once inside the human body, it uploaded an operating system. (This last has become a favorite anti-mRNA graphic, with the film and audio of the top guy explaining all this.)
Of course, now if a mere mortal mentions any of this, the words “Conspiracy Theorist” are bandied about.
Meanwhile, people who like hunting around in the back alleys of yesteryear’s internet found this on a recent dumpster data hunt:
https://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
From MIT News
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Storing medical information below the skin’s surface
Specialized invisible dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history to save lives in regions where paper or digital records aren’t available.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Publication Date: December 18, 2019
A key challenge for vaccination campaigns in some developing regions is that there is little infrastructure for storing medical records, so there’s often no easy way to determine who needs a particular vaccine or booster shot. MIT engineers have developed a way to store information about a patient’s vaccine history under the skin, using an invisible quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with a vaccine, by a microneedle patch.
MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine.
“In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist, & digital databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid, anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure every child is vaccinated,” says Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University.
The researchers showed that their dye, which consists of nanocrystals called quantum dots, can remain for at least five years under the skin, where it emits near-infrared light that can be detected by a specially equipped smartphone.
McHugh and former visiting scientist Lihong Jing are the lead authors of the study, which appears today in Science Translational Medicine.
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Also the wonderful Whitney Webb & Catherine Austin Fitts got together to discuss the totally planned 2019 give away of the Fed Reserve and US Treasury powers, both functionional & asset-wise to BlackRock:
https://www.rokfin.com/post/48152/Interview-with-Catherine-Austin-Fitts
I apologize in advance if the discussion linked to in the last line of comment 22 makes anyone else’s head explode. Now we can all become aware of where and how Biden will have 450K to offer every other immigrant family that has come here or attempted to come here over the last few years.