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'They can't arrest all of us': Rand Paul calls for defiance against Wuhan Virus mandates and restrictions


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2021 Aug 9, 7:51pm   1,565 views  76 comments

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-defiance-against-covid-restrictions?source=patrick.net

Sen. Rand Paul released a video Monday pleading with the public to resist COVID-19 regulations issued by the government.

The Kentucky Republican asserted that a unified public rejection of restrictions intended to stem the spread of the virus would be too much for the government to handle and that "petty tyrants and bureaucrats" would be forced to drop mask mandates and similar policies.

"It's time for us to resist. They can't arrest all of us," Paul said in the video. "They can't keep all of your kids home from school. They can't keep every government building closed, although I've got a long list of ones they might keep closed or ought to keep closed."

Paul, a licensed physician and practicing ophthalmologist, is known in the Senate for his libertarian views and vocal criticism of COVID-19 regulations since the beginning of the pandemic.

We are at a moment of truth and a crossroads. Will we allow these people to use fear and propaganda to do further harm to our society, economy, and children?

Or will we stand together and say, absolutely not. Not this time. I choose freedom. pic.twitter.com/XrI2tjdAHW
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 8, 2021

Paul specifically called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden by name, saying, "We have either had COVID, had the vaccine, or been offered the vaccine. We will make our own health choices. We will not show you a passport. We will not wear a mask, we will not be forced into random screenings and random testings so you can continue your drunk-with-power reign over the Capitol."

Paul also criticized "anti-science" mask mandates levied by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We are at a moment of truth and a crossroads. Will we allow these people to use fear and propaganda to do further harm to our society, economy, and children?" Paul wrote in a message accompanying the video. "Or will we stand together and say, absolutely not. Not this time. I choose freedom."

This comes after the CDC asked the public to continue wearing masks in "high transmission" areas regardless of vaccination status.

"To maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission," the CDC stated. "You should continue to wear a mask where required by laws, rules, regulations, or local guidance."

The CDC has also pushed for those who have already been infected with the virus to get vaccinated anyway, saying the vaccine is more effective than natural immunity.

Paul has consistently been one of the most prominent critics of the Biden administration's COVID-19 policies.

“Rather than listening to government scolds, look to the science of immunology: and once you’re 2 weeks out from the vaccine, or have recovered from the actual infection, trash your mask and live free again,” Paul said in a tweet in March of last year.

Paul also announced in May 2021 he has declined vaccination, saying he had already built a "natural immunity" to the virus after contracting COVID-19 earlier in the year.

The senator has also made enemies with Dr. Anthony Fauci, clashing with his recommended adherence to the CDC's guidance.

Paul also sent a criminal referral letter to the Justice Department alleging Fauci lied before Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan.


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1   Patrick   2021 Aug 10, 6:18am  

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/08/thomas-luongo/now-is-the-time-to-strike-at-the-root-of-confidence/


Government is the ultimate confidence game. It’s power rests on the idea that enforcing issued edicts through public pressure and policing is unchallengeable.

That power, however, is anything but that. Policing is a bluff, and a dangerous one at that. That bluff is maintained through rational risk assessment we all do when deciding whether to challenge the policeman’s demands.

This tension lies at the heart of all government systems, no matter how repressive or constructive. Those in power, ultimately remain there only with the consent of the governed. And once confidence in the constructive aspects of government (whatever they may be) fails, that’s when chaos ascends.

Charles Lipson, writing in Real Clear Politics, finally categorized the extent to which we as Americans have lost confidence in our institutions. Frankly, he’s a little late, but hey, I never turn my nose up to anyone willing to join this party.

The problem we face, beyond the specifics about crime, COVID, duplicity, and social division, is a palpable breakdown in public order at the same time the public has lost confidence in our government officials and the institutions they lead. The two meta-problems—the breakdown of order and erosion of public confidence—are deeply intertwined because we count on our leaders and institutions to give us reliable information, provide a stable environment (so each of us can go about our lives), and abide by the same rules we all do. Those are foundational elements of a peaceful, liberal, democratic society. Their attrition imperils that society and its governance.

Lipson’s right. And that he’s being published in a regime-friendly site like RCP is a tell that there is real worry at the top of the dominance hierarchy. Long-time readers know that chronicling this decline of confidence is kinda this blog’s raison d’etre so it’s good to see these ideas filtering out into ‘the real world.’

The 4 Stages of Griefing

But it’s also a tell that because we can now talk about this with our outside voices it justifies steps being taken right now to close the loop, lock the doors and push their control over us to its crisis point.

That justification however, is a flimsy one, only made by those so suffused with self-righteousness that they refuse to entertain anyone’s non-compliance. I came across a tweet that succinctly expressed the current state of affairs as it pertains to COVID-19 and the Delta bogeyman.

5. Still say No. https://t.co/vRKSlOWKHt

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) August 7, 2021

Last week I told you that we’d entered the eye of Davos’ Storm. We are accelerating towards a future that when viewed from the outside looks like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil but feels from the insides like Steven Spielberg’s interpretation of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report.

Davos and their agents have reached Stage 4.

And Stage 4 can last longer than a lot of people are uncomfortable with.

Things would have never gotten to Stage 4 if our leaders had been honest brokers.

Things would have never gotten to Stage 4 is they weren’t engaged in the biggest psy-op in human history.

Things wouldn’t have gotten to Stage 4 if they were actually doing the jobs we gave them and respected the relationship between government and governed.

Today going to Stage 4 is inviting chaos when they should be restoring order. The problem for The Davos Crowd is they have always benefitted from inviting a little chaos in the past.

Because, in the past, the consensual hallucination of government was still there. We still believed, wrongly, that they had our best interests at heart. So, any chaos inserted in the Matrix could be used as an opportunity to advance their schemes, because the critical mass of skepticism wasn’t there.

But, that’s not the case now. Inviting chaos when they’ve taken everything from us and exposed their rapaciousness is inviting something they’ve never seen before.

While the U.S. hasn’t hit rock bottom yet, we’re not seeing the real uprising. In France, Italy and now Poland, those that have nothing left to lose have lost it (H/T to Gerald Celente). Does anyone want to see what happens when another 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes by Blackrock?

No wonder Biden was desperate to get the eviction moratorium extended no matter how unconstitutional.

But when you mix this level of social and financial repression with the complete lack of confidence in (and by) the institutions, as Lipson pointed out, you get something very volatile indeed. This is why Italians were burning their vaccination cards this weekend.

This is why French firefighters and public health officials are striking against President Macron’s mandates. And it’s why no matter how much our media, the government and the COVID Karens in the ‘burbs threaten us the more likely when someone stands up and just says, “No,” the whole thing comes crashing down.

Welcome to Stage 5

Because of this instability, this fragility, it is incumbent on us right now to say “No,” everywhere. Threats of job loss over vaccination? No, force them to fire you. The lawyers will be standing 20 deep to take your case to court.

In Moscow the restaurants lost 80% of their business overnight after the city instituted a vaccine passport to eat out. The response? Russians just said, “No,” and cooked. This is your model.

All during the ‘pandemic’ in my home town I avoided places that mandated a mask and ignored the warnings on those places that tried to browbeat me into wearing one.

I walked in, was polite, did my business and left.

I wore masks out of politeness to locals outside of my hometown. But, that’s it.

Today, we are being coerced to accept second-class citizenship for not getting vaccinated where the vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of the virus. This is being framed as irresponsibility when, if anything, the vaccinated carry higher viral loads making them potential super-spreaders endangering everyone else.

I don’t need to get an experimental gene therapy to validate your life choices.

I need you to see that there is more to life than following the mandates of psychopaths and pathological liars to err on the side of caution.

No wonder there’s an increasing cohort of people moving into Stage 5, just saying ‘No.’ The time for virtue-signaling is over. The time for lying about masks, death statistics and the basics of virology is over. This is a political operation and we need to treat it as such.

If you got the jab, fine. If you didn’t have a side-effect, great!

If you got COVID afterwards, had mild symptoms and recovered, even better. I’m glad you survived.

But, it stops there. Don’t worry about me. Now it’s your responsibility to understand what the true stakes are and find a future that doesn’t end in derangement, a permanent underclass and mass death.

So, let’s stop pretending that any of this now is about public health, and hasn’t been for more than a year. If anything it has always been about your personal health and therefore getting a vaccine should be a personal choice.

Anything beyond that is pure politics serving the interests of those who have been caught red-handed lying about every bit of this and profiting from our shared misery egregiously.

It is about the failure of the state to make good on its basic promises for decades and coming to terms with that honestly. Now the State’s lies about COVID and the vaccines are distractions from their failures, dividing us to not only maintain that power but expand it exponentially.

Our confidence in them is gone. That much is crystal clear. What isn’t obvious to many is that their confidence in our willingness to go along with them is also gone. That’s why they are so swiftly moving into Stage 4.

Because that is the far scarier state of play for them.

The more we simply go to Stage 5 and say, “No,” the quicker this entire operation collapses and we can get on with Stage 6, fixing what was broken.
2   zzyzzx   2021 Aug 25, 6:10am  

https://patriots.win/p/12jwVkQAmy/employer-demands-vax-young-emplo/


Employer demands vax. Young employee lies, claims to be vax'd. Employer says 'bring proof'. Youngster panics-- no shows-- claims to have Covid, 'quarantines' 14 days. Employer tells all employees they've been exposed, must get tested, work from home. Lol. Shitshow
3   GNL   2021 Aug 25, 6:14am  

zzyzzx says
https://patriots.win/p/12jwVkQAmy/employer-demands-vax-young-emplo/


Employer demands vax. Young employee lies, claims to be vax'd. Employer says 'bring proof'. Youngster panics-- no shows-- claims to have Covid, 'quarantines' 14 days. Employer tells all employees they've been exposed, must get tested, work from home. Lol. Shitshow

I have a relative in NYC. She is pregnant and her employer mandated her to take the jab.
4   Shaman   2021 Aug 25, 8:46am  

WineHorror1 says
I have a relative in NYC. She is pregnant and her employer mandated her to take the jab.


Claim religious exemption or quit.
5   Shaman   2021 Aug 25, 8:50am  

“ Just need some data on vaccine reactions among minorities vs vaccine reactions in white people. When the data shows "disproportionate" increased reactions among minorities, then people can claim the vaccine is racist.”

Is there a way to make this happen?
6   mell   2021 Aug 25, 8:52am  

Shaman says
WineHorror1 says
I have a relative in NYC. She is pregnant and her employer mandated her to take the jab.


Claim religious exemption or quit.


You may even have a medical exemption - find the study - I think done by the Japanese - where it shows the s protein heavily accumulates in the ovaries and that the outcome for pregnant women (both for them and their newborn) is at best totally unknown and at worst extremely unsafe.
9   GNL   2021 Aug 25, 12:44pm  

Shaman says
“ Just need some data on vaccine reactions among minorities vs vaccine reactions in white people. When the data shows "disproportionate" increased reactions among minorities, then people can claim the vaccine is racist.”

Is there a way to make this happen?

Yes, get control of the media. As Patrick says, "that will take some time. "
11   Patrick   2021 Sep 8, 2:04pm  

I like the yellow vests.
13   WookieMan   2021 Sep 23, 4:40am  

Booger says

That's the deal, employees don't want conflict, especially in a restaurant. Every table they serve is generally money in their pocket. They're not cops or TSA. That video was Canada obviously, but I think a lot of US workers understand anything mandated from a governor is not legal. Never work for a big corp or at least try and be an IC as that's when HR gets a bit dicey if you're W2. Plus you can write off lunches without your vaccine passport.
14   GNL   2021 Sep 23, 5:25am  

Booger says

For now.
15   Patrick   2021 Sep 25, 4:48pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-rights-watchdogs/comments?token=patrick.net


kitten corner: rights watchdogs
gatito bueno 1 hr ago

excuse me everyone, i am just a kitten and do not always understand politics and political systems, especially canadian ones, so could someone please explain why ontario has a human rights watchdog to make sure that people don’t get human rights?

because i think maybe that’s a pretty bad kind of dog to have!

they should get a good kitten instead!




17   HeadSet   2021 Sep 26, 10:06am  

zzyzzx says


Reality is more like this:


18   richwicks   2021 Sep 26, 2:13pm  

Booger says


I think this QR Code should work most places:



For places where it doesn't work, do you really want to eat there?
19   Booger   2021 Sep 26, 5:19pm  

If about to be fired for not taking the clot shot:

Start stealing everything you can, from paper clips to forklifts. If caught, claim to be black, and stealing is just part of your culture.
22   porkchopXpress   2021 Sep 28, 10:39am  

Does diarrhea count?
23   Ceffer   2021 Sep 28, 10:45am  

Sorry, they'll never be able to compete with the piles of shit inside the Capitol.
24   HeadSet   2021 Sep 28, 11:19am  

Piles of poo around the Capital will just make Nancy feel she is back home in SF.
25   Patrick   2021 Oct 4, 10:32am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/refuse-get-used-covid-great-reset/


The expert class brought about not a Great Restructuring of our lives, but a Great Restriction. They psychologically shattered people by promoting crippling fear of a virus that thankfully leaves most of us unharmed. They hobbled the economy and our ability to get the goods and services we need. They isolated our children and made them stupider. They have ruined lives in ways for which there can be no recompense. All the while, they have peddled the idea that we have been presented with some opportunity for a better life.

I can only speak for myself, but personally: I can’t get used to this lifestyle.
27   Patrick   2021 Oct 7, 10:40pm  

Creative civil disobedience.

Probably saving lives too.
28   zzyzzx   2021 Oct 8, 8:49am  

Remove signs about masks:


30   WookieMan   2021 Oct 8, 9:52am  

zzyzzx says
Remove signs about masks:

We have a statewide mandate for masks again. Where I'm at no business has a sign up. Not one. I go 20 miles east and it picks up a bit more. Might start taking them down. Rural America gives zero fucks. I'd get out of cities while you can with values still decently high.
35   GNL   2021 Nov 14, 6:47am  

Booger says

Is this true?

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