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Biden’s Authoritarian COVID-19 Battle


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2021 Sep 22, 11:30pm   288 views  3 comments

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https://americanconsequences.com/buck-sexton-bidens-authoritarian-covid-19-battle/


We are entering a new and even more politically toxic phase of the pandemic. The initial promises of the vaccine campaign – it will allow for an end of masking, never be forced upon those who don’t want it, and herd immunity will not require everyone to get the shot – have been abandoned. Not only that, but those at the top of the government and health bureaucracy have adopted a tone that is hostile to anyone who remains hesitant to get a COVID vaccine.

The growing spasm over unconstitutional overreach from the Biden team has been building for months. President Joe Biden’s biggest pitch to the American people, other than him immediately abandoning his promise of “unity” across party lines, was to be his handling of the pandemic. ...

It didn’t have to be this way… For one thing, less than a year ago President Biden told the country that he didn’t agree with imposing a vaccine mandate. And now, as of September 2021, Biden has completely gone back on that and ordered a series of sweeping mandates that will make all federal and 100 million private-sector employees get the shot or lose their jobs.



This is pretty close to the nuclear option of government pandemic countermeasures. It will have enormous ramifications for the future of the country, not just when it comes to public health issues, but to the very core of the Constitution and the relationship between citizen and state.

What is the constitutional justification for this? If the federal government can mandate that all private businesses with more than 100 employees must vaccinate their staff (or get them weekly testing, which is meant to be onerous and ruinously expensive), then what can’t Washington, D.C. mandate? What’s the point of the 10th Amendment, and the plenary powers delegated to the states? If for reasons of pure politics, the federal government can, via administrative fiat instead of going through Congress, make such an order on a health matter, could they take similar action about climate change or gun confiscation?

In our standard political discourse, polemicists abuse terms like “tyranny” and “authoritarian” – but this has more than a whiff of both. The top-down decision from the Executive Branch of the federal government to use the Labor Department as the implementation arm of a health policy dictatorship shows that, in the era of COVID, the Democrat Party no longer views the separation of powers as any meaningful impediment to its preferred health policies.

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1   PeopleUnited   2021 Sep 23, 4:35am  

Biden contradicts himself because he has no integrity, pure and simple.
2   WookieMan   2021 Sep 23, 5:11am  

HunterTits says
Biden contradicts himself because he has dementia, pure & simple.

He does contradict himself and he is demented. It actually has more to do with his handlers. All the blue state governors are doing and saying the same thing he is. Not that Republicans are dramatically better, but with regards to Covid they are. We've got people wearing masks en mass again in IL because of a "mandate."

The best dataset is schools for mask effectiveness. The rate of infection is the exact same as the general public over the same time at my kids school here in IL. Sitting in a building for 6-7 hours a day. They don't want to follow the science or data. They're just making shit up to divide. They think covid fear is the winning side, pure and simple.

Oh, and no one has died in the district to my knowledge from Covid. Small district, so I'd know.
3   PeopleUnited   2021 Sep 23, 6:06pm  

WookieMan says
The best dataset is schools for mask effectiveness.


And we basically knew what we needed to about this virus and the effectiveness of quarantine after the first attempt, the Diamond Princess. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32365046/

These articles and so many others highlight the relative nothing burger this is to most people and also how futile it is to try to “stop the spread.”

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