I read this earlier today and I have no problems with vaccines, I just need for my country to roll them out without:
- deception
- mandates, especially fake indirect ones
- arbitrary emergency powers
- inconsistent enforcement
- "temporary" rights suspensions
- forfeiting responsibility and accountability
- internal passports
- lockdowns
- class hate narratives
Among a few other things. This professor's letter is a symptom of an inflection point where the fabricated narratives around the pandemic are popularly no longer tolerated. I would advise policymakers to take the opportunity to cut their losses and walk their bullshit back, as if they just double down, I would go so far as to predict internecine conflict on a level unheard of in decades. Maybe that's what they want, but I would be surprised.
I'm just not persuaded the chattering classes apprehend what regular working people are prepared for right now. Imo, our "civilised" societies have about 6-8 weeks of opportunity for the people who are behind the above litany of issues to stand down and walk some of this back. If they don't, I'd place my bets on a summer of utter bedlam that turns into several years of hot conflict. I'd even speculate there are probably about 20 people in America who if they just said the word, they could mobilize a real armed insurrection that was thousands if not tens of thousands strong in a matter of days. It's that nuts.
I don't think most people get what a volatile tinderbox we're sitting on right now, and I'm not sure someone who still watches TV at all can appreciate the severity of how young working class men are interpreting all this.
This letter signifies a change in popular sentiment that has been underway for months, and I sincerely hope policymakers take heed of it.
It's easy to put down a rebellion of tens of thousands. Imagine how many decades of complete control they'll have out of that one useless act of rebellion.
What are your thoughts about existing vaccine mandates? They are mostly unnoticed by the general population, because they affect children entering school following an "acceptable" vaccine schedule, immigrants, high risk professions (e.g. military), etc.
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> If they don't, I'd place my bets on a summer of utter bedlam that turns into several years of hot conflict. I'd even speculate there are probably about 20 people in America who if they just said the word, they could mobilize a real armed insurrection that was thousands if not tens of thousands strong in a matter of days. It's that nuts.
Indeed, I'm indexed on looking for evidence and tells of a more catastrophic macro risk outcome than most people, as my reading of these events has been in a more historical context. That the danger of a very serious conflict is not part of the discourse is like watching it happen in slow motion.
It's to the point it seems worth mentioning.
Vaccinating kids to go to school is normal, as is getting vaccinations for travel between countries. The issue I have personally is leveraging the pandemic using the disingenuous issues above to implement an internal passport system for participating in culture. It's a "papers please" society that historically ends one way.
The professor's letter is really a good sign, as this stuff needs to come out and become part of the discourse, as it's an alternative to a cascade into something much worse, imo.
- deception
- mandates, especially fake indirect ones
- arbitrary emergency powers
- inconsistent enforcement
- "temporary" rights suspensions
- forfeiting responsibility and accountability
- internal passports
- lockdowns
- class hate narratives
Among a few other things. This professor's letter is a symptom of an inflection point where the fabricated narratives around the pandemic are popularly no longer tolerated. I would advise policymakers to take the opportunity to cut their losses and walk their bullshit back, as if they just double down, I would go so far as to predict internecine conflict on a level unheard of in decades. Maybe that's what they want, but I would be surprised.
I'm just not persuaded the chattering classes apprehend what regular working people are prepared for right now. Imo, our "civilised" societies have about 6-8 weeks of opportunity for the people who are behind the above litany of issues to stand down and walk some of this back. If they don't, I'd place my bets on a summer of utter bedlam that turns into several years of hot conflict. I'd even speculate there are probably about 20 people in America who if they just said the word, they could mobilize a real armed insurrection that was thousands if not tens of thousands strong in a matter of days. It's that nuts.
I don't think most people get what a volatile tinderbox we're sitting on right now, and I'm not sure someone who still watches TV at all can appreciate the severity of how young working class men are interpreting all this.
This letter signifies a change in popular sentiment that has been underway for months, and I sincerely hope policymakers take heed of it.