Last night, I was primed to see the premiere of TikVAH, a new production from the Koresh Dance Company, which has not performed in public for eighteen months. At the last minute, my wife, who films Koresh shows, called me and told me not to come. The Susanne Roberts Theater had instituted a vaccination certificate requirement for everyone in the theater.
We had
known they were doing this, but we expected I could slip beneath the radar. However, we never thought the theater
management would display a North Korean enthusiasm for enforcement of the
protocols. There were new security
cameras throughout the building, and the stage manager himself interrogated all
the people who were working the show, including my wife. After meticulously examining her vax
certificate and her picture ID, he lectured her on her decision months before
to have gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. He didn’t personally approve of the J&J
vaccine apparently, and he warned her that its effectiveness was waning and
that the next time Koresh put on a show, she would need to have proof of a
booster shot.
Later,
she told me about the procedures during the show itself. Everyone not on stage was required to wear a
mask throughout the show (though everyone in the building was vaxxed, of course),
and the bar was closed so people would not be tempted to sip a merlot with
their nose and mouth exposed. The 15-minute
intermission was cancelled because such things encourage concert-goers to mill
about in the lobby chatting; instead, there was a 5-minute break, allowing only
a quick run to the loo.
Much of
this is explained by Philadelphia politics.
Of the various constituencies of the Democratic Party, the one in charge
of Philly is the Woke Left. They insist
on their pronouns, they hate the police, they have clogged the streets with empty
bike lanes and made the city undriveable, and they would immediately cancel
anyone who suggested guys might be better “fire-fighters” than women. Though they love diversity and indigenous
people, and they are totally anti-racist, all of them are white.
They love
vaccine mandates, and they want them to be as harsh as possible. They want Philadelphia to be just like San
Francisco or Berlin, where the unvaxxed lose their jobs and are barred from
restaurants, supermarkets, theaters and public transportation. And the reason has nothing to do with the
virus.
What the
Woke Left loves more than anything is their safe spaces, where no one is
allowed to say anything that might challenge their beliefs. Vax mandates, as at the Suzanne Roberts
Theater, enable the Woke Left to insulate themselves from people they don’t
like because people who are not vaccinated are exactly the sorts of people they
never want to see. The unvaxxed may have
voted for Trump, they probably don’t trust “experts,” they may be black, they
don’t always believe what they are told on television, and they are sometimes
suspicious of government-sponsored propaganda campaigns. And if the management of the Suzanne Roberts
Theater never sees any of those categories of humans again, that would be just
fine with them.
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Once
all the vaccinated people are approved for boosters, those who don’t get the
next round will be deemed unvaccinated.
This will lead us into a new “pandemic of the unvaccinated” with
increasingly brutal sanctions against those who won’t take the next step in the
program.
Rochelle
Walensky, Director of the CDC, announced on October 22 that the agency was not yet ready to change the definition of “fully
vaccinated.”
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There
is a dark humor developing among the unvaxxed.
I see it on-line and also in conversations with the people I know who
share my situation.
Since
we know there is no public health component to the vax mandates and other
assaults on our freedom, we also understand there is no logical limit to what
the New Normals will do to us.
Quarantine camps? Of course. Other countries already have them. Arrest and imprisonment for mask or speech or
quarantine infractions? Sure---Canada
does it today. Forced vaccination, in
the sense of being strapped to a table? It’s
not here yet, but why not? Between 1907
and 1963, about 64,000 Americans (mostly women), were forcibly sterilized in
accordance with the laws of thirty different states. The practice was upheld 8-1 by the Supreme
Court in Buck v. Bell, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mental defectives, you see---they are a
threat to our precious gene pool. And as
Holmes put it, “Three generations of imbeciles is enough.” Ironically, to support his view that forced
sterilization was not a violation of that pesky 14th Amendment, he
cited Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the forced smallpox vaccination case
you occasionally see mentioned today.
Under the 14th, government can’t take your life, liberty or
property, but I guess fallopian tubes are a different matter. And so is your bloodstream.
Once
society, or a majority of it, accepts the premise that our very existence is at
stake, there is no limit to the “emergency measures” that will be decreed and
enforced in order to save us all.
In the
U.S., enforcement of vax mandates on the general public is still scattered and
spotty, and is often limited to individual restaurants or businesses. The one place where the heat is coming down
is on our police, firemen, and military.
In
Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered all police to report their vaccination
status by October 15, and a third of the 13,000-person force refused. So far, only 21 officers have been suspended
without pay, but her threats continue, and the issue is unresolved. Joe Biden, on October 21, though not
specifically referring to the Chicago problem, stated that first responders who
refuse a vax mandate should be fired.
Biden,
of course, had already ordered all 1.3 million active duty U.S. servicemen to
be vaccinated. The announcement was made
by the Secretary of Defense two months ago.
Anyone resisting the mandate, they have announced, will be discharged
from military service.
Purging
the police and the military of dissenters and the unvaccinated is a necessary
first step before purging the general population. If policemen and soldiers are going to break
down the doors of their fellow Americans they must be true believers themselves.
This is Totalitarianism 101. Authoritarian governments typically tumble
only when their armed enforcers start having second thoughts about enforcing
the orders they are given. The Soviet
Union fell at the moment its army refused to mow down civilians in the streets
of Moscow. By contrast, the Chinese
filled the tanks in Tiananmen Square with young soldiers from rural areas who
had no experience of Beijing and mostly did not even speak the same language as
the protesters.
The
ideological cleansing of police and military in the U.S. is a particularly
nasty business because many of the people in these positions have sacrificed career
opportunities and accepted dangerous jobs in order to serve their nation and protect
their fellow citizens. Nevertheless,
those committed to establishing the new COVID security state will show no mercy
to police and troops suspected of disloyalty to the new regime.
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