Fall 2023 Vaccine Campaign: Queuing up, Masking Up
The fall vaccine campaign is on. This sign located about 12 miles south of Duluth MN, on I35 south, just outside of the Fond Du Lac Band reservation. Poisoning Native Americans has been popular with the United States government for centuries and they continue their efforts today. The ad is co-sponsored by the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) and Minnesota Department of Health. The doctor recruited for the billboard is C.W. Hall. He works at a small clinic in Cloquet, MN. On their website he has a 3- minute video talking some gibberish about his commitment to holistic health. But he knows where his corn is buttered and I’m sure was delighted to be the poster boy for convincing the tribe to shoot up.
This is just a microcosm of what is unfolding nationwide as the Covid monster, under a new alias, is returning (drum roll). We know this because the NY Times and Washington Post have been running articles telling us that Covid this time is serious. Moreover, the corporate media, sponsored by Pfizer, is pushing the needle for the newest version of the vaccine. CNN is on the band wagon as are all the other corporate networks.
One school district in South Texas has closed because 10 staff members have tested positive for Covid and in taking the early prize for Over-the-Top Ways to Defeat Covid, Morris Brown College near Atlanta has instituted a two-week mask festival on campus before one case of the virus has even been reported.
There are still over 100 colleges that mandate the Covid vaccine for students and surprisingly some of the colleges on the list are accredited and some of them still have admissions standards. However, we can be assured that no critical thinking is taught at these schools.
My favorite audience, the readers of the New York Times, are in a bit of a tizzy over this new, emerging variant. Times readers are mostly between the ages of 25-54, and overwhelming lean towards the Democrats. The reader comments section of selected articles and opinion pieces are heavily censored, and thus the comments there are like an echo chamber in which one comment reflects another fussing about which mask works the best and who has the most boosters.
They are primed, even excited for another Covid variant and are already queuing up to be fitted for masks and are overly excited to be getting a new, improved booster. They remain a smug group certain that the vaccines are saving their lives although many of them have had multiple cases of Covid. Their smugness extends to their continued scapegoating of the unvaccinated.
Many have been broken psychologically by the ineffective masking, social distancing, lockdowns, government lies, and medical gaslighting that has occurred over the last three years. Many, if not most, will never recover. Unfortunately, this will make them susceptible to other government control efforts to infantilize them.
I remain hopeful that more people will resist the failed Covid policies of the past three years when they are implemented this fall, but I am doubtful, too. There is a group identity associated with masking up and other compliance issues that serve to bolster one’s sense of self-worth and more importantly one’s sense of connectiveness or belonging. In a fractured country such as ours feeling connected to anything, no matter how wrongheaded, offers a palliative to the dark dystopian shadow that lurks just beyond our awareness and is eventually coming for all of us.
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