We American Peasants Have No Betters

 

Here in 2024 we're still getting threats from the Progressive State that if we don't get vaccinations and boosters and lay off the Ivermecting and Hydrochloroquin we're going to lose our jobs and fined and God knows what else. I don't know what else they'll threaten us with us next, but cancel culture has supplied the progressive forces within federal government an exciting (for them) tool for bringing the proletariat into line. Next it will be digital currency, something the Biden administration has already proposed. 

 

Really? Threatening to end people's jobs and businesses the feds believe is "forcing" Americans to do something they don't want to do. Suppose I threatened to throw you off Facebook for getting the vaccination. I don't know where you did your research. If it was off NBC, CNN or The New York times, you might want to check out some actual scientific journals and talk to actual physicians out there in the field treating this disease. I work for myself, so the president can't fire me. I'm lucky in that respect. My wife and I get out very seldom and we do so with medical grade masks and practice social distancing. We both have experienced bad reactions to flu-type vaccines AND we're in the kill zone for this particular virus. 

 

We have carefully chosen our response to this based on risk factors (and there are risk factors with these vaccines). Were I younger and didn't have an underlying health condition, and I were out in public a lot, I might get the vaccine. As it is, my wife and I chose another approach. Others my age and physical health have faced CoVid and taken Ivermectin, Hydrochloroquine and Z-Pack treatments and now with the monoclonal antibody treatments, CoVid has been rendered a rather minor ailment. So on the outside chance I do get the disease, there are treatments available to get you through.

There are "solid" reasons for my choice in this matter not to mention my constitutional right to do what I want when it's my body. Isn't that the pro-abortion argument? How come it's no longer my body. Besides, with the feds telling you that if you've had the vaccine you can still get it, and still transmit it to others, and that it may make it a lighter case if you do get it, it's hard to trust the advice we're being given by so-called scientists who seem dead set on enforcing their own will in the form of what seems more of a political than a medical solution.

 

Then there is the organization of teams of public health officials and Homeland Security Officers up here in Oregon and Washington to go door to door asking whether people are vaccinated, recording it in a database along with information about whether you were flying Revolutionary War flags, had Trump signs, wore "certain" T-shirts or hats described by organizers as evidence that you are a white supremacist and potential terrorist. And don't start with that being a conspiracy theory. I sat in on the County Commissioner's meetings where they discussed the CDC/Homeland Security plans to do just that. When the County Judge was asked if Klickitat County was planning to do that, he turned to his public health director and asked, "Do we have any plans to do that?" 

The Public Health lady went pale and said, "Oh, hell no! You think I want to get shot?"  Southern Washington State's natives celebrate a culture, that I discovered would give East Texas a run for the money for being redneck. They have bears running around loose. Those folks are armed! They might get away with that over in Oregon, but they do NOT want to bring that stuff across the Columbia River. Mt. St. Helens blew up in the middle of south Washington.

That bullying is the reason people are resisting the mandates and quitting their jobs rather than comply. It doesn't help that the same people telling us we must get vaccinated, were the same ones telling us the vaccines were dangerous and not to get them back in December and January before Biden was sworn in. Afterwards, through some sort of magical incantation, I suppose, after Biden became president, the vaccines became miraculously perfect and wonderful and essential to the survival of mankind.

So forgive me if I think that belittling and berating people who choose not to take the vaccine is a small-minded, anti-American thing to do. As Americans we are not averse to giving up some liberties in an emergency or to taking risks where risk-taking is needed. Were my circumstances different my choices might be different. But my choices are my choices and I live in a nation where individual rights are sacred. We don't live in a collective thank God, where people serve the state. The state, in the American Constitutional Republic, serves at the behest of the people.

This high-handed imposition of mandates based on the will of our dear leaders is foreign to American beliefs. Americans don't believe in complying, obeying or submitting to the will and authority of our betters. That's because we don't think we have any betters.

Sorry for the long post, but my leftist Facebook friend's original post had a snarky tone to it and I'm kind of angry about that. He ridiculed those of us who have carefully chosen through research in medical studies, journal reports, our own observations and consultation with our physicians (each one of whom holds a doctorate and is a scientist in his or her own right). I find that more than a little condescending. 

 

And as I said, we don't much care for rule of our betters over us masses, peons, proletariat or whatever you want to call us regular ordinary schlubs! A whole lot of us would take umbrage if you came to our house, banged on my door and presumed to classify me a terrorist because I wouldn't mindlessly fall in line quietly and knuckle under to the latest attempt by Marxist progressive government bureaucrats to test to see just how much we'll tolerate and how quickly we can be bullied into submission to blatantly illegal and unconstitutional executive orders.

Not smart, Joe. We will not kneel to Moloch and his ilk.

Just sayin'.

© 2021 by Tom King

Access to Gardening Supplies Being Restricted in Michigan

© 2020 by Tom King

I thought folks in Michigan who have been banned from buying gardening supplies at Walmart might enjoy this one I just whipped up with Governor Gretchen the Merciless's image. It has been pointed out by my friends, who are members of the loyal opposition, that it is unjust of me to accuse the governor of banning gardening in Michigan to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Flu.  You, can after all, still buy seeds at local hardware stores, grocery stores and specialty shops. You'll just have to pay more for them. And ain't that the Democrat way. As one friend put it, "Is not your local grocer open? Your Ace hardware store? Your local garden center? They're not limited and they need your business more than the big box stores do. When I lived in Michigan I always shopped local and worked local.

 And there it is. The Democrat moral superiority as demonstrated by their love for the little guy and disdain for Walmart! Democrats for some reason are always trying to shift the market back to higher-priced smaller, so-called "local" stores. It's part of the way the left acquires its unearned moral superiority. But this isn't Europe. Most of us raggedy Americans aren't part of the British upper classes, shopping at the boutiques and shoppes to demonstrate what class we belong to (the one that's better than yours).

In America, since when does one kind of store get preference over another. What happened to the American tradition of open competition and free markets. Once you get a leftist defending the actions of the Dear Leaders, the masks tend to slip off. So this is about forcing people to go to more expensive stores to get what they want. And by the way, if they do that, the stock of supplies in these stores will be exhausted almost overnight while stuff wilts in the garden section down at Walmart. 

Don't kid yourself. This isn't about controlling the spread of Wuhan flu. It's about experimenting with social engineering. And how many of those beloved by the left Mom & Pop grocery stores sell plant sets, garden tools and big bags of fertilizer? It's true that you can still buy garden stuff in Michigan, at least until the shelves are Venezuela bare.Whitmer's executive order 2020-42 mandates that big box-type stores restrict access to portions of their stores as a means of reducing the number of customers in certain areas. Those sections include lawn and garden. Essentially the order limits the purchase of gardening supplies, seeds, tools and other necessary items for people to grow their own food at home, critics say.

Why pick on gardening supplies? It's easy to maintain social distancing in a gardening section of a Walmart, Lowe's or Home Depot, or a nursery. There's no logic to closing the gardening section if you are going to leave other sections of the store open. The Governor made sure she could still buy shoes, just not items you need to grow food to prepare for the expected post Wuhan Flu food shortage or to grow flowers to cheer up people depressed by the lockdown isolation.

Nope, she went with "Make America Great through protecting the ability of people who can't keep it zipped to kill millions of unborn children. That's a philosophical contradiction too obvas Scrooge once put it, "...if they're going to die, they'd better do it and thereby reduce the surplus population."
 

Because they can't completely close the big box stores and leave the mom and pops open without getting sued. So explain to me why she closed carpet and gardening departments at Lowe's, Home Depot and Walmart and not in smaller stores. I'll tell you. They're testing the waters. Trying to get people going back to higher priced local stores because they think they need to get people back to the kind of higher priced stores they shop at. Besides, preferential treatment for smaller stores shows off their phony anti-corporation moral superiority. It makes no sense to close the least heavily trafficked areas of those stores. It's not like you're going to be rubbing up against a lot of infected millenials amongst the tomato plants.

How come it makes sense to be forcing people to pay more to get their gardens going in a year when ordinary working folk are not able to work and when they say we're going to have massive food shortages because ..........Trump! Wouldn't it make sense to make gardening more affordable to encourage people to plant gardens to help feed themselves?

I hear Nancy Pelosi didn't have any trouble getting a load of $13.99 a pint gourmet ice cream delivered to restock her $26,000 sub zero freezers. Marie Antoinette once said, when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread, "Let them eat cake." Pelosi, Whitmer and Queen Marie's comments seem strikingly similar in sentiment and completely out of touch with their "subjects".*

© 2020 by Tom King

*After writing this I found that they've eased off in Michigan on the garden centers. Apparently between the Catholic Church hitting her about closing garden centers and leaving abortion mills open and the wrath of Michigan's militant gardeners, she decided that she needed to open the garden centers to blunt that narrative a bit. I wonder if Gretchen has been having nightmares about guillotines lately.

How Well is Sweden's CoVid-19 Strategy Working?

Turns out the curve is headed into low-Earth orbit!

The supposed Swedish herd immunity model has been touted lately as the way to go for the good old USA. Good old conspiracy theorists say it's best to go ahead and let everyone get it right away. Okay, I'm sorry but the "let everyone who's gonna die, go ahead and die" strategy doesn't much appeal to me - a 66 year-old diabetic with vicious arthritis. What's the advantage in that?  Decrease the surplus population?  How very Dickensian! I thought they said Obamacare wasn't going to do death panels. The herd immunity strategy doesn't work too well for those of us in the kill zone.

Meanwhile, the Swedish government flatly denies they are pushing any sort of herd immunity coronavirus strategy. I'm not sure they even have a coronavirus strategy. Perhaps they are hoping to wipe out some of those immigrant ghetto "no go" zones their police like to stay out of. I suppose if you want to thin out the immigrants, the infirm and the old people, it would certainly make national healthcare more affordable for the Swedish taxpayers who are left alive.

As it turns out, despite all the crowing by the media and assorted conspiracy theorists (most of whom are young and healthy and not likely to die from the virus), things are not going well in Sweden. So far their mortality rate is up around 12%*. That works out to be  4 times the worst predicted death rate in the USA. Per capita they have a whole lot more infections than the United States. Sweden is now the sixth worst hit nation on the planet so far. Interestingly all of the worst hit places (per capita) are in Western Europe except for China which is shaving their death totals quite shamelessly and probably have far more fatalities than they are admitting. Of course, since China has eased off the two child maximum laws, they are now facing a glut of old people, sick people and disabled people, which by sheer coincidence are the favorite targets for CoVid-19. I'm not saying they are deliberately killing people who are no longer useful, but even socialist here are saying never to "let a crisis go to waste". 

Hooray for socialized medicine! 

 

I'm just saying
 

© 2020 by Tom King*Current Swedish infection and death rate by CoVid-19.