What if... (update 1.1)

What if Biden's* latest vaccine mandate is more than just a drive to vaccinate everyone?

To vax or to not to vax is a complex decision best left to the individual and their personal circumstances.  While I may not agree with either absolutist position... it is just that - a personal decision.  Name, Shame, Require is not a persuasive method of increasing those vaccinated.  I am 100% opposed to REQUIRED vaccinations for this virus.

With views on the virus so political for no reason other than to be political and 'FUCK ORANGE MAGGOTS!!', what if this is just a thinly veiled political purge?

The breakdown of those supposedly not wanting the vax in popular culture are Trump voters and those who lean Trump, even though it is much more complex than that.

If you require all government employees to vax or lose their job, those who are principled will quit rather than vax, you have effectively set up a soft purge.  Disagree and still vax?  They broke your will and compromised you.

Why defund the police when you can get the smart ones to quit?  No social influencer can remain among the unvaxed! 

Have a company with over 100?  Is it cheaper to vax (at government expense) or purge everyone unvaxed?  How much time, effort, production time to test everyone?  It's a simple business decision made under coercion. 

Cost of documentation and compliance? That's for little companies to worry about!

Want an acquiescent military?  Require under punishment this vax.  Hesitant or opposed - there is the door.  Supposedly this has happened.

https://grabien.com/story.php?id=349545

Purge the gatekeepers to the officer ranks and you prevent a coup or countercoup...

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This virus is here.

It isn't going away.

Messaging has been horrendous. 

You can't vax your way out anymore, that is long gone.

Minimize your exposure - like the flu - protect the vulnerable.

We are NOT going to EVER have ZERO infections and ZERO deaths. 

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What to do?

Resist.  Every way possible.  To the gates of hell!!

You know what kind of companies are small-ish but employ over 100 workers?  Trucking companies. They can shut down, take extended breaks, or stop driving into areas that require a vax card, and where does that leave you when you need to stock up on TP?  How about an active strike by blocking roads?  Pretty easy to shut down most metro areas with a few dozen trucks. 

That is just one example... now use the same model for port workers or worse.

The establishment GOP will 'SUE THEM!!1!', but that takes time, effort, and lots of fundraising (interesting how that works).  They are not serious.  Direct action?  Depends on your definition of it is, I suppose.  Protesting seems to have worked in Portland.  This is where I start drawing lines, but it also seems that no one else has the same civil constraints I do.

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We live in troubling times, and it only takes a single spark to get things going.  A shooting of an unvaxed protester, mass firings due to vax status, a clever pundit to turn a phrase... things can change fast and some know it.

I have pleaded in the past for those pushing the boundaries to step back, because the pendulum always swings back and gains momentum.

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Is the Republic in trouble? 

 

Five years ago, I gave it a 1% chance (black swans, you know...), but now I am up to +10%.

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UPDATE:

There are many exceptions to these rules.  Again, it is political patronage run amok that postal workers and certain teachers are exempt, but not kids and postal patrons.  The politics of this is just aggravating.

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