The autocratic power assumed by the government during the COVID crisis has had the same effect on technocrats that blood in the water does to sharks: They are in a feeding frenzy. Their latest hoped-for power grab is to have the federal or state governments force us all to be inoculated against COVID. Such calls are ubiquitous. Editorializing that “there is no absolute right to refuse vaccination,” the Los Angeles Times argued, “No one has the right to sicken anyone else or start a new spike in cases through carelessness or their own sense of ‘personal choice.’” The most influential advocate for vaccine mandates has been bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel—a prime architect of the Affordable Care Act—who wrote recently in a co-authored New York Times piece: “We need to sharply reduce coronavirus infections to turn the tide and quell the pandemic. The best hope is to maximize the number of people …
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