Commentary Now that questioners of the U.S. government’s COVID measures have been identified by the Department of Homeland Security as the top domestic terror threat (i.e., ahead of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban) (see part 1), President Joe Biden might be excused for his use of the word “patriotic”—though patriotism is supposedly the preserve of right-wing nativists—to describe one’s duty to get “the jab.” Unfortunately, Biden rather undercut the urgency of his patriotic appeal when he assured us that the vaccine is “98 percent” effective at preventing severe disease, forgetting that the natural immune system has been more than 99 percent effective at preventing severe disease since inception, according to the data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Biden’s own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Listening to the commander-in-chief of the anti-COVID battalions—the man who won the election because the American people trusted him to manage the …
Authoritarianism and Censorship in the COVID Era, Part 2: Coercing the ‘Vaccine Hesitant’
September 1, 2021
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