[NB: This essay was originally published here]

Atlanta, GA

May 9, 2020

“Happy Friday!”, came the contrived cheer to start another all-day conga of Zoom calls.

“I’ll take your word for it that it’s Friday”, I replied.

Like an extended vacation…but staying home to work rather than traveling for fun…weekdays now run together, each indistinguishable from the las…

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Atlanta, GA

April 12, 2020

Back in the Mesozoic Era…about six weeks ago…we entered Lent, and have since wandered in a hell of a wilderness.

Satan seemed everywhere, but even he could offer little to tempt God’s children…or to compete with government largesse.

Bread? That’s fine. But what we really needed was toil…

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October 23, 2024

Like Hannibal crossing the Po, another presidential election looms.

As with most choices in living memory, there’s no good option. Our best bets are held noses, closed eyes, and rolled dice in vain attempts to avoid the worst.

Like residents of Warsaw in 1939, we shouldn’t stay where we are. But with our escape routes …

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June 4, 2024

Dr Fauci is finally facing the music…or at least a few discordant notes.

Unfortunately, most of them are off-key, whistled and strummed by politicians who were too timid to sing this tune when “P…

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August 23, 2023

I guess the climate con isn’t gaining enough ground. So it’s time to revive a tactic that grabbed more traction. 

For three years, sanctimonious hysterics ruined millions of lives by enforcing “health protocols” that didn’t work.

Or did they?

I suppose that depends on what we mean by “work”. What was the real purpose of those moro…

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November 4, 2022

Imagine going to the doctor with unfamiliar chest pains. The physician hears your symptoms, drops everything, and immediately suggests open-heart surgery. Just to be safe. 

You question the decision, and ask for some tests, additional data, or perhaps another opinion. You also try to inform him of other health issues and family…

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October 26, 2022

Degenerate societies despise children. The Canaanites immolated them, Carthaginians took them to the tophets, and Aztecs hurled them into volcanic pits.

Being more “civilized” than its ancient ancestors, modern culture dispenses with kids by averting its eyes. Every year in America alone, almost a million unseen innocents are i…

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February 9, 2022

Is it finally happening? 

Are these the weeks…like the first stones from the Berlin Wall…that the Covid Regime began to crumble?

It started when Canadian truckers started chiseling the concrete. As cracks formed and the mortar gave way, other drivers hopped in their cabs, started their engines, and plowed through.

Below the 49th …

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February 4, 2022

Time has no beginning and history has no bound

And to this verdant country they came from all around

They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forest tall

Built the mines, the mills, and the factories for the good of us all.

– Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy”

Last week, an unusual blast of arctic air dropped o…

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January 17, 2022

A couple days ago, I revealed how I failed a test for drugs…because I refused to consume one.

Regarding the pharmaceutical elixirs themselves, I’ve given reasons for reluctance countless times during the last six months, and I need not re-hash all of them here. But I will provide a few more.

It’s interesting that despite the dom…

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January 14, 2022

Yesterday we received a decision from nine people as to whether another person can tell hundreds of millions of different individuals what drugs they must take. While many of us had reasons to cheer or jeer the results, not enough found the scenario disturbing.

How did Americans come to blithely accept that the US government is…

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January 10, 2022

Chesterton observed that the modern world is insane. Not so much because it admits the abnormal, but because it can’t recover the normal. 

We’re now at a point where normality not only appears incapable of being recovered; most people don’t even seem to remember what it was. We think we’re rebellious when we defend the Founding…

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January 7, 2022

We know a lot of people who took vaccines for Covid. I guess it worked…because many of them now have it.

After two years of neurotic germaphobia, authoritarian lockdowns, economic destruction, unhinged hypochondria, useless mask mandates, irrational fear, catastrophic school closures, never-ending nasal swabs, idiotic floor stic…

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December 13, 2021

Much as there’s a nonsensical perception that “unvaccinated” equals “infected” (and vice versa)…as if one can spread Covid even if he doesn’t have it…many people seem to think that if someone opposes vaccine mandates, that person must be unvaccinated – or is, at the very least, “anti-vaxx”. 

People have been called hypocrites …

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December 3, 2021

The most improper job of any man, even saints, who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. 

– JRR Tolkien 

Despite all we should’ve learned the last couple years, a disconcerting number of people seem to be getti…

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October 23, 2021

I honestly am trying to get away from this topic, but (disheartening as it is) opposing mandatory vaccines is apparently a great way to cause controversy and generate questions. Once again, I received several responses to my most recent reply. I include several below, and then will try to answer them all at once.

JD,

Thanks to y…

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October 16, 2021

Everywhere we turn, Morons and Midwits abound. These are not synonymous, and the latter are frequently more dangerous than the former.

Some Morons can be managed and handled, and often are…usually by the deep state cronies and chislers who arrange to have them elected. But many Morons have their own mind, defective as it may be…

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September 29, 2021

Recent missives have drawn more replies. The question below is similar to several, and is a good one, so I’ll reproduce and answer it here.

Question:

JD, You have said that indoor mask mandates and vaccine mandates by businesses are assaults on your freedoms. Let’s say that you are Health Commissioner of Georgia, responsible f…

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September 16, 2021

To [HR Compliance Officer]:

On August 6, 2021, [the company] notified employees that they must be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 and provide proof that they have done so, or face termination of employment.

This letter serves as my formal notice to [the company] that receiving the COVID-19 vaccination would violate my sinc…

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September 12, 2021

“I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.” 

– Joe Biden, President of all the Americans

Well, I guess it wasn’t “just a mask” after all.

The other day, after a year and a half of turning the dial, the Covid Regime made the water a lot warmer. But will the frogs finally feel the boil?

Thursday, the President of the “united” States took it upon himself to furrow his brow, wag his finger, and scold 100 million people for not putting into their bodies what his back-stage ventriloquists want him to ensure they put in their bodies. 

In what may be the most condescending, contemptuous, and contemptible speech a president has ever given, this dementia-addled Deep State hack unilaterally decreed (among other things) that businesses must coerce employees to take vaccines to protect people who’ve taken vaccines.

As he does all he can to instill and perpetuate division and anger, El Jefe tells us he and his government understand the “frustration” the vaccinated feel toward the unvaccinated. His patience, he ominously informs us, is wearing thin.

No politician should ever feel this comfortable issuing such veiled threats to the people he “serves”. Who the hell does he think he’s talking to? And who the hell does he think he is? If his patience is thin, ours is emaciated.

For eighteen months, Americans cowered in fear, relinquished their dignity, and did what they were told. They stayed home, closed businesses, “sheltered in place”, kept apart, wore masks, deprived their children, avoided loved ones, swabbed their nostrils, cancelled weddings, restricted funerals, skipped heart diagnoses, cancelled cancer screenings, lost friendships, worked remote, severed families, sunk into isolation, suffered depression, and succumbed to despair. 

And it’s all been in vain. None of it did a damn bit of good. As these charts show, it was predictably futile, and had no measurable effect on Covid cases, hospitalization, or deaths. Like most any government-orchestrated efforts, these dystopian distortions are a complete waste of time and money…at least for the vulnerable citizens they’re ostensibly meant to “protect”. 

Not that there weren’t beneficiaries. Well-connected insiders in the tech, financial, and pharmaceutical sectors made out like bandits. And there, as always…providing the guns, driving the getaway car, and taking its cut…was the government.

But all along, Americans were assured by a couple half-wit presidents and their “public health” goons that vaccines were the ticket out. Once available, these medical miracles would allow masks to come off, freedom to be restored, and life to resume. So, understandably, sleeves went up, and shots flowed in.

By summer, anyone who wanted to be injected had ample opportunity to do so. Those who didn’t were content with their choice. If the vaccines really protect those who receive them, that should have been it. Everything should have immediately re-opened with all restrictions lifted, as if none of this nightmare ever happened.

If the shots work, forcing them on everyone is unnecessary. If they don’t, it’s pointless. Despite the blame the architects of this disaster are trying to shift to those who didn’t follow orders, there is no justifiable rationale for forcing syringes into everyone’s arm.

But like defense contractors after the Cold War, the Covid industrial complex won’t willingly hop off the gravy train. They need to be pushed, and the tracks blown to bits. Unfortunately, the engineers keep stoking the engine, with far too many compliant Americans guarding the rails and providing more coal.

As with the CDC eviction moratorium President Trump promulgated last year, this presidential power-grab is nakedly despotic and blatantly unconstitutional. And inserting a bureaucratic intermediary like OSHA does nothing to lend it legitimacy. 

The US government has no authority to tell private businesses or landlords who they can’t hire or must fire, to whom they can rent, or to stipulate what medicine employees must take. If the government can prevent a landlord from collecting rent, it can also preclude him from offering a lease. Not just to the unvaccinated, but to any group it declares dissident.

But at this point, constitutionality makes no difference. Almost everything the US government does is unconstitutional. Elected officials don’t care. And most Americans don’t either. This is about power, not principle.

Egregious as this edict is, we’d hope no one is still naive enough to think it’s the last one. Or that it’s application will be confined to Covid. Incremental despotism will continue, even if the steps grow larger. 

There are many ways to keep squeezing the vaccination vise. University funding can be withdrawn, interstate travel can be prohibited, and TSA clearance can be made contingent on the jab. Even banking could be banned to those who won’t expose their arm and bend their knee. Obviously, none of this would be legal. But so what? That hasn’t stopped them so far.

The smug and sanctimonious among the vaccinated should know that the precedent and power of dictatorial decree will eventually be turned on them, which is why the principled vaccinated know this must be resisted and defied. If not now, when? If not this, what?

After 9/11, the US government…talking to us as if we were a bunch of infants…expected us to believe that terrorists attacked us “because of our freedoms”. Then, as now, our freedoms were blamed for their folly. So, they did what they always do: they took more of them away.

For two decades, the government protected its people by turning on the usual suspects: us. Like a snowball down a mountain, the restrictions and surveillance rolled on, and built up. Now, the Covid flakes have produced an avalanche. The bio-surveillance State is here.

It was always juvenile and absurd to think terrorists attacked us “for our freedoms”. But on the twentieth anniversary of a horrible day, it seems inconceivable anyone could possibly still think that’s a reason they would do so. 

JD