The Declaration of Independence and Mask Mandates

 

Americans believe they have been “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Mask mandates violate all three of these rights.

Life

Breathing is a life-critical human function. If you stop breathing, you die. If breathing is hampered, bodily functions are compromised. As untold studies have shown, prolonged mask wearing is harmful to human health. You cannot live a full life when breathing is impaired. Ask anyone with COPD.

Liberty

Masking everyone—without choice—denies individual liberty. The state is ordering you to do something against your will. A counter argument might be, “Your rights end where my rights begin." Except, despite emotion-laden narratives, the simple act of breathing by a well person does not threaten anyone’s rights.

Pursuit of happiness

Pursuit of happiness is often defined as the freedom to make what you want of life. Masks take the joy out of learning. They sucked the energy out of the classroom. Masks make teachers, administrators, and students grumpy and reluctant participants. Schools with mask mandates are sad places.

Autocrats would like to erase this quote from the Declaration of Independence. They can’t. Our Founding Principles are too deeply ingrained in Americans psyches. After all, they’re endowed by our Creator.

That same document also warns authoritarians that when people are subjugated, “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government.”

Did the FDA Actually Fully Approve the Pfizer Vaccine?

People have pointed out that the Pfizer vaccine has not been FDA approved; only it’s emergency use extended. I personally read the published letters multiple time. Understanding these mind-numbing missives requires a bureaucratic mind. Here's my read. An essentially identical vaccine with a different name has been fully approved. However ... the only data point that matters is that this renamed vaccine is not being manufactured. It doesn’t exist.

Many now claim that the approval hoopla is fake news.

CDC VAERS Data

It’s worse. Way worse. This is manufactured news. A purposefully false narrative that required the collusion of Big Government, Big Pharma, and a complicit media. A made-up story that could have devastating consequences on your health and wellbeing.

Vaccination mandates are illegal under the emergency use authorization. I know the DOJ declared them legal, but it's there in plain English. Go ahead and check it out for yourself. The illegality was the strongest argument of the “vaccine hesitant.” So the government concocted a “narrative” that the vaccine had full FDA approval. Within hours of the press release, an avalanche of mandates fell on us.

But … the approved vaccine is not available. Only the same ol’ stuff that has been around for months.  Vaccines that have only emergency use authorization. EUA vaccines may not be forced on you by the government or private entities.

But the FDA did approve a vaccine. Surely, it will be available within days ... or weeks. No, it won't. There's a caveat. An FDA vaccine is not exempt from liability. Pfizer will not sell it's vaccine to any country without 100% indemnification. Period. Never. Indemnification is paramount to Pfizer. Do you think they will rush this renamed vaccine to market and forgo their shield against lawsuits?

The Biden Administration is between a rock and a hard place. If the FDA does not fully approve a SARS-Cov-2 vaccine, the unvaccinated have a principled and legal argument to resist. If the FDA approves the vaccines, the suppliers will cease providing the jabs.

So, they tried sleight of hand.

They approved a non-existent vaccine and spun a narrative.

Like many SARS-Cov-2 narratives, this one collapses with the application of common sense. How can the FDA give full approval to a vaccine that does not exist, while at the same time declaring that an identical drug must finish it’s trials prior to approval? (Read the letters. This is what they did.) Only if they had assurances that the new vaccine would not be marketed prior to completion of the trials. Actually they didn't need assurances. All of the conspirators know the loss of indemnification would be a deal breaker. 

This was a narrative stunt, plain and simple. Corporate mandates remain ILLEGAL under the emergency measures that apply to available vaccines.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a conspiracy.

Democrats … Then and Now

My current writing project is Maelstrom, a political novel about the Civil War.  To a great extent, Maelstrom is a sequel to Tempest at Dawn, my novelization about the Constitutional Convention. The Civil War tested the tensile strength of the Framers work. Although both books stand alone, they share style and structure and many of the Framers descendants make brief appearances.

I’m reading stacks of books to get alternative perspectives on the players and events. One is The Impending Crisis in The South written in 1857 by Hinton Rowan Helper. Nothing like getting the skinny from someone who actually lived in the period.

Helper begins his book with startling statistics. He compares the economies of slave and non-slave states at the time of the Framing of the Constitution to just prior to the Civil War. Here are some of his statistics comparing New York and Virginia.

 

                                                                New York                             Virginia

1790 Population                                        340,120                              748,308

1850 population                                     3,097,661                            1,421,661

1791 Exports                                       $2,505,465                           $3,130,865

1852 Exports                                      $87,484456                           $2,724,657

He didn’t have 1790 numbers for some economic indicators but provided contemporaneous comparisons for imports, manufacturing, real and personal property, and farms.

 

                                                                New York                        Virginia

1853 Imports                                     $178,270,999                      $399,004                                             

1850 Manufacturing                          $237,597,249                      $29,705,387

1850 Property (Incl. slaves)           $1,080,309,216                      $391,646,438

1850 Farms                                       $576,631,568                      $223,423,315

Helper then compares Massachusetts versus North Carolina and Pennsylvania versus South Carolina. The results are similar. North and South Carolina in the lead at the time of the Constitutional Convention and the woefully behind by mid-nineteenth century.

For the six states Helper examines, slaveholding states were far stronger in 1787 than their northern counterparts, but after sixty years, the free states explosive growth had left the South far behind. It was like the South was in a footrace wearing concrete boots. Hinton Helper, a southerner, identifies that concrete as slavery.

The political implications are interesting. The South was controlled by a single party, and they retained power by keeping the general populous uneducated, poor, and dependent. Upward mobility? Almost unknown. Income disparity was of feudal dimensions, social norms insisted on conformity, and politicians and the press constantly demonized the North while telling the lower classes that they lived in a morally superior society.

Here’s a thought; that same political party wields ironclad control over our largest cities with income disparity, poor education, and dependency the order of the day. Sure seems like that party is using the same strategy to retain full and absolute power.