It’s been terribly disappointing, both inside and outside of America, to see police forces rally to enforce tyrannical, unprincipled, and often illegal or unconstitutional government responses to COVID. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised—the various governments pay their salaries—but, given that the governments are made up of the same leftist elitists who five decades ago called police “pigs,” many of us expected more from our police. I can tell you, though, that one thing that none of us expected, and that’s to see police marching peacefully alongside Parisians who were protesting COVID restrictions and vaccine passports.
Once the COVID vaccine appeared on the scene and President Trump decamped the White House, governments across the West have used vaccines as a means to solidify the control they achieved over people during Year One of the COVID Plague. And the fact is that, in Year One, COVID was enough of a mystery that people played along.
By Year Two, though, not only were people tired of the restrictions on a disease that proved to have an average mortality of something less than 1%, they were deeply concerned that the so-called vaccines were as dangerous as, if not more dangerous than, COVID itself. As time went on, they pointed out that the vaccines didn’t vaccinate, that people were dying or becoming terribly ill in reaction to the jabs, and that the various governments were hiding data.
The world’s Western governments, however, including Biden’s administration and most Democrat governors, have seen the vaccines as the perfect way to separate good, obedient leftist citizens from bad, disobedient, independent-minded citizens. The vaccine mandates were especially useful with police forces because all the independent-minded officers got fired. The ones who remained were happy to do anything for their paychecks and were even actively on board with the whole mandate regime.