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American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>, August 5, 2021<\/h3>\n

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Shut up and submit\u201d is now the favorite Covid cure of some of America\u2019s leading progressives.<\/strong> Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times<\/em> columnist, revealed on Tuesday<\/a> that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless government commands. Unfortunately, punitive panaceas are increasingly popular among both politicians and pundits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Krugman breezily expunges years of Supreme Court rulings to remove any impediment to forcibly injecting a hundred million Americans with an experimental vaccine. Krugman explains that \u201cwhen people on the right talk <\/a>about \u2018freedom\u2019 what they actually mean is closer to \u201cdefense of privilege\u201d \u2014 specifically the right of certain people (generally white male Christians) to do whatever they want.\u201d Blacks and Hispanics have lower rates of Covid<\/a> vaccinations than whites, but the freedom of minority groups is apparently irrelevant because some Trump supporters are anti-vax loudmouths.<\/p>\n

Other progressive stalwarts have jumped on the Iron Fist bandwagon. Pundit Matthew Yglesias declared that people should either take $50 for getting vaccinated now \u201cor else you get jabbed later<\/a> while someone holds you down and you get $0.\u201d Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who previously championed legal immunity for Bush administration torturers<\/a> and sneered at Americans who complained about intrusive TSA searches<\/a>, calls for mandating vaccines because it\u2019s \u201ctime to stop coddling the reckless<\/a>.\u201d Maximizing misery is Marcus\u2019s health prescription: \u201cThe more inconvenient we make life for the unvaccinated, the better our own lives will be.\u201d Similarly, Harvard professor Joseph Allen, writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, scoffed: \u201cWhy are so many people acting like this [vaccine mandate] is some kind of affront to our liberties?\u2026. We have a silver bullet that can end this crisis. Why are we afraid to pull the trigger<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Krugman\u2019s condemnation of other Americans hinges on the presumed omniscience of federal regulators. Krugman declares, \u201cWe now have highly effective vaccines freely available to every American who is at least 12 years old. There has been a lot of hype about \u201cbreakthrough\u201d infections associated with the Delta variant, but they remain rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

But not as rare as honest federal statistics. The CDC in May ceased keeping track<\/a> of \u201cbreakthrough\u201d infections unless they resulted in hospitalization or death. The Biden administration guaranteed that the vast majority of \u201cbreakthrough\u201d infections would not be counted. Thus, Fauci and others could endlessly appear on television and derided any suggestion that they were occurring in serious numbers. The CDC pockets $8 billion a year in tax dollars but can\u2019t be bothered to gather the data that would be the best guide to the efficacy of the vaccines.<\/p>\n

After a Covid outbreak effecting more than 500 vaccinated individuals at Provincetown had spurred headlines in Massachusetts for almost a week, the CDC finally issued a report on July 29 belatedly conceding vaccines failed to prevent new infections. Hundreds of staffers<\/a> at two San Francisco hospitals tested Covid positive last month, even though 75-80% had been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Abroad, the efficacy of vaccines is fading faster than the reliability of last season\u2019s campaign promises. Germany just announced that it will start new injections due to \u201cquickly subsiding immune<\/a> response after a full Covid-19 vaccination in certain groups of people.\u201d Half the new Covid cases in Israel were fully vaxxed & cases are \u201cgetting to severe and critical conditions<\/a>.\u201d In Singapore, \u201c75 percent of new infections reportedly occur<\/a> in people who are partially and fully vaccinated.\u201d On Tuesday, the CDC warned Americans against traveling to Ireland because of \u201cvery high\u201d Covid risks<\/a> due to outbreaks \u2013 even though 67% of Irish<\/a> have had at least one Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, a front-page Washington Post<\/em> headline hailed the success of the U.S. government effort: \u201cU.S. Hits Biden\u2019s Vaccine <\/a>Goal Late.\u201d The accompanying article included a progress update from the Biden White House\u2019s Covid-19 Data Director, triumphally echoed across the American media landscape.<\/p>\n

This is reminiscent of Stalin\u2019s 1930 boast about being \u201cdizzy with success<\/a>\u201d about the rapid forcible seizure of private farmland for Soviet collective farms. Unvaccinated Americans are the new Kulaks, endlessly vilified and blamed for being \u201cwreckers\u201d of the Biden salvation scheme. Soviet agriculture statistics shunted aside the far superior output of the remaining private farms. Similarly, Biden\u2019s Covid policy ignores the natural immunity possessed by the 119 million Americans<\/a> who have survived Covid, according to CDC statistics. Stalin\u2019s collectivization drive resulted in a famine that killed up to 10 million people<\/a> in the Ukraine and elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Hopefully we won\u2019t see another parallel on that score: the New York Times covered up that 1930s catastrophe, publishing false reports claiming that there was no famine (and winning a Pulitzer<\/a> in the bargain).<\/p>\n

Do some progressives see Covid mandates as simply another chance to virtue signal? Ruth Marcus hailed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for \u201chaving wisely reimposed a mask mandate in the city.\u201d Bowser decreed a $1000 fine for people<\/a> violating her mask decree \u2013 which applies even to people waiting outside for a bus. The fact that Bowser was speedily caught violating her own edict<\/a> is irrelevant to the sanctity of mask mandates. Marcus, like other herd journalists, may be totally clueless on the data showing that masks fail to prevent<\/a> the spread of Covid, as AIER has repeatedly documented. But masks remain invaluable as a tool for the mathematically illiterate to demonstrate their devotion to \u201cscience and data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freedom is rapidly being defined to connote whatever privileges remain after citizens submit to the latest decrees.<\/strong> New York City just decreed that vaccination passes will be required for citizens to go to restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues. In his press conference Tuesday<\/a>, Mayor Bill deBlasio said: \u201cAnd if you do get vaccinated, and you\u2019re around fully vaccinated people, you still have more freedom than folks who are not vaccinated. So, it\u2019s really strategic.\u201d Did New York City voters realize at the last election that they were designating a czar who could impose unlimited restrictions on their movement throughout the Big Apple?<\/p>\n

\u201cIn time, we hate that which we often fear,\u201d William Shakespeare wrote four centuries ago. Covid policy nowadays seems driven more by rage and hatred than by facts which debunk official storyline<\/strong>s. Twitter followers exalt Krugman for asserting \u201cthe rhetoric of freedom is actually about privilege.\u201d Unfortunately, plenty of prominent poohbahs are enjoying the privilege of trying to destroy other Americans\u2019 freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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