Too much is never enough for progressives, because they must always progress. Not even pointlessly suffocating yourself with double Covid muzzles sufficed; before long they were barking about three masks. Likewise, getting the double Pfizer vax that we were told would set us free now falls short. We are told we may need a third shot. You can guess what comes next: the fourth shot.

Via Axios:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in updated guidelines Tuesday that some immunocompromised people who have received either Pfizer or Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines will be able to get a fourth shot.

You can also guess what comes after “will be able to” — namely, “will be required to.”

On a tip from Henry.

What California is to US states, New Zealand is to nation states — namely, a warning as to the insanity and repression that follow when moonbats prevail. Watch Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announce with a self-satisfied smile that she is deliberately creating a repressed underclass:

Apartheid used to be a bad thing. Now it is good, because it is directed against people the liberal establishment does not like.

To the extent the vaccinations are effective, the vaccinated have nothing to fear from the unvaccinated. To the extent they are not effective, it is all the more unreasonable to force people to get them regardless of whether the risk of an adverse reaction is countered by any likely benefit. The closest thing to a coherent argument for most young people and anyone who has already recovered from Covid to get vaxxed is “Because we told you to.”

A tyrant like Jacinda Ardern makes for an awful prime minister, but she would be great as a villainess in a James Bond movie:

On tips from R F and KirklesWorth.

Our ruling class doesn’t want us thinking about it, but it has been clear for some time that Covid was almost certainly deliberately engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Still more infuriating, its development was probably financed in part with American tax dollars:

Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright on Wednesday posted a letter from the National Institute of Health (NIH) showing that an NIH grant did fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contrary to what Dr. Anthony Fauci had testified to the Senate.

Fauci testified to Senators at a hearing in May that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

We already knew that Fauci is a liar. He has admitted that he lies by telling us only what he condescendingly thinks we are ready to hear. Lying from bureaucrats — even the federal government’s most extravagantly overpaid bureaucrat — is to be expected at this point. But lying during Senate testimony is supposed to be a crime even when favored members of the liberal establishment do it.

Do we still have rule of law in this country? Or does the law exist only to punish enemies of Democrats, who are themselves exempt from it? We will have our answer if Fauci is not prosecuted.

On tips from Chris Neilson, Varla, and Stormfax.

Lord Fauci has assured us that the vaccines are effective. But effectiveness means something less impressive with every passing day:

Now Fauci says having to keep taking shots has nothing to do with effectiveness.

Clearly no one has had a clue regarding even the medium-term effects of the vaccine. Why on earth would anyone risk giving it to children, who are not significantly affected by the ChiCom virus anyway?

Yet Big Government’s policy is that everyone must get the jab or else. In liberal California, this already means even kids.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

If our ruling class were responsible, sensible, and honest, it would admit that the Covid pandemic is over. The ChiCom virus is now endemic. People should be advised to take commonsense precautions but get on with their lives. However, our rulers are anything but responsible, sensible, or honest. They don’t like to let a crisis go to waste, as Obamunist Rahm Emanuel noted, because a crisis is “an opportunity to do things … you could not do before.” That’s why leftists are extending the crisis for as long as possible.

Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis proclaims that we are only at the “end of the beginning” of Covid hysteria and the tyranny it enables. He says the crisis can be milked by authoritarians until at least 2024:

Australia would not be investing in Covid concentration camps if they were willing to let this go any time soon.

Speaking of Australia, Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant is the Tony Fauci of New South Wales. She has forbidden Australians from speaking to each other and does not intend for their lives ever to go back to normal. Now she proclaims that her subjects may be forced to wear obedience muzzles in the name of Covid for years:

In the absence of sufficient pushback, there is no reason for our rulers not to keep this up indefinitely — or at least until the ChiComs leak the next engineered virus.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Occam’s Stubble.

The crisis Southwest Airlines inflicted on itself by attempting to impose Biden’s vaccine mandate on patriotic pilots was absurdly chalked up to weather and air traffic control problems that mysteriously did not affect other airlines. The liberal establishment media has helpfully tried to prop up this lame story, spinning the understanding that pilots walked out rather than submit to senseless tyranny as disinformation disseminated by “right-wing figures.” Newsweek squeaks that it “cannot authenticate details” regarding the image below, which they must have tried and failed to debunk. It features a flag associated with patriotism and resistance to tyranny (and also, as Newsweek chides, “far-right and extremist demonstrations”):

It does appear to be a Southwest jet though. Kudos to the patriotic pilot.

Maybe Newsweek journalists will have better luck debunking this:

This story also awaits a fact check from Newsweek:

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and Mr. Freemarket.

Whether or not you need it, whether or not it is good for your health, whether or not anyone understands the long-term effects, our rulers have decided that everyone must take the vaccine. If firing those who won’t submit doesn’t work, there are other ways to achieve full compliance.

Vaccines might be given through food:

UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. …

The project’s goals, made possible by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are threefold: showing that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, demonstrating the plants can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage.

They are testing the approach in lettuce and spinach. In Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, they get you when you sleep. In real life, it may turn out that they get you when you eat.

Another possibility is deliberately engineered viruses that are cures for other manmade viruses like Covid. From Nature:

We are now poised to begin developing self-disseminating vaccines targeting a wide range of human pathogens, but important decisions remain about how they can be most effectively designed and used to target pathogens with a high risk of spillover and/or emergence.

As Jarrad Winter remarks,

Essentially, what we are talking about is engineered viruses that supposedly spread like viruses but deliver “cures” instead of disease. If this insanity becomes reality, the overlords won’t have to mandate a damn thing. They will simply release some biological monstrosity that reprograms your body however they see fit.

Why stop at Covid vaccines? Once the left-wing social engineers who rule over us have established that they can make us take any drug they want, the sky is the limit.

To think people used to worry about fluoride in the drinking water. Soon we will have real problems.

On tips from Angel.

Covid tyranny may have encountered major pushback at Southwest Airlines. From AP, via Breitbart:

Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Monday following a weekend of major service disruptions.

By late morning Monday, Southwest had canceled about 365 flights — 10% of its schedule for the day — and more than 600 others were delayed.

Between Saturday and Sunday, 1,900 fights were canceled. Southwest blamed this on air traffic control issues and bad weather. As for the real reason:

The widespread disruptions began shortly after the union for its pilots asked a federal court to block the airline’s order that all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Looks like this is a sickout by pilots, although the union won’t say so.

The White House has pushed airlines to adopt vaccine mandates because they get paid under federal contracts, making them subject to President Joe Biden’s order that federal contractors require vaccination among employees.

Since we can’t count on the media to dig deeper into stories that don’t reflect well on Democrats, we pick up clues as to what is going on wherever we can. This has been floating around the Internet, allegedly written by someone in the airline industry:

I asked one of the pilots about it. The answer I got was (paraphrasing):

80% of our pilots are ex-military. We see the tyranny that’s happening. They’re coming for essential workers first (nurses, doctors, firefighters, police, military, teachers and transportation workers) and they’re coming for the rest of America next. We’re not doing it for us, we’re doing it for America. We swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic

The treasonous Biden Administration clearly qualifies as a domestic enemy.

On tips from R F and Varla.