The pandemic showed them they could do it, and now the power hungry are power mad

covid propaganda posters. Back to an unsophisticated time, because the unsophisticated can more easily be cowed — for a while

The University of Denver is now demanding that students and staff show proof of flu vaccination

All the best people scoffed at and ridiculed Trump when he said the mob wouldn’t stop at statues of confederates and that Jefferson would be next. Well, he was right, and so were those who said lockdowns and mandatory Monkey Flu vaccines were just the beginning.

Jazz Shaw, Hot Air:

If you’re not getting the sense that a new form of madness is sweeping the nation and it may be more contagious than COVID, you might be leading something of a sheltered life. Today’s story is indeed about yet another vaccine mandate, but it’s not associated with the novel coronavirus. Out at the University of Denver, school administrators are already making staff and students take saliva tests for COVID every nine days on top of providing proof of vaccination to attend classes in person. They currently have a less than 1% infection rate. But now they’re upping their game to the next level. Cold and flu season is approaching (as it does every year) and the school will now require proof of having been vaccinated against the flu. No… I’m not even kidding. (CBS Denver)

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Here are a couple of fun facts about the flu that some of you may not already know. During the 2019-2020 flu season (before the Pandemic kicked into gear) there were 107 children in America between the ages of 5 and 17 that died of the flu. 48% of them had serious underlying conditions that contributed to the severity of their cases. That’s 107 in a country of nearly 350 million people. And it was a record number of pediatric flu deaths. The average is below 100 and has been as low as 37.

Among adults, the lion’s share of flu deaths are seen among those 65 and older and people with chronic, underlying health conditions such as asthma, chronic heart disease, or HIV/AIDS. You would expect the average class of college students to be young and relatively healthy. The vast majority of them who catch the flu won’t miss more than a couple of days of classes.

So with that in mind, is this where we are heading as a country? Authorities of all stripes will be taking it upon themselves to mandate all manner of vaccinations and other medical procedures to avoid the risk of anyone dying? Over the course of the past year’s debates regarding vaccine mandates and immunity passports, one of the most common questions we’ve heard from skeptics ran along the following lines. When was the last time anyone where you work ever demanded to know if you’d had a flu vaccination unless you work in healthcare or are in the military? The answer for most of us is typically “never.”

We’ve been dealing with the flu for all of living memory. Some years it gets pretty bad. Occasionally we see a pandemic of a new strain and a lot of people die. But somehow we seemed to always deal with it without having our rights infringed upon and our personal choices about our medical care removed from our control. It’s already gone past the point where this is all just too much. Do. Not. Comply.

They won’t stop until we stop them.