"YOU TRIED TO TAKE AWAY MY RIGHTS AND YOU DON'T GET TO PRETEND YOU DIDN'T"

From Alex Bereneson:

I know what you did last summer (and fall)

You tried to take away my rights and segregate me. And no, you don't get to pretend you didn't.

We’ve all blocked the malign forces that started to swirl around this time last year, haven’t we? The jabbed and the purebloods too, we’ve all just decided to pretend it never happened.

Let me remind you.

Because it’s important that we never forget.

Governments and media outlets dropped their efforts to persuade unvaccinated people to take the shots voluntarily. Instead they began a coordinated worldwide effort to demonize the unvaccinated and press or flat-out force them to take the shots.

Public health authorities, reporters, and politicians worked together on these efforts, which took many forms:

Mandates requiring Covid vaccination for employment - even for people who worked from home.

Travel restrictions or bans, including border restrictions and the use of local public transportation.

Bans on shopping, going to restaurants or bars, watching live sporting events or movies or other recreation.

Requiring vaccination as a condition of college attendance - again, even for students who were only online.

Forcing unvaccinated people to pay more for their health insurance.

Health “ethicists” even seriously debated whether people who had chosen not to be vaccinated should be denied routine medical care or even sent to the back of the line for emergency treatment.

I believe those were the major lines of discrimination. If I have forgotten any, please let me know.

The hatred - no other word will do, really - that underlay this effort cannot be ignored.

Nor can its importance.

Last year’s efforts at vaccine coercion were the most serious effort to discriminate legally in the United States since the end of legal racial segregation in the South, and it marked a stunning reversal of two generations of efforts to expand civil rights in the United States and Europe.