Reducing the Number

The mandate arrives. The announcement accompanying it makes no gestures toward the liberal republic our Federal government was pretending to be.

Edit: Biden’s speech presented, as far as I could catch, a revised and limited version of the “incentive” plan for companies with over 100 employees that was either leaked to or erroneously reported by Reuters. As portrayed by his speech, these companies will be merely required “to give those workers paid time off to get vaccinated.” However, the direct mandate (or testing) requirement is included in the current online version of the plan posted by the administration.¹

After hints were broadcast that the “six prongs of salvation” Biden was to announce today would mission-creep just across the threshold of a mandate for Federal employees and contractors, plans for an Executive fiat of some form requiring vaccination or weekly testing for all businesses of over 100 employees were added to the official record.² As reported by Reuters, this will cover two-thirds of American employees - even if notably in sectors where loyal, but unvaccinated employees have already been expelled in droves by mandates that don’t even bother with the weekly testing fig-leaf. The Reuters report, it should be noted, already seems to have two different versions with different bylines; and the contents of the report may prove to be to some degree in error. Additionally, it is unclear whether Biden will in fact be addressing the nation on his hexaprong at the top of the coming hour or not.

But presuming that this report holds up, and even speculating that the “weekly testing” fig-leaf will be removed by the time the fiat is issued, the language surrounding the announcement, delivered in advance of Biden’s scheduled speech by Jen Psaki, is more alarming than the announcement itself. And this language, now that it has entered the political record, cannot be erased. The Biden administration has explicitly declared intent to reduce in number unvaccinated Americans - without even appending a verbal caveat that this is meant only via the forced re-categorization of those Americans by delivery of an experimental medical intervention:

"Our overarching objective here is to reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, noting that 80 million still have not been vaccinated. "We want to reduce that number, decrease hospitalizations and deaths and allow our children to go to school safely." […]

"He's going to speak directly to vaccinated people and their frustration, and he wants them to hear how we're going to build on what we've done to date to get the virus under control and to return to some version of normal in this country," she said.

The second formulation of “reduce that number” can be easily dismissed as an IQ-lowering drip-feed of authoritarian security-state propaganda dressing a double-speak campaign of otherization, one that clearly intends to imply a near-future of mass extermination under the guise of “decreasing deaths” (you can’t add to the toll of deaths if you’re not legally a person). But that it is being uttered despite the patent failure of the media and the administration to re-create the authentic consensus of what is safe - imprisonment - and what is dangerous - the virus - speaks to the awkwardness and desperation of this announcement of intent.

All through the late summer’s predictable, well-foreseen delta wave, a media propaganda campaign of breathtaking fervor has tried to regain the Pandemic™’s narrative footing, and has failed miserably. Americans have instead been only repelled by the charade which has played out before their eyes: The more that they have refused to buy the claim that the sky is falling, the more the claim has been updated to add and it’s on fire, and felling your children like wheat, and vomiting magma atop your heads as we speak.

The game was already over. Despite that more than half of American citizens might still support mandates, fewer than those truly buy into the fraud that peace will ever thereby be delivered. These are the dispirited and exhausted, who must soon, if they have not already, lose the last shreds of their faith that the media/state intends ever to relent no matter how much bloodshed it unleashes. They have seen into the future of endless anxiety and alienation that will comprise existence in the Public Health Police State; to the extent that their amorphous frustration is still directed at the unvaccinated, all promises of relief from that frustration must ring hollow. They know that the only thing their government knows how to or intends to get under control, is them. In a sense, they are already waiting for the unvaccinated to begin the revolution.

So the Biden administration lost the battle over the narrative, and now has declared victory. As far as attempted roll-outs of authoritarian mass murder go, this one is a novel experiment. But the novelty and the ineptitude of this attempted final extinguishing of political legitimacy and restraint won’t save us from the likelihood of resulting carnage.

What must follow from here is either widespread nullification of the Federal mandates or widespread secession, both potentially trailed by civil war.

(The September Unperson Trilogy)

We Silly Rabbits - Fully Vaccinated (Revokable) - Reducing the Number

1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/

As accessed on September 9, 2021:

The President’s plan will reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans by using regulatory powers and other actions to substantially increase the number of Americans covered by vaccination requirements—these requirements will become dominant in the workplace. In addition, the plan will provide paid time off for vaccination for most workers in the country.

Requiring All Employers with 100+ Employees to Ensure their Workers are Vaccinated or Tested Weekly

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. OSHA will issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to implement this requirement. This requirement will impact over 80 million workers in private sector businesses with 100+ employees.

This formulation of “reduce the number” also skirts any caveat that increasing the number of American subject to mandates is the only means by which the administration intends to achieve reduction of those who do not comply.

2. Mason, Jeff. Shepardson, David. Aboulenein, Ahmed. “New Biden plan could mandate COVID shots or tests for two-thirds of U.S. workers.” (2021, September 9.) Reuters. Edit: This article was renamed after the speech. As of an hour after the speech, the language in the article has become ambiguous regarding the mandate for businesses.