I’m sitting in my office, where most of my blogs have been written, doing some work with Fox business in the background. It seems that all the news is bad, worse than normal, which is normally bad. Stocks are down due to Omicron worries, where the worldwide death total from this variant has reached the huge milestone of 1. In reaction to this not only is the stock market down, but NY city has reinstated an indoor mask mandate and Philadelphia is requiring a vax card for anywhere that food or drinks are sold and consumed on site, including restaurants, bars, movie theaters, entertainment venues and more. Oh yeah, there is also the terribly destructive tornadoes that killed many dozens and wiped out entire towns.
It is all a bit depressing and scary. Obviously the people who died and lost everything is heartbreaking. This is the biggest tragedy in quite a while.
What I want to focus on though is the frightening slippery slope of these vaccine mandates. I am in no way religious, but the following bible verse has been mentioned a lot and has stuck in my head as I watch what is going.
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
So in Philly, one will not be able to go out to eat or drink unless they can prove they have been “fully vaccinated”, which in itself is constantly changing. I assume there will be more cities to follow suit. I fear for those of us who believe in personal freedom who have made the conscious decision to not be vaccinated. The plan seems to me to make it so hard to do normal life things that people will be forced to cave and get the jab. I can certainly see in the not too distant future a vaccine being required to fly on an airplane, go to government buildings, go to concerts or sporting events and more.
I fear how this will affect my life and ability to do the things that I should be able to do in a free and open country. I fear what this does to businesses being forced to enforce vaccine requirements, or face possible fines for not complying. I fear for the precedent this sets. If they can enact these restrictions successfully there will be nothing to stop them from making any number of requirements in the future and just take away your rights and freedoms if you don’t comply.
Lastly I fear for the safety of my fellow Americans. I know there are many who have had about enough and are damn near ready to snap. Imagine what will happen when you force people to have a vaccine or lose their job. For any number of reasons some/many people will not be vaccinated. So a family loses their source of income due to the mandate. Then the family is not able to get basic food and clothing that is needed. you’re going to push people to the brink.
Then you have the people who believe this is all about governmental control. In many of their minds they look at themselves as true patriots, protecting the freedom our forefathers fought for. These people are out there and the pressure is building.
Then you have the religious faction who believe this is the mark of the beast and by fighting the government restrictions they are doing the Lord’s work. There are those who will feel completely justified in fighting the mark of the beast and therefore Satan.
I was hoping that life was getting back to some semblance of normal, but it appears that through fear and the media there is constantly something new to be fearful of. It will not surprise me if there begin to be people fighting back. People are sick of it all. Add in the massive increase in crime, the out of control inflation and never ending covid restrictions and I think dark days are ahead. Maybe it’s what we need as a country. For too long people have sat back and allowed life to be changed for the worse and being able to do nothing about it.
It will be interesting to see what 2022 brings. I am hopeful, but I fear the worst. It’s so sad what has happened to the once great United States of America.
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