Sources are reporting that upwards of 50 percent of people who got jabbed for COVID were sickened by the shots – or are still sick with no end in sight. Eight out of 10 jab recipients, especially including those who got at least one “booster” shot in addition to the primary series, are suffering complications that could end up disabling them.

According to Dr. Peter McCullough, every single person who got even just one COVID jab is now experiencing some kind of problem or series of problems related to the heart – whether they realize it or not. Those who do realize it often discovered it by surprise when they suffered an unexpected cardiac arrest or inflammatory reaction like myocarditis.

As time goes on and the bodies of the fully vaccinated degrade even further, there will likely come a point when a critical mass of sick people creates enough of a public health scare that the infamous “quarantine camps” are opened and filled with the “sick.”

New York is said to have its quarantine camps ready and waiting for the political green light to start loading up the boxcars, so to speak, and delivering prisoners to their bunks. Other states are reportedly doing the same, often quietly.

(Related: President Biden has been dropping hints that a second round of medical martial law is coming soon to the United States.)

DeSantis’ “no vax” bill for Florida a Trojan Horse: it’s actually a forced vax bill

Believe it or not, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis is another state where residents face the same forced quarantine situation that New Yorkers do under Gov. Kathy Hochul. DeSantis is a Republican and Hochul is a Democrat, demonstrating once again that tyranny is a bipartisan effort in America.

Hochul’s forced quarantine measures are at least clearly outlined as such, DeSantis’ is hiding behind a so-called “no vax” bill that, upon closer investigation, is actually a forced vax bill in disguise.

As stated directly in DeSantis “no vax” bill, the government of Florida can now issue an order for an individual:

“… to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, isolated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to isolation or quarantine.”

The DeSantis “no vax” bill goes on to state that if an individual in Florida is deemed to be a “danger to the public health,” he or she can be apprehended by the State Health Officer and forced into isolation or quarantine, just like the New York bill.

Many conservatives have been fooled by the contradictory rhetoric of DeSantis over the years, but the guy is a tyrant who is arguably worse than Hochul and other Democrat governors. At least New York does not have an “antisemitism” bill in place that squelches the First Amendment, this being another plank in DeSantis’ Florida tyranny regime.

“If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual,” the DeSantis “no vax” bill further states about how Floridians can now be force-vaccinated if the state deems that there is no way to isolate or quarantine them.

More related news coverage about the controlled demolition of America can be found at Collapse.news.

Sources for this article include:

• AllNewsPipeline.com
• NaturalNews.com

President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in ending the public health emergency May 11. Despite this, nearly 100 colleges and universities currently require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the 2023-2024 school year.

Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is the sponsor of a bill that would block federal funding to colleges and universities that impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students or staff. He calls it the No Vaccine Mandates in Higher Education Act.

“Taxpayer dollars should not flow to entities that coerce people into taking a COVID-19 shot,” Good said in a press release. “My legislation is an important effort in safeguarding personal freedoms and ensuring educational institutions prioritize instructing students and preparing them for the workforce.”

Good’s move follows action by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Republican, who on Sept. 14 banned state and local government officials from instituting COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Biden has not banned vaccine mandates at the federal level, despite ending the public health emergency. His leading challenger for the 2024 Democratic nomination for president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently has been questioning the far Left’s pro-vaccine position by talking about medical freedom.

During a May appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Kennedy opposed mandates for emergency-use authorized vaccines, including those for COVID-19. Such vaccines, Kennedy argued, have not undergone the typical trial period of five to 10 years, in which vaccines are determined to be safe for widespread public distribution.

Research shows that vaccinations can negatively affect the health of individuals. One example is the incidence of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, among young men in their teens or early 20s who received mRNA vaccines during the pandemic.

Athough the COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed only with emergency authorization, and their long-term health effects have not been studied, as of June only 18 states require that medical and religious exemptions be offered when vaccines are mandated.

Restricting federal funding for colleges and universities that violate Americans’ medical freedom is a necessary step, Good said of his bill.

“All Americans have a fundamental right to make medical decisions for themselves, and schools across the country need to respect that,” he said.

Italian tennis star Camila Giorgi chose that third option to continue playing professional tennis. Now, she has been caught. According to Fox News:

Camila Giorgi, an Italian tennis star who has three career singles titles and more than 400 wins on tour, was caught up in a fake vaccine certificate scandal.

Daniela Grillone, a doctor for the Giorgi family, alleged in an interview with Italian media that the tennis star received a fake COVID-19 vaccine certificate and that none of her family members have received the shot either, according to Yahoo Sport.

Giorgi was named in a December report that revealed names of celebrities and athletes who allegedly didn’t receive a COVID vaccination. Grillone was arrested in February 2022 for allegedly providing shots with fake serums, according to News.com.au. She also allegedly provided fake vaccination certificates to high-profile figures in Italy.

“The Giorgi family has been under treatment with me for a long time. Camila Giorgi suffered from the so-called tennis elbow,” Grillone told Italy’s Corriere del Veneto. “Shortly before the beginning of summer, she had come asking for the possibility of obtaining false proof of all the mandatory vaccines, as well as the COVID vaccine. I can confirm with absolute certainty that none of the vaccines against the Giorgi family have actually been administered.

For many of us, we will do whatever it takes to keep the jabs out of our arms and the arms of our family members. Those who have lucrative or promising careers may decide to risk get caught breaking the rules in order to maintain their “pureblood” status. Though I’ve never been a fan of lying, so many people have been put into very harrowing positions due to the unhinged mandates so I do not hold their self-protecting lies against them. If I were a professional tennis player, I might have done the exact same thing.

What would you have done? Share your perspectives on my Substack.

The new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (pdf) states that “Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the mandate that members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to the memorandum dated August 24, 2021, regarding ‘Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members.’”

The House Rules Committee released the text of the bill days after Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed that lawmakers were discussing an end to the vaccine mandate.

“I was a very strong supporter of the vaccine mandate when we did it, a very strong supporter of the Covid restrictions put in place by DoD and others,” Smith told Politico. “But at this point in time, does it make sense to have that policy from August 2021? That is a discussion that I am open to and that we’re having.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in a statement Tuesday, called the end of the military COVID-19 vaccine mandate a “victory for our military and for common sense.” He noted that the mandate “has already had negative consequences for our military.”

Critics of the mandate note that it has led to the removal of thousands of service members from the armed forces, scared off prospective recruits, and does little to protect the health of many members because of factors including how the vaccines are much less effective against the Omicron strain than earlier variants.

“The Army and Navy missed their 2022 recruitment goals by thousands of service members,” McCarthy said in his statement. “And, at the discretion of the Biden administration, the Defense Department discharged 3,300 Marines, 1,800 soldiers, 1,800 sailors, and 900 airmen simply based on their personal decision to not take the COVID vaccine. This decision was detrimental to the ranks, and there is no doubt it put our national security at risk.”

Mandate ‘Isn’t Worth it’

The costs to replace each member who has been discharged due to their refusal to get vaccinated—the military has denied en masse requests for religious exemptions—and other consequences, such as the impact on morale, shows the mandate “isn’t worth it,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Lee was one of 20 GOP senators who announced in late November that they would vote against the NDAA unless it included the termination of the mandate.

McCarthy said on Sunday that Congress would “secure lifting that vaccine mandate on our military.” The NDAA would not advance without that, McCarthy added. He also suggested that he made this position clear to President Joe Biden as they met for the first time since Republicans secured a House majority in the next Congress.

On Tuesday, McCarthy said that those discharged based solely on their decision not to take the vaccine “deserve justice,” and that the Biden administration “must correct service records and not stand in the way of re-enlisting” any such service members.

“Make no mistake: this is a win for our military,” he added. “But in 28 days the real work begins—the new House Republican majority will work to finally hold the Biden administration accountable and assist the men and women in uniform who were unfairly targeted by this Administration.”

White House Opposition

A veto-proof majority may be required to axe the mandate, which was announced in August 2021 by the Biden administration in the name of “military readiness.”

The White House told news outlets that McCarthy raised the issue during the meeting but that the administration wanted to keep the mandate in place.

“Leader McCarthy raised this with the President, and the President told him he would consider it,” a White House spokesperson said. “The Secretary of Defense has recommended retaining the mandate, and the President supports his position. Discussions about the NDAA are ongoing.”

Presidents can veto bills passed by Congress.

Overriding a veto requires a two-thirds vote in each chamber.

Dozens of Democrat senators and a number of Democrat House members would need to join Republicans to override a veto. Democrats have generally supported mandates during the pandemic, while Republicans have generally opposed them.

Defense Secretary

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, told reporters over the weekend that he wants to keep the mandate in place, claiming it has “kept people healthy.” The Pentagon did not return a request for evidence to back the claim.

Austin said in a memorandum dated Aug. 24, 2021, to top military officials that he determined that a mandate was needed “to protect the Force and defend the American people.”

The vaccines have provided little shielding against infection since Omicron emerged in late 2021, and the protection they provide against severe illness has gone down considerably.

Boosters shots were introduced because of the waning, but research suggests boosters provide a short-lived increase in protection. Every vaccine dose also carries the risk of side effects, including heart inflammation.

The military declined to require booster shots but has kept the primary series mandate in place. The primary series of the two most widely-administered vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer, consists of two doses.

“What I would tell you is as a warfighting organization, the health and readiness of our force is paramount. And vaccination for COVID is still a requirement,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a recent briefing.

“But, in terms of discussing proposed or pending legislation, I’m not going to be able to provide a comment on that and won’t have anything further to provide.”

Discharges

The military has forced out some members who refused to get a vaccine, primarily members who have not asked for exemptions or were denied religious exemptions.

The Marine Corps has discharged 3,717 members for vaccine refusal as of Nov. 30. The branch has approved just 23 religious exemption requests out of 3,740 lodged.

The Navy has kicked out 2,064 members for vaccine refusal as of Nov. 30. The Navy has granted 51 religious accommodation requests out of more than 4,000 lodged.

The Army has separated 1,841 soldiers for vaccine refusal as of Dec. 1. The Army has approved 123 religious exemption requests and rejected more than 1,900.

The Air Force had separated 834 members for vaccine refusal as of mid-July. It has stopped giving updates on separations and did not respond to a request for comment. The Air Force, like the other branches, has granted few religious exemptions.

Judges have found proof that the branches discriminated against religious members and have paused separations of Marine, Navy, and Air Force members seeking religious exemptions.

Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., along with 16 other congressmen, sent a letter to Biden, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan on Monday regarding the administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. Coast Guard members.

“Service members that have not obtained a COVID-19 vaccine risk an involuntary administrative separation. This policy has resulted in hundreds of service members from all branches getting involuntarily discharged,” the letter said.

The letter also noted Biden’s phone call with Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch last month and commended Loesch’s efforts during Hurricane Ian. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hooper was also on the call.

Loesch, who reportedly saved a 94-year-old wheelchair-bound woman and her husband by kicking through a wall and then hoisting them into a helicopter, is set to be discharged from the U.S. Coast Guard because he did not get the COVID-19 vaccine. He had sought and was denied a religious exemption.

“Petty Officer Second Class Zach Loesch is an American hero, and he deserves to be treated as such. Due to the vaccine mandate, his rescue mission responding to Hurricane Ian may be his last, as he is set to be involuntary discharged in 30 to 60 days,” Boebert told The Daily Signal in a statement.

“The federal government’s failure to respect religious freedom and allow these exemptions is causing the military to lose talented individuals like Petty Officer Loesch,” Boebert added. “It’s time to end these mandates and support our troops’ religious freedom!”

The U.S. Coast Guard has received more than 1,200 religious exemption requests but has approved only 12, the letter said. Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas; Dan Bishop, R-N.C.; Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; and Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., among others, also signed the letter.

Loesch has also spoken out about the vaccine mandate and its impact on his job, which he said he feels he was “born to do.”

“If I had asked any of the people I saved yesterday if they wanted to come with me even though I am unvaccinated, every single one of them would have said ‘yes,’” Loesch said.

“It just sucks that [Biden] thanked me yet the vaccine mandate is what’s kicking me out. I just love my job, and I’m really good at it. It sucks. I feel like this is the job that I was born to do,” he added.

Nearly 20,000 service members are set to be discharged over the next few months due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Fox News reported. Biden said the COVID-19 pandemic was over during an interview with CBS last month.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Boebert-Letter

Article cross-posted from Daily Signal.

This solid piece was quickly slammed by Thomas Röper, a German writer living in Russia, who argued, with more vehemence than evidence, that Russia certainly was not requiring “vaccination” of its troops (as the US, British, French and German governments have been doing).

Röper’s screed was then picked up by Vanessa Beeley, UK Column and Robin Monotti on Telegram — as it pains me to report, since I admire all three (and consider Robin and Vanessa friends).

For those who want a more detailed account, the contretemps was carefully reported by OffGuardian’s Catte Black, who made the crucial point that we who seek the truth, and try our best to tell it, at a time when doing so is ever harder and more dangerous, must never let ourselves be swayed by wishful thinking, out of sympathy to any side in any of the conflicts raging all around us now.

If, for instance, we believe that Ukraine is a Nazi hell-hole, and US/NATO cat’s-paw, and therefore see where Russia’s coming from (the view I share with Riley, Catte, Vanessa, Robin and UK Column, among others), that does not mean we think that Putin does no wrong—especially when he does what the US, British, French and German governments are doing.

If, moreover, forcing an experimental medical procedure on unwilling persons is a Nazi thing, then Putin shouldn’t do it, nor should we let him get away with doing it, however ardently we cheer his opposition to the Nazis in Ukraine.

I could go on; but there’s no need—because the story has now changed, and for the better: Riley Waggaman reports that Russia will no longer force its conscripts to be “vaccinated”

Can I get an amen?

That is great news, at a time when there’s so little of it; but we must do more than simply share it.

We also have to ask why Russia has decided to halt “vaccination” of its mobilized reservists. To that important question, one reasonable answer is that the horrific toll of all those “vaccinations” has been coming clear in Russia, prompting Putin to do something that few heads of state in Covid-World will any longer do: i.e., control the damage, by stopping the injections that have done tremendous harm, demonstrably.

As readers of our weekly compilations of reports of people “dying suddenly” worldwide know all too well, the Sputnik “vaccination” drive has had a lot of people “dying suddenly” all over Russia. (No, Virginia, it isn’t just the mRNA shots that kill people, but all the others, too: J&J, AstraZeneca, China’s Sinovac—and Russia’s Sputnik, which is based on AstraZeneca’s concoction.)

And now we find, predictably, that all too many of those young men jabbed for war have also been “dying suddenly”—and if we know it, it must be known in Russia, too, at least to those who eyes are not wide shut to the hideous effects of COVID “vaccination” there.

Just below are two reports of mobilized reservists lately dropping dead, in Novosibirsk and near Yekaterinburg (reports that you’ll find also in our latest compilation, which will go up soon). And down below those two reports, you’ll find a recent summary of reservists’ “sudden deaths” (including suicides) lately posted on the Russian site Meduza.

It’s not a stretch to figure that the Russian government has read that piece, and that they’re also well-aware of other evidence that those shots kill, and people know it.

So who’s done more for Russia—and, indeed, for Putin? Those who have sought out, and told, the awful truth about the lethal “vaccination” of those troops-to-be, or those bellowing reflexively that it just can’t be true, because they “side” with him (and Russia, too, or so they think)?

In any case, what Putin should do next is halt all “vaccination” of the Russian people, whether they’re been mobilized or not.

Mobilized Chelyabinsk citizen died in the 32nd military town near Yekaterinburg

October 11, 2022

In the 32nd military camp near Yekaterinburg, a Chelyabinsk citizen died, who could have been called up during mobilization. Media reports about it. According to preliminary data, a resident of the Chelyabinsk region was drafted into the army during mobilization. The man suddenly became ill, the doctors could not save him.

However, the cause of death is still unknown.

The death of the Chelyabinsk citizen was confirmed to journalists by the Sverdlovsk State Duma deputy Maxim Ivanov. The police started checking. Specialists are conducting an examination, according to its results, it will become clear from what the reservist died. Earlier, FederalPress wrote that two mobilized people died in the Yelansky garrison in the Sverdlovsk region.

No age reported.

[Full report]

A 35-year-old native of Bratsk died during a mobilization gathering in Novosibirsk

October 6, 2022

Thirty-five-year-old native of Bratsk Alexander Koltun died during a mobilization meeting in Novosibirsk, IrCity news agency was informed on October 6 at the Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Novosibirsk Region. “There is information [about the death of a native of the Angara region], but right now no one will say anything, because investigative checks are underway,” Nina Shalabayeva, the Novosibirsk Ombudsman, said in the reception room.

They also advised me to contact the military investigation department for the Novosibirsk garrison and the military investigation department for the Central Military District. It was not possible to get a comment from these departments. The duty officer of the Armed Forces for the Novosibirsk garrison said that he was not authorized to give any comments, the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the Central Military District suggested sending an official request.

[Full report]

Those mobilized in Russia die before they are sent to the front. Some commit suicide. Others die under unclear circumstances. Here is a list that we will keep updating

October 6, 2022

Vladivostok

At the police station in Vladivostok on September 27, 39-year-old Sergei Fedoseenko died of cardiac arrest,  Astra  and  Mash reported . He was taken to the department from the military registration and enlistment office, where he came to “express dissatisfaction”. According to Mash, Fedoseenko was in a state of extreme intoxication.

Kabardino-Balkaria

News Tracker, citing sources , reported on September 27 the death of Boris Shavaev, a resident of the Zvezdny village in Kabardino-Balkaria. The preliminary cause of death was thromboembolism (blockage of a vessel by a detached thrombus). On the eve of mobilization, he passed a medical examination and was declared fit for military service.

Velikiy Novgorod

On September 27, it became known about the suicide of 44-year-old Yegor Nazarov, a resident of Veliky Novgorod. According to his friends, Nazarov received a summons to the army, and this could push him to suicide.

Tyumen region

On September 28, the body of one of the mobilized was found at a collection point near Tyumen. The  NEFT publication was the first to report this  , citing a law enforcement source. It wrote that the mobilized man had committed suicide, but later removed details from the text – except for the fact that State Duma deputy Ernest Valeev was going to go to the assembly point with a check. A source in law enforcement agencies confirmed to 72.ru that there had indeed been a report of the death of the mobilized.

Krasnodar

On September 30, rapper Ivan Petunin committed suicide in Krasnodar . Before his death, he released a video message in which he stated that he decided to commit suicide because of the news of the mobilization, although he was hardly fit for military service and did not receive a summons. “I cannot and do not want to take the sin of murder on my soul. I am not ready to kill for any ideals,” he said.

Omsk

On October 2, a man mobilized from Krasnoyarsk died in one of the military units of Omsk.The cause of his death has not yet been established. His friend said that they were threatened in part because of a conflict with other military men. The wife of the deceased said that her husband was a patriot and went to war “with desire.”

Novosibirsk

Alexander Koltun, a 35-year-old resident of Bratsk , died at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School on October 2 . “On September 28, he volunteered for mobilization completely sober. And in Novosibirsk, on October 2, he died, as if from a heart attack, ”said his mother, noting that her son “never complained about his heart and was not registered.” She added that “some people on the phone” are trying to convince her that Koltun died from low-quality alcohol. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Novosibirsk Region, Nina Shalabayeva, said that he died in his sleep. The cause of death remains unknown.

Later, another conscript died in this school. According to Sibkrai, he died as a result of violent actions. His body was found on the night of October 7th. Information about the deceased was confirmed by Nina Shalabayeva: “Yes, another person died. The competent authorities are investigating the circumstances.”

Leningrad region

In the village of Kamenka, a 28-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, called up as part of “partial mobilization”, shot himself from a machine gun during a firing exercise.

In the same village , two more mobilized people later died . According to Sirena, the cause of these deaths is heart attacks.

Sverdlovsk region

In the training center of the Ministry of Defense in the Sverdlovsk region in early October , three mobilized people died . “One mobilized died of a seizure, and the other committed suicide. The third was written off and sent home, where he immediately died of cirrhosis of the liver, ”said Maxim Ivanov, State Duma deputy from the Sverdlovsk region. The relatives of the deceased do not believe in the version of cirrhosis. They assume that he was beaten.

Penza

During training sessions at the training ground in Penza on October 5, a 41-year-old local resident, called up as part of the mobilization, died. According  to PenzaInform, the cause of death was a heart attack.

Zabaykalsky Krai

At the end of September, a mobilized man died in a military unit in the southeast of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Sirena reports . In addition, according to the publication, a conscript and a conscript died in a military unit in Peschanka, Zabaikalsky Krai. [No cause of death mentioned.]

[full report][download pdf]

Article cross-posted from Off-Guardian.

Dr. Lapado was the only surgeon general in the nation to recommend nutraceuticals to prevent and even treat common ailments, including Covid-19. He’s also not a fan of vaccine mandates, as he told an audience today.

“How can you force people to take a vaccine in order to stop transmission when that vaccine is not effective at stopping transmission?” he asked.

It’s a good question, one that millions of people have wondered but nobody in government is willing to answer.

“You don’t have to go to medical school to know that doesn’t make sense,” he said.

Watch:

“How can you force someone to take a vaccine to stop transmission when that vaccine doesn’t stop transmission?”

– Dr. Joe Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General

(aka the greatest surgeon general in the country) pic.twitter.com/Vx3WzVd0tj

— Casey DeSantis (@CaseyDeSantis) July 29, 2022

We’re constantly told to listen to doctors, but the ones our governments have speaking for them rarely make sense. Dr. Joe Ladapo is the rare exception.

The 27-year old NBA star won a championship with the Golden State Warriors, was selected to his first All-Star game, and is looking to ink a contract extension that could pay him $180 million over the next five years.

But when Wiggins was interviewed by reporters on Tuesday, he said there was one thing that is still bothering him.

“I still wish I didn’t get [vaccinated], to be honest with you,” Wiggins told FanSided when asked about his decision. “But you gotta do what you gotta do.”

Wiggins, like Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving, had reservations about getting vaccinated against COVID-19. But unlike Irving, who missed much of the regular season because he declined to get vaccinated, Wiggins opted to acquiesce and get the shot.

“I did it, and I was an All-Star this year and champion, so that was the good part, just not missing out on the year, the best year of my career,” Wiggins said.

As for the bad part, Wiggins doesn’t mention any adverse reaction from the vaccine. His primary beef appears to be that he was essentially forced to receive an injection of something he didn’t quite trust.

“I just don’t like putting all that stuff in my body, so I didn’t like that,” Wiggins said, “and I didn’t like that it wasn’t my choice. I didn’t like that it was either get this or don’t play.”

‘An Act Must Be Free’

Economists often talk about the importance of individual choice from a market perspective.

Every day, humans make thousands of decisions—big and small, consciously and subconsciously—that affect their lives and the world around them. Rational choice theory suggests that individuals “tend to make rational choices and achieve outcomes that are aligned with their own personal objectives,” which tends to lead to individual and collective prosperity and harmony. This is why the global rise of capitalism, which relies on consent and individual choice, unleashed unprecedented human prosperity in the 19th century that continues to this day.

But choice also matters a great deal from a moral perspective, and this idea tends to receive much less attention.

The economist Ludwig von Mises once observed that “exhortations and admonishments of morality” are useless unless people are freely allowed to choose.

“It is useless to tell a bondsman what is morally good and what is morally bad. He is not free to determine his comportment; he is forced to obey the orders of his master,” Mises wrote. “This is why freedom is not only a political postulate, but no less a postulate of every religious or secular morality.”

The economist Murray Rothbard was even more concise.

“To be moral, an act must be free,” Rothbard said.

Rothbard drew inspiration from philosopher Frank Meyer, who noted that the ability to choose—whether the choice be good or ill—is what distinguishes man from beast.

“[Man] must be free to choose his worst as well as his best end,” Meyer wrote in Defense of Freedom. “Unless he can choose his worst, he cannot choose his best.”

When Andrew Wiggins says, “I didn’t like that it wasn’t my choice,” I suspect this is what he was referring to. As Meyer says, having a choice is what separates humans from beasts, which is why it chafes when we’re deprived of it.

Some may quibble and say that Wiggins did have a choice: Get vaccinated or don’t play basketball. They’d be right, but that is a choice he never should have had to make.

The great American thinker Henry David Thoreau, who once went to jail for refusing to pay a poll tax, likely would have sympathized with Wiggins’s dismay at being coerced to get vaccinated, whether the pressure came from a government body or an employer.

“I was not born to be forced,” the Civil Disobedience author noted. “I will breathe after my own fashion.”

This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article.

The topic, of course, was abortion. The tactic, of course, was “right to control their body.” And the responses from those who instantly recognized her hypocrisy were golden.

“All patients – regardless of where they’re from or how much money they have – have the right to control their body, their life, and their future. RT if you agree.”

All patients – regardless of where they’re from or how much money they have – have the right to control their body, their life, and their future. RT if you agree.

— Senator Patty Murray (@MurrayCampaign) July 5, 2022

Her request for Retweets was not well-answered as fewer than 200 people did so. Here are some of the responses, and while some rightly pointed out she invoked “life” and “future” while pushing to murder as many preborn babies as possible, the lion’s share of responses focused on the fact that she has been one of the most outspoken vaxx-nannies in Washington. That’s a great feat considering how unhinged Washington Democrat politicians have been during the age of Covid.

Patty, this was not what you were saying when the vaccines were being forced upon Washingtonians.

— MrsMostlyPeaceful (@mrs_w73) July 6, 2022

Didn't u support vaccine mandates for state employees?

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) July 6, 2022

https://twitter.com/FhHarald/status/1544462092761120768

Except for government mandated vaccines, even tho after 1 1/2 yrs we still don't know the adverse affects right?
Next question is why?

— Musings of a nobody (@JustaCi54400863) July 6, 2022

Unless they decided not to take the vaccine. Then it's no longer their choice. Guess the "right to control their body, their life, and their future" only applies if it's for abortion.

— Paige Norman (American Ama) (@AmericanAmaPN) July 6, 2022

Now do vaccine mandates.

— Woodrat, Rural Untouchable, Probable Spam (@m_woodrat) July 6, 2022

So no vax, Patty? You’re ok with that because that makes a big difference on how I will vote in the fall.

— Coconut Shrimpton (@Virgingersnap17) July 6, 2022

All patients – regardless of where they’re from or how much money they have – have the right to control their body, their life, and their future. RT if you agree.

— Senator Patty Murray (@MurrayCampaign) July 5, 2022

The saddest part is that people like Patty Murray will never recognize their own hypocrisy. They think that bodily autonomy only works for murdering babies, but people should have zero rights when it comes to the “vaccines.”

When we see a meaningful, properly coordinated expression of our 1st Amendment right to assemble, it’s inspiring. Such is the case of over 1,000 airline pilots who protested outside of Love Field yesterday:

Over 1,000 pilots for Southwest Airlines are protesting outside Love Field in Dallas for being overworked and understaffedpic.twitter.com/VppXZ0LYYf

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 21, 2022

Their uniform style expressed various messages highlighting the challenges they’re facing. Much (okay, so probably all) of this is due to the vaccine mandates that decimated their ranks, both through forced resignations for those who wouldn’t get jabbed as well as adverse reactions for those who did.

According to Andy Schlafly at WND:

Media stories fail to report on the underlying reason. The primary cause is not weather or similar routine disruptions but ripple effects caused by vaccine mandates demanded by the Biden administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.

Like many Americans, pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are saying “no” to vaccine mandates by not showing up for work, leaving travelers deserted at airports. Neither Biden nor any Democrat has been willing to admit, four months from perhaps the biggest election of our lifetime, that their vaccine mandates were a mistake.

“A variety of factors continue to impact our operations, including challenges with air traffic control, weather, and unscheduled absences in some work groups,” was the official explanation by Delta, which canceled the most flights this past weekend. Other airlines have had numerous cancellations at other times this year.

“Unscheduled absences in some work groups” is a euphemism for disruptions caused by vaccine mandates. Public opposition to Biden’s vaccine mandates is hurting his approval rating and harming Democrats’ chances of holding onto control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.

Last year the pilots’ unions warned that vaccine mandates against them would result in travel chaos for many Americans, and it has. Yet airline executives failed to stand up against the Biden administration’s demand for universal vaccination, perhaps because the executives are heavily dependent on direct subsidies from the federal government totaling more than $50 billion last year for pandemic relief.

With their credibility at stake, the public health authorities continue to insist on mandatory vaccination for the military, for federal workers, for some schoolchildren, and for pilots and other airline employees. These mandates persist despite the fact that the fully vaccinated, boosted and masked-up Dr. Anthony Fauci recently caught COVID anyway.

Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg threatened even more tyranny from his position as the secretary of transportation, which oversees the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He says he can order the airlines to hire more workers, as if he knew how to find and train the highly skilled and dedicated people who safely operate America’s air travel network.

Buttigieg himself saw his flight from Washington, D.C., to New York City canceled this past weekend, and he drove the mere 225 miles instead. That option is not available to most travelers who are unexpectedly stranded by a canceled flight, and the astronomical cost of gasoline discourages driving anyway.

The airline travel chaos “is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg pompously declared. But he fails to get at the root of the problem, and instead treats this as an opportunity to expand government control of an industry that was working just fine when President Trump left office.

Democrats and corporate media can point their fingers in whatever direction they want, but this comes down to Joe Biden and insane Covid policies that are having a massive toll on the travel industry. And they’re not alone.