Biosecurity Surveillance Regime: Visual Edition
It's not just coming; it's already here. Often a picture or video clip is worth a thousand words, so take a look...
I recently posted a piece “On the Rise of Our Technocratic Biosecurity Surveillance Regime” with a follow up post illustrating the features of this regime in the context of the country’s second-largest employer. There I made the claim that the biosecurity surveillance regime is not just a prediction about what is coming or an attempt to prophetically conjecture about the future. While the full manifestation of this regime is not yet here, many of its central features are already with us. In this post, I provide just a few examples in video clips and photos, since a picture (or a motion picture) is often worth a thousand (or a million) words.
Australia has set up quarantine camps where Covid positive individuals are forcibly taken, even if they are entirely asymptomatic, as is often the case with young, healthy individuals. Here’s a look inside. Biosecurity Surveillance Regime, Australian Edition:
In Sweden, you can get a chip implanted in your hand to carry your vaccine passport and other personal data. As of now, those doing so are voluntarily buying into the technology, apparently for the sake of convenience. What happens, though, when the checkpoints switch to only accepting digital forms of the vaccine passport? I wish this video had subtitles, but you still get the gist from watching. Biosecurity Surveillance Regime, Swedish Edition:
No additional comment necessary on this next one. Biosecurity Surveillance Regime, German Edition:
If all this seems a bit bleak and depressing, keep in mind that significant resistance to this regime is growing around the world. People are starting to wake up and push back. I’ll highlights some of these positive developments in my next post, so stay tuned.
Professional update: The University of California has notified me of their intent to terminate my employment in two weeks for noncompliance with their vaccine mandate.
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Growing up I often wondered how these things could happen. Now, as the mother of a 7 and 10 year old, I can’t answer their questions about why this IS HAPPENING.
We remain pure bloods in no small part because authoritarianism is far more lethal than any virus, especially this one, and I will not be part of handing tyranny and authoritarianism along to my children.
Still……… I can’t explain how blind, gullible, and hateful so many are. The data is so obvious. The failures so clear. And yet, the doubling down by so many continues.
I do see hope. While I would have absolutely preferred, for the sake of my parents, that the vaccines really worked (and didn’t have a terrible side effect profile), my parents have pointed out to me, that for the sake of my kids, perhaps the best thing is that they don’t work all that well or for all that long. If they did then the authoritarianism would be growing, but because the “mitigation,” especially the vaccines with new technology, haven’t really worked, resistance to continuing failed policies and forced vaccinations is growing. In the long run, they might be the best outcome for the next generation.
Much like guns cause a lot of small destruction, which is heartbreaking, every day, our right to bear arms likely saves us from tyranny and authoritarianism, which over the long run, is far more lethal than the gun violence we endure in exchange.
I have never been inclined toward mass protest, but the following occurs to me. They can pick us off one by one, but if enough people resist in the name of individual rights, they will not dare to lock us all up.
I sense an "I'm Spartacus!" moment coming.