As I type I’m on day 4 of quarantine. My precious wife is on day 2. This go around has already proven to be significantly less intense than the first one. Still unpleasant mind you, but not like the first time. It seemed kind of strange to get it again because as an illness it has been less and less in our common conversation. Oh sure, we’ve talked an awful lot about the controlled leaking out of the now being admitted innumerable distortions, lies and half-truths put out by the WHO, the CDC and myriad DRS at the height of the illness. I’m glad for that, and hope for more conversation, or better still, hope for an international tribunal that will bring these men and women to justice. It’s been laughable watching an army of Karens now gently asking for amnesty for their alarmist tyrannies.
During the opening rounds of COVID I was careful to not take a hard stand on the vaccine, one way or the other. I am generally inclined toward suspicion of governments, whoever is in charge. I remember watching President Trump’s first national address on COVID. At the beginning I was frankly quite surprised at how “presidential” he seemed. Then he announced travel restrictions he had absolutely no authority to make. That tripped all my civil liberties alarm bells. The tyranny continued to descend for months, long before the party in power switched, while Christians wrestled with how to understand the intermingling of our responsibilities to be in submission to our employers, our civil authorities and our churches.
My posture was simple. I had nothing to say about the science and statistics. I did, however, have something to say about the ethics. Here (https://rcsprouljr.com/follow-the-ethics/) I wrote this-
We don’t actually know the future. We don’t actually know what outcome would be best. We do know this. Forcing someone against his or her will to have injected into his or her body something they don’t want injected into their body is Mengele level evil. My unpleasant experience of having COVID has zero impact on that moral fact.
Having COVID a second time, this time in a context where the lies of the Forces of Fauci are scurrying for cover, still doesn’t change my perspective. Had the vaccine eradicated COVID overnight, with the only side effect being a cure for baldness, it would still have been wrong for governments to mandate receiving it. Not just wrong, but wicked. The problem with tyranny isn’t that the tyrant always makes the miserable choice but that whatever choice he makes, he takes away the choice of the free man. Whether that tyrant is the President or two parents deciding whether to murder their unborn child. Benevolent dictators may make better choices than fools, but we are all fools if we think the problem with dictators is their choices.
By the time you’re reading this, my battle with COVID will likely have come to an end. My battle with tyranny, on the other hand, will end at my death.