Three pieces to consider today as President Biden announces new requirements that Americans of companies with 100 or more employees must get the COVID-19 vaccine or else be tested at least once weekly.
Fair warning: some of the "push back" from governors here is a bit weak sauce, and carries with it what could be construed as a signal of a readiness to surrender from the outset on this despite a desire to look to constituents like a fighter before surrendering.
"We don't like it either," they seem to say. "And we hope this gets defeated in the courts. But we still want you all to get the vaccine. And you should get the vaccine. But we also want you to believe we are opposed to you being forced to get the vaccine. But we also are not pledging to do anything to protect you from such forcing. But we want you to believe we would if we could. But we wouldn't even if we can right now."
This then is just one more in a series of important character tests as-late. And the question in our minds ought to be one of principles and precedent - both ours as citizens, and theirs as governing officials.
If 100 million Americans can have their livelihood and income and businesses threatened with abolition if they do not inject themselves and require injection of a vaccine which so many of our countrymen do not feel is satisfactorily safe, then what precisely separates this Republic from tyranny?
'Oh, ho!' you may say. 'But, Garrett. This tyranny is being exercised for our own good. Therefore it is not really tyranny after all.'
But then I remind you of the quote by Clive Staple Lewis, and will leave you with it as food for thought, whether we are not in the thick of such a circumstance as he describes here.
