A Real Danger in the Covid Madness
There is a new poll from Rasmussen Reports that is flat-out scary. First, here is a finding that probably won’t surprise you. Americans are split evenly on President Biden’s vaccine mandate. Roughly half (48%) of voters favor President Joe Biden’s plan to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on employees of large companies. (The Supreme Court just declared this unconstitutional.) The same percentage of voters oppose this.
Another split concerns Dr. Fauci. Forty-five percent (45%) view Dr. Fauci favorably, while Forty-eight percent (48%) have an unfavorable impression of him.
Nearly 6 out of 10 voters (58%) would oppose fining Americans who do not choose to get the Covid vaccine. However, the poll contains a very disturbing mindset in the deeper numbers among Democrats.
· Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens always remain confined to their homes, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. (This is opposed by 61% of all those surveyed.)
· Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or online or digital publications. (Overall, this anti-free speech idea is supported by only 27% of those surveyed.)
· Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live at designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In other words, half of Democrat voters support Covid detention camps! (Overall, this is opposed by 71% of all voters.)
· While 66% of all voters oppose governmental tracking of the unvaccinated, 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The poll didn’t ask this, but I would bet that close to 90% of those in favor of these ruthless steps would falsely claim that they believe in “tolerance.”
The poll was conducted on Jan 5, a time when the 91% less fatal Omicron variant was (and still is) upon us. Many scientists believe that the Covid virus is following the paths of other viruses by becoming more transmissible but weaker. They also believe that this mass Omicron infection, which is impacting both the vaccinated and unvaccinated, will boost national immunity. Historically, most pandemics of this kind last about two years.
A Busy Week At Your State Legislature!
This is a busy week for the Indiana General Assembly. Today, I am hoping to testify on two bills concerning protecting children from “matter harmful to minors.”
House Bill 1122 has a hearing this morning in the Committee on Local Government. This bill updates Indiana Code definitions which provide guidelines for city zoning ordinances on adult businesses. It also expands a buffer zone between adult businesses and children’s facilities.
Senate Bill 17 has a hearing this afternoon. The content of this bill has already been heard as a part of SB 167 on critical race theory, but the Senate has killed that legislation. The SB 17 language is also in the House education bill on divisive concepts, which is HB 1134. That bill is being debated on the House floor this week. It needs to pass. However, I wonder if the Senate will act on it if passed by the House.
Senate Bill 17 removes the legal exemption schools have for prosecution against the violation of disseminating matter harmful to minors. (If it is illegal to give a child obscene material on the school street corner, and it is, it should also be illegal within the classroom!)
One issue I have not addressed recently is the right to life. Many readers have followed Rep. Curt Nisly’s bill to ban all abortions, which has been filed six years in a row with no action taken. This year that bill is HB 1282. It has been assigned to the House Judiciary Committee. I do not expect a hearing on HB1282.
House Bill 1217 appears to be the only significant pro-life measure to see action so far this session. The bill concerns coerced abortions. It requires women to be informed of and asked about coercion in their abortion decision. It makes a coerced abortion a level 6 felony against the person trying to force an abortion upon the woman. Coerced abortions are a particular concern regarding statutory rape and human trafficking. HB 1217 had a hearing yesterday in the Committee on Courts and Criminal Code. It passed 8-3.
Looking back to SB 167 again, that bill was pulled due to a dust-up on late-night national TV involving an answer in testimony that was distorted to sound like a teacher would be required to teach Nazism during WW2 neutrally. That was never the bill’s intent. However, the House added a section on page 35 of HB 1134 that states: nothing in the bill “may be construed so as to exclude teaching against ideals or values that conflict with the Constitution of the United States.” HB 1134 needs the support of Hoosiers concerned with modern indoctrination infecting education that parents across the nation have been protesting.
In Their Own Words:
“Back in the Soviet era, totalitarianism demanded love for the Party, and compliance with the Party’s demands was enforced by the state. Today’s totalitarianism demands allegiance to a set of progressive beliefs, many of which are incompatible with logic – and certainly with Christianity. Compliance is forced less by the state than by the elites who form public opinion, and by private corporations that, thanks to technology, control our lives far more than we would like to admit.” – Author Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies
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