Biden’s administration was ready to put people out of work if they didn’t get the shots. Red team vs blue team rhetoric is nauseating.

Indeed, I’m sure this would mean the current unemployment rate is far higher than it was in January 2021 no?

The courts blocked the insanity.

And they only did that because too large a proportion of workers showed the backbone necessary to lose their jobs and livelihoods in order to not take the shots. If the opposition had been something closer to 10% instead of 30% I think it's a good bet that the courts would have punted on the question.

As someone who spent the fall and winter of 2021 checking my email each morning to see if my employer was initiating a mandate, I have a deep & abiding appreciation for all the brave resisters who paid a steep price to put these fascistic mandates on the ashheap of history where they always belonged.

Lockdowns were done state by state. We now know which "side" is anti human rights. It is the left and we will never forget. [Edit: This comment gets a lot up upvotes until it gets "flagged" and deleted. Tells you what a shitshow of misinformation this site has become due to user moderation.]

Biden and Trump are both just useful idiots doing what they are told.

Lockdowns were done state by state. We now know which "side" is anti human rights. It is the left and we will never forget. [Edit: This comment gets a lot up upvotes until it gets "flagged" and deleted. Tells you what a shitshow of misinformation this site has become due to user moderation. This is the 3rd repost.]

We should unironically start our own hacker news.

> This comment gets a lot up upvotes until it gets "flagged" and deleted

This is because your comment is bog standard disinformation. It tickles the groupthink narrative about "lockdowns", even though "lockdowns" did not exist in the US beyond a few counties in California.

That's news to this Washington state resident, who couldn't eat indoors at restaurants or send my kids to in-person school through most of 2020.

Business and school closures are not lockdowns. The abuse of terminology for political purposes is at the heart of this inability to communicate (and both political machines are guilty).

If you could legally leave your home (ie you were not subject to a stay at home order with the force of law), you were not "locked down".

This is a bizarre definition completely at odds with the commonly understood meaning of "lockdowns" in the U.S.

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You could still get in your car and drive wherever you wanted, right? There just wasn't much to do. People were dying and we didn't know anything about the illness, though, so that wasn't that bad.

It's like claiming you were a prisoner of war because the theme park was closed for maintenance when you wanted to go.

You prove my point as it was done state by state. Us freedom loving Californians who were born and raised here hate the shit of you commies. Get the fuck out of America for your own good and everyone else's. You take away my freedom at your own risk.

You are misattributing multiple qualities to me, seemingly because I replied to your comment with something other than validation. It might to prudent to get some perspective before you become even more detached from reality.