You gotta

Late last month I noted as appendix to this post, 1-2% of MA cops resigned (Hanania knows math). United Airlines shed less than 1%. Probably won't see much higher numbers in the medical profession, either. My conclusion? Fascism works.

Expanding on that, WIRED presents the Civis study on convincing people to take The Jab. The short answer is: order them.

[INTERJECT 10/9: Civis is a soyboy club full of soymilk, Impossible Burger, and reddit. Sure. But . . .]

Reasoning anything with such people as run left of the bell-curve doesn't work, as hardly-a-Civis-author Theodore Beale has repeatedly pointed out; only rhetoric works. That means the people choose their rhetors: Tony Fauci or Candace Owen. More darkly, American Gen-X would rather listen to the guy who writes songs about how American boomers will face The Pillow. Beale is hardly shy about his motivation: generational genocide, by suffocation. Gen-X can pretend to agree with Beale's posts, but boomers shouldn't.

If we can't convince people, say Civis, we have to force them. The Cernoviches and all the crew of PJMedia will still whine about it, but - as Cerno points out - there will be no Civil War over it. Cernovich doesn't even advise resisting it; he's taken it himself. (Cernovich btw predicts a Mexican-Cartel model of regional protection rackets, but these will only survive by D.C.'s sufferance.) In short, the antivaxx movement cannot win and it won't win.

Which means there exists no point whingeing about it. Every complaint posted at PJM just serves to drive up clicks and futile arguments. What they do accomplish, is to mark PJM's posters not just as fools but as contemptible. When you say "I am your enemy and I am powerless", you make yourself a target for bullies; and these bullies will sleep very well at night after they torment you. And then you'll lose elections. (And you'll lose people. The Fauci Ouchie kills drr librulls at an order of magnitude less than what it prevents kills y'all unmasked American-flag wavers; drr librulls'll be right here in 2022 to smugly vote you down.)

PJM anyway does not have conservatives at heart. They are simply more dishonest than Beale. Glenn Reynolds, Ed Driscoll, and Stephen Green are content to watch you gasp your last, begging for the vaccine; if they direct more clicks to their sites (and, in Ed Driscoll's case, to Treacher's sites). Mark Tapscott hasn't even the integrity to work PJM for PJM's sake; he's only there to redirect its readers into his (Calvinist) cult.

The solution for the conservative movement, such as it is, is to give up this stupid and pointless fight against the best public health measure we have. And to avoid the grifters preying upon your ignorance and (somewhat deserved) paranoia. To the extent the Right objects to fascism (LOL) it should concentrate on something which does real harm, like "Equity" so-called.

Because you're going to take the jab anyway.