LET ME POSE A HYPOTHETICAL which could, in the near future not be so hypothetical.
What if the splendid effort of current scientists and medical experts to develop vaccines had been seriously delayed or if they had not been successful? Could we have tolerated the propagandizing FOR THE VIRUS in the media, by the courts to continue even this long? I can guarantee you if the virus had not been even temporarily batted down that it would have eventually reached the top level of our society, the one for which the courts, the Senate really work and they would be clamoring for the very things their media has been dismissing for more than a year and a half so they could get Trump reinstalled by the corrupt Electoral College. If the billionaires, the lords of the Supreme Court, the Senate, had started dying in large numbers, the freedom of the FOX-Facebook, etc. Covid carriers and their ilk would have been shut down BY THE GOVERNMENT, Constitution, Bill of Rights, be damned. As it is, they have always figured the people who were dying were expendable in the name of their "principles."
They would have told those who are freely spouting lies ON THEIR MEDIA to shut up, or they would have shut them up by not having them on, by letting the carriers of disease lies and so death, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, etc. to change their line or they would get canned.
But they feel secure, Rupert Murdoch with a small fleet of Land Rovers (it was said) hauled his foetid old ass to get inoculated as soon as it was available to a rich old scumbag like himself, you can bet that everyone who goes into his offices in New York City has because they require a vaccine passport to get in, including the scum who are talking tens and hundreds of thousands to act as petri dishes for the virus to evolve into newer lines, some of which seem to be good at breaking through the protection of the vaccines. There is nothing to guarantee that such a wide spread virus won't quickly develop strains that could totally overtake our scientists abilities to fight it.
With every increase in the disease among the vaccinated in numbers and over time, among and the unmasked and the congregated, the chances that a strain that overcomes the vaccines entirely goes up.
The private sector, the friggin' free press, freed from any responsibility of paying for the effects of its dishonest content is doing that, HAS DONE IT NOW. There is a good possibility that as well as the scores and hundreds of thousands who the freed press has gotten killed here now, it could lead to millions, tens or even a hundred million being killed by Covid-19. And all on the theory of liberty that it is a good thing that they can do that, that they are free of government restraint to do that, that we can rely on the responsibility of businessmen and tycoons and billionaires to do that out of their own financial self-interest - does anyone make any pretense of the media acting out of a sense of morality anymore? The libertarian theory of press freedom has its definitive refutation in the American media's pushing the pro-virus lies even as so many of them were vaccinated in secret and believe they and those few they care about are now immune from the disease.
I have named things in the Constitution which are, in fact, responsible for things getting as bad as they have, the pathetically inadequate First Amendment as written and as interpreted by the Supreme Court under four different Chief "Justices," the anti-democratic Electoral College which the Court used to impose Bush II and which gave us Trump, the anti-democratic Senate. The power the Supreme Court gave itself to overturn laws duly adopted by the Congress and Executive - even those to protect the legitimacy of the government by protecting the rights of The People to vote and to have that vote counted, is one that can be blamed on the Constitution because they didn't figure on a court overreaching so far to such bad consequence and getting away with it under their "separation of powers" scheme.
One of my biggest fears is that events that have already resulted from the defects and shortcomings of our Constitution are going to worsen and overtake it, the laws delays, their customary ass dragging, could get more people killed than have died now. Science moved faster and more effectively than I had thought it would, it is running as fast as it can to just maintain the foothold on the disease it has. Judges, "Justices," scheming, client pleasing sleazebag lawyers can drag out the law to more than stop that progress, it has the power under our system to kill it, and if they don't the American media has been doing that under the First Amendment continually since the virus first was discovered.
The above is the product of a sleepless night, worrying about the start of school here.
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