#Covid lockdown

The Fog of Fear – Emergency Powers, Permanent Habits: What We Did in COVID

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By late 2020, vaccines arrived under emergency authorization. That should have been the turning point—the moment where risk became individualized again. Instead, the dial kept turning in one direction: more control, more pressure, more compliance. By September 2021, the federal government, under Joe Biden, pushed for sweeping mandates, including a requirement aimed at large employers through OSHA. It was framed as necessity. It was enforced as urgency. And it was received, in many corners, as coercion.

The Next Pandemic Will Test More Than Our Immune Systems

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By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.

Living Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #60: Being “Of Color” Immigrants Doesn’t Help Small Business Owners

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Living Behind Enemy Lines In Oregon, Tale #60: Being "Of Color" Immigrants Doesn't Help Small Business Owners

The Marxist governor kept Oregon’s economy locked down from March 23, 2020 to April 1, 2022, despite the fact that specially trained Covid nurses were beginning to be laid off starting in April 2020 because Oregon did NOT have a Covid crisis.