About Those Booster Shots

We had friends over for a short chat yesterday. They came over to say goodbye before leaving for the airport.

The episode was quite surreal. They came into our apartment with their masks on, and they didn't take them off. They must have thought that we would put on our masks, but we didn't, and this made them visibly worried. One broke out in a rash from the stress.

Imagine if I told a story like this two years ago. People would think me mad. Yet, here we are.

If not already vaccinated, our friends will no doubt be so shortly, and I'm sure they will take every booster shot going forward.

A large part of the population is going to let itself be tagged every six months or so, which opens for mischief of all sorts. With such an obedient herd, bureaucrats can choose to include ingredients to fit their agenda. Undesirables can be sterilized. Useless eaters can be culled. Old people can be euthanized. It can all be done for the greater good, and there are plenty of economic incentives for this to happen.

Social security is underfunded. The welfare state is close to collapse. Something has to be done, and the problem, as seen from the perspective of bureaucrats, is as always the people they claim to serve.

However, there's a problem with this plan. The people most likely to get vaccinated and subsequently boosted every six months are the ones most in favour of the system. The ones that the bureaucrats want to control for political reasons are the ones not taking the shots. But this may not deter the bureaucrats who tend to think as much in economic terms as in political terms. There are a lot of "useless eaters" in the pro-science camp, and a thorough culling of this group will give economic relief to the welfare state. That may be sufficient incentive to cull the herd regardless of political affiliations.

Time will tell if this dystopian vision of the future will unfold. It may seem hyperbole. But then again, things that seemed crazy two years ago are now quite normal.

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