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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs mtracey@protonmail.com

Sep 16, 2021, 8 tweets

In Connecticut, The New "Permanent Emergency" Surveillance Regime Suffers A Temporary Blow mtracey.substack.com/p/in-connectic…

Was just told Tucker covered the issue tonight. No, I did not coordinate with him or anyone at Fox. Maybe instead of lashing out in anger, ask why other networks and news outlets aren't covering the instatement of a nationwide surveillance regime on the false pretense of "safety"

As predicted, other colleges have started threatening to impose extreme Australia-style lockdowns modeled on the one that was just tried at Conn College. Sacred Heart U. in Fairfield, CT sent an email making this threat, implicitly blaming (vaccinated) students for new "cases"

In the email, Sacred Heart U. announces it will begin subjecting vaccinated students to random testing, apparently as a kind of creepy punishment. More arbitrary testing = more asymptomatic "cases" will inevitably be detected, and round and round we go. Email ends with a threat:

What is the Sacred Heart U. "Pioneer Promise," you ask? Another injunction to snitching and surveillance, under the banner of tedious cliches like "wellness" and "accountability." Maintain logs of your movements and hand them over to officials on command!
sacredheart.edu/offices--depar…

Whatever's going on in the state of CT, it's getting quite creepy. Lots of thinly-veiled threats to students from administrators, letting them know that they will be the scapegoats for any perceived "outbreak," and then couching these threats in the phony language of "compassion"

On second thought, maybe I should just spend all day gossiping and snarking about the latest trending topics on Twitter in order to instigate petty YouTube drama. That would be Real Journalism™

An extremely reasonable comment from a Substack subscriber:

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