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I assume we all have a red line. The vax pass is mine. It's my hill to die on. My barricade. Czech friends tell me: get yourself vaccinated so you can visit. Are you crazy? Has Starbucks coffee and McDonalds burgers clouded your mind? 40 years of Communism forgotten?
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Does your new found freedom mean nothing to you? And they say: That's your American hysteria talking. You must be a Trump voter (yes, even Czech friends are TDS infected) It's just a shot, you get your passport and we can go down a few beers in cozy Prague taverns
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And I say: the fact that they've stolen your freedom and now they're selling it back to you piecemeal (until the next scary variant comes along) doesn't alarm you? And they say: no, we're not alarmed. We're in our late 60's now, not about to march to change the world.
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Aha! I say. I understand. What I'm now hearing from you as what you used to tell me in the 80's - when the Comrades still ruled from the castle - was the most despicable quality in your fellow Czechs: indifference. As long as the beer flowed and mushrooms sprouted in the woods
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who cares about the stupid Commies. You HATED that. You backed Vaclav Havel when he lead the Velvet Revolution that restored your freedom. But now..."it's just a shot" and we can get on with our life, travel to Vienna and forget about Covid. The trouble my friends
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is that Covid (meaning the government's handling of the crisis) does not forget about you! Old Comrade Trotsky was correct: "You may not want war - but war wants you". You give your finger for a beer, your hand for a promotion and your arm for the new, emboldened apparatchiks
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to know what you had for dinner, who your friends are, who you're meeting and before you know it, it'll be like 1989 never happened. Well, you may not want to learn the lesson - but I have. It's no border guard's business to stick his nose into my vaccination status
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It pains me that I can't travel - not even to Canada to visit my daughters and grandkids - but sometimes you must put your foot down and not let the gaping maw of the medical fascism swallow you. Vax pass? It's a HARD NO from this Wandering Jew

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THREAD on creeping tyranny...I lived it
Prior to 1966, the citizens of Czechoslovakia required three things to be allowed to leave and re-enter the country: a passport, an exit visa and a foreign currency permit. In 1966 the authorities abolished the exit visa
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for "fraternal socialist countries", such as Hungary or Poland. For travel to the West, one needed an official invitation on the basis of which an exit visa *might* be granted With exit visa in hand, one could get about $20 worth of hard currency - no matter the length of stay
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This situation created two classes of citizens. Ones with relatives abroad had a chance of leaving the country, as did of course all Communist functionaries and apparatchiks. Everybody else was out of luck, though after 1966, a quick visit to Warsaw was ok
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In 1968, as we crossed the border from Czechoslovakia to Austria on a beautiful, sunny September day, my father told me: "My son, unlike me, you will live your life in a world of freedom. You'll travel where you like, say and publish what you like and associate with whom you like
For the next 50-odd years his prophecy was fulfilled. I have travelled freely and lived in six countries, acquiring the citizenship of a couple, learning new languages, touring as a musician and publishing short stories in Canada, the UK, Iceland, Switzerland and elsewhere
All of that came to an end 14 months ago. From my vantage point as a 68 year old semi-retired musician, the limitations put on my life now closely resemble the limitation put on my parents during Communism, limitations my father and mother did all the could to save me from
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Some folks see today's CDC announcement (masks outside not needed) as a ray of hope. As someone raised under Communism, please allow me a pessimistic note. The Communist regime would occasionally throw a candy to the populace ("you may travel to Hungary without an exit visa")
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Every single day I see people here in Central Florida (where no mandates have existed since September 2020) walking and biking with masks on in 90 degree heat. In most stores, I'm the only unmasked person. People don't listen to the CDC. They watch other people.
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