I'm old enough to remember when warning that socialized medicine means the government owns your body, and can force you to act according to its definition of public health, was dismissed as extremist right-wing fearmongering.
Of course, we can rest assured this new collectivist control of our bodies will be hyper-politicized. It's happening already, as powerful labor unions carve themselves exemptions from vaccine mandates enforced with fascist corporate muscle against everyone else.
By the way, get comfortable with fascism. It's your new system of government. It's not going away, and it will NOT remain limited to politicians using corporations as enforcers for powers denied to them by the Constitution in the name of "public health."
In fact, it didn't start that way - the new American fascism began with governments using politicized corporations to circumvent First Amendment protections for free speech. Public health is the excuse for expanding it. It will never stop expanding. Fascist power is seductive.
Fascist power also puts politics first - far ahead of science, reason, principle, or any of that jazz - so there will of course be many exemptions and special cases for the new dictum that government can force us to take action to protect our State-owned bodies.
You will hear no shrieks of "your dangerous behavior is costing the public outrageous sums!" when it comes to certain politically-approved dangerous behaviors. You know what the existing ones are. More will be added in the future as public health doctrine expands.
Remember, REAL power lies not in making laws, but in granting exemptions to them. There is little power to be harvested from laws that apply equally to everyone, or taxes everyone must pay equally. The Leviathan State looming over our heads feeds on special privileges.
So the Ruling Class will exempt itself from health fascism, and give special dispensation to its favored constituents to indulge themselves as they please, without worry about any massive health costs they might be imposing on the socialized medical system.
In fact, forcing the rest of us to finance extra health services for favored constituents and their ideologically-approved unhealthy behaviors will be a point of pride for the ruling elite. God help anyone who tries to invoke this new doctrine of State-owned bodies against THEM.
You'll be mercilessly savaged for suggesting that our new responsibility to care for our State-owned bodies, at all required costs to our personal liberty, applies to any unhealthy behavior the Ruling Class considers ideologically pure and sacred.
But in every other respect, you can expect the sphere of "public health" to balloon with amazing speed. Demands to sacrifice money and freedom in the name of public health will grow beyond belief. Think of an absurd example today, and it will be headline news within ten years.
Combine the coronavirus-fueled mania for public health with climate change theology, and there is literally nothing in your life that cannot be confiscated or regulated in the name of collectivist interest. With fascist corporate enforcement, the Constitution is irrelevant. /end

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