Thread by @phillyrich1

Had a wild conversation with a client last night.

It started with the client telling me the meeting would be masked. When I got there, they were not masked. When I made a joke about it, they said they didn't know if I was vaccinated. But since I am, I didn't have to wear one.

Along the way we started talking about her chiropractor. He's unvaccinated so she stopped seeing him- not because he's unvaccinated but bc Medicare stopped reimbursements bc he's not vaxxed.

I commented that's not right & not the role of government. It's the choice of the ...

... consumer to decide if they want to see the chiropractor or not bc of his vax status. Ironically, she decided to see him and wear a mask despite the fact Medicare won't cover it. But she's all for Medicare/government punishing him.

Which of course led to the conversation about mandates. They are all for the unvaxxed being shunned from society as a matter of law. They explained science to me and that science should dictate our laws and behavior. I couldn't say NO!! fast enough.

Science is not a Constitutional override. I explained it's a very slippery slope & Fauci has already abused his scientific authority when he lied about wearing masks last spring. While I explained it may have been a "noble lie" to save PPE for the front line workers, he lied.

This is where it got interesting. Despite Fauci admitting he lied & lied for a purpose, the response was that he/we didn't have all the facts at that specific point in time. Well, OK...

... bc that then becomes a fantastic admission from someone who wants to destroy the unvaxxed since they must believe we must currently have all the facts about the vaccines, which we clearly do not.

I then declared the Single Payer concept dead. It's a common fear that Government will abuse its power to withhold medical treatment from those whose behavior it wants to politically influence in the name of the collective good, which obviously which is happening right now.

The good news is we politely agreed to disagree and concluded that the liberal form of debate is dead and that people should not be destroyed for their opinions expressed through civil debate.

We need more civil debate.

End.

Oh. She tried to throw a late haymaker at me about the Patriot Act. I shocked her when I said that its universally agreed that the Patriot Act has run down that slippery slope & is a massive abuse of Gov't power & violates all our privacies.

She kind of cemented my point.