This is about Covid tribalism, the latest scheme to divide Americans into warring camps for the political profit of the Democrat party. They brought us to the brink of civil war by stoking class and racial resentment, and now they want us all to blame each other for Omicron.
The White House statement is a papal bull from the Church of the State, condemning the heretics and teaching the faithful to blame them for unleashing demons upon the flock. And of course it's crude blame-shifting from Biden's utter failure, measured by his own campaign promises.
In the longer term, obedience is a vital resource for statists, and they are using coronavirus panic to cultivate it. They want people to grow accustomed to obeying whimsical, ever-changing orders, to experience physical humiliation (masks for thee, but not for the elite.)
A good way to cultivate obedience is to spread the notion that all evils are caused by the disobedient. Hellfire and damnation for those who disobey! The grand plans of the State would work perfectly, if not for all those saboteurs and wreckers! Misery unto them!
Teaching people to celebrate obedience as the highest virtue, and blame the disobedient for all of the State's failures, is vital to collectivist power. The faithful and obedient are taught to seethe with hatred and resentment for the deplorables. Eventually, it explodes. /end

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Of all the systems mankind has devised to allocate scarce resources, capitalism is - by far - the best at increasing supply in response to demand.

The enforcers of every other ideology invest a great deal of effort into making people forget that simple, powerful truth.
Politics, ideology, economics - in the end, it boils down to figuring out who gets how much, because there will never be enough for everyone to have everything. Even if we had some magical technology that produced goods from thin air, our time would still be limited and valuable.
The cold, hard truth is that capitalism - private citizens owning capital and freely investing it to create profit - is the system most likely to increase the supply of scarce resources to meet demand. We have seen this demonstrated time and again since the Industrial Revolution.
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Looking back, 2000 seems like a real turning point for Democrats. They had all kinds of bad ideas before that, and some of those ideas did a LOT of damage, but after 2000 the party grew increasingly and openly obsessed with punitive policies, destroying and rebuilding America.
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What happened to "If it saves just one life?" Every case of this ostensibly super-dangerous variant prevented from infecting Americans is potentially saving lives. Total case numbers are constantly invoked as a crisis metric, so why not reduce cases with travel restrictions?
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