ed note–wow, talk about your Freudian slips.
Ok, first let’s see what Webster’s Dictionary has to say about the word ‘bribe’–
To persuade someone to act in one’s favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.
And then an example from Webster’s where the definition of the word is used–
An undercover agent bribed the judge into giving a lenient sentence
Ok, so we know that the word ‘bribe’ has baked into its meaning a certain stench clearly connected to things that are illegal, immoral or unscrupulous.
There are other words conveying the idea of utilizing money to obtain certain services or products, like ‘pay’, ‘compensate’, ‘purchase’, ‘remunerate’, etc, etc, etc…
And yet, in the mind of our Hebraic author, it is the very FIRST word upon which he settles in trying to make his case.
Well, one could suppose that this is yet another example of a leopard not changing its spots or validation of that statement by a certain JC that ‘out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks’…
But let’s just put that aside for a moment. As the readers of this site know, we have not spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the pros or cons of needles, masks, lockdowns, etc.
One thing though that is as sure as shinola is that a certain group of someones really, really, REALLY wants to get those needles stuck into as many arms as possible and with a chemical concoction that–if we are to believe what we were told on the news–was cooked up in all of 5 months when the average vaccine takes between 5 and 10 years.
Furthermore, and something really, really basic for people to consider–
No one needs to be ‘bribed’ into cooking their food before eating it.
No one needs to be ‘bribed’ into wearing warm clothing in cold weather.
No one needs to be ‘bribed’ into utilizing all sorts of modern inventions in this world that protect life, make life better and in general add immeasurably to this thing known as ‘quality of life’.
Like lies that cannot exist without the force of law requiring their acceptance, if the vaccine (which our deranged follower of Judaism believes is so necessary that he is now advocating ‘bribery’ in securing Gentile ‘compliance’) were every bit as beneficial as its proponents claim, there would be no need to ‘bribe’ people to get vaccinated with a concoction that–as already stated–took all of 5 months to develop and which will be in the vaccinated body for the entirety of that person’s life.
We’ll end this little piece of commentary with a quote from the book ‘The Other Side of Deception’ by former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky who writes in part–
At the time, chasing Palestinians who infiltrated the border was an almost daily occurrence. Most of the time, the infiltrators would be killed during the chase or in short skirmishes in the parched desert. There were cases, however in which the terrorists would be captured alive; nevertheless, most of the time, even if they were taken alive, they’d be announced as dead over the radio so no one would await their return.
That was where I would come in as a military police officer; my job was to take the prisoners to a holding facility in Nes Ziyyona, a small town south of Tel Aviv. I’d always assumed that it was an interrogation facility for the Shaback. We all knew that a prisoner brought there would probably never get out alive, but the brainwashing we’d gone through in our short lifetimes had convinced us that it was either them or us and that there was no gray area.
It was Uri who enlightened me regarding the Nes Ziyyona facility. It was, he said, ‘an ABC warfare laboratory’, ‘ABC’ standing for atomic, bacteriological, and chemical, where our top epidemiological scientists were developing various doomsday machines. The Palestinian infiltrators came in handy in this regard. As human guinea pigs, they could make sure the weapons the scientists were developing worked properly and could verify how fast they worked and make them even more efficient.
Years later, I met Uri again. This time he was in the Mossad, a veteran katsa in the A1 department, and I was a rookie. He had come back from an assignment in South Africa. I was then a temporary desk man in the Dardasim department in liaison, helping him prepare for a large shipment of medication to South Africa to accompany several Israeli doctors who were headed for some humanitarian work in Soweto, a black township outside Johannesburg. The doctors were to assist in treating patients at an outpatient clinic for the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, a few blocks away from the houses of Winnie Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. The hospital and the clinic were supported by a hospital in Baltimore, which served as a cut-out for the Mossad.
What is the Mossad doing giving humanitarian assistance to blacks in Soweto?’ I remember asking him. There was no logic to it; no short-term political gain (which was the way the Mossad operated) or any visible monetary advantage.
Do you remember Nes Ziyyona? he asked.
His question sent shivers up my spine. I nodded.
This is very much the same. We’re testing both new infectious diseases and new medication that can’t be tested on humans in Israel for several of the Israeli medicine manufacturers. This will tell them whether they’re on the right track, saving them millions in research.
And, finalmente, lest we forget–
‘Israel developing ethnic bomb targeting only Arabs’
And keep in mind, especially all yuuz out there who might welcome such a virus that targets ‘dem AY-rabs,’ if Judea, Inc is working on a virus that targets only the Ishmaelites, then as sure-as-shinola, they’re working on one targeting those of European descent as well as ‘recompense’ for 2,000 years of ‘Christian anti-Shemitism’.
By Ben Cohen for JNS
‘How can we as a society stand by and watch people die when a simple shot could prevent a life-threatening illness?’ That was the agonized question asked by a group of nine healthcare providers in Minnesota who last weekend took the unprecedented step of publishing an advertisement in local news outlets begging people to get vaccinated.
Alongside their plea was a stark warning about the strains – mental, physical, infrastructural – on the health workers and their institutions that have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic for two years now. “Care in our hospitals is safe but our ability to provide it is threatened,” the ad stated. “Heart attacks. Car accidents. Cancer. Stroke. Appendicitis. Now an ominous question looms: Will you be able to get care from your local community hospital without delay? Today that’s uncertain.”
The healthcare crisis that has unfolded in Minnesota occurs despite the fact that more than 66% of the state’s residents are fully vaccinated, placing Minnesotans firmly in the top half of US national vaccination table. In 17 states, the vaccination rate is well under 60%, while in a further three – Wyoming, Alabama and Louisiana – less than 50% of the population has been fully jabbed. There is no doubt that the strains are felt at a national level, and that the desperation among healthcare workers is obvious; depression, exhaustion and PTSD are sadly rife among clinicians and nurses.
The social costs of the ongoing pandemic are similarly acute, in large part because advocates of vaccine refusal have adopted the mantle of victimhood and falsely claim that they are being discriminated against. Many cities and countries now require some form of vaccine passport, which can mean that for public health reasons, those who refuse the vaccine are no longer eligible for certain jobs, cannot travel on public transport, cannot enter restaurants, cinemas and other places of entertainment, and so on.
As many Jewish communities have discovered to their dismay, these restrictions have brought about obscene comparisons with the plight of Jews under Nazi rule. From Alaska to Austria in the last 12 months, we have seen protesting vaccine refusers donning concentration-camp uniforms along with the Judenstern (“Jews’ Star”) and carrying signs bearing slogans such as “vaccination makes you free,” a variation on the slogan “work makes you free” at the entrance to Auschwitz. The flip side to this, of course, is that when they are not appropriating the Holocaust, there is a tendency among vaccine refusers and other pandemic conspiracy theorists to blame COVID-19 on ‘the Jews’ – as David Bateman, founder of the billion-dollar Utah software company Entrata did just last week.
Successive studies have shown that upwards of 75% of the US population needs to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity from COVID. At the moment, our vaccination rate nationally lags at a little less than 62% – meaning that pressure on the hospital system will continue to mount since the latest, a highly transmissible strain of the coronavirus, Omicron, can only be considered mild or non-lethal in persons who are vaccinated. Hence, the impassioned pleas in Minnesota that have echoed around the country urging those who are not vaccinated to do the right thing.
Will an attempt to nudge people into action through an appeal to conscience have the desired effect, two years into the pandemic and nearly one year since the vaccines became available? There are many observers who regretfully believe that it won’t and that a frankly baser approach needs to be tried.
That approach would involve paying financial incentives – bribes if you prefer – to those who are presently reluctant to get the vaccine. As radical an idea as that is, some variations of it have already been rolled out by some state and national governments and private corporations. In Baltimore, government workers who can show fully vaccinated status by Jan. 14 will receive a one-time $1,000 payment. In New York City during December, a booster shot at authorized clinics carried a $100 reward with it. There was a similar deal in Louisiana during the same period, with a reported 34,000 vaccinated patients receiving a $100 gift card as a reward for taking the vaccine plunge.
Meanwhile, fully vaccinated employees of Walmart are entitled to a $150 bonus. Further afield, in the sorely under-vaccinated central European nation of Slovakia, those aged 60 and over who get fully vaccinated will pick up a cash reward of just under $350, thanks to legislation passed by the Slovak parliament in early December.
All of these examples that I’ve cited represent merely a handful of the various schemes in existence that tie some form of payment to the attainment of vaccinated status. Even so, a national program that is targeted at all unvaccinated individuals irrespective of their demographic and that offers the same amount of money to anyone who agrees to become verifiably vaccinated is nowhere to be found.
Perhaps that’s because such a scheme carries enormous risks with it, especially for the politicians who would have to explain and justify it. The objections are obvious. Is it right? Have we really sunk so low that we now bribe those whom we fail to persuade? Is it fair? Why would we reward the holdouts while waving away those among us who freely did their civic duty? Would it even work? Although there have been some encouraging small-scale studies of the effectiveness of payments, there is hardly an overwhelming body of evidence out there to allow policymakers to confidently conclude that a vaccine incentive would persuade the vast majority of refusers to change their minds.
Yet some politicians, among them former Democratic presidential candidates John Delaney and Andrew Yang, have been pushing financial-reward schemes for those who get vaccinated for a year or more. Robert Litan, an economist with the Brookings Institution, argued at the end of 2020 that the sum of $1,000 would be an enticing recompense and that the approximately $250 billion he believes such a scheme might cost is a small price to pay for reactivating our national economy and cultural life. According to Litan, anyone who objects to such an idea is “effectively saying that it is better for the nation to continue to suffer from the fear and the cost of the virus than to pay a modest sum to end this national nightmare. Framed as a cost-benefit assessment, the payment, if needed, is a no-brainer.”
While I wouldn’t share that confidence in a vaccine payment scheme, I have reluctantly concluded that a grander, aggressively marketed program on a national scale offering a significant financial reward in exchange for vaccinated status is worth, if you’ll excuse this awful pun, a shot.
That’s because the costs of allowing this pandemic to drag on are greater than any discomfort with the admittedly immoral act of resorting to legally sanctioned bribery.
There are millions of people with illnesses and long-term conditions far graver than COVID-19 whose treatment is being compromised because of the pandemic’s demands. Moreover, the poisoning of our society’s discourse with pseudo-scientific claims and conspiracy theories – often rooted in medieval prejudices about Jews – is destroying trust in education, in government, and worst of all, in each other.
Those anti-Semitic prejudices will, of course, linger long after COVID-19 has been banished, but they will be far less virulent in conditions where a pandemic is no longer raging. If ending the collective misery that the coronavirus has wrought upon us is our most important national priority, we should be willing to give the unthinkable a try.