Michael Bay decided to do a dystopian action movie based on COVID.

It is called Songbird and the trailer just dropped.

Didn’t I just write a post yesterday containing this:

I’m expecting news from the future to be:

“October 2023, to prevent a COVID 12th wave, the government has ordered a Stage 6 lockdown. No one will be allowed to leave their home for any reason. The government has contracted with Amazon Prime to provide drone delivery of food and necessity rations to all Americans. In other news, Jeff Bezos is the first person to become a trillionaire.”

For my next trick, I’m predicting lottery numbers.

The part where one of the characters showed a wristband and says “I’m immune.”

This from Mass Live, yesterday:

Boston University to require use of green badge indicating negative COVID-19 test after ‘very worrisome increase in the daily numbers’

Hooray, government-mandated badges, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those before.

After what it calls an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, Boston University said this week it will start requiring that students show online badges in certain locations on campus indicating they tested negative for the viral respiratory infection.

After completing daily health screenings online, students, staff and faculty will receive an email confirmation with a green “cleared” badge that they must show to be allowed to enter dining halls, the George Sherman Union and several other public spaces at the university, the school said in a statement Wednesday.

You must wear your badge to go and get food.  Read that sentence again.

“We hope this will be a reminder to everyone of the importance of daily symptom attestation and testing for keeping our campus safe,” the statement said.

You can imagine that exact phrase being blasted over a loudspeaker by some dictatorial government stooge in a dystopian sci-fi movie.

Boston University is just enforcing what Dr. Fauci came up with back in April.

Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’
The proposal, already being implemented by German researchers, is under consideration in the United Kingdom and Italy.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.

Ya, dis is good.  Der immune uber-menschen should have more freedoms. 

Then the armed health police come to this girl’s apartment and battering ram down the door looking for someone with a fever.

Um…

https://twitter.com/ConservCityGirl/status/1319679971959492608

And from another post from fucking yesterday:

Police will enter homes and break up Christmas dinners if families break lockdown rules – and there will be riots, predicts police commissioner

Police chiefs have warned that Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules.

So we’re still at the knock and announce stage of a virus-induced police state.

How about we check out Down Under:

Coronavirus: Melbourne police arrest 74 anti-lockdown protesters

More than 70 people have been arrested in Melbourne, Australia, for flouting the state’s stay-at-home orders to attend an anti-lockdown protest.

About 250 people went to the illegal protest – the second one this weekend.

Protests are non-essential.

Melbourne just came out of 111 days of lockdown.  Don’t worry.  Someone will get the virus and they will lock down all over again.  Their quarantine procedures actually exacerbated the problem.

‘Appalling and inconsistent’: how Melbourne’s hotel quarantine unleashed a second wave

Victoria’s second wave is almost entirely linked to the hotel quarantine program.

What has now been established with a high degree of confidence is that, in May, coronavirus spread from two hotels – Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza. As Prof Ben Howden of the institute explained, of the 1,837 cases of local transmission sequenced since 8 May, 99.8% came from just three “transmission networks”, with no evidence of any other clusters. One network was from Rydges and two from Stamford.

About 90% of cases in the state since May originated at Rydges and 10% from Stamford, both hotels used to quarantine people arriving in Melbourne from overseas.

Cramming several sick people into a hotel created a hotspot, which got had a leak, and that spread the infection.  No matter what you do, you can’t lock down an end to an airborne pandemic.  It delays transmission, but it won’t stop it.

Now here is the really scary part of this article.

Australia’s mandatory 14-day quarantine for returning overseas travellers is credited as a key reason why the country’s coronavirus response has been internationally impressive. A meeting of the national cabinet on 27 March decided on hotel quarantine with the states and territories to implement it “with the support of the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Border Force where necessary”, as senior counsel assisting Tony Neal QC summarised it.

Victoria controversially used private security guards to secure those quarantined, and this will be picked apart by the inquiry next week to determine whether it made any difference to the second outbreak or if other factors were as important.

So when it spikes again, Australia will be tempted to roll out the army to assist with the lockdown.

Do you want proof? How about this insane headline?

New Zealand Stamps Out the Virus. For a Second Time.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response.

If they stamped it out once, why would they need to stamp it out again?

Because they didn’t.  So they locked down again, harder.

New Zealand’s lessons from second lockdown after being 100 days COVID-free

After months of lockdown, the country eventually removed its restrictions due to no cases being reported. The country then experienced over 100 days without COVID-19. Life in New Zealand went back to normal. People ate at restaurants, went to rugby games, and caught up with friends, said Timothy Fadgen, associate director of the New Zealand Public Policy Institute.

Two days after the 100-day milestone, however, four new cases of coronavirus emerged in Auckland. By the end of that week, Ardern announced a second round of lockdown for the city.

Give them another 100 days and they will lockdown again.

Europe is jumping into a second Lockdown with both feet.

Covid: Merkel warns of ‘long, hard winter’ as lockdowns return

CNN, however, has by far my favorite headline on the topic.

Europe tried a scalpel on the second wave. Now it’s going back to the sledgehammer

Germany and France both announced new four-week national lockdowns on Wednesday night. They followed the Czech Republic and Ireland, which put country-wide restrictions in place earlier this month. Spain and the United Kingdom could be next.

Under the new rules, people will only be allowed to leave their homes to go to work or school, for a medical appointment, to care for a relative, to do essential shopping and to exercise. Non-essential businesses, restaurants and bars will be closed. Like in the spring, they will need a certificate to venture outside.

Holy fucking shit!

The only thing fictitious in the movie is a 50% mortality rate in an airborne virus.

Permanent lockdowns, immunity certificates, travel restrictions, martial law, law enforcement raids looking for sick people, public quarantine centers that turn into vectors for infection, human interaction only by internet contact…

All of that is real and most of that in the last couple of months.

At this rate, by the time this movie hits theaters in 2021, you are going to need your proof of immunity to your local Lockdown Director to get your paperwork signed so that you can have a government-approved non-essential activity pass to see it.

15,000 rounds in a pretty barrel.

$6,999.99

SiGraybeard beat me to the punch comparing the boss of Twitter with somebody else. In his case he selected Peter Dinnklage and all the associations with Game of Thrones which I haven’t seen nor I have the wish to see.

In my case, when I saw Jack with his beard, my brain made a direct beeline to an infamous historical character: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.

And suddenly it is gonna take more than congressional investigation to take care of Jack. Sure as hell he seems to have the same soul as the Mad Monk.

BREAKING – Mass exodus from Paris. 800km of traffic jams in the city as people try to leave the city before 9 pm curfew and before confinement begins at midnight. A spike multiple times the normal traffic.pic.twitter.com/fb6TRDrtJ4

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 29, 2020

Makes sense if they have a place to live outside the capital. But I wonder how many actually made it out of town and how many were forced to go back because they got caught outside after the curfew.

And that would be almost 500 miles worth of traffic jams. Imagine how sick and tired people are at all these government impositions that they rather face the traffic jam from hell rather than stay in the City of Lights.

The Intercept appears to be some online media outlet that swings left in what little I just perused of it. In their about page, they seem to be defiant and willing to do what’s right.

Glenn Greenwald, one the founders, just quit because he got one of his stories censored. What was the story about?

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

I guess The Intercept does have problems holding the powerful accountable if he happen to be running for President of the United States with a “D” attached to his name.

But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.

And Mr. Greenwald just discovered water is wet and his ideological fellows are the true fascists of the world.  He is now Enemy of the People.