The Post-Partisan Emporium

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Social credit Brazilian style: All UBI recipients must be vaxxed BY  MARK E. JEFTOVIC   This is what CBDC’s are being built for Anybody who seriously thinks that  Universal Basic Income  (UBI) programs of the future won’t be full blown  social credit systems  need look no further than Brazil, where newly  s elected socialist / globalist Lula da Silva just decreed that the Bolsa Familia program will require family members to be vaccinated in order to continue receiving benefits. “We can’t play, it’s a question of science. If I have 10 covid vaccines to take, I will take all that is necessary ”. The news  comes via The Rio Times , which describes the Bolsa program as “a social welfare program for the poorest families in Brazil” and “a kind of Universal Basic Income”. UBI is considered by many to be beneficent and inevitable. I personally believe the latter but not the former. However it shouldn’t surprise anyone that if you’re dependent on The Savio...

  The Terrain Theory of Social Disease/Contagion; or, The Whale Jon I take it for granted that most readers who have come across this stack are somewhat familiar with “terrain theory” in the health context. But for exposition sake, and to get my own cognitive wheels turning, allow me to refresh your memory with a condescending, simplified version of the germ vs. terrain theory debate. Here goes: Sometimes people get sick. Usually it is because they ate something rotten or drank too much booze or were poisoned by a jilted lover. But sometimes it isn’t. So, if no gas-station sushi, box wine, or conniving ex is involved, why do people get sick? Well, sometimes we notice that people get sick despite no obvious (such as the aforementioned) reasons, and then subsequently other people around them get sick too, with the same symptoms. Yet we don’t see any reason for the first person getting sick, and we certainly don’t see any behavioral factors (beyond proximity) for the subsequent people...