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The state of Vermont is again encouraging [sic for “unconstitutionally ordering”] people to limit Thanksgiving gatherings this week to members of their immediate households. …

Gov. Phil Scott says that next week school children and their parents will be asked if they attended gatherings outside their households.

Whoa! Veering dangerously close to Easterb Bloc dictatorships, where teachers indoctrinated kids to snitch on their parents.

Any who say “Yes,” will be required to quarantine at home and participate in school remotely.

Scott says businesses will be encouraged to ask the same questions of their employees. 

Of course: all of life belongs to the State.

Meanwhile, Ed Smith, who sent me this story, offers these thoughts on his former home, Vermont:

The coastal elites get the attention but Vermont is a good barometer of the current transition from American independence through American Graffiti to American Lockdown. …

Friends who moved to Vermont years ago found they couldn’t make a go of it. Even many old-time Vermonters can’t make ends meet any longer. They now need cash they don’t have to pay the growing property taxes, including taxes on livestock (“My cows give milk, not money…”) and the recent Vermont income tax. So  my friends packed it in, moved to town and opened a crystal shop where they’ve done okay through the years, selling mainly to tourists and by mail order, though covid’s changing that arrangement as they now deal primarily through Amazon which takes so large a cut that they may close their doors

Ah, yes. And isn’t that the point of the COVIDCon?

and, after all these years,  move back to Metro Boston, squeezed into a group house in a failing, working class suburb where Senator Liz has promised to take care of them… and the rest of us.

More than one way to skin a cat.

Just be patient, very patient…

Actually, as fast as Marxism is conquering this nation, I don’t know that we’ll be waiting much longer.

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11:30 am on November 27, 2020