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CDC Declares Old PCR Tests Must Go After George Soros & Bill Gates Buy New COVID Testing Company

The CDC announced Saturday that PCR tests will soon no longer be available for emergency use, just one week after George Soros and Bill Gates announced their intention to purchase a new COVID testing company.

https://newspunch.com/cdc-declares-old-pcr-tests-must-go-after-george-soros-bill-gates-buy-new-covid-testing-company/

When I was younger, I thought that the defining distinction between and was **solidarity** — as in, the former necessarily _has_ to have way more of it than the latter.

Gradually I came to realise that characterisation is problematic for three reasons:

1. want to _impose_ , which is an oxymoron (by definition, you can't mandate voluntary inclinations, such as affection or desire, on people).
1. In practice, and at least in my own country (), the Left has become pro-independence and sympathetic towards secessionists (but more solidarity would require larger unions, stronger federations — not the richest regions going their own way).
1. Sometimes the Right puts in practice _more_ solidarity towards certain groups or causes (eg, non-elites, non-conformists, disadvantaged people who reject the orthodoxy) than the Left itself.

I now think that the **ratio _personal freedom_ vs _economic freedom_** better categorises Left vs. Right (cf ). I like to think of those two dimensions as “ to do what you please with your **body**” (food, drugs, euthanasia, suicide, sex, read, speech, thought, association, religion) and “freedom to do what you please with your **property**” (save, invest, buy, sell, donate, build, trade, settle).

This is not a defence of or , by the way — I do believe _certain_ restrictions on both kinds of liberties are necessary for any society to function at all.

summit.news/2021/07/16/french-

France is looking a lot more like the Soviet Union right now. How much civil unrest is necessary to stop this dictatorship?

Yellow vest and other french protestors are now holding signs showing that jewish journalist freaking out at the French general for naming them on live TV. People are starting to notice.
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