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 The Supreme Court left both sides of the aisle upset at their latest vaccine mandate ruling.  And two of the major players in the fight for and against the mandates vow to defy the opinion of the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court made the vaccine opinion that have many scratching their heads.  The Biden mandates were not legal based on the technicality of being too broad-based?  " The court generally felt — at least, as we see in this order, there was a majority that felt the mandate here fit more closely the statutory authority of the secretary of health and human services, who is charged with protecting the health and safety of patients in Medicare and Medicaid facilities." ( What a Supreme Court decision on vaccine mandates means for workers | PBS NewsHour )  Notice, the Supreme Court never addressed the safety of the vaccines, which many believe are not protecting health, but deteriorating the immune system.  The Supreme Court refused to hear (effectively allowed) Indi

  Is America already in a social credit system without calling it by its name?   “If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated” — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, August 3, 2021 China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy. What happens if you're blacklisted?    The blacklisted are named on a List of Dishonest Persons Subject to Enforcement by the Supreme People's Court as "not qualified" to buy a plane ticket, and banned from travelling some train lines, buying property, or taking out a loan. There was no file, no police warrant, no official advance notification. They just cut you off from the things once entitled to and there is nothing you can do about it. In China there is no such thing as the rule of law. Regulations that can be largely apolitical on the surface can be political when the Communist Party of China (