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by 015a 1611 days ago
Somehow, inexplicably, some of our governments believed it a good idea to delegate underpaid, overworked individuals at private companies to the role of vaccine police. At best, its virtue signal posturing; ineffectual. The far scarier take: a power like this should principally and traditionally lie with the police, but legislating it so would have the optics of being authoritarian, thus our governments delegate the power to private corporations, further entrenching the cyberpunk corpocapitalistic power dynamic of the real governance of the United States. Such a move (nearly) flies by, even lauded by some, because the population at large still doesn't recognize or respect how much fucking power corporations have in this country.