Update 10/20/21: The ruling on the Maine court case on vaccine mandates is held up on its 6th day with no advisement rule from Justice Murphy; this is leading people to speculate that there are ramifications that are affecting the judge’s decision, which was said to be coming last Friday.
By Laurie Dobson
With Halloween on its way, front yards in the state are costumed with ghouls and witches intermixing with blaze-colored fallen leaves. The colorfully festive atmosphere belies a state which has endured two years of vexation and anguish, with lost jobs, hopes, and lives as the hits just keep on coming.
Is Maine a testing ground, and its citizens experimented on, to see how much they can endure? Is this practice for the so-called “build back better” rollout? The latest pressure point is Governor Mill’s vaccine mandates for Maine’s health care workers. Religious exemptions have been shot down and a judge will rule any day on the decision to impose vaccine mandates on healthcare workers in a state that’s already critically short-staffed.
Economic Indicators Not Good
Poverty is a plague that has become perennial since government policies shut down the mills, and now entrepreneurs have been forced to close doors in drastic numbers during the quarantine of 2020-21.
The state had a feeding frenzy this summer as people, wary of social and political pressures to comply with mandates, fled to Maine to try to leave a less tumultuous life.
They are moving in droves to a state that boasts it’s the place that offers a lifestyle that’s “the way life should be.” But does Maine’s beauty compensate for the poverty and austerity endured by its poorer population?
Targets of Pharma?
It does seem to many observers that there is a concerted effort to deliberately draw down the state’s health, wealth, and well-being. Looking to other pitfalls, there is the drug crisis. OxyContin was pushed early in the pain medicine overdose crisis. Maine was a key state targeted by big Pharma due to Maine’s rural working population.
According to the docudrama “Dopesick” currently showing on Hulu, this is because of the higher likelihood of pain suffered from injuries sustained in dangerous manual labor and factory jobs, which were plentiful at that time in Maine.
Health Access Challenges
The lockdown has changed the employment landscape, and Maine is still feeling the pain of job losses. Many people are calling this “the great resignation” as mandates across the country are eliminating first responders once treated as heroes.
The population of Maine is the most elderly of all the states. Nursing home deaths are high, especially right after the “vax,” according to a nurse who spoke on personal authority. Residents are further plagued by difficulties getting to hospitals in emergencies due to distances traveled to care centers, only to be turned away. Some hospitals are now announcing they will be transferring those needing critical care due to staff shortages. EMTs are in short supply and seem targeted for further discouragement for trying to stay with their jobs.
Growing Anger at POTUS
Biden’s various policies, especially his vaccine mandate pressure policy, are getting comical pushback- “LGB” and “FJB” chants move in wave formation across public events, making it impossible to ignore.
The President’s approval is tanking and commentary regarding his dementia has become a matter of common discussion in the media and everyday conversation in the US and worldwide. An “FJB” rap chant just hit number one in the music charts.
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Medical Liberty Battleground
The chant could well turn into a call to action. If Maine is a testing ground for fighting or complying with further odious pressures, will Mainers decide to turn desperation into decisive action, and fight back?
There was another call to arms that is “fixed” into Mainers’ history. “Fix bayonets” was the famous battle cry at Gettysburg when Maine’s General Joshua Chamberlain fought against all odds to win with no ammo left. It is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
Do not think you can predict what will happen. It’s an unpredictable state. This is possibly why Judge Murphy is taking her sweet time deciding about imposing health care mandates in the delayed ruling on the court case being closely watched and covered by TrialSite News.
A Difficult Group to Break
Behind the scenes, various factors are weighed. Because Maine has shown itself to have a character of endurance, the state may be punished further. Decency and maturity are not playing to their benefit right now.
Maine’s people are the least likely to declare bankruptcy. There is an honor code alive in the state, and the proud independence of New Englanders runs deep. They suffer and don’t like making issues, or federal cases, out of minor causes.
Fighting is the last resort in a state that is determined to enjoy life on life’s terms. But the tide always turns, and sometimes it turns red when conditions are polluted and untenable. Lobster wars (cutting traps and other forms of recrimination) do break out, especially when government intrusion forces confrontation.
‘As Maine Goes, so does the Nation’
The Gulf of Maine, with the Bay of Fundy, has the deepest tides in the country. Coastal workers know how to use the tide to good effect, and “taking the tide at its crest” has been decisive in past battles.
“As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” it’s been often said, and overly quoted!
Maine may be at the point where its depleted resources force a population reluctant to complain to finally realize its desperately depleted state and may help its citizens band together to resist its government.
But perhaps not yet? Perhaps Mainers will decide to hunker down and wait for the foul weather to hopefully pass. Winter is coming on with snow already expected this week. Or enough may be enough. Maine’s discontented may take the tide at its crest and decide it’s high time to push back.
If Maine has had enough, beware!