COVID-19 authoritarianism is skyrocketing around the world as the corporate media drums up panic about the Omicron variant of the virus.

In Canada, any travelers older than 12 years old must show proof of full vaccination to take any form of public transportation including domestic and international flights as well as trains.

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In Australia, citizens are subject to being randomly thrown into “quarantine camps” for weeks at the will of the government despite testing negative for COVID-19. In the Australian state of Queensland, citizens who have not received “a minimum requirement of two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to receiving a kidney, lung or heart transplant” will not receive the life-saving treatment they need.

These authoritarian measures used to force people in other countries to get the shot or face consequences are also creeping into the United States. Despite judicially-invoked holds on most federal mandates issued by the Biden administration, Penn State will require all employees who don’t get the jab before Jan. 4 to undergo a form of reeducation meetings with supervisors and even possibly a seminar that attempts to convince employees to get the shot. Employees who still refuse to comply could face “unpaid administrative leave and termination.”

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio expanded the city’s vaccine mandate to require “all employees and patrons” over 12 years old to have at least two doses of the COVID-19 shot.

As Federalist Senior Contributor Georgi Boorman noted in her recent column, “the vaccines were supposed to help end the pandemic, and now the pandemic is constantly framed in a way that serves more vaccines and invasive government power, no matter what the data says.”

(Excerpt from The Federalist. Photo credit: Getty Images.)