The media and politicians are in an uproar over the latest Labor Department monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showing that a record 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August. Analysts are pinning the job quitting epidemic on the COVID 19 pandemic. They say that workers are running out of their jobs screaming because of the increase in COVID infections, the DELTA variant, and fear of possible infection. These very intelligent Ivy League grads analyzing the figures could very well be slightly off the mark. Consider that the Biden Administration has been jack-booting businesses to invoke vaccine mandates for months, and while COVID may be the cause for quitting, mandates may be a major reason.

In March, Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden Administration is working on “guidelines” for the nation, but “a determination or development of vaccine passport or whatever you want to call it will be driven by the private sector.” In April, Psaki said, “As these tools are being considered by the private and nonprofit sectors, our interest is very simple from the federal government, which is Americans’ privacy and rights should be protected.” But forcing people to take a drug against their will violates both privacy and civil rights. Then on July 6, Biden said the government should go “door to door–literally knocking on doors–to get help to the remaining people [not] protected from the virus.” The pressure of this narrative continued daily through government and media.

In September, Biden said he was losing patience with the unvaccinated, and he laid out a vaccine mandate for government employees and contractors and a plan to fine businesses through OSHA $700,000 per incident for unvaccinated workers. This is classic socialist soft tyranny as defined by Alexis de Tocqueville in his book Democracy in America, Volume II (1840):

“Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

The ongoing, constant pressure of being forced to take a drug or lose your job, your livelihood, may have driven millions to just leave their jobs and try to find work without a mandate. No surprise here.

Additionally, vaccine mandates will cause a massive disruption of the economy, says Joshua Yoder, founder of US Freedom Flyers and an American Airlines pilot. He told Fox News, “If you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won’t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store.” Frontline workers, once called heroes, are under attack for refusing the COVID jab. Nurses in New York have been fired, and 40% of the Seattle police force may be fired due to a vaccine mandate.

Christ said in Mark 12:17, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Caesar doesn’t own our bodies; neither does Biden. His “no vax, no work” mandate will surely bring calamity for all. It’s already started. Say it with me… Stupidocrisy.

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There is a shocking poll of 10,000 16-to-25-year-olds across 10 countries that indicates 56% agree humanity is doomed, and 75% believe that the future is frightening.

Vice.com reports: “The study, published today in Lancet Planetary Health and led by academics and professionals at the University of Bath, Stanford Medicine Centre for Innovation in Global Health, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and others, found that people from countries more directly and immediately impacted by climate change tended to be more worried about the future. Ninety-two percent of young people in the Philippines said they felt like the future was frightening, compared to just 56 percent in Finland.”

Moreover, trust in government is low.

Only 28% of young people in the UK and 21% in the US thought government could be trusted when it came to the planet. According to the report’s authors, climate anxiety among young people is an “inescapable stressor,” and unpredictable and extreme weather patterns are likely to further add to psychological distress. The study’s co-lead author, Caroline Hickman of the University of Bath, concluded, “Our children’s anxiety is a completely rational reaction given the inadequate responses to climate change they are seeing from governments. What more do governments need to hear to take action?”

Perhaps the answer is found in accurate studies, balanced reporting, and truth—including the ultimate truth, Christ.

The UK Telegraph, once an advocate of global warming, had a turn-about in 2008. Reporter James Delingpole blew the whistle on scientists after obtaining 1,079 emails and 72 documents from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University. He wrote in 2009 that scientists were practicing “Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws… and much more.”

Also, in December of 2008, some 650 scientists refuted the concept of global warming. The alarmist media ignores these facts and reports only doom and gloom. Politicians eyeing tax dollars, power, and government control are a constant drumbeat that the earth is doomed. Each year, the end is moved to another date.

The relentless repeating of this “no hope” message is enough to depress any young person.

Genesis 1:28 defines man’s role in the environment, “…God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

God promised Noah after the flood in Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.” Only God the Creator has power to destroy the earth. Man is its steward. We all need to do a better job in affirming to our youth the Hope in Christ as in Romans 15:13, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

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