Come Back Adolph, All is Forgiven

The crowds are encouraging, although it’s somewhat ironic to see how many attend these protests masked and observing “social distancing.” The habits have been ingrained to a frightening extent already. Let us hope and pray that the people with functional brains will vote the bums out at the next opportunity. How to break the hold of the “administrative class” may not be so simple, of course, as Pres. Trump learned the hard way.

The obnoxious promotion of vaccination among a population which does not benefit from it is an indication that the U.S. is not the only country where school administration is an occupation where idiots accumulate.

I should note that among our shirttails, a mother has insisted on having her sons vaccinated. Those boys are 9 and 11 and one of them already had COVID, as has his mother. She did this with the approval of her mother-in-law and (AFAICT) the silent countenance of her husband and her father in law. Her husband and her father-in-law are both doctors. She herself is a lapsed social worker with one good degree and one junk degree, both from tony institutions. The Sailerites chuffering about IQ need to remember that people with high IQs tend to be other-directed fad chasers.

I should mention something else, everyone in our social worker shirt-tail’s family would benefit from professional attention, especially her younger son. They don’t need a doctor, they need a personal trainer to get their weight under control.

The Sailerites chuffering about IQ need to remember that people with high IQs tend to be other-directed fad chasers.

That’s an excellent point, and one I shall be using in arguments.

Philadelphia is implementing an ordinance in January which requires proof of vaccination to rent an hotel room, eat any meal, or enter any place of public accommodation, other than for the purpose of buying food or fuel.

Do the laws of Pennsylvania allow a county government regulatory authority this intrusive? Note, this isn’t a land use matter and you’re not making use of a public thoroughfare or generating a nuisance detectable with the five senses.

The jurisdictional question aside, this is substantively cock-eyed. The vaccines are not that effective and they’re not sterilizing when they are effective. They also are fairly dirty as vaccines go, with a menu of side effects.

The excuse in regard to smoking is that second-hand smoke is a health hazard. Even the epidemiologists who manufactured that argument didn’t claim it generated more than a four-digit death toll in this very large country each year (and it’s a reasonable wager that those in that small set were people living with cigarette smokers). It’s just the karenwaffe getting in everyone’s face, which you can see clearly in liberal jurisdictions where there have been attempts to ban smoking in apartments.

In 1970, the phrase ‘it’s a free country’ was a cliche. Have you heard anyone say it in the last forty years?

Do-gooder tyranny.
“Perhaps cars should be engineered to drive at speeds which will reduce injuries” this already being planned and implemented. They are calling them Smart Cars.

I am against vaccine mandates / requirements for the same reason I am against the No Smoking regulations in private businesses in the 80s and 90s, helmut laws, seat belt laws, etc. I would have been opposed to the cigarette warning in the 60s / 70s. If they were so bad, why not ban them instead of making tons of tax money?
I explain to people who are surprised that while I brush my teeth every day I don’t think the government has the power to compell me to do so for my own good or “the greater good” of anyone else. (Quoting Hot Fuzz).

I barely recognize this country anymore.

If health of people were really an interest of the state and if it did have the authority to regulate it, it would pass laws against fornication, contraception, abortion, sodomy, and spend whatever money is necessary to locate, prosecute and if convicted, jail pedophiles and those who create pornography for the rest of their lives because all of these contribute not only to bad health but destroy human life, destroy healthy relationships, and create untold mental and physical health problems for those who are raped and molested by pedos. We know all of these are actually promoted and supported (and taxpayer funded in some cases) by the state which proves beyond any doubt, the state does not care one iota about human life or human health.

@DA Spaulding: “Theoretically, the vaccinated are safe from the significant effects of hospitalization and death for which the vaccine was presented as remedy. That is a compelling reason for getting vaccinated…”
Except what you describe is properly characterized as a form of treatment, not immunization from a disease. And as we know, proven and effective treatments are being discouraged if not banned outright; treatments that would also significantly lower rates of hospitalization and death, but without the potential for long term health risks posed by the shots.

Other news outlets have reported a few thousand Swedes have received these rfid chips since 2013. Creepy, but doesn’t seem to be catching on there. About 9,000,000 people live in Sweden.

Art, I understand the idea of the stick approach of taxes to discourage a use, but since when are taxes “not incorporated into the price”? Additionally, I don’t care. It is none of any government’s business to discourage a legal products use in a manner it was intended.
A few years ago I saw the reaction of a New Yorker when he saw the price of cigarettes in Ohio. He wanted to buy as much as he could afford and “smuggle” them into NYC. I saw then that the Tobacco industry should stop selling in New York and other high tax states and let ALL of the Tobacco be smuggled in so it would a tax problem for the Powers that be in NY. BTW, I’ve never smoked a cigarette.

Ezabelle, yes and that’s why I would leave my phone at home if I didn’t want to be tracked.

Per the CDC, of the first 43 confirmed cases of Omicorn, 34 (79%) had the initial run of a COVID vaccination and 14 (33%) had received a booster shot. (The 14 are included in the 34, so 9 had one or fewer shots.) For perspective, about 60% of the US population has received the full initial run of a vaccination and about 16% of the population has received a booster.

It’s a small sample size (these are from about two weeks ago, but I can’t find more recent data.) But nothing in this sample suggests that the vaccines do anything against this variant whatsoever and in fact if anything they might reduce resistance to it. (Of course, there are other factors to consider such as whether vaccinated people travel more, generally have worse immune systems even before the vaccination, etc.)

Yet the propaganda remains firm that the only response to Omicron is to keep getting those shots, and millions of people believe it without question.

Ezabelle, I’m not allowed to say certain words around my wife due to phone and computers listening in. A few years ago I mention to my wife that I was have a mouse problem, my computer mouse was having issues. She started getting mouse trap ads on her phone for at least a week!

Philip my tech knowledge is not as good as some commentators or contributors here and probably as good as yours. But my understanding is it’s a combination of your personal online activity along with being in proximity to someone who has looked up that item you were talking about. So in JFK case re: the mouse scenario – if he didn’t look it up perhaps his wife did and the phone used his location to know that he was in proximity to his wife’s and might have had a conversation about it and bingo…it’s tracking your behaviour not listening to your conversation…and It’s all smart phones, not confined to Alexa devices. You can turn off the location services on your phone but it restricts the capacity in which you can use your phone. So as a default we turn on the location services….
It’s impossible to not have a digital footprint and now that ID credentials are becoming digital then it’s actually going to be more harder to keep your details and credentials private and secure. It’s the way the world is going. Some countries have a National ID card/digital certificate already and all your info is stored in one place. It’s the easiest way to control a growing population.

There will come a day when they don’t need to ask a child to clarify their vaccine status. They will know their vaccine status. Privacy is bull.

Here’s a puzzle. To date, this year’s winter wave has been milder than last year’s. It seems displace in time by several weeks in the Dakotas and other places. Here’s a puzzle, to date Michigan has been getting shlonged just as badly as last year, in both case counts and death counts.

Thank you Ezabelle.
The link was very helpful.
Good advice.

“Neither I or my wife looked up anything to do with either kind of mouse. I only told her I was having mouse problems.” I believe you.