Only 88 shopping days until Christmas!
Sorry. Feeling a little dark lately.
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At least for a little while that isâŚ
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The horror gets lost in numbers. I was asking myself: what about the genocide on native Americans? But in fact, higher or lower, percentage or absolute: the numbers donât carry the horror.
I believe only the experience of being on the side of a bed of a dying loved one changes perception fundamentally.
I had that. Pre-Covid-19.
And while I am not the most empathic person when confronted with real people, I am feeling this pandemic, death by death.
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Why on earth does everyone keep doing this? They ease the restrictions at the first signs of positive results from the restrictions. Itâs mind-boggling.
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The government is still spending a lot of money compensating bars and restaurants that have locked down or reduced hours of operation, and I think that they are putting a lot of stock in the vaccines with close to 60% of the population now vaccinated and that rate going up by a few percent with each passing week, but I do agree that another few weeks of restrictions in the Tokyo and Osaka metro areas wouldnât hurt.
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Good riddance to them. But to put it in context, thatâs 1-2%, maybe, so 98% or more are or will be vaccinated. I think the reporting on these things is really amplifying the caterwauling minority.
And thereâs this:
A state police spokesperson told the Associated Press that no resignations had been received Friday.
From:
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To be honest I deliberately didnât link to that video the other week. His family werenât very happy with the whole thing. Covidiot protestors were at his funeral yesterday and told to leave.
I am very hopeful that the protestors will see criminal prosecution and that this will kick the governmentâs arse to pass the safe harbour legislation to protect healthcare providers and their clients. Needless to say this legislation was considered necessary to protect womenâs health services and nobody thought acute life care would need it. I hope that this unnecessary death will light the fire for the needful to be done and one good thing will come from this network of fools and thugs.
But here we are.
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There are signs of improvement! We need to stop that immediately!
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And today, new survey data suggests that offering any boosters may deter some unvaccinated from getting their first highly effective COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 71 percent of unvaccinated people said booster doses show the vaccines are not working as well as promised, according to the survey results published Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
I do understand where they are going with this, but I fear they are being too credible by far. The unvaxxed at this point are not unvaxxed because they are not certain of the benefits, they are unvaxxed because they are largely unreachable, having made their decision based on political and ideological grounds. They will latch onto any bit of info to justify their illogical prejudice, but they will not change their stance for anything. The booster issue did not convince them against the vaccine. They used the booster issue to justify a position they would hold onto no matter what came down the pike.
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Just like FDA approval, this is just more goalpost moving.
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Some will get it after nearly dying or lament not getting it on their deathbed⌠but not enough of them will get it.
They are fucking us all over.
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At this point? Fuck them. Theyâll use whatever argument they can to avoid vaccination because it is now part of their identity. If it wasnât boosters, it would be something else.
I want my booster precisely because of all these unvaccinated idiots who are spreading COVID all over the place. Theyâre unreachable and no one will ever get them vaccinated. They shouldnât drag the rest of us down with them.
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Thatâs really what they want to doâŚ
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Agreed with the exception that they will drag a lot of folks who canât be vaccinated, who were vaccinated but had suboptimal response, who need an ICU bed that isnât there, not to mention the folks they will convince to follow in their stupid footsteps, down with them. If they had a conscience, the guilt would be devastating. As is, I am sure they feel nothing.
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There is that, but none of this will get any better if I forgo my booster shot to appease the disease-spreaders. From the personal-action point of view, the best thing I can do for the potential victims of these idiots is to get myself boostered as quickly as possible so that if I do come into contact with a COVIDiot, I donât get myself sick and donât pass it along to any of those other folks. I do have a conscience and one of the biggest reasons Iâve been a recluse for the past 561 days is because I donât want that kind of guilt. The argument of âWe canât possibly offer you a booster because it might dissuade the unvaccinatedâ is not a good one.
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I kind of think that a lot of them are expecting some sort of mad cow effect with the vaccine and that at some random point in the future weâre all just going to start dying as a result of having had the vaccine years prior. Enough of them genuinely seem convinced that the vaccine is harmful without actually being able to point at how, that they must be telling themselves some version of this story. It wouldnât surprise me if experience with Agent Orange or even asbestos informed some of this thinking.
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