it’s amazing how much better policy works rather than just asking nicely and hoping for the best
because yeah, nobody is forcing anyone to be a doctor, or a social worker, or a baker of cakes. if you decide to do a job that involves the public, then you should never be able to turn away a whole class of people
( and the same “policy is better than asking nicely” applies to cops and training when training is saying please do x rather than saying you must do x or you lose your job
and also exactly the same again for “responsible gun ownership”. you can ask nicely for everyone to pretty please only shoot the bad guys, or you can establish a no guns law and actually protect everyone. )
Again, I’ll say that punks learned this one weird trick in the 80s - that if you want to stop the fascists from coming around, you make them feel unwelcome at the start. They come and start trouble in the pit, throw their asses out of the club. They harass people on the street, you stand up to them. We know how to deal with these assholes and it’s not be letting their “ideas” be part of normal political or culture discourse.
The Shenandoah Valley is predicted to be one of the relatively safe spots as climate warms. Last week we were at 95oF with 80+% humidity. That is edging very close to AC or die territory. I was out in it. It was unbearable. In one of the safest spots in the country. We are in serious trouble, and it does not give one good goddam whether that challenges your political position or not.
Not as bad as it sounds. This is the vaccine strain, likely from someone who had recently received an oral polio vaccine before arriving in the UK. Most of the first world has moved away from the oral prep because there is a slight risk of shedding, and if it should infect an immunocompromised individual it can be bad. The injectable is an inactivated virus and thus has no such risk, but is somewhat less effective than the oral version. In low risk environments, it is plenty good enough, though.