COVID is back in the news. Biden wants the congress to fund a new experimental drug and bypass the old restrictions on bringing it to market. I presume they will indemnify the manufacturers from liability from those who will suffer adverse reactions to the drug. Here come the mandates again. Universities which used to be operated by smart people are starting to issue mandates. Rutgers University is requiring all students to show proof of vaccination and requires masks. Morris Brown College in Atlanta is doing the same. It doesn’t matter that all the research shows that for college aged students, COVID is akin to a bad cold or the flu and seldom fatal. One New Jersey legislator has recommending that the Rutgers administration be fired. While you are at it, why not expel them from the Big “10” too.
The question is whether Biden will attempt to bring back the mandates and the lockdowns. He said that he wanted all in the country to get the new vaccine and hinted that it might be mandated. Surely he wouldn’t dare. I think that if he did, he (or any democrat) will lose the presidential election in a landslide. This time I suspect that mandates will be met with mass civil disobedience. Last time I got the J & J vaccine because it was a single shot. I only got the shot to keep peace in the house but I drew the line on the boosters. I only wore masks when it was required by the establishment. I eventually stopped wearing masks and usually no one said anything. I gave up my Costco membership when some snarky employee there told me to cover my nose. I left the merchandise in the cart, walked out and never returned. I liked Sams better anyway.
I still went turkey hunting – an essential outdoor activity – and still drove to Georgia every other week to visit my mother. The lockdown prevented me from seeing her in her assisted living facility so we would meet at the front door and talk to each other on our phones. Although she tested positive from COVID she died from heart failure at 101. To this day, I am bitter that I couldn’t physically be with her, hold her hand and say “I love you.” I should have taken her out of the facility and taken her home to die surrounded by those who loved her.
No more mandates. No more masks. No more lockdowns. No more abdicating fundamental rights to government tyrants and bureaucrats who make up stuff on the fly. No more ignoring the research. Protect the vulnerable and leave the rest of us alone.
If we all drive electric cars (perish the thought) what happens to the gasoline tax? How will states then finance the upkeep of the roads? Mandating that the auto companies install tracking devices in cars? My insurance company wants me to have some device in my cars that track my driving. No way.
Speaking of tracking, it is obviously that my credit card purchases are being tracked. Kroger sends me coupon for the stuff I buy. Walmart has a list of everything I buy there as does Sams. When I google, ads appear that reflect by buying history. It is apparent that the merchants use my purchasing history to determine what not to carry. My favorite mustard and salsa are no longer made. Items that I like disappear. Even my favorite dishes vanish from menus.
Speaking of ads, where did all the Temu ads come from. They are the most obnoxious offensive ones I’ve seen to date.
Isn’t it interesting that the taxes from tobacco are often used by states to fund social programs? California which banned flavored cigarettes has seen tobacco tax revenues falling. This has led to a drop in funding for some early childhood services programs. One California county recently ended a program that provided support for pregnant women and babies up to a year old. Funds for other programs supporting foster children and dental health services have been cut. California had already raised the tax on tobacco and thinking that the demand was inelastic assumed that tax revenues would increase. Instead revenues fell. Incidentally, since menthol cigarettes are most popular among blacks it’s a wonder that they were banned. Didn’t the banning constitute an aggressive hostile action toward blacks and is racist?
Am I the only one who is irritated by commentators commenting on other commentators who commentate on them commentating? The non-news shows on Fox spend most of their time commenting on what commentators on CNN and MSNBC are saying. In many cases those commentators are commenting on what is being said on Fox. The same is true on the emails I get where the writer – who obviously had no ideas that morning – is writing on what the other side has written. The two main objects of derision are the obnoxious Keith Olbermann and Jemele Hill who both were sports anchors for ESPN. Both are extremely bitter with Hill only capable of shouting “racist!”. She recently called Nikki Haley an Indian-American for calling another Indian-American (Kamala Harris) inept.
Speaking of ESPN, I was wondering how long before Sage Steele was fired by ESPN. She obviously was not in line with the leftist dogma on the network (which is owned by Disney). Well she wasn’t fired but left after her lawsuit against the network was settled.
I can’t abide Stephen A. Smith but think that it is a tribute to him that he is so well compensated and attended an HBCU (Winston-Salem State) rather than an Ivy League school.
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