Saturday, July 24, 2021

This Will, Of Course, Be Political Gold...

...in all those states where Republicans told people to go home and die it was their choice whether or not to vaccinate.

Although honestly, this doesn't help much:
An object lesson in how to read an article and ignore what it says. Yes, I disagree strongly with those who won't get vaccinated. No, I don't think the automatic and best answer is to fire everyone who won't get vaccinated. Working in elder care (v. a major hospital) is pretty much shit work anyway. Driving people away from those jobs is a pyrrhic victory for the people they care for. A little more consideration for all involved, even the people you don't like very much, is in order. Indeed, tell me the difference between that tweet and this response from an elected official: Can we really do no better than this? This is one way of doing better: Although, about what the governor said earlier:  "Never mind!"

Whatever the political analysts ever agree on as the cause of this new effect, it proves my thesis that politicians are always several steps behind the people they represent, or purportedly represent. Probably this is an institutional problem, since the people they think they represent are seldom representative of the people in whose name they serve. Someone should do a CRT style analysis of that problem, eh?

1 comment:

  1. Anyone who didn't understand that "herd immunity" is a theory that REQUIRES the deaths of a very large percentage of the overall population to happen should be dope slapped. Counting on that ideological theory to protect the American People was guaranteed to do that. Of course those enlightened semi-socialists in Sweden bought into that too, which I have to say makes me wonder just how well they understood that aspect of it.

    "The herd" is rendered "immune" because those who were incapable of developing an immune response to prevent serious illness or death died out from it. And it's just a theory, there is just as valid a theory that there could be a virus or a variant of a virus that could develop in "the herd" that could wipe out all of them. For pity sake, a little "learning" is a deadly thing when it's this kind of thing the little learning covers.

    I think it's inevitable that unless this thing goes away a vaccination mandate for those who deal with large numbers of people will come in. I dread to think of how many will die before then as much as I hope I'm wrong about that. The black death killed off a third of the population in a lot of places. A hundred million plus American deaths in this pandemic or another one? This again gets scarier by the day.

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