2021 archive
Hazards 0
Robin Alcarian is also fed up with the governors of what blogger Ted McLaughlin has dubbed “The Petri Dish States.” A nugget:
In response to legal threats by Republican governors like Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Biden was blithe: “If those governors won’t help us beat the pandemic,” he said last week, “I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”
The refusal of otherwise healthy people to vaccinate is, in fact, a trampling of common sense, decency and the very idea that any of us owes a measure of respect to those around us.
Vaccine Nation 0
David dissects the duplicity, which does, indeed, defy description. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Do not forget, “social” media isn’t.
Vaccine Nation, Republicans No Longer Believe in the Common Good Dept. 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has a question for persons who insist that vaccine requirements somehow violate their “rights”:
Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
PoliticalProf provides a picture of politeness.
I’m Watching an Episode of The Addams Family . . . 0
. . . and it reminds me of my internet friend (who I once had breakfast with in Newark, Del.), Shaun Mullen.
He is still missed.
Self-Selected 0
Gwynne Dyer notes a disturbing–and ironic–trend.
The only country in the developed world where vaccine refuseniks are more numerous is Russia, where they at least have the excuse that the state lies to them about everything all the time. Typically, however, American vaccine refusal is twice as high as in other OECD countries — and so, of course, is the COVID-19 death rate.
Follow the link for her discussion of some of its manifestations and implications.