Here we go again…
Health officials believe mu is even more transmissible than the delta variant and has the potential to resist vaccines.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
She said it lol pic.twitter.com/Z2DwKkgS8U
— Art TakingBack 🇺🇸 (@ArtValley818_) September 6, 2021
First, for context, here’s the original piece from @RollingStone and the follow up from the actual hospital saying the story was BS and that the one (one!) person the story quotes doesn’t work at that hospital anymore (and hasn’t in months). pic.twitter.com/6k4FjaQWD3
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 5, 2021
The whole thread – and it’s extensive – can be seen here:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1434591443855753220.html
In short, someone made up a story, Rolling Stone ran with it without checking it, a whole bunch of other media outlets picked that up and also ran with it also without checking it, and then the people actually involved spoke up and called BS.
This is the same press that spent years yapping about Russian Collusion, and went on about the Covington Blood Libel, and told us that violent arson-riddled riots are “mostly peaceful protests” while people milling around in the halls of Government were a violent armed insurrection, that “the pink tax” is a thing, that the 1619 slanders are valid history, that “the Wage Gap” is a thing, that Biden was of sound mind. The press has a *long* way to go to rebuild any sort of trust
In exciting news out of Germany…
Yeah, yeah, mental illness, blah, blah, blah. No nation has a duty to harbor the nutjobs from elsewhere. Now that Afghanistan has been taken over by the Taliban, it’s time to start paradropping the “refugees” and “asylum seekers” that have been unwisely welcomed into first-world nations to their detriment. Heck, we can drop in out own native-born whackaloons straight into Kandahar,
A 1942 US Army Air Force artists concept of a “battleglider” depicts a troop transport glider with an unusual means for propulsion. Rather than being towed into the air, this aircraft relied on the powerplants of two bell P-39’s attached to substantial under-wing pylons. The pylons encompassed the cockpits of the fighters, necessitating large windows in the pylons for the pilots to see through.
I am *made* of questions when I look at this. During powered flight… who’s the pilot? I would assume the pilot of the glider, somehow having access to the controls of the fighters… at least the fighters engines. Do the pylons drop off after the fighter separate? Does landing gear deploy down through the pylons? You’re certainly not going to land safely with those pylons hanging down there. Who does the fighter-jettison? Again, presumably the glider pilot has control, but do the fighters have independent control? Are their aerosurfaces locked during attached flight? Can the fighter pilots force the glider to maneuver? The glider fuselage actually looks a little small; what’s the troop/cargo complement? Do the fighters promptly return to base after releasing the glider, or do they continue to provide cover and perhaps serve in the ground attack role?
I last saw Disneyworld in… what, 1975? I would have expected progress with the animatronics since then, but… meh.
New Robot Biden just dropped at #Disney pic.twitter.com/rkVVd65mZI
— 🎃Jim-O-Lantern🎃⚪️ (@jimandthem) August 4, 2021
Go ahead and *try* to imagine mandating that a cat wear a mask. It doesn’t work. Cats do what they do, with no regard to what *you* might want them to do. that’s why they’re awesome.
See, this is just whackadoodle:
What’s more, the “security guard” is all kinds of special who should probably not have been out in society in the first place:
Holmes, who is barred from possessing a weapon because he is a four-time convicted felon and registered child sex offender, was working as an armed security guard at the store
Ummm… what. The article does not detail what his four felony convictions are. But four felony convictions and being a sex offender, never mind a child sex offender, starts to sound like the sort of description that would be best applied to someone who has been put away for life or sent to the off-world dilithium mines. Not to someone paid to provide security for a liquor store, and certainly not for someone doing so with a gun. A gun, it should be pointed out, that he was legally barred from owning or wielding or even touching. This being not only Illinois but *Chicago,* it’s probably technically illegal for him to even look longingly at a gun. So… yet another gun control policy win.
But wait! There’s more!
Holmes, who defense attorney Jonathan Feldman said “has a big heart and is a kind-hearted man,” shot the man again, then paced around and shot him a third time before running away
Yeah. And Mike Brown was a “gentle giant.” From the limited information available on the shooter, it seems safe to suggest that he was one minor frustration from plugging someone anyway. But I think at the same time the shooting victim here might have a case for suing the media for ramping up fear about masking.
A topic for discussion: government mask mandates.
It certainly appears that the Commie Cough is on an upward trend again after having been seemingly knocked down by the Trump-era “Project Warp Speed” vaccines. I have no problem wearing a mask in a store or a doctors office, even though I’ve had the vaccine. Being told to by the management of a store doesn’t bother me, any more than “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Business” bothers me. But the government poking its nose into this does start to bother me. Of course the nonsense being done in Australia is clearly far over the line of what a free people should tolerate.
I am, I believe, a practical-minded middle of the road libertrian-ish minarchist. The government should do what it is Constitutionally mandated to do… and nothing more. Not even “for the public good” or “for the children.” If such things are that important, then the Constitution can and should be changed. If you can’t drum up the support to change the Constitution, then it’s not that important. The jobs of laws that restrict a persons behavior should not be to protect that person from themselves (and thus I’m opposed to laws against doing stupid dangerous stuff), but to protect other people from someone’s behavior. And thus a mask mandate… I can see it. If there is a reasonable risk that *you* coughing could infect other people, then *you* masking up makes sense.
But since there is a vaccine… are those vaccinated a risk to others if they are unmasked?
Even if masks are a good enough idea that mandating them in an emergency makes sense, what we’re seeing is the use of such “emergency” powers for long-term power grabs. I honestly can’t see any direct benefit to a tyrannical regime in making everyone mask up; it does not practically hinder the people, but it does make it more difficult to identify individuals for specific oppression. On the other hand, masks are likely not the end goal, but a wedge in the door: get people used to this little intrusion. Then one more little thing. Then another. And soon enough, we’re Australia, and interstate travel ans ceased and the economy is in free fall, and the only hope for the poor beleaguered citizens is Super Government swooping to the rescue with all new payouts. Conspiratorial? Maybe. Unlikely? Probably not. See: Australia.
So, after all that blather, simple, question: government mask mandate, yes or no?
Ride the log flume! Don’t forget to wear your mask!
Subway flooding is infrastructure pic.twitter.com/QCz0qMpJ7T
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 2, 2021