Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Strange that I never heard this story before.
- Far Side comics in real life.
- Attorneys score big win against FDA and Pfizer and Moderna. But yet documents don't have to be released for another 2-years. Look for those involved to take golden parachutes and move to warm countries without extradition with the US in about a year and a half.
- George Carlin talks about the human race "circling the drain."
Interesting look at why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines
The article points out that, "As of this writing, in the United States about 85% of the people over 65 - the age group most at risk - are fully vaccinated against COVID (more if you include those who have had one shot). Fifty-seven percent of the overall population is fully vaccinated." Great! That number of those over 65 is probably higher if you exclude many in that last small percentage who may have comorbidities so severe that getting a shot could be truly dangerous.
Well done science and medicine - you're successfully flattened the curve by almost fully vaccinating those most at risk! But wait:
President Joe Biden switching from persuasion to coercion - of the armed services, federal employees, and as of Sept. 9, of anyone working for companies with 100 employees or more, a category that includes about 100 million Americans.
Why the switch? Shouldn't we be at the stage where the great resources are being spent on rapid testing so people can find out if they are infected? Why hasn't this been made the priority? The cynic in me thinks maybe because the Pfizers, and Moderna's of the world make much more from vaccines and those companies need to make hay while the sun shines. So no rapid test strips and instead a focus on getting everyone vaccinated.
And now they want to vaccinate children who, according to the science, are at little or NO danger from the virus? And they wonder why people don't trust them?
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Tonight's game between the Patriots and Buccaneers would have a different feel if New England was 2-1 instead of 1-2. The Pats really should be 2-1 but literally fumbled away the victory vs the Dolphins... New Biden Administration guideline says unvaccinated people now not only have to wear a mask in public but also ring a bell while saying, "Unclean! Unclean!" over and over to warn any vaccinated people they may come in contact with... Best alternate universe ending to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets... Is it me or do the people who use the word "systemic" to describe a problem also seem to want to give more power to the very thing they think is broken? Our system of government is broken? Give it more power then... Cherem of Hate would be a good name for a band or a competitor to Twitter. Came across that phrase in a book and liked it. Had to look up the meaning of "Cherem" though... The Casual Polymath would be a great name for a blog... Have Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson now made enough money off of their vaccines that they should be legally liable for any adverse side-effects? Obviously I say yes but recognize these companies aren't voluntarily going to give up that "immunity"...
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- With vaccine mandates becoming more and more common - isn't it strange that Pfizer doesn't require vaccinations by their own employees? Pfizer may succumb to political pressure to institute a mandate - just as Moderna reversed course. How is this following the science?
- 10 people who switched careers after 50-years old and thrived. (From the archives)
- What we really know about climate change. Excellent article. I have no anxiety over climate change whatsoever.
- Of course you can't trust scientists on politics. Reminded of the Richard Feynman quote, "Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Unfortunately public relations is where the science funding dollars reside these days. (HT Newmark's Door)