Covid? Really?
19 April 2021 | Gulfport
Monday 19 April 2021
Having been a bit dissatisfied with Pixel 3a phone, which is completely compatible with Google Fi, broke down and bought a reconditioned iPhone XS on Amazon with an incredible amount of memory, but which, when we go offshore, doesn't currently have hotspot capability on the Fi system. Since we'll be in US and (hopefully) Canada for several months, shouldn't be an issue until next fall when it will surely be added... he said with childlike credulity.
*** Non-nautical opinion alert *** Seriously, you should not read this. You'll ignore the warning. It was just to make me feel better.
Although obviously not relevant, the likelihood of getting a blood clot from birth control pills is a thousand times greater than from J&J vaccine even if one makes the unproven assumption that it was the cause of six people, fewer than one in a million - all women 18 to 46, having a problem. Fortunately for the FDA, who halted vaccinations to all ages and genders, their concern for citizen's health was widely reported, but hardly anyone will be aware of the million plus who didn't get a timely injection, a significant number of whom will get sick. The guys who make those decisions are no doubt pleased with themselves because looking and feeling good is ever so much better than doing good.
Apropos of which, wearing a mask outdoors two weeks after getting a final covid vaccine is purely performative. Many do, of course, not wishing to engender angst because they realize lots of people are frightened, don't trust their government to tell the truth or anybody to act responsibly. However, if people are treated like adults they tend to act that way. Without a massive enforcement apparatus and even getting neighbors to rat out their fellows, authorities can't force compliance when people don't wish to submit. Acting like a recalcitrant teenager might be dumb, but massive and arbitrary lockdowns have significant health and economic consequences as well as creating widespread loss of respect for public institutions. Maybe, just maybe, honestly providing the best information currently available and allowing each individual to make decisions about her own life, his personal risk tolerance and their concern for their community would provide a better and safer environment or at least no worse. Looking around the world and at different US states empirical evidence absent media hype seems to support that more liberal approach.
Jack & Jan