My Hometown

Just an update on where some people think we're at.  Are they right?  I suppose time will tell, but... yes?

This pizza costs $34

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This egg sandwich costs $16 if you add avocado and vegan sausage

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Have a nice day!

 

How Do I Know This Vaccine Is Safe?

If your favorite ammunition manufacturer claimed they had invented a new gunpowder that was twice as potent, would you go buy it or would you do your own research to find out how it could be possible?

If an automotive chemical company said they had developed a fuel additive that would dramatically improve the performance of your ATV, would you take their word for it or do you want to research the formula?

Would you take a chance on a new type of spray-on bedliner that promised to be more durable, or would you want to know everything it's made of first?

If you buy a pound of ground beef, do you just kind of assume someone actually knew how to slaughter the cow?

Have you ever bothered to figure out how Tylenol®, Advil®, Bayer®, etc. work or did you just pick one and take it?

If you're like most people, you don't know any of this stuff.  You trust that people who know about these things figured it out for you.  It's sort of how we get through about 99% of every day of our lives.

Good luck!

Attrition

I'm starting to think the anti-vax movement is going to work itself out all on its own.  Full disclosure: I'm 100% guilty of basing this opinion off headlines only, but these headlines keep saying yet another prominent anti-vaxxer has either fallen seriously ill or died from COVID.  More and more each day who have run out of luck escaping the Delta variant.

Seems like that would poke a pretty big hole in your anti-vax argument, or at least weaken your stance.  But even if it doesn't, I'm starting to get the feeling that anti-vax is a fight that won't last much longer because the movement will literally die off.

SB-8

Well, these were all elected officials, no?  The people of Texas have spoken.  SB-8 is law.  No one seems too sure how they got around Roe v. Wade, but for now SB-8 is law.

I’m not hearing a lot of outrage about it in Texas. I think the people got what they (thought they) wanted.

Maybe that doesn’t fly in Portland, but that’s in Oregon or Maine.

What’s going on in Texas is the result of Texan culture and I can only conclude that SB-8 is an idea that most of its residents agree with.