Getting the COVID vaccine is, for me, as appealing as signing up for a rewards card at a grocery store in a city I don't live in
And the louder people yell about how much sense it makes, the more resolved I become that they are dangerous rascals
"But Bachman, if you will only follow me through fifteen minutes of data analysis, I'll show you that the jab would add seven quality adjusted minutes to your life expectancy!"
Right, piss off. I could reorder your life in a thousand salutary ways. But it's your life, not mine.
I'm also not impressed by the "rationalists" who insist that spiting the vax crowd is not a good reason to avoid the jab
On the contrary, it's a wonderful reason
The COVID Karens are nasty little worms, and frustrating them is both noble and fun
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The conservation of structure in Woke liturgy is frankly beautiful
You can build glass and concrete barriers against the Pleistocene, but the humans inside will still invent gods to propitiate, sins to expiate
Like cultures on separate continents independently inventing the bow
It's why I laugh at "Great Man" accounts of Jesus or Mohammed
The Iron Age was always going to give us messianism
The simultaneous deification of George Floyd & similar scoundrels abroad tells you these movements are epiphenomenal, statistical mechanical, economic, inevitable
At a buddy's restaurant in Zambia, this is how the staff would steal sausage. Larger items, like chickens, would be snuck out in the mop bucket, or shoved through the wall where an old AC cover hid an empty space
Native Americans lived in deep harmony with nature. When a Native American killed an animal, it was like killing an old friend, and he consecrated the act with piety and reveren--
Oops.
I'd assumed the insult "smooth brained" had been invented in the last few decades
But apparently the Bantu were using it as early as the 1950s?
Separately, imagine the familiarity you'd need with corpses to notice a 10% difference in brain volume
The Magna Carta is a good example, and there are many others like it. A couple of nobles get strong enough to bring a king to heel, and they carve out some principles that look like freedom
But the masses themselves are incurably bovine:
A conceit of modernity is that b/c capitalism put the peasants into luxury and allowed them to buy degrees, that they sincerely hold liberal values
But today's college grad is still a peasant at heart. He still wants to throw salt over his shoulder, propitiate Gaia, burn witches
"Hello, Neighboring State? This is Arkansas. Have you any beds? No? Drat!"
By the way, all the neighboring states have tons of hospital capacity too
I just called a Unity Health hospital in AR and spoke to a "nurse manager" in ICU. She flagged down her boss, who claims there is currently 3% spare ICU capacity in the state.
97% ICU utilization is what used to be called "a busy week"