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20 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So many conflicting feels re: the vaccine mandate resignations.

- proud that many resist being forced to take a 💉
- sad this is the hill they're dying on, because...
- the vax works & everyone should just get it
- glad we don't take orders
- "orders" is sometimes how u survive
That last pair of points is the hardest. Different systems work better against some threats, worse against others. Our liberty-preserving system works really well against some things, but it is weak against any threat that demands everyone fall in line.
The way corona has been handled -- I won't review the public health field's malpractice here -- has been massively damaging to our ability to manage centralized health threats that may arise in the future.

If we face a killer virus soon, we're in /worse/ shape than pre-corona.
I agree with all this 100%. My point tho is that there are rare circumstances where "free society" & "society that is alive & not extinct" are incompatible desiderata. Corona was not such a circumstance, thankfully. Next time tho?
If we face a virus with the CFR of MERS & we can't get shots in arms fast enough, then we will be free and dead, & Australia will be alive &... well, Australian. The Australians can, in theory, recover some liberty. We can't recover some pulse.

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21 Oct
Just unprecedented demand for *zooms in on pic* french fried onions. People are just spending their stimulus money & buying these french fried onions in bulk. Definition nothing else weird going on!
If this bit annoys you, you should unfollow or mute me, because I'm gonna keep doing "people just so HUNGRY... unprecedented surge in demand for $FOODSTUFFS right now... such a healthy, healthy economy, like a young athlete!" for the next 2 months.
To clarify why whether you're Mayor Pete or a right-wing inflation hawk, your demand-side explanation for all the shortages is simplistic, here are some things that've happened:

- Factory closures in Asia due to flooding, blackouts, COVID
- Shipping capacity offline due to COVID
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20 Oct
This IMO is actually the most likely scenario. Not that I know anything, I am but a simple dude on Twitter etc.

But I could see this scenario: soon a short naval conflict => we lose => internal division & collapse due to recriminations, festering issues, wrecked supply chains.
We very foolishly outsourced most of our manufacturing to our main rival, under the unbelievable theory that if we let them make all our stuff in exchange for our dollars, they would never go to war with us because we owe them too much money.
"China won't go to war with its #1 customer who has paid them in IOUs." This now sounds as idiotic as it in fact is, but it really was the Rubinite case for hollowing out US manufacturing & civilian maritime infrastructure, & having the economy shift to services.
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20 Oct
Surely, this is a sign of incredible market demand for this $19 polishing cloth, & not of supply chain problems. It is such a strong economy that causes so many people to want such a $19 polishing cloth. Supply chains are fine!
Do the proponents of the theory that the reason goods are scarce is a surge in demand never stop to consider that a supply chain that cannot handle demand is a supply chain that is not functioning properly, ipso facto? 🤯
It's like the people saying calm down b/c supply chains are broken because of big shocks from corona & weather. Well yes, but supply chains that cannot handle big shocks are craptastic, are they not? Because the fact that big shocks of some kind will come is surely predictable.
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20 Oct
As someone who has a religion & takes it seriously -- a religion with its own metaphysics around sex, gender, & identity -- I'm amazed that people don't see this as a violation of the Establishment Clause. This is 100% religious. Religion is a great thing! But from @StateDept?
Whatever metaphysical commitments people have to the idea of an inner, "felt" gender essence that they need to express outwardly are fine with me. As a fellow haver of metaphysical commitments many find ridiculous, I love that for them. 🤝

I don't love it from my government.
You have your gender, I have my Holy Spirit, this other person has her reincarnation -- everyone gets to have a thing. Some people have many such things all at once, which is great. I am big on religious pluralism. Pluralism is good. Secularism is good.
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20 Oct
I'll take a look at dude's new book, but this tweet isn't promising. Watts is a self-aggrandizing extremist whose easily debunked smears have done a lot of damage to her own cause. Also, within pro-gun-control circles everyone knows she's toxic, & Busse surely knows this.
By foregrounding Watts' endorsement, it's crystal clear that Busse isn't trying to reach out to "reasonable gun owners." If that were his audience, he'd steer clear of her. I suspect he's positioning himself to run for office as a Dem, so this book is some red meat.
He'll probably do really well at fundraising with this bit. Whether he'll get elected, I dunno. But there's a certain kind of Dem activist and donor who eats up this "former fundie/gun nut/military/etc. => whistleblower" type of branding, no matter how often it fails at the polls
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20 Oct
Here’s what gives me pause about the comparisons of COVID vax mandates w/ existing vax mandates for school or specific jobs (especially in healthcare): when you decided to be a doctor, or look into public schools for your kids, you knew about the vax rule. It’s part of the deal.
If I signed up to be, eg, an airline pilot, then “take this vax or get fired” wasn’t part of the deal at the time I committed. Also, “we may ask you to take some future new vax as condition of employment” wasn’t in the deal, either. So now you’ve changed my deal unilaterally.
So in all cases where there were pre-existing vax requirements, people who had a problem with them could in theory avoid them by factoring them into their life decisions about what jobs to have, how to school their kids, etc. They were known & the risks were navigable.
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