Trust the Science

  Why should I believe the government or "trust the science"? The king of science, Dr. Fauci, at first told people they didn't need to wear masks. When he later stated people do need to wear masks he got accused of being confused, but there was never any confusion. Fauci ALWAYS believed masks were effective and should be worn. His first statement was a deliberate lie, told for the "greater good" in order to preserve the mask supply for people in the medical field.
   Some people are OK with that. They are collectivists and are perfectly happy to cough their lives out on a ventilator for "the greater public good". Good for them if they want to be heroes of humanity, but as an individualist, I want to opt out. Fauci could have told the truth. He could have told people there weren't enough masks, and that people under 60 with no co-morbidities were at a very low risk of dying from covid. He could have told America's most vulnerable, the elderly, to mask up and avoid contact with other people as much as possible.
   Once mask production ramped up he then could have told people that the mask shortage was over and that it would be a good idea for everyone to wear one.
   So the next time I'm told "trust the science", if part of that means lying to me and putting me at risk for the "greater public good", fuck you and fuck off.

Alec Baldwin and gun safety

 Regarding Alec Baldwin's accidental killing of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust.    
Would it really be that tough to conduct a one day gun safety course designed for actors?
  Unlike everyone else, actors actually do have to point firearms at other people for gunfight scenes. So actors should be taught to not only check their guns to see whether they are loaded or not, but should be taught to recognize what type of ammo is in the gun. They need to be able to recognize blanks compared to live ammo. They should be taught to check the barrel for obstructions. Actors should also learn the minimum safe distance to be from someone when shooting blanks at them.
  It appears that firing his gun wasn't in the script when Baldwin shot Hutchins. He was either confused or horsing around. Either way actors also need to be taught never to point their guns at people when it is not in the scene. The same goes for firing their gun, whether it's pointed at anyone or not.
  I understand there is supposed to be an armorer to take care of all that, but this creates a single point of failure, which we have seen here and on the set of The Crow, where Brandon Lee was killed.

Cancel Culture - cancel yourselves, and fuck off.

There is a new, and shitty trend, pushed by big tech and the SJW left. It is to deplatform, or "cancel" people with opinions they disagree with. This is censorship, and it sucks. The proponents smirkely try to rename it "consequence culture" as if censorship of opinions they don't like is now a good thing. Censorship has always been a giant, stinking turd, bending it into a circle and putting confectionery sugar on it does not make it a donut.

Big tech, which got exemption from lawsuits by claiming it was a "neutral platform" is now acting like a publisher. They "fact check" and censor posts, sometimes even booting posters whose opinion they don't agree with off their platform. The "fact checks" are often political and not accurate. When the Hunter Biden laptop story came out anyone who mentioned that immediately got deplatformed on the basis of "disinformation", so no more Facebook or Twitter 4 U! The worm must have turned, because with the FBI looking into the laptop, it's not so easy to claim the laptop and emails were not Hunter Biden's anymore. 

Another big no no was mentioning the possibility that COVID-19 came out of a Chinese drug lab. DISINFORMATION!!! So big tech was again deplatforming people, even though coincidentally there was indeed a drug lab in Wuhan, where the virus was known to have originated from. Whoopsie, looks like big techs so called "fact checkers" may have been wrong again.
Removing the voices of dissent is wrong and dangerous. It puts forward a myopic world view controlled by the billionaires of big tech and a rag tag group of SJW loudmouths. Liberals like Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz never supported censorship. They know that stifling speech is bad for the country.  

Public Safety, the enemy of freedom.

 There is a magic word politicians bring up whenever they want to shit all over the constitution and your rights. That word is "Public Safety". You hear it a lot when the issue of gun control comes up. "How do we thwart that pesky 2nd amendment", the politicians thought. It is thwarted when politicians, backed by anti gun judges, pass unconstitutional gun laws claiming public safety supersedes your rights guaranteed under the constitution. COVID-19 is a shining example of this. When the pandemic first came out we were all told we had to lock down and mask up for two weeks to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals would not be over run. This sounded so reasonable that no one objected. Then the two weeks came to an end, and the lockdowns and mask mandates got extended...indefinitely. 

One thing that was never stressed enough was that people under 50 with no co-morbidities were at almost no risk of dying from COVID-19. Yet these people were locked down with everyone else. In the case of COVID-19 one shoe did NOT fit all, but the government sure forced everyone to wear it.

The government chicken littles ratcheted up the fear, which kept the sheep placid and in line. When asked "when is this going to end?" by small businesses going broke and about to go under, the response was "when a vaccine is developed". It can take years, decades, sometimes never when it comes to new vaccines.

Landlords were also hurt as there was an eviction moratorium passed. Because of the lockdowns many people were out of work and could not pay rent. But you know what landlord still had to be paid? If you guessed big daddy government you would be correct! See, property tax is "rent" that landlords pay to the government. So while they got no rent from tenants, they were still expected to make property tax payments.

Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, Trump fast tracked vaccine development, and the Trump..errr Biden vaccine came out and is now available to all. So all the mandates got retracted right? Well, hooold your horses there Buckaroo, because the dreaded Delta variant is here. The panic pushers are again out in force. "It's more CONTAAAGEOUS!", they scream, while not telling you that if you've been vaccinated the chance of death is next to zero, and is low even for the unvaccinated.

Now the government is trying to bully the unvaccinated by pushing for vaccine passports. At this point the vaccine is available to anyone who wants it. If someone wants to take the risk of getting sick, that is their business. The people who don't want to get fatally ill can take the vaccine.

No more mask mandates and lockdowns. With the vaccine available to all it is long past time for individual freedom to supersede the chains of public safety.