Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629433)

wearing a wireless intercom headset and looking like you have a purpose still gets you right past every single beady-eyed muscle without so much as a glance at your credentials. Which I kept in my pocket the whole time, purely as a test.

Originally Posted by Bajingo (Post 1629434)

Those are just state guys right? Ours basically don't have security or at least not the couple I've met, we went to waffle House with no issues.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629435)

While I don't have any photos, the 1st floor was packed with black suits wearing earpieces, and we had the metal detectors set up in the main entrance lobby. Chicago PD were parked right in the middle of both entrance gates at the street, and also patrolling the grounds on foot. I noticed on my way out after the show was over that both candidates' Suburbans were parked right outside the entrance with the rear door nearest the curb open, noses pointed towards the exit gate, with their engines idling.

This is a mafia town, remember.

Originally Posted by Bajingo (Post 1629437)

I think all that has more to do with Chicago being a murder filled dump than anything else.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629433)

But I do find it amusing that, despite all of the extra security we had on-premises (Chicago PD, private thugs, and the entourages of both candidates), wearing a wireless intercom headset and looking like you have a purpose still gets you right past every single beady-eyed muscle without so much as a glance at your credentials. Which I kept in my pocket the whole time, purely as a test.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629432)

EDIT: recognizing that you are drawing an analogy between COVID-19 and chicken pox, it bears remembering that while people of our age simply experienced chicken pox as an ordinary part of growing up, vaccination against chicken pox has been routine in the US since the mid 1990s. This has directly contributed to a radical reduction in the mortality rate of chicken pox, from more than 0.00375% in the 1980s to a paltry 0.002% today. And the only negative side-effect of this has been a more-than-doubling in the occurrence of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia in adults who did not experience chicken pox in their youth.

Fortunately, vaccines against shingles are now available.





This also seems unlikely, at least in the near-term.

Annual immunizations are fairly commonplace, and parents* have willingly complied with such recommendations.

* = other than those who believe in crystals and essential oils

Suddenly introducing a recommendation that a certain vaccine be administered every five weeks would fall well outside the zone of what most adults would easily rationalize.

I feel like maybe you're deliberately saying things which are not the same as the things you actually believe, possibly as an attempt at satire.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629432)

This seems unlikely, as normalizing such behavior would take away one of the tools which government, and its cadre of loyal sycophants, have spent the past two years refining and improving. It would also negatively affect the business models of certain pharmaceutical companies which wield considerable political influence. These things cannot be allowed to happen.


EDIT: recognizing that you are drawing an analogy between COVID-19 and chicken pox, it bears remembering that while people of our age simply experienced chicken pox as an ordinary part of growing up, vaccination against chicken pox has been routine in the US since the mid 1990s. This has directly contributed to a radical reduction in the mortality rate of chicken pox, from more than 0.00375% in the 1980s to a paltry 0.002% today. And the only negative side-effect of this has been a more-than-doubling in the occurrence of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia in adults who did not experience chicken pox in their youth.

Fortunately, vaccines against shingles are now available.





This also seems unlikely, at least in the near-term.

Annual immunizations are fairly commonplace, and parents* have willingly complied with such recommendations.

* = other than those who believe in crystals and essential oils

Suddenly introducing a recommendation that a certain vaccine be administered every five weeks would fall well outside the zone of what most adults would easily rationalize.

I feel like maybe you're deliberately saying things which are not the same as the things you actually believe, possibly as an attempt at satire.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1629432)

This seems unlikely, as normalizing such behavior would take away one of the tools which government, and its cadre of loyal sycophants, have spent the past two years refining and improving. It would also negatively affect the business models of certain pharmaceutical companies which wield considerable political influence. These things cannot be allowed to happen.

Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1629462)