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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.
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.
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.
Yes, governors and state senators tend to be "state guys."
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.
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.
I think all that has more to do with Chicago being a murder filled dump than anything else.
I think all that has more to do with Chicago being a murder filled dump than anything else.
It's interesting that you say this.
Sen. Bailey is well-known for his (semi-joking) proposal that Chicago be separated from Illinois as an autonomous zone, and his (quite serious) statement, which he's made numerous times including here in our own studio a few months ago, that Chicago is a "Crime-ridden hell hole."
And the weird thing is that he says this as though it were an insult.
Dude, we have worked hard to maintain our status as the homicide capital of the midwest. We're the home of the Billy-Goat Curse, named the #1 rattiest city in America by Orkin pest control for the eighth year in a row, site of the largest vehicular crash in a major motion-picture, a place where the only thing cheaper than a hot dog the loyalty of our Mayor.
Unlike political office, you can't buy that sort of cred- you have to earn it.
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.
Amazing right?
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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.
RE: the pox, one has to ask if the net benefit in life years is positive. I suspect it is, even though evolution provided us a handy way to protect against a more severe disease that occurs later in life when that is typically more serious.
RE: the kiddie vaxes, yes however their benefit has largely been self evident. They are sterilizing and protective of the individual. Therefore its a fight that's never been had because its such and edge case. On top of that, exemptions are not hard to get. The covid vax is neither and my kid will get it over my dead body.
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.
imagine giving people cancer, to solve cancer.
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.
I'm just analyzing the data, the vaccines only seem to have effectiveness for about 5 weeks, where they quickly wain off and seem to assist in the transmission of covid. Children with previous infections have insanely high effectiveness results (imagine something like an immune system).
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.
A CDC committee will convene this week and likely vote Thursday to deliver permanent legal indemnity to Pfizer and Moderna, through the process of adding the drug companies’ mRNA injections to the child and adolescent immunization schedules.
Meanwhile: In Australia the government is forcing people to get a vaccine that they now know might kill them, but they are at least willing to make it up to you buy paying for some of your funeral costs.
The VoteBlue crowd are really eating this one up. They've become just as delusional the MAGA folks, which I wouldn't have thought possible just a few short years ago.
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