Coronavirus thread

[Smitty-48]

I noticed multiple articles yesterday (Bloomberg being one, USA Today another) claiming that 70% of US has had at least 1 vaccine shot. I thought that seem a bit high, so today I did some additional searching.

Every source I can find that lists actual numbers has the percentage hovering around 55%. I wonder if the 70% story is to make people feel peer pressure of being in the small minority. If they think they in the 30%, some will cave and get the vaccine simply for that reason. The US government and media is in full on CCP/USSR/Baghdad Bob mode.

Oh I’m sure that is what it is.
I take my boys to their annual appointment today. When they tell me to give them the COVID shot and if they try to pressure me I’m going to tell them to shove it up their ass!

first time I went to get vaccinated, I had an appointment, and I showed up at the appointed time

but it was just a huge line up, I would have been stuck it in for hours

so I says to this one security guard "how come they didn't say this was first come first serve ?"

then this other fat Millennial Mall Cop come out of nowhere, starts barking at me

he says "everybody has to line up, you're not special !"

so then I round on him, start walking towards him, and he starts backing up, until he is back against the wall

I'm right up in his grill like a drill instructor

I says ; don't say that, I am special, you don't want to find out how special I am

he just gulps, "sorry, sir, just doing my job"

then I just walked away

[DBTrek]

he just gulps, "sorry, sir, just doing my job"

then I just walked away

Being a loudmouth cowardly dick is a job in Canada?
Hmm.
I can actually believe that.

[Smitty-48]

he just gulps, "sorry, sir, just doing my job"

then I just walked away

Being a loudmouth cowardly dick is a job in Canada?
Hmm.
I can actually believe that.

it's not like it used to be, it's not the land of lumberjacks & roughnecks anymore

it's the land of bureaucrats now

and they are all spineless cowards

can't push it too far tho, lest they panic and call the SWAT team

[DBTrek]

he just gulps, "sorry, sir, just doing my job"

then I just walked away

Being a loudmouth cowardly dick is a job in Canada?
Hmm.
I can actually believe that.

it's not like it used to be, it's not the land of lumberjacks & roughnecks anymore

it's the land of bureaucrats now

and they are all spineless cowards

can't push it too far tho, lest they panic and call the SWAT team

No doubt.
Any resistance to tyranny must be met with Maximum force.
Older dude in the mall talking back to the officially appointed fatty-millennial security rep?
Send in a tank.
We can't have the peasants feeling too bold out here.

[TheOneX]

I noticed multiple articles yesterday (Bloomberg being one, USA Today another) claiming that 70% of US has had at least 1 vaccine shot. I thought that seem a bit high, so today I did some additional searching.

Every source I can find that lists actual numbers has the percentage hovering around 55%. I wonder if the 70% story is to make people feel peer pressure of being in the small minority. If they think they in the 30%, some will cave and get the vaccine simply for that reason. The US government and media is in full on CCP/USSR/Baghdad Bob mode.

China, where there is a lot more political and employment pressure to get the vaccine isn't even at 70%. There is no way the US is even close to 70%.

[Smitty-48]

Being a loudmouth cowardly dick is a job in Canada?
Hmm.
I can actually believe that.

it's not like it used to be, it's not the land of lumberjacks & roughnecks anymore

it's the land of bureaucrats now

and they are all spineless cowards

can't push it too far tho, lest they panic and call the SWAT team

No doubt.
Any resistance to tyranny must be met with Maximum force.
Older dude in the mall talking back to the officially appointed fatty-millennial security rep?
Send in a tank.
We can't have the peasants feeling too bold out here.

exactly

even for like bylaw enforcement here, they bring the SWAT team with them

[Smitty-48]

like this is what they did to some kid the other day, just for skateboarding

[Smitty-48]

I don't myself have any trouble with the police

and I have a lot of ex-army mates who are cops now, I am not their enemy

but I am an ex-soldier, so I know how to deal with them

I know how to respect the badge without trying to ingratiate myself

I deal with them like you deal with the Sergeant Major, and that chills them right out

but some twenty year old skateboarder, these kids don't know what they are messing with

[DBTrek]

The entire millennial generation is a little fuzzy on the whole concept of having their asses roundly kicked.
It hasn't done them any favors.

Not that cops should kick the shit out of skateboarders.
But knowing that some *will* can save you a painful lesson - especially if you're used to virtual interactions where you can just say whatever you want to whomever.

[PartyOf5]

he just gulps, "sorry, sir, just doing my job"

then I just walked away

Being a loudmouth cowardly dick is a job in Canada?
Hmm.
I can actually believe that.

In the US those jobs a for politicians, celebrities, and Antifa.