Take a map of Canada and tip it to the left… like rotate it about 45 degrees. Now you have British Columbia on the bottom. If you imagine the population being 38 million little specs of dust all over the map, you shake it a bit, and the specs all fall towards B.C. To some extent, this is the understood path of migration of people in this country. Should you choose to move from wherever you are, there’s a good chance you’re heading west. Vancouver is continually voted one of the best cities in the world to live in; choosing to move somewhere around here is pretty sane.
On the flipside, our neighbours to the south do it very much the other way around. First of all, you have to tip the U.S. map 45 degrees to the right. That leaves Florida on the bottom. And then, the little shakeout is not the sane people… quite the opposite. How else can you explain disproportionate insanity that seems to emanate from The Sunshine State.
News headlines from Florida are in a league of their own… things like “Thousands of gun owners in Florida planning to ‘shoot down’ Hurricane Irma”
In fact, whenever you see a news story that starts off with “Florida man…”, you know you can expect the crazy. It’s such a thing that there’s even a Twitter account of exactly that – a collection of Florida Man headlines… with gems like:
Florida Man tries to rob GameStop while wearing transparent bag on his head
Florida Man denies drinking and driving, says he only swigged bourbon at stop signs
Florida Man stabs tourist despite having no arms
Florida Man asks trooper if he can leave the scene of crash to get more meth
Florida Man bursts into ex’s delivery room, fights her new boyfriend as she’s giving birth
Florida Man bored, calls 9-11 to talk about Hitler
Florida Man tries to evade arrest by cartwheeling away from cops
Florida Man trapped in unlocked closet for two days
This is an endless list that grows on a daily basis, and serves as a perfect introduction to the “crazy of the day” – a private school in Miami that’s barring contact between students and vaccinated teachers. Because, somehow, vaccinated teachers may pose a threat.
The school’s position: “Tens of thousands of women all over the world have recently been reporting adverse reproductive issues from being in close proximity with those who have received any one of the COVID-19 injections.”
That’s bullshit. There have been no such reports.
Also, “No one knows exactly what may be causing these irregularities, but it appears that those who have received the injections may be transmitting something from their bodies to those with whom they come in contact.”
Also bullshit… of the spectacular sort.
There is, of course, zero scientific credibility to any of this… and it’d be next to impossible to come up with anything plausible to explain it. Magical evaporation of vaccinated blood somehow making its way to bystanders? Just make up the insane narrative, shove it down peoples’ throats, and hope they swallow it. And many do.
The school’s response to being questioned on this policy: ““We’re doing what we think is in the best interest of the children because children shouldn’t be around teachers who are vaccinated.”
This is amusing at first glance, and then terrifying when you think about it some more. It’s frightening to think what else might be being taught to the kids there. We rhetorically ask… how can there exist people who think this way? The question and the answer are the same. Where do university-educated anti-vaxxers come from? Places like this.
The bigger problem is that this is all part of why the U.S. may actually never get to a vaccination percentage high enough for herd immunity. They have millions of doses available for whoever wants one… but the demand is waning. They’re at 43% of the population having at least one dose, but now some are saying they don’t want the second one… so there’s no real purpose in arguing what’s needed for full herd immunity. 70% 80% 90%… they’re all the same, because the way things are going, none of them will get reached.
It’s not incorrect to label this an issue of ignorance and bad messaging. The previous administration, the demonizing of science, the miseducation of large swaths of people… factors which add up and conspire against critical thinking and common sense. It’s perhaps not a lost cause for those who genuinely don’t know any better, but it’d require a big public-service effort of education. Back to school for everyone. Just… please… not that one in Florida.
Brilliant❤️
I have many vendors in the US and the vaccine topic comes up often.
Those that had an adverse reaction to the first shot are hesitant about having the same reaction twice.
Some others have the mindset that since the new variations may not work against the first round of shots, why bother.
Both these views are more common than you would want to believe.
I attribute it to Covid fatigue.
They are so tired of having Covid shoved down their throats that they are giving up.
This is a very dangerous place to be.
I’m thinking that the reason the Spanish flu lasted two years is not because of the resources they had available to them, rather that the lack of a constant stream of news about the flu let it work it’s way through the systems they had in place naturally.
I’m m not suggesting to ignore Covid. I’m suggesting that taking all offered defense systems and not giving up and reverting back to the way it was before will stop this pandemic from going from a 2 year deal to a 5 year deal.
Nobody wants this to last any longer than it has too.
The folks in the back of the room with the tin foil hats, that believe “vaccinations cause side effects in others, and this is an injection not a vaccination” seem to be a smaller minority here, perhaps as a tribute to our teachers. Florida man and his ilk also seem to take as gospel that jet contrails are chemtrails too. …..And they paid US$30,000 a year to have their kids indoctrinated with material that has less than the value of composted BS. I still think that there is a huge vacuous gap between this miniscule group and the majority of society that actually absorbed what their science teachers were explaining to them in junior high school.
Probably cognitive disfunction similar to the 8% of people who if you tell them a building is failing and dropping bricks will actually run towards the building. Fairly well studied where the more times a fact is told to affected subjects the less they believe it.
As the USA is our closest neighbour, it doesn’t bode well for our future to have so many unvaccinated people able to visit Canada. In spite of our potential herd immunity, we could still see high imported case numbers. I’m all in favour of vaccination certificates for any travel anywhere outside one’s own country!
Also heard these fake news items today. Putting a mask on a child is child abuse, Biden is going to reduce red meat consumption by 90% and Kamala’s book is being given to migrant children in the welcome package! Believe It or Not!