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Vaccines and Economics
Feb. 21st, 2021 11:48 pmWhile a $15 an hour minimum wage is bound to result in massive unemployment, there's a positive side as well, at least for me. I love automats and vending machines. I think you'll see a lot of the fast-food places bite the bullet, and replace employees with robots. Most of the employees at McDonald's, Burger King, and the like are barely worth $7.50.
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Pro-vaccination message gets booed in Australia. While I'm enthusiastically in favour of being vaccinated^1, I can understand and sympathize with the frustration that led to this. We live in an age in which only certain views are acceptable for public display. I've seen no serious attempt at all in the news media to cover or explain the anti-vaxxers' views, apart from articles "debunking" their views.
My own experience of this, or at least the one that stands out for me, was during the Paris Accords negotiations. Any sign that an agreement might be reached was described as 'hopeful', whereas signs that an agreement might not be reached were described as provoking fears. Not a word acknowledging that different opinions might exist.
In the end, I wonder if the booing was directed toward that behaviour, rather opposition to vaccination, per se.
^1 Every chance I get. I've been getting regular flu shots for 25-30 years now^2. And I strongly doubt that thimerosal is going to hurt anyone. That and mercurochrome (another organo-mercury compound) were in pretty much universal use as disinfectants for minor wounds when I was a nestling. They kill pretty much anything with which they come into contact.
^2 And, just this last summer my doctor told me that it's better to wait until October or so to be vaccinated for flu, as the immediate immune response fades after a few months. For years, I'd been getting mine in August, when they first became available.
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Pro-vaccination message gets booed in Australia. While I'm enthusiastically in favour of being vaccinated^1, I can understand and sympathize with the frustration that led to this. We live in an age in which only certain views are acceptable for public display. I've seen no serious attempt at all in the news media to cover or explain the anti-vaxxers' views, apart from articles "debunking" their views.
My own experience of this, or at least the one that stands out for me, was during the Paris Accords negotiations. Any sign that an agreement might be reached was described as 'hopeful', whereas signs that an agreement might not be reached were described as provoking fears. Not a word acknowledging that different opinions might exist.
In the end, I wonder if the booing was directed toward that behaviour, rather opposition to vaccination, per se.
^1 Every chance I get. I've been getting regular flu shots for 25-30 years now^2. And I strongly doubt that thimerosal is going to hurt anyone. That and mercurochrome (another organo-mercury compound) were in pretty much universal use as disinfectants for minor wounds when I was a nestling. They kill pretty much anything with which they come into contact.
^2 And, just this last summer my doctor told me that it's better to wait until October or so to be vaccinated for flu, as the immediate immune response fades after a few months. For years, I'd been getting mine in August, when they first became available.
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