Regarding the "Have a nice day - we're underselling the vaccine" -- an opinion I thought at the time but am writing in now because of the more recent <a href="https://www.readtangle.com/p/jamal-khashoggi-murder-biden">vaccine alarmism/vaccine absolutism</a> Reader Question (Mar 1) -- <blockquote>“It’s going to save your life — that’s where the emphasis has to be right now,” Dr. Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine said.</blockquote>No. THAT is alarmism. It's only *going* to save your life if you would, without it, die. And I reject that we should be telling tens of millions of Americans we're all going to die.
I could accept a variant of that message as "It will save your grandmother's life" (also hyperbolic, but less so) or "It will save tens of thousands of lives" (accurate, but I know how much less gripping people find an aggregate than an individual). But I reject being told to live in fear. I reject being told the medical establishment *will* (not "can," not "would like to," not "is ready to," but "will") save my life, as an early-middle-age, healthy weight, physically active, culturally privileged person with no chronic conditions.
I cannot understand why liberals hate pipelines. Is it just a gut reaction? The oil that won't flow through Keystone will still get pumped. It will travel instead in polluting trucks, trains, and ships. The pipeline would have been carbon neutral, created thousands of union jobs, and used countless tons of US made steel. Indigenous people will now lose a billion dollars that they protested to get for their buy-in. Electricity will cost more throughout the Midwest and more coal will be burned to make it. That's the downside of cancelling Keystone. Where, pray tell, is the upside?
Regarding the "Have a nice day - we're underselling the vaccine" -- an opinion I thought at the time but am writing in now because of the more recent <a href="https://www.readtangle.com/p/jamal-khashoggi-murder-biden">vaccine alarmism/vaccine absolutism</a> Reader Question (Mar 1) -- <blockquote>“It’s going to save your life — that’s where the emphasis has to be right now,” Dr. Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine said.</blockquote>No. THAT is alarmism. It's only *going* to save your life if you would, without it, die. And I reject that we should be telling tens of millions of Americans we're all going to die.
I could accept a variant of that message as "It will save your grandmother's life" (also hyperbolic, but less so) or "It will save tens of thousands of lives" (accurate, but I know how much less gripping people find an aggregate than an individual). But I reject being told to live in fear. I reject being told the medical establishment *will* (not "can," not "would like to," not "is ready to," but "will") save my life, as an early-middle-age, healthy weight, physically active, culturally privileged person with no chronic conditions.
I cannot understand why liberals hate pipelines. Is it just a gut reaction? The oil that won't flow through Keystone will still get pumped. It will travel instead in polluting trucks, trains, and ships. The pipeline would have been carbon neutral, created thousands of union jobs, and used countless tons of US made steel. Indigenous people will now lose a billion dollars that they protested to get for their buy-in. Electricity will cost more throughout the Midwest and more coal will be burned to make it. That's the downside of cancelling Keystone. Where, pray tell, is the upside?