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Impressionism / Robert Julian Onderdonk/ Bluffs on the Guadalupe River, 17 Miles above Kerrville, Texas

Sorry that I have been lax in writing.  Came down with the Rona and have spent the last four days holing up.  Good news is that my symptoms are somewhere in the “bad cold/easy flu” level.  Body does ache and I sleep a bunch, but that is how I have always dealt with the winter crud (And this is just a winter season crud from what I can see).

I’m vaxxed up, doesn’t seem to matter, but then I am pretty certain that it never did.  Vaxxing was worth a try, but truthfully, it was always a crapshoot with a more than fair chance of failure.

I am thinking that the powers that be are in the process of setting up that old American Standby, “Declaring Victory and Running Away”.  I am kinda thinking that option really is the only way we are gonna get out of this mess.

I am putting in Michael’s trenchant comments that came to be earlier this week.  I pretty much agree with everything written in this, except for the last five words (I am counting hypheration as one word).

All is well here. No damage from the storm other than flattened ferns.

I guess I am sort of anti-vax without noticing. I have never got a flu shot because I figured the flu that kills the 30-70k/year old and sick people will not kill me and I do not like the idea of messing around with something I do not understand if it is not necessary. I got this vaccine because 800k seems to me to be significant, even if 700k were due to age or bad health.

Again, the problem is this country is loaded to the gills with morons – confident men and women dedicated to the cause of misunderstanding whatever they can. A moron is not irrational; a moron applies rationality in a manner that always produces a wrong explanation.

Consider the possibility that the vaccine is ineffective. The last thing this means is that people were smart not to get vaccinated. A moron is a moron because they think the opposite. A moron never figures out the tricky business of keeping experience synchronized with time in their mind when they explain things to themselves.  

A booster is a different scenario because data is available now that obviously was not initially.

What is worse than a moron? A vindicated moron.

The problem with your conclusions about the vaccine is nothing to do with you or science; the problem is how the conclusions will be applied and affect a society loaded with morons. The conclusions will end up being used as moron vindication material.

A less severe form of moronic vindication from the opposite side, is the case of an anti-vaxxer dying of the virus. If the vaccine is ineffective, then they might have died if they were vaccinated. This is a less severe form of moronic reasoning though, because it is more moronic to conclude that the person was right not to get vaccinated, regardless of the effectiveness.

It seems to me that once you take into consideration all the morons in this country on both sides, a reasonable thing to do is stay away from the whole collection and especially the Anti-vaxxer side.