Gun Free Zone

Hell, you go take a leak at my age and then coffee, you may miss the 124 grains altogether.

Seriously, the hunting for ammo is feral, no quarters given.

Hat Tip J. Kb.

AP-NORC poll: A third of US adults skeptical of COVID shots

The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that while 67% of Americans plan to get vaccinated or have already done so, 15% are certain they won’t and 17% say probably not. Many expressed doubts about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness.

The poll suggests that substantial skepticism persists more than a month and a half into a U.S. vaccination drive that has encountered few if any serious side effects. Resistance was found to run higher among younger people, people without college degrees, Black Americans and Republicans.

Of those who said they definitely will not get the vaccine, 65% cited worries about side effects, despite the shots’ safety record over the past months. About the same percentage said they don’t trust COVID-19 vaccines. And 38% said they don’t believe they need a vaccine, with a similar share saying that they don’t know if a COVID-19 vaccine will work and that they don’t trust the government.

Let’s recap the situation.

We’ve been told that the vaccine doesn’t stop you from catching or transmitting the virus.

We’ve been told that after you get the vaccine you still have to (double) mask and socially distance.

We’ve been told that despite mass vaccination, the lockdowns will continue and we’re still unable to return to normal.

We know the vaccine has been rushed to market faster than any other in history and that we cannot sue the pharmaceutical companies if we have bad reactions.

What’s the selling point of getting vaccinated.

I’m curious as to why more people are not skeptical.

I’m not an anti-vaxxer.  I’ve had all my shots.  So have my kids.  I get my flu shot every year.

But those have decades of clinical history.

We don’t know if a year from now one in ten people who got the vaccine will end up with cancer or uncontrollable burning rectal discharge.

That is where the reticence comes from.

Not to mention that the handling of the COVID has been so bad I can’t fault anyone who doesn’t trust the government.

“The governor who killed most of the old people in his city then defied a court order stopping him from hiding that fact, a Congressman who got trapped by a Chinese honeypot, and a President with signs of dementia and a millionaire crackhead son trading on daddy’s name say you have to get a vaccine, that doesn’t allow you to take off your mask and live a normal life.  And if the side effects cripple you, you get nothing.”

Wow, where do I sign up for that?

Have you been able to catch a show where the actors are wearing mask? I saw about 2 minutes of an episode of NCIS: New Orleans and had to laugh because they not only look stupid, they could not transmit the required emotional nuances because half the frigging face was covered!

And I won’t even delve in how the hell The Flash and Aquaman manage to keep their masks on doing what they do.

Do you know how bad do you have to piss off a judge in Florida that he comes down on your ass, dismisses your case while embarrassing and questioning your mettle as lawyer and asks the Florida bar to take care of you?

An appeals court wants The Florida Bar to consider disciplinary action against a Panhandle attorney who pursued a high-profile case seeking to force Gov. Ron DeSantis to close beaches because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, in an order issued Friday, stopped short of imposing financial sanctions against Santa Rosa Beach attorney Daniel Uhlfelder and lawyers who represented him in an appeal of a circuit judge’s ruling in the case.

But the panel sharply criticized Uhlfelder and his lawyers, saying that “they knew or should have known that their ‘demands’ that the Governor ‘close the beaches’ were not validly asserted below (in the circuit court) or on appeal.”

“There was no good faith legal argument to support a claim for such relief in the trial court, and there was certainly no good faith basis to argue legal error on appeal,” said the order by Judges Brad Thomas and Adam Tanenbaum.

The panel basically said the lawyers were a bunch of morons that have no business in court. Go read the rest of the article in Legal Insurrection as they did a great job as usual and beat me to the punch on this one.

When it comes to the Left making or reacting to analogies to the Nazis or the Holocaust, they are always 100% wrong.  Absolutely diametrically opposite to what is right.

They trivialize the Nazis and the Holocaust with inappropriate comparisons.

E.g.: Comparing detention facilities for people arrested for illegally crossing our borders, where they are given food and medical care, and have legal representation to protect their rights to concentration camps.

They also attack appropriate comparisons to Nazis or the Holocaust as inappropriate and antisemitic.

E.g.: Claiming it’s antisemitic to state that the dehuminzation of Trump supporters and calling for the “cleansing” of Trump supporters from America is Naziesque rhetoric.

This is grotesque and evil and we need to stand up to it.

I read Miguel’s post on restricting interstate travel and I’ve seen more news about the idea of a COVID passport for interstate travel.

I will now turn this over to the fantastic Sam Neill playing a Soviet submarine XO in one of the best movies ever made, The Hunt for the Red October:

That’s how America was.  A place envied by Soviet citizens because we could travel state to state without papers.

Now the Biden Administration is proposing to turn us into the Soviet Union.

If there is one location where the Democrats are in disarray is the State of Florida. First they selected a meth head to run for governor and failed. They only managed to get one elected executive position with a candidate that “promised” liberalizing pot and controlling guns and she has been a bust. And then in the last elections, not only the hard vote overcame the margin of cheating by 300,000 units, but the Democrats actually lost seats in the Florida Legislature. The the Kung Flu hits and the Republican governor decides to buck the recommendation of shutting down people and business in favor of a softer approach and pretty much declare almost any business “essential” with the results that we are not only not worse than other States that clamped down hard, but actually doing somewhat better.

The hate campaign against DeSantis seems not to be working either. We have covered here how according to the legacy media, he has not made one single right decision since the pandemic started and even accused him of fudging the numbers because a lying sexual predator and stalker said so.  One second they were denouncing him for allowing Publix supermarkets to distribute the vaccine only to have to shut up when the Biden Harris administration announces that they will allow WalMart to do the same.

So what can be done to reign in this renegade state? The White House has a possible solution: Choke it by restricting travel. Kill its tourism industry.

The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.

Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

Discussions in the administration over potential travel restrictions do not target a specific state but focus on how to prevent the spread of variants that appear to be surging in a number of states, including Florida and California.

White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as COVID mutation surges in Florida

Here is the funny part: These new mutations have not been proved to be any deadlier than the original version.

Apart from its increased ability to escape recognition by the immune system, E484K makes Sars-Cov-2 more infectious by binding closer to the viral “receptor” in human cells. Whether it leads to more severe disease is not known.

What we know about the most troublesome Covid mutations

I really do not see the shutting down of travel to Florida happening. First, it would kill what’s left of the Airline industry and outside the environmental idiots, I doubt the White House wants to deal with the cessation of all air travel, including worldwide travel because the airlines cease to exist. Second, a lot of travel to Florida is vehicular. Shutting down the roads could be done, but Congress is already looking like the Green Zone with military and metal walls surrounding the Capitol and I imagine the last thing they want in the air or flying through social media would be I-95 at the Florida-Georgia border blocked by Humvees and concertina wire under the watchful eye of military personnel.  It would validate everything most Republicans and Conservatives have been saying for a long while now: The Fascist wear “D” next to their names.