It is not a Green initiative to fight Climate Change
I saw this being shared in social media:
Ask anybody who is from the former Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela and they will tell you the same thing that popped in my head when I first saw it: Food rationing and the infamous food lines:
And when you get inside, the pickings are less than slim.
You are assigned so many grams of meat per month, same as rice, beans, sugar, flour, etc. And the government assigns you some sort of tracking mechanism so you don’t get cute and buy more that assigned.
You can always go and buy in the black market via the brave street vendor or literally from the trunk of a car.
An administration only starts preparing people for this new normal under some bullshit Environmental campaign when they are about to do something it will send the means of food production crashing or know it is coming.
I figure Pam is still cheap. Same for rice and beans. We may need to stock up in a grand manner.
Gavin Newsom drives a nail into the coffin of the US economy
NEW: California is now the first state to declare an end to oil extraction in the country.
Today, we're announcing that we will phase out all oil extraction — as part of a world-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality — and ban fracking by 2024.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 23, 2021
California is the 7th largest oil producing state in the union, contributing 8.3% of the nation’s oils production.
California should not be allowed to do this, hobbling a strategic national resource.
This will do untold damage to our economy, driving up gas prices and increasing our dependence on foreign oil.
In 2024 when this goes into effect, President DeSantis needs to invade California like Iraq to get the oil flowing again.
Can we finish with effing masks now?
The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America earlier this month, argues that there isn’t much benefit to distancing 6 feet apart.
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Professor Martin Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, told CNBC that the rule “really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”
MIT researchers: Risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors the same at 6ft and 60ft | TheHill
Actually the biggest health risk for not wearing a mask is the bloody nose somebody can get by getting in somebody’s face for not wearing a mask and accusing you of trying to kill grandma.
I use a gaiter because it is easier than the standard face diaper. But it is getting hot down here and it is annoying as hell to have an extra layer around the neck making you sweat.
Hat Tip Mark C.
