But the sad fact of the matter is that there are still people who can't get the vaccine for legitimate reasons (allergies to the ingredients, immunocompromised individuals, etc) who can still be hurt, and not just these dumb yahoos who opt not to take it.
And moreover, allowing COVID to find places to fester only serves to allow it the potential to mutate into forms that are more deadly, contagious, and, possibly, resistant to the vaccines.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Possibly, though if there is any genuine silver lining with the fools that refuse to get vaccinated it's that a great deal of them are in rural areas, so it's less of a problem then if they were in major urban areas.
For instance in my country we have only a 23% vaccination rate, abysmal and driven in very large part by fools who don't want to get the jab ( they call it a conspiracy ). However in spite of those cretins we've managed to significantly lower the number of cases to around 100-200 a day.
The summer heat has helped but a big reason is due to the fact a majority or close to a majority of the population in every major city has gotten vaccinated.
Rural folks are still imbeciles.
"Life is one long series of problems to solve. The more you solve, the better a man you become.... Tribulations spawn in life and over and over again we must stand our ground and face them."
Trump basically made grand claims like "every publisher on Earth wants to hand me billions to write a book with no known title, subject, and based on 'my' last book, author.". Considering most books are more than 140 characters, Trump's claim that he is "writing like crazy" is also likely false.
For all we know, Trump is talking about his blog.
Yes, in theory, Trump's book would have to be checked like Trump's admin checked books about him in office. But we can't deduce that purely from the bullshit he and his PR people spit into microphones.
I don't know if it would be officially required to be checked, but you can get bet that it will be checked to anyway to ensure Trump doesn't decide to randomly divulge state secrets.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN Sunday that former Attorneys General William Barr and Jeff Sessions should testify before Congress on reports the Trump-era Department of Justice seized Democrats and journalists' data records.
No, this is not a demand with subpoenas. Yet.
I don't know what Sessions had to do with this. Barr should be terrified.
4 magic words.
I
Do
Not
Remember
And ignoring that, so what if he tells about all the stuff he did?
Nothing he did is actually illegal. Extremely unethic and unbefitting of a Attorney General but again, so what? Congress has no power over citizen Barr and nothing to forward to the DoJ without a law being broken.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Depravation of rights under the color of law. Carries up to life sentence. Depends how far they consider the consequences of barr's actions, but it's likely a year prison sentence as no one was harmed or killed directly.
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Those 4 words aren't as magic as you seem to think. If it can be argued persuasively that you do remember, claiming you don't remember can also be perjury.
Except from what I understand the DoJ has the right to subpoena those records. They shouldn't do so lightly, especially for members of congress but they have the right to do so.
And trying to prove someone does actually remember facts from 3+ years ago in court to get a perjury conviction is going to be a nightmare.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Read what I linked. You can do things that otherwise would be legal, for ill-gotten reasons, and they become illegal.
Edit: For a different example, a police officer has the right to look up people's information when they pull them over. If they look up that information, then copy it down so they can call them later to try to hit on them, that's illegal. The act of looking it up, an otherwise legal part of their occupation, becomes illegal.
Double Edit: I'm not saying he's going to be convicted. I'm saying that he should be worried about how vindictive the DOJ might become as a reaction to his norm breaking.
Lying to Congress is a felony.
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I cannot imagine how many friends/allies Barr lost while forcing Trump's illegal investigations. He should not expect any professional courtesy when he showed none himself.
But, we don't have any information about what they did with those records right? Unless they used them for something they shouldn't, like blackmail, there is no crime.
"We looked hoping to find something but we didn't, the end" is not a crime when the reason for looking (trying to find the leaks) is 'good enough'.
And Barr is an slimebag devoid of morals, but I don't see him as someone stupid enough to actually break the law for Trump.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death