what a stupidly loaded question

literally the only reason my kids didn't get a Covid booster when they got their flu shot (why don't you talk about whether parents are "skeptical"/ignoring the CDC on that, huh?) is because the pediatrician's office didn't have it. there's no mass vaccination sites anymore either (the ones that paid me $25 per shot were particularly motivating). so it seems like the CDC is skeptical of its own guidance.

David will never get over the fact that he had to spend a couple months homeschooling his kids. maybe schools wouldn't have stayed closed into 2021 if schools had gotten the funding to implement Covid-safe practices and mandate vaccines.

also, people ignoring mask mandates doesn't mean the mandates were wrong. it means Americans are contrarian idiots responsible for the US having the highest Covid mortality rate in the world. & don't pretend any of them follow int'l practices.

I'm struggling to even organize my thoughts on this. I thought preventing millions of deaths was a pretty huge fucking benefit but the rest of the country felt that wasn't worth the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask and getting a free shot. I'd compare Covid policies less to a helmet in the car and more to wearing a seatbelt. that's not expecting you to be a robot, that's literally just asking you to do the bare minimum to not kill your elderly neighbor. but God forbid you fucking stay home.

first of all, you're putting the antivax cart before the horse.

second, who's being dishonest?! at no point in any of this did you present any risks to Covid boosters that outweighed the benefit. kids still get Covid. kids still spread Covid. if there is a vaccine for anything, everyone should get it. that's why vaccines exist. I mean shit, it makes me angry that I have to wait to get my shingles vaccine. there's nothing dishonest about "everybody should get vaccinated." what the fuck.

or like maybe Trump's NATO comments are actually a huge fucking deal while Biden's age isn't? maybe it's less about Trump's "attention seeking" and more about the fact that he is a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violent rhetoric, despotic aspirations and stochastic terrorism? maybe we should worry less about the mud on the carpet and more about the melting city?

(go watch llamas with hats)