Welcome to the summer of 2024. Enjoy this time because the summer of 2024 will presumably be followed by the fall of 2024, and it is an election year.
We all should be fairly miserable with each other by mid-October, plan yourself accordingly.
Before you’re miserable about national politics though, you can vote yourselves a new jail, so you got that going for yourself. #blessed.
I perused local jail coverage recently and the opinions leave me a bit befuddled. One Platte County citizen was quoted on Fox 4 News as saying this, “$85 million seems like a lot of money to go towards our prison systems when they could be going towards education, maybe towards welfare to help these people.”
She followed that up with the fact that she was going to go ahead and vote for the issue with the old standard, “If it’s what’s needed then I think that’s what we need to do.” She indicated “they” said it was needed, referring to the local elected officials.
First of all, it’s a bunch more than $85 million, but who’s counting after the first $10 million or so? Second of all, taxes don’t work in a mix and match system. The same taxes that you can apply to a jail are not the same taxes you can apply to education, but again, who’s concerned with such pesky details when “they said we need it.”
Anyway, I’m hoping “they” stop taking our money, but that seems unlikely.
I’m also still shocked that people think education needs more money. Do these people look at their property tax bills or the build outs happening at schools? I’d settle for a reallocation of education funds long before advocating for more.
Remember the pandemic and six-foot distance guidelines? Dr. Fauci recently responded in a deposition about the origin of the “magical” keep us safe distance that they required: “It just sort of appeared. I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be five or six or whatever. It was just six foot.” He went on to describe how it was decided.
“I think it would fall under the category of empiric. Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished.”
Oddly, here is what he said in July of 2020. “Most of the droplets, when people speak and you see that little spray come out, are greater than five micrometers.
Those are heavy. They don’t go any more than three feet, at the most six feet, which is why we say when you’re outside, stay at least six feet apart from someone.”
“Empiric” allegedly means “based on practical observation.” I’m beginning to think there was nothing scientific or practical about government pandemic mitigation.
Don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but “they” have lied to us. But surely not about anything else, right?
(Guy Speckman can be reached standing closer than six feet to everyone)
