The Daily Blog Open Mic – 27th January 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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Contradictions abound with humanity. The relatively ‘tough’ staff of Corrections refusing to comply with requests for vaccinations. That’s weird – is it cowardice, or do they feel closer in ‘setting’ to the prisoners anti-social behaviour and tendency to use extreme physicality instead of mental exercise than they feel to organised society?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/460302/dozens-of-corrections-staff-lose-jobs-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate
And teachers, particularly those at ECE, or kindergarten level refusing to have vaccines. Do they have any personal commitmenet to their vulnerable young charges. The caring society we hear about, where has it sprouted in NZ?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/460299/omicron-modelling-suggests-nz-could-face-peak-of-80-000-daily-infections
I hope these models climb out of the computer screen and wander off into the great beyond! But that is a passing thought wishful, from someone who has had three vaccinations. But I have to keep trying, mask wearing, rinsing and drying them etc. Changing my old cellphone.
Wondering if we would have these problems if we hadn’t globalised. Remembering it was a tourist-type of traveller who caught and transported the bug lto Europe, sort of like a plague flea. If we had settled for quiet pleasant lives with national income distributed throughout so that much of the the dosh didn’t pile up in some people’s pockets and stuff up their brains with the disease of acquisition. Have you read the Lovejoy books by Jonathan Gash from which the tv series was made? He had genes that resonated to genuine antiques. The upperclass are like that now with anything that smells of money. And so it goes.