Update: I was wrong and I suck. I tired to read directly from the Danish (translated) but it looks like I missed some nuance. Clearer word is that Denmark has stopped encouraging the vax for adults but it didn’t swing all the way into reverse and ban it for most adults.
As I understand it now, an adult in Denmark can get the vax if they want the vax and can refrain if they want to refrain.
Great news! That’s how it should have been for day one.
So… that means my post is just bullshit. I should stick with motorcycle camping! I feel properly chastised and repent for my dumb post.
Also, I’m happy for the people of Denmark. Huzzah!
I could delete the post but I felt like memory holing my stupidity would smack of “coverup”. I drew a line below. I’ll let my rant remain. You may mock me as needed. Let it never be said that when I’m wrong I try to hide it.
Have a good week.
Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory.
Everything which is not compulsory is forbidden.
So, it has come to pass. Denmark, just banned the vax for people under 50 (unless you have certain medical issues). I’m not sure how banned it is. It might be that a sympathetic doc would stretch exceptions to meet the request of a patient? Or it might not.
Most nations went ape over COVID. One mark of civilization is to not panic when faced with a challenge. I think most places failed to react with calm decorum.
Denmark was into electronic vax passports. The COVID pass was required to visit restaurants, sports centers and hairdressers. It remained mandatory until September 2021 when it wasn’t required anymore.
This happened the exact same time America’s government was still bitching at every single American to get the vax. Remember it was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? This led to curtailing the “right” to work for any employer (with over 100 employees). Why the hell not?
Being such a happy guy, Biden followed up in late December telling me I’d suffer “a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated—for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm”.
It was a downer. Most presidents wish me a “Merry Christmas”. That seems like a better way to go.
Experiments in denying employment to half the populace flamed out in January. (It’s still working its way through the courts.)
In the same period of one year, Denmark made an 180 degree switch. Painting with a broad brush, Denmark shifted from requiring proof of the vax to banning the vax.
Wise governance would neither force a person to take an injection nor ban them from one they wanted. Wise people let others make their own choices.
To swing from harassing people without the vax to banning them from getting it is logically inconsistent. Also it forced people to do a thing from which there’s no going back. Like an ill considered tattoo, there’s no way to “unring the bell“. If a treatment is coerced and then some bureaucracy decides it’s a bad idea what exactly can they offer as recompense? “Whoops… we forced our choices on you but now we’re cool with your original plan, sorry it’s to late to go back.”
No single choice is right for all people. Humans ought not be moved about gameboards at the whim of bored rulers.
Nobody knows what you should do with your life more than you.
I don’t know who in Denmark might want the vax in late 2022. They probably have a good reason for that preference. They have my sympathy. It’s just as wrong to deny them as it was to try force it on me.
Hat tip to Vlad Tepes.
Would it be possible to add a tag to your posts title that indicates you are going apeshit again? I like your other posts and have contributed based on that preference, but you seem to be going bonkers more often lately.
Actually that’s not a bad idea. Something like “warning AC is about to rant about political junk”. People looking for a happy day could dive for cover. Maybe I could color code the background or something? I’m not sure how that would go with the wordpress software. I’ll try to think of something (and maybe show a little more self control). I do realize that me going off the deep end isn’t as entertaining as well written stories and fiction. But we’re all human and sometimes I dash stuff off in a huff.
If it makes you feel better I’ve got 3 posts about sail/camping mostly written (yes I finally got the boat back on the water!). I have also written about 90% of a new chapter of Attack of the Lesbian Squirrels (probably something like 8 posts or about 8,700+ words). It’s just about wordsmithed but I like to let it sit a week or two and reread (and invariably rewrite half of it). So that’s around 11,000 words in various levels of draft but getting close to going live. (Both stories will take a bit more labor to finish. I won’t be able to have either done this week.)
I’m trying to not drive ya’ away. Sometimes I write a stinker. It bothers me when I write stuff that’s not uplifting but it happens. Please know I mean well and also I don’t have an editor. 🙂
It’s your blog, AC. Write whatever the hell you please any way you wish. If someone doesn’t find a post to their liking, they can quit reading it after the first paragraph. While I thoroughly enjoy your musings on things homesteady and outdoorsy, I, for one, have zero problem with anything else I find here. Speak your mind, mate. There’s damned few of us left who will.
Thanks.
Ah, this is good news indeed! Sourcing a 40/56 Bofors near Lake Baikal is proving difficult; I may have to substitute an S60, in 57mm. The singing isn’t any better, but the S60 and the belt sander should cover the worst of it. Now, can anyone suggest a good source of genuine woad? Local shops seem to be fresh out, and jolly rude about it too.
Keep ranting, raving or writing fun stuff, It’s all good with me. Denmark banned the clot shot because they figured out it was poison. Better late that later.
This stems from the desire of most modern humans to remain children for their entire lives. They don’t want to be responsible when they make bad choices, they want “society” to take care of them and fix their mistakes.
Just like when you were a kid and your dad said “as long as you live under my roof you’ll live under my rules”, society can do the same thing. As long as you middle-aged children require us to hold your hands and tuck you in at night, you’re going to have to abide by our rules. When we say take the shot, you take the shot; when we say you can’t take the shot, you can’t take the shot.
Unfortunately, the few of us who don’t want to be taken care of and just want to be left the heck alone are caught in the wave right along with the rest.
“whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.
–Albert Jay Nock
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-denmark/fact-check-headline-that-claims-denmark-has-banned-covid-19-vaccines-for-children-is-misleading-idUSL1N2ZS0J8
It’s a bit more nuanced than just a complete ban. Denmark realized that those under 18 rarely get severe complications from Covid and the government isn’t going to vaccinate that age group unless they have some type of increased risk. Over 18 vaccine is available to everyone. Seems to be a reasonable change of focus.
Well that’s awesome! If a person over 18 can get the vax if they want the vax than I’ve nothing to bitch about. I think I’ll update the post.
You don’t suck. It’s very rare that you are factually wrong and I think everyone in this day and age have fallen for things like this. Don’t change, we may disagree on some things but at least we can talk like civilized adults unlike most of America. Except squirrels……fuck squirrels unless they are wrapped in bacon and slow cooked with some apples.
Thanks.
Please, this is *your* blog. We are guests here. Write whatever the heck you want. I enjoy reading people writing what *they* want to write about.
One of the most depressing things about the present is the extent to which the promise of the internet has been betrayed and abandoned. Instead of this vibrant free world where everyone is running their own show and talking to each other as peers, everyone has crowded into a few “social media” platforms where what they can say to each other is relentlessly manipulated, censored, and “tone-policed”. I *hate* the “tone-police”. Not everything needs to be relentlessly upbeat and well-thought-of by a bunch of hall monitors! Surely every so often we’re allowed to refer to the human world around us, as tragic and unnerving as it is compared to everything else?
I have seen some sites go down the rabbithole of “all-politics-all-the-time” and cease to be very interesting to me. Yours is not one of them. Seeing places where people can still speak freely, and frankly, to each other is one of the things that keeps despair at bay.
Is this your first day on the internet?
When you are wrong you’re supposed to double, then triple down on your error; not go all “mea culpa” and post corrections or retractions?
Doubling down on being wrong is what the internet is for!
Well, after porn and cat pictures…
Ha ha ha…
Ya kinda lose the moral high ground if you don’t call out your own BS when you realize you’ve stepped in it. I don’t want an AC that is indistinguishable from a Los Angeles Smugster or a Martha’s Vineyard property owner. You know, the ones with the “Diversity is our Strength” Virtue Sigaling placards prominently displayed on their front lawns. Right where the ‘brown’ people can see them!… from the window of the community organized bus heading OUT of Town.
I LIKE the rants. Usually they are sheer poetic prose so keep up the ranting. You say what the majority of the adults in the room are thinking.
Thanks.
I hit this stop on the daily journey through the crazy every day, more than once, usually. So frikken What? Being Incorrect once in a while is no shame. We are all digging for nuggets of Truth, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, while the people who sell themselves as The Source of information that will give us the answers make up lies and spin facts to support their agenda are all around us.
Thanks for squaring that little detail up. Finally, choice! After how many people were screwed,,? The biggest policy screwup ever, and the ones guilty will not suffer.
We’re human, we make mistakes. It’s not an indictable offense… (yet)!
Thanks.