A Glibertarians Exclusive: Mystical Child Part III
From the diary of Robert “Cairo Bob” Allen, 1841-1928
November 11, 1886 – Boise, Idaho Territory
I’d figured on having to ride up into the Nez Perce nation to find the man I was following, but sure enough, he found me, and on my second day in Boise, too. He was an odd fellow, too, just like the old man back in Carson City described him. Don’t think he had any worries about being scalped, that’s for sure, not with that pate of his. He had a hell of a proposition, too, and his timing was great, as I was pretty near out of money. I couldn’t have stayed in the Monarch Boarding House more than a couple more days, my wallet was getting as thin as a March wind in the mountains.
***
November 11, 1886
“Good God in the foothills, man, how long can this idiot Cleveland stay in office?” the drummer at the other side of the table was expounding – again. This time, at Bob’s second supper at the Monarch Boarding House, he was going on about silver-backed currency.
The only thing Bob knew about silver was that he’d never had much of it in his hands, and rarely less so than now.
“I tell you, he ought to be run out of Washington City,” the drummer went on. He slammed a fist down on the table, making the china jump. “Him and his bastard child.”
“Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?” laughed another boarder. “Gone to the White House, haw haw haw!”
“Gentlemen!” Mrs. Dalby was just entering the room, bearing a large cauldron of chicken and dumplings. “I remind you, no talk of religion or politics at the table. If you wish to argue politics, kindly do so outside on the porch.”
Bob had learned quickly that Mrs. Dalby, although a widow lady well past middle age, was in fact a formidable woman with a will of iron and the voice of a top sergeant when events called for it. The drummer grinned sheepishly as Mrs. Dalby handed him a huge bowl full of steaming chicken and dumplings. “Sorry, ma’am,” he grinned. “Got a bit carried away, I did.”
“Kindly see that you do not do so again,” the Monarch Boarding House’s proprietor replied.
Bob ate up quickly – the supper was long on dumplings and somewhat short on chicken – and went outside to the porch to smoke a cigar he had won earlier in the day playing cards with the drummer. He had little interest in what he still thought of as Yankee politics, although the fact that Cleveland was apparently a Democrat appealed somewhat to the former Confederate that still lived within him.
Almost out of money, he reminded himself as he struck a match on the sole of his trooper’s boot and lit the cigar. He drew on the stogie; it was dry and acid-tasting, but he hadn’t had a smoke in weeks. Tomorrow, I either find some sort of work here in Boise or light out again.
A figure materialized on the corner of the porch and drifted towards Bob. Seeing the movement out of the dark in the corner of his eye, Bob instinctively grabbed at his holster, but his revolver was up in his room. At Mrs. Dalby’s command, no sidearms were to be worn in the house.
“Relax, friend, just wanted to speak with you,” a high-pitched, scratchy voice said. The man stepped into the light from the window; a short, rotund man, his bald pate shining in the dim light.
That’s him, Bob realized. That’s the man I’m looking for.
“Got another match?”
“Sure thing, friend,” Bob said. He took the matchbook from his jacket pocket and handed it to the man.
“Samuel P.C.E. Evans,” the short man said by way of introduction. He extracted a tobacco pouch and papers from his jacket pocket and quickly, expertly rolled a cigarette. Striking a match on the porch rail, he took a long drag and exhaled contentedly. He didn’t explain why he carried around the flock of initials.
“Bob Allen,” Bob said. The two shook hands formally. “They call me Cairo Bob.” He wasn’t sure why he had added that last. There was something odd about the round man, something that reminded Bob of someone.
“Cairo Bob?” Evans asked.
“Spent ten years in Egypt,” Bob explained. “After the war. The Khedive was building an Army, wanted help training his troops, and I had nothin’ else to do, so…”
“Ah,” Evans said. “Southron, then, are you?”
“That’s right. South Carolina.”
“From Virginia myself,” Evans nodded. “Well, the part they call West Virginia now. Spent three years in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. You?”
“Wade Hampton’s cavalry, purt near the whole war.”
“You and I, we may have been on the same field a time or two, then.”
“Reckon we were.”
Evans took another drag and looked at Bob sidelong. “Heard one of the boarders say you was looking for some work.”
“That I am,” Bob agreed. “Damn near down to my last dollar.”
“Would you be interested in heading up north into Canada for a while? Got a lead on something up north of the border; might be something pretty big. Need someone to ride up there with me, find a place called Pyramid Peak. We’d be looking for the grave of a fella buried up there somewhere.”
“What terms did you have in mind?” Bob asked.
“Fifty-fifty split of whatever we find,” Evans said.
“Well, fine. What are you expecting to find?”
“Ever hear tell of a Spanish explorer name of de Vaca?” Bob shook his head. “Story goes that he criss-crossed the country, looking for seven lost cities of gold. Now, history says he failed, but according to the Nez Perce, one of his soldiers, man name of Ruiz, found one of the cities. Streets not paved with gold, but plenty of bar and sculpted gold to be had. He recovered as much as he could carry but died up there in the mountains, up in Canada. He had a partner, who buried him up there and brought word back to the Nez Perce of the place called Pyramid Peak, where Ruiz’s grave is and where the gold is stashed, but the partner died before he could get back to civilization.”
“Why didn’t the Nez Perce chase this thing down, if they know all about it?”
Evans shrugged. “Who knows? Maybe they think the old boy was lying. Maybe they just don’t care. Anyway, I’ve been through that country up in Canada, and I think I may know the peak they’re talking about. I need a partner to help me get up there, find this place, dig up the gold and bring it back. What do you say?”
“Long ways up there,” Bob said reflectively. “We’d need a grubstake, maybe a pack horse each. All I got is my saddle horse and damn near no money.”
“Don’t worry none about that,” Evans shook his head. “I’ll arrange for grub and pack horses. If we find anything, I’ll take that stake back out of the gold before we divide it up.”
“That’s fair,” Bob agreed. “Nothing but. When you want to leave?”
“Best we do not draw too much attention,” Evans said. “Tomorrow, you go to see Colonel Appleton on the west edge of town. He sells horses. Find a couple of good strong pack animals. I’ll stake you, oh, ten dollars per horse; that should get a couple of decent ones. While you’re doing that, I’ll arrange for a month’s worth of flour, bacon, and beans. How you fixed for guns and ammo?”
Bob frowned. “Give me a moment to weigh that.” He though hard on the contents of his saddlebags. “Reckon I got enough powder and ball for my revolver. Got a Spencer rifle, almost out of rounds for it; got one full magazine and three empty ones. If anyone in town has any .56 Spencer, I could sure use some.”
“I’ll see what I can do. Do we have a deal, then, sir?”
“We do,” Bob said. They shook hands again, and Evans faded away in to the dark, disappearing just as he had appeared.
***
A man in the corner approached me for a match.
I knew right away he was not ordinary.
He said, “Are you looking for something easy to catch?”
I said, “I got no money.” He said “That ain’t necessary.”
Too easy.
I hope Cairo Bob watches his back.
Thanks, Animal – i really dig these.
“Watch your back”
*tries looking over shoulder, spins in circle like dog chasing its tail*
Yeah, the 50/50 deal is way too sweet.
I reckon ol’ Samuel knows Cario is looking for him…time to start sleeping with your gun in hand and eyes wide open.
Reminds me of something a cowboy showed me on the Vermejo ranch in northern NM. A rock near the base of a ridge, with carvings on the backside of it (toward the ridge, where you wouldn’t see them from the meadow). Nobody knew what they meant, but they were Spanish. The story was that an expedition had come through, found gold, and run into Indians. They dumped the gold to try to escape, and the rock had coded directions to where they had buried it.
Like a fool, I didn’t take pictures of the inscriptions. As with all such stories, who knows what the truth is?
As ever, Animal, I eagerly await the next installment.
Sounds like you could parlay that into a History Channel show for 9 seasons or so.
Where’s the dadgum like button?
*downvotes comment*
[slaps UCS with a dirty leather gardening glove]
Now that’s uncalled for
Despaches from the front.
Vacationing in Florida. City of Dunedin for lunch.
Masks are required in this county w the same ol restaurant rules, despite no state “mandate” to do so. I found this out on my way from the bar to the baño when I was told by a youngin that I needed a mask. Not having one, he gave me one. To be one, ask one.
To be one, ask one.
The Maskons huh?
Nice.
And my mask was free, so…
Who thought the Dúnedain could sink so low…
Growing up in my section of Florida, I was familiar with Dunedin from occasional news mentions. Then, in 4th grade, we watched a Canadian educational program in which the villain is a giant, disembodied head named Duneedon, who rules a far-away galaxy with an iron fist and wants to invade Earth via a small Canadian town. He was terrifying to this wee lad.
https://youtu.be/ss8bGNgEnLE
Those graphics are mind blowing!
Promoting from dedthred:
Also of interest; FL has essentially plateaued for the last week or so. NJ is the only state that seems to be having any kind of meaningful uptick in the last few weeks, and now has the highest rate in the country. AZ has crashed, and has been reporting new cases in the single digits per hundred thousand the last week or so.
Same with NV. 8.5 per 100,000.
Sounds like New Yorkers stopped wearing their masks.
(My response from the deadthread)
I think all declines will now be chalked up to the vaccine and Joe Biden by the corporate media. Not enough of the general public will question whether Biden actually had anything to do with the rollout or whether enough people in a given area got vaccinated to plausibly be the cause of the improvement.
The narrative in the history books will be “The deadly virus continued to ravage the country while Donald Trump did nothing. Thankfully, Joe Biden was sworn in and immediately mobilized the vaccine supply, swiftly ending the pandemic and saving untold millions of lives.”
This.
Well sure… just like the border crisis is all Trump’s fault.
I just went to see what AOC has been saying about the border.
Would you believe, nothing?
I would. AOC only objected to kids in cages when it was part of a somewhat effective border enforcement policy. To her and her ilk, that was pure cost, no benefit.
Kids in cages on their way to becoming citizens? No prob. Sure, there’s a cost, but its outweighed by the benefit.
Likely so.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in our fragmented public memory. How many will see this as the BS it is? How many will be peeved that the mask mandates continued for some time for vaccinated people?
Is it worth the Biden administration getting credit, if it means the lockdowns are lifted sooner (how much credit will they get for the vaccines if the lockdowns aren’t lifted)?
FDR Jr
The narrative in the history books will be “The deadly virus continued to ravage the country while Donald Trump did nothing. Thankfully, Joe Biden was sworn in and immediately mobilized the vaccine supply, swiftly ending the pandemic and saving untold millions of lives.
Maybe but I’m doubtful. None of these tyrannical measures… mask mandates, curfews, banning of private gatherings…. have anything to do with preventing the spread of a disease with a 0.0032% mortality rate in the general population. So I see no reason for the pandemic “threat” to end even after vaccines are widely available
We’re already seeing the CDC talking both sides out of their mouths about how amazing the vaccines are but that vaccinated citizens still need to double-mask and not assemble. Now there’s talk about mutated varieties of coronavirus that will require indefinite lockdowns.
I have been told by the experts that we are in the darkest days of the pandemic. (When even King Walz says you are having a hissy fit, you know you overreached).
His prediction was 5 weeks ago. So he still has some time to be proven correct (nice prediction, narrowing it down to a third of the year by the way), but it would take a complete reversal of trends.
And again, who cares about surges in cases? Surges in deaths are bad, but cases? That is what I like to call a free vaccination.
There are 8 days left in the month. There is virtually no possible way that sharp down trends are going to suddenly completely reverse to staggering rises in 8 days. I’d put my moNey on continuing down trends.
What we’re seeing in Europe is the result of even harsher Covid restrictions than our own. They never let it burn through. Every time a rise started, they went back to full lockdown. Right now much of Europe is in the same type of lockdown we had here last spring where only “essential” businesses are open and everyone is sheltering at home.
They been doing little other than stacking tinder.
At this point, I’m convinced that lockdowns have done nothing but delay the inevitable with the added cost of fucking up the economy and causing a significant number of other types of deaths (suicide, overdoses, cancer due to missed appointments, etc.)
I’ve figured this since about early May or so.
That should have been done from the very beginning, but I’m not sure there’s a good way to spin “Let Granny die and God will sort it out.”
Protect the old and co-morbid, everyone else can deal.
That ain’t gonna win you any Emmys.
The next 14 weeks I think will be the worst of the pandemic.
He’s got just under 70 days to go (until the end of May). In order for this to be the worst of the pandemic, cases and deaths are going to have to reverse trend and go nearly vertical. The last surge peaked at 250,000 cases/day in the US. and took @ 80 days to hit that level from the current level of around 55,000 cases a day. If you prefer deaths as your metric, it took 70 days to get from the current rate of 1,000/day to the peak of 3,400/day. Cases have plateaued, but deaths are still in a freefall.
Deaths have always been a lagging indicator, but it’s also consistent with vaccinating the most at risk for death and severity of covid (leaving aside BS occupational prioritization).
Why do I get the feel that this series is going to take a Lovecraftian turn? Not that I’d mind, actually, I’d kinda like that.
I like the old-timey silver certificate. That combined with the characters’ background reminds me of this picture I took at the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna. It has an extensive coin collection on display. As part of the coin collection, the museum has some paper money on display.
Interesting. The Confederate twenty has no stated redemption value in precious metal (silver or gold), unless my old eyes missed it. The God of Fiat was probably very proud of them for just admitting it up front.
They couldn’t afford to back the certificates, all their gold and silver was tied up in making buried treasure hoards for people to make shows about searching for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INilAY6aJTc
Dylan was a fine poet, but I can’t stand his voice.
*as I write this in the town of his birth*
That must feel like a civic burden.
Hendrix was the best thing that ever happened to Watchtower.
*looks up from table*
Battlestar Galactica! was the best thing that ever happened to Watchtower.
*resumes snorting hallucinogenics*
Er, Jehovahs? /resumes passing out
Minnesoda Mudthroat.
I’m with you, great musical mind, vocal abilities stink.
+1 The pump don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles.
Well, I don’t care if that gold is buried lower than a snake in a wagon rut, I bet them fellers will find it if’n it’s to be found.
Unless you got one o’ them plot twists comin’ up.
Yeee-haw!
Pardon me, I meant “less’n,” not “unless.”
(Sorry, didn’t mean to mock; was just wondering about the future of the hillbilly dialect.)
“Save us, Ralphie! Ah jes’ knowed those bad guys would be comin’ for us in tha end!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
Why do I doubt this story about Minnesoda racists?
If someone yelled at all those Asian parents, why weren’t any of them quoted? Just the one guy? Oh, and that guy happens to be the father of a local news anchor?
I feel sad that my default setting is “Fake News” anytime I hear about racist incidents. Sure would be nice to not immediately suspect the person of lying to “start a conversation”.
My radar pings because they whited out the license plate of the “hate criminal”.
Strangely not mentioned: the race of the “hate criminal”.
Maybe you should concentrate on actual safety, not “feelings”.
Violent crime rose amid a bunch of BLM rioters.
“record-breaking gun violence”
IOW, we need more gun control laws, not more cops.
I dropped this in the Sunday night links, but it didn’t make a sound.
Bottom line: UFOs are probably real, and they’re still unidentified.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9387129/There-lot-sightings-public-Anticipation-mounts-ahead-UFO-report.html
Why are there never any UNFOs?
Unidentified Objects that are not flying are regarded as the norm and don’t need additional adjectives to indicate their grounded status.
There are, however, USOs: http://tarrdaniel.com/documents/Ufology/uso.html
For some reason, I immediately thought of Caddyshack.
Well if they can’t identify them then by definition they are unidentified, right?
Thanks for reposting, last night’s post was lacking a sufficient amount of saccharin.
I’ve had a fascination with UFOs for decades. I don’t think they are spacecraft from other worlds and I think most of the sightings are errors, mis-identifications, or frauds. But there remains that small number that can’t be explained. I suspect a lot/most of those are secret test aircraft although, if this report is correct, that might now always be the answer.
STEVE SMITH MAKE NO SOUND WHEN STALKING HIKER.
STEVE SMITH also: “performing moves humans don’t have the technology for”
In my religion, when I die, aliens are the guides who will take me to the First Realm where I will be served by my seconder slaves for the rest of eternity.
Dude, Heaven’s Gate is so 90’s.
$3 trillion…something has to give eventually…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/22/infrastructure-biden-drug-reform/
Just an awful set of ideas.
>> the plan includes hundreds of billions of dollars for repairing the nation’s roads, bridges, waterways, and rails
I thought Obama the Lightbringer fixed all da roads?
Fixing the nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” sells to both Republicans and Democrats and is always included.
At no point in the nation’s history has its “infrastructure” been in better condition but when it comes to passing legislation it is always on the verge of collapse.
Never asked: How did our infrastructure get so neglected its now “crumbling”? Who was in charge? Who is responsible?
Like my school district that suddenly needed a capital bond to replace all of the HVAC equipment? Gee, why wasn’t it maintained and why didn’t you budget for the replacement of a known wear out equipment? Because there’s no incentive to do so. Just ask the voters for more money. For the kids.
The other party.
Duh.
Always.
Also note: I remember reading in an economics blog that the federal government fixing “infrastructure” tends to at minimum cost over twice as much as any other level of government so in general it’s about the most inefficient place to go around fixing the country from.
about the only thing I saw locally from Obama’s infrastructure bill was a massive metal roof (open sides) of the local farmer’s market.
Before that structure, which will probably be need to replaced in a few years, vendors just strung up tarps over their roofs to keep out the rain.
Without the intervention of big government, all our produce would be completely wet.
Thank
godObama then! Before his munificense, the idea of buying food indoors was a mere dream.So what’s the other $2TT plus for?
That seems to be their M/O lately. “Massive stimulus!” = 5% goes to taxpayers, the rest to pet interests. “Massive infrastructure spending!” = 5% goes to infrastructure, the rest to pet interests, etc.
The death knells of a society.
Everybody and everyone is leeching off the creditworthiness of the American taxpayer.
We’re eventually going to run out of goodwill.
I think what really drove home for me that this republic is dead was when Trump read off the list of programs and countries that where getting money from us as part of the stimulus and no one with the exception of a few really cared. All they wanted was the crumbs off the table while countries like Somalia and Pakistan where getting a shit ton of money from the American taxpayer.
Congress for the most part has repeatedly showed their contempt towards those who pay their salaries and nothing is being done about it.
When was that? just wondering.
https://bgr.com/2020/12/22/new-stimulus-check-amounts-covid-relief-bill-slammed-by-trump/
Don’t forget the 1% for “art”!
Where “art” is less beautiful than a bonfire of the money would be.
Pretty soon, someone might notice.
When O’bumbles ‘fixed the infrastructure’ in LA all I saw were new road signs. There was nothing wrong with the old signs but we got new ones.
Sign-Ready Jobs. Here in NV I saw streets that literally were just redone by the city, torn up and redone because of his shovel-ready nonsense.
Illinois does the same shit. They propose a tax to fix something and years later we find out that maybe a sliver went to that programs and the rest was given out to their cronies or unaccounted for.
And the worst part is that keep falling for it.
Question for you network geeks. I am going to setup a vLAN of sorts for some of our equipment that goes to various offices, using our LAN patch panel, rather than pull individual cables. The question is, can I designate ports so I can have conflicting IPs on the LAN?
I am sure these lan switches that plan on using has that ability…
You need a managed switch.
Set LAN on fire.
Go outdoors.
???
Profit!
I don’t want to go to Federal “Pound Me in the Ass” Prison and make the national news like the idiot in Chicago who lit the ARTCC on fire
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-faa-radar-facility-fire-sentencing-met-20150911-story.html
what do you mean by conflicting IPs? Duplicates or just different subnets or ?
Possible duplicates, two separate systems with internal IPs. Equipment is located on a separate floor and my partners in AT like to play musical offices and I don’t want to pull dedicated cables, so I will utilize the building’s spare fiber to transport between floors and patch into the rooms….
If that makes sense.
Did you check the thermostat?
Yes and I turned if off and on again. Also checked the flux capacitors, they were operating nominally.
I’m trying to wrap my head around what you are doing here.
VLANs are logically separate networks, so they could have the same IP address/subnet though I don’t know how you would route between them in this case unless you have a NAT box. Or what you would do if you have multi-homed hosts. I think multi-homed hosts would have really ugly routing tables.
If they are isolated, packets have the VLAN tag when they come into the switch, and no host is multi-homed, you could pull it off.
I was thinking he wants to keep those separate systems separate, so no routing between them required. But perhaps I misunderstood.
Yes, you can assign individual ports to specific VLANs – that’s all layer 2, so you can use overlapping IP ranges on different VLANs.
Okay. Yeah like ports 1-5 will be assigned to this system, ports 6-10 for this and etc, etc?
Yep, should be do-able, depending on the switch.
Disclaimer: I’m a systems geek with a good understanding of networks and a lot of interaction w/ the network guys, but not an actual networking geek.
So I really have no urge to get the COVID vaccine.
1 – the last time I got sick via a flu was something like ~25 years ago. I might get a cold once a year, usually in the spring.
2 – I’ve gone a year, including airports, airplanes, bars, restaurants, work, stores, etc, without getting COVID. Same with EF, who has been tested three times, all negative.
3 – I don’t have any ::knock on wood:: long-term illness
4 – I don’t trust anything new; reading of the days they gave Thalidomide to pregnant ladies.
If I felt if I was in mortal danger I would probably take the risk but it’s hard to get excited after a year of something that may or may not have the same death % as a bad seasonal flu.
Change me mind – or not.
I have a similar set of reasons, but also have “I almost certainly already had Wuhan Coronavirus last March, so I have old fashioned ‘vaccination’.”
I may or may not have gotten it last March, felt out of sorts when we came back from Savannah last March; apparently we passed through some COVID airport hotspots (???).
Our household went thru a bad case of Flu late Feb last year, too. My wife had it bad – fever, upper respiratory infection with a bad and persistent cough. She was coughing for 2 weeks. Then my college age son caught it with the same symptoms. I got it last – felt run down and achy, had a runny nose but no cough. I was sick for a week – missed 3 days of work. Which is rare for me – I seldom get sick or miss a day of work. I’ve been exposed to people who got it on 2 occasions – got tested (negative).
I’m on the fence on the vaccine – not sure I want it. My wife is the other way, she can’t wait to get vaccinated and has registered on multiple website to get on a list.
My calculation is:
1. I probably had Covid in January 2019, though to be fair I can’t be certain
2. I’m below the age cut-off where according to the CDC’s numbers the flu is more deadly than Covid for me.
3. I don’t get the flu shot
4. Any long term effects I’d have to live with for 40-50 years assuming I life a full life
So, why, given all that, would I get vaccinated against Covid?
So, I’m with you, but I reached the conclusion a little differently.
Boy… I proofrad gud.
Way to spoil a patient zero joke, batman.
My SIL is an NP, and she is going to refuse to get the shot as long as possible. Her reasoning is: She has had 2 kinds of cancer, so she’s apparently got something wrong genetically that makes her high risk for cancer. There were drugs that were on the market for decades, and considered safe, that were pulled abruptly because someone discovered they caused cancer. These vaccines haven’t been around for years, it’s only been months. (She keeps imagining a TV commercial: “If you had the Moderna vaccine, and got cancer, call our law firm…”) To her, it’s not worth the risk.
Despite popular opinion, it is still up to you, and you need to examine the risks and determine what is best for you.
. . . it is still up to you . . .
So far.
I expect – by next year – my doctor will jab me with the vaccine w/o even asking.
Of course she is always trying to push the flu shot on me and doesn’t like it when I refuse.
Just manage risk
Young and healthy — fuck the vaccine.
Old with comorbidities — get the shot.
Old-ish with comorbidities that are way down the list of things that increase your risk — flip a coin.
I flipped a coin twice, once for the “yes/no” for any vaccine, and then once for the “yes/no” for the mRNA versions.
I’m not worried/hurried, but if the J&J vaccine ever makes it to Canada through the BIFF (Bumbling Incompetency Force Field) of The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ and his Cabinet filled with high-school debate team minions, I’ll get it if I’m told that without it, much of modern life will be denied to me “for the common good.”
I figure I’ve got at least another six months, minimum.
I’m slated to get the shot this Wednesday (been nice knowing you all).
My reasoning:
1) Get’s my wife off my back (she is a Branch Covidian Black Belt)
2) I’m getting old enough that I am creeping into the demo where the odds of croacking from the Rona start to become non-zero
3) Gets my wife off my back
4) I’m not that worried about long term effects
5) Gets my wife off my back
6) Seriously doubt I’ll have any adverse reactions
7) Gets my wife off my back
I am, sadly, likely to crumble due to #1, 3, 5 & 7 as well. 747 sq. ft. is feeling even smaller than it is.
On the plus side, one issue that was slightly concerning – the lipid nanoparticles used as a delivery mechanism on the mRNA shots crossing the blood-brain barrier – is looking wildly overblown. The studies where they saw particles in the brain required roughly 10,000x the amount they use in the shots.
That said, I’d still rather have the J&J shot.
Take Mrs. Dean’s approach – she’s got zero risk factors, and is planning to freeload on herd immunity.
Biden should be in quotes:
Biden Torpedoes Abraham Accords Summit
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