Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

[Ninurta]

The Guardian -a newspaper that holds the BBC as their best customer, reports a similar line.
'Unions warn of ‘winter of chaos’ without urgent action to curb Covid
Joint statement calls for mandatory mask-wearing and attacks government’s ‘laissez-faire approach’

That article burns my ass up.

I detest trade unions. It's not that I just dislike them, I'd like to see every single one of them go up in a giant bright flash, and leave nothing behind but ashes.

I mean, I REALLY ain't got no use for them, at all. I worked under one once (SEIU), but 8 or 9 months of that was all I could stand, so I quit that job rather than stay under the thumb of the union.

I've also worked security during strikes - not to strike break, because I could care less if they wanted to cut their own throats and watch their own kids get skinnier - but instead to protect the employer's premises and equipment. I worked in a sniper overlook, over-watching the gate and where the strikers gathered the most. One night, they thought it would be funny to try to light me up with a laser pointer, but it went dark real quick when I racked a round into the chamber and started scoping them out to see who had it in his hand. One night, they drove up with a pickup truck load of axe handles, like they thought that was gonna intimidate us. Dumbasses.

 I really got no use for them, at all. Strike if you must, but the instant you try to threaten me, you've started a whole new game, and one you ain't gonna win. I'm not out there bustin' YOUR heads with axe handles, and if you decide to come in and give it a try in the other direction, you are already bought and paid for. I'll use your ass up.

There just aren't words big enough to convey my contempt for labor unions.

With that said, they can do as they please, so long as its not infringing on others. For example, they can picket all day long for all I care, but if they try to block my passage, I WILL throw a hole in them big enough for me to walk through, so that I can get to where I was going.

Likewise, they can run roughshod over their own membership if they like, but the line is drawn when they start trying to make policy for folks who are NOT under their damned thumbs. I'm not a member of their club, I didn't vote for anyone in it to run me, and I ain't giving them any money, so they have NO dog in MY fights. Absolutely none. I don't care if they force their own members to mask up with Saran wrap, but they are NOT going to tell me what I have to do, as they have no authority over me, exactly zero authority, if not a little to the negative..

Not successfully, anyhow. I'll pop a hole in them for that nonsense, too.

And this, from the article:

Over the past seven days, 947 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 16% on a week earlier.

 Why do they use 28 days there, but only 48 hours to record deaths from the vaccine? Why is the criteria "death after diagnosis of covid" instead of "death FROM covid"? If I'm diagnosed with covid, then get run over by a train, my death would be recorded as a covid death under those criteria!

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