Valid point, although it’s just a matter of familiarity and fashion. We have got used to anti-vaxxers trotting out the schedule thing now, but don’t forget it only came along as “the latest excuse” after other anti-vax rationalizations got knocked down. Give it a while and the “vaccines can affect other people” rationalization will become mainstream anti-vaxxer thought.
You can seen trends in anti-vax rationalization develop and flow through the anti-vax community as their former positions get trashed. The point that unvaccinated people aren’t merely endangering themselves (as they like to argue) but are disease vectors who can endanger others has hit home. So the idea that vaccinated people are dangerous has got traction in the anti-vax movement because it gives them a counter - a mental tu quoque - against the suggestion they are being irresponsible towards others.
Yes. Some years (decades, actually) ago, I had a long-term relationship with a woman from the American version of that class. My glimpse into that world was fascinating. I’d never seen anything like it (being a middle-class kid from Queens).
But ostentation was seriously frowned upon. Houses were beautiful, but they weren’t flashy McMansions. You wouldn’t see Cadillacs and Mercedeses in the driveways, but you might see Buicks and Volvos.
Clothing was top-notch high quality stuff, but often old and worn. And definitely not flashy.
There’s an old joke –
Two old Emma Willard classmates, Buffy and Muffy, are meeting for lunch after not having seen each other for years.
Muffy walks in and she’s decked out from head to toe in expensive designer clothes and about ten pounds of jewelry.
Buffy is astounded, and asks Muffy how she can afford all this stuff.
Muffy says, “well, you may be shocked by this, but I’ve been working as a prostitute for the past ten years. A very expensive prostitute. And it’s worked out pretty well for me.”
Buffy says “Oh, thank God. I was afraid you’d dipped into capital.”
Long before Miami’s Centner Academy ignited a national uproar by telling teachers not to get COVID-19 vaccinations, contrary to all credible scientific advice, the school’s husband-and-wife founders were determined to do things exactly as they pleased, for better or worse.
It began with the academy’s first open house when David and Leila Centner asked guests not just to wipe their feet but to swaddle the soles of their shoes in Saran wrap. And it continued with an impassioned pledge to mold students into “emotional ninjas,” and with the coverings over the windows to ward off potential radiation from 5G cell towers.
While this is completely accurate, unfortunately the Washington Times still gets picked up in the Google news feeds (and likely others) at a distressing rate, and plenty of people seeing it don’t realize the difference between the Wash Times and the Wash Post.
Yes. Never mix these up.
In Washington, the Post is the liberal paper and the Times is the conservative paper.
In New York, the Post is the conservative paper and the Times is the liberal paper.
Well I wasn’t sure. I was thinking maybe you meant NYP wasn’t worthy of being called a news-communication in any format, but I wasn’t sure if they’ve simply gone on-line only. Ambiguity rules the day!
