It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has told his 99 fellow Senators that they should ignore the restrictions on flu vaccines and get vaccinated anyway because they're special. Meanwhile, my 5 1/2 month-old daughter cannot obtain a vaccine because she's not yet at the 6 month-old threshold for being at risk. We're told that by the time she turns 6 months old, the vaccines will most likely have run out and she won't be able to be vaccinated at that time. The Bush administration, the Republican-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate have been warned for years about vaccine shortages, but didn't do jack about it. Instead, Bush yammered on about steroid use in athletes (and didn't even follow through on that) and the Congress renamed its toast. People will die because of their inaction. Fucking elitist pieces of shit. ![]() Comments:
I've been reading that Canadian pharmacies are advertising for Americans who can't get into that "at risk" category to come up to Canada if possible to get flu shots. We might as well take what we can get since no one in this country wants to help us... ![]() ![]() ![]() |