Unless he moved, he was practicing in Peoria, Illinois. Though IL is deep blue, Peoria is somewhat conservative, being in the agricultural center of the state.  The Democrat leanings of Peoria are probably due to the Union labor of Caterpillar and other feeder industries.

His office is now at the Bolingbrook Clow airport. I believe he lives nearby.

I think so, only because there is absolutely zero constitutional authority for a National mandate of any kind. (Yes, I know that FedGov has increasingly overstepped its authority since 1793.)

Let’s hope so. But this is the problem with the regulatory state. It is in the self interest of the bureaucrats to expand their domain constantly.

I would prefer actually rolling back to the idea that if the law is too complicated and can’t be dealt with and administered through the courts, maybe that’s a sign we shouldn’t have the law.

Screw boosters. I’m so over this.

Perhaps it is time to admit that the idea of stopping the spread of this pandemic through the use of these vaccines has failed. The virus has done what they do, mutated around resistance to further its spread.

It may be vaccines reduce severity of illness and bad outcomes sufficiently to have helped. But omicron appearing considerably less dangerous, that just may not matter much at this point.

Omicron may have picked up part of a common cold virus - https://osf.io/f7txy

It is a godaddy domain where the owner is remaining anonymous. Telling.

Now in all likelihood some of the statements made are false. And some states permit an estate to sue for libel of the deceased.

So if one could find a deceased with family that was in the correct state and felt offended by the false statements, it might be possible to mount a libel action.

That would certainly de-anonymize the person or group running the site and maybe even punish them economically.

I don’t have time to do that, but someone else might.

They didn't exercise a risk vs benefit behavior.  They behaved foolishly and many paid the ultimate price for it.  Moreover, by promoting their idiocy they may have caused others to pay the ultimate price as well.  Public ridicule seems utterly appropriate.

Quite unbecoming of an associate professor I think.

Also, the numbers here are just not so overwhelming in favor of taking the vaccine that we should ridicule those who don’t.

If you are under 65, the odds of dying from COVID-19, if you catch it, are about equal to driving 17 miles to/from work each day. Very few people worry about this level of risk and think “I better change my job and commute because it is too risky”.

Similarly, the odds of seriously bad outcomes from the vaccine are likely on the order of 1-10 per 1,000,000. Not really big but not trivial either.

These tradeoffs fall in the range where reasonable people may make different choices.

Sort of like some people find the enjoyment of flying in small planes with the 1 in 1,00,000 hours risk of death worth it. Others do not. Different strokes for different folks.

These facts likely account for why 30% of doctors don’t want to immunize their young children and a fair fraction of the US population does not choose to be vaccinated.

I should have done a simple search. According to this article they were filming when he shot:
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/3914033/alec-baldwin-shooting-captured-camera-gun-killed-cinematographer/

An eyewitness on the scene told The Sun that the tragedy was recorded on camera as the cast and crew did a take rehearsing their scene.
The insider claimed: “The camera was facing Alec who was shooting in the cameras general direction during a rehearsal scene that was being recorded.
"The cameras captured Alec shooting but Halyna and Joel were behind the camera so I don’t think the cameras captured them being shot.”
However, “cameras, lights and props were damaged” from the gunfire with “broken glass was everywhere,” so it is unclear if the footage would be salvable.

If they were using a digital system there may be greater hope of recovery.