If I post all the time you guys bitch that I'm destroying your little echo chamber.  I lay one on now and again you bitch about drive by.  Make up your microscopic little excuse for a mind.

Didn’t one of them recently purchase a handgun and take lessons? And suddenly sees the point of second amendment right to self defense?

The Kommunist far left may have finally gone too far by sanctioning rioting and looting. A lot of independents and more sane Democrats are starting to wake up, at least if only on one issue at a time, but that’s a start.

Because the virus is so bloody effective that it can get past the vaccine to set up an infection.  No one in their right mind wants a COVID infection.

And there is something I forgot to mention.  Some are claiming the vaccine is going to make the virus mutate to a more deadly form.  To some small degree there is a grain of truth to this.  If the biggest roadblock to the virus' replication is a vaccine, the virus will evolve beyond it.  That said, were everyone vaccinated this wouldn't be a worry.  But because there's so much propagation, sooner or later the virus will get past the vaccine.  We're in a race to get rid of it before it does this, and we're losing.

The good news in all this is whatever the virus' does to evolve, we're pretty smart cookies ourselves and we know more about the virus than when it first showed up.  The one good thing about the mRNA vaccines is they can be nearly effortlessly tailored toward a new viral protein or even a different one.  Moreover, since the active ingredient in the mRNA vaccine is RNA, my hope is a new vaccine would fit under the rubric of the old one, since its chemical composition is nearly identical.  My hope is we can spool up mRNA vaccines quickly indeed.