Just because it is so simple and easy to charge an EV, it doesn't mean people will need to do it every day.  A 200 mile charge will last me over a week.Funny how the anti EV crowd has suddenly become a bunch of environmentalists.

I have no problem with EVs if you live in a city and never go nearly far enough in a day to need a charge. More power to you!  My beef isn't the environmentalism; it's the impracticality of using it for anyone not limiting their travel to 15 minute runs around the city, and the fact that the left is not keeping it voluntary but pushing mandates that we move to all electric. That's anti-free market authoritarianism, and it's based on a climate change hoax and the goal of the elite class to control all the rest of us.  That is a huge problem.

Our neighbor works for a public utility district. He works directly to maintain our grid. He says it is not robust and they struggle to maintain it, much less expand it. Our area is one that is growing very quickly in population because we had a good thing going before the creeping liberal rot made its way from Seattle to us. But it is here. He says getting parts to maintain equipment and finding good employees have gotten more difficult. Vaccine mandates didn’t help. We saw during covid what even a small supply chain disruption could do.

Idiot governor Inslee is waging war on both natural gas AND internal combustion vehicles. New homes can’t be built that use natural gas. He is imposing ridiculous requirements with lofty, virtue-signalling and totalitarian policies that force everything (EVERYTHING) onto the electrical grid.

I ask you. Wouldn’t competent leadership move into using different sources of energy gradually, instead of forcing too-quick dependence on ONE source? In fact, ALWAYS having a variety of energy sources would be the best. But that’s exactly what “leadership” is not doing.

Someone is profiting from the manufacture of electric cars and batteries, and there is a corresponding and very tempting conduit of control that the electrical grid provides to those who want to control us. That’s not a conspiracy theory. The slavering quest for narrow energy dependence, because it IS unwise and crippling for human flourishing, is one of the big reveals of the rigged and corrupt system we’re living under.

Provide multiple energy sources, innovate, and let people decide which to use. Joe gets his EV and Jose and Maria get their 2002 Honda Accord. The web of transportation is stronger. But don’t skew hundreds of millions of dollars over onto making spots for a diminishing number of people (EVs are not practical and sales are declining) to plug cars into chargers. We have more important needs in this country.

My husband and I both worked for electric utilities, my husband up until he retired two years ago.  This country has a LOOMING electric grid reliability problem.  Not just the grid but ALL utilities and all forms of energy and all transportation and all infrastructure.  This is because the people who uphold and maintain all of this are largely older generation MALES, and they are retiring in droves. Yes women are majoring a bit more in engineering and sciences but not in nearly enough numbers to replace the old guys, and not in the boots on the ground work (skilled labor).  The young men are first of all, way fewer in numbers as the birth rate has crashed, and secondly, experiencing an epidemic of mental problems rendering them unable to do much but play video games in mom's basement or major in "journalism" in college.

There is such a brain drain in the energy industry that my husband was offered almost $250,000 a year to come back in an engineering management position but they wanted a 3 year commitment and he said fuck that, no way. 

Getting parts is a huge problem, because we simply don't make them in the U.S. anymore, we don't make our own steel, we don't make our own electronics.  There were big advantages to globalism like taking advantage of cheap labor overseas but the price we pay is loss of control over our own supply chain. Quality control is a HUGE problem. Anything made in China is suspect.

Plants and equipment are aging out and not being replaced.  The cheapest most efficient ways to generate electricity are being phased out by incredibly destructive leftist policies based on eliminating fossil fuels or hobbling nuclear generation with crushing regulatory requirements. The latter was a long term problem starting in the 80s or before.  I know, I worked at a nuke plant. It was like 90% suck the dick of the federal government and 10% actually get something accomplished.  (Excuse my graphic analogy, I've been listening to too much Styx, lol!)  If not for that we'd have a robust base of nuclear generation.

It was 91% where I am, and I wanted to see it, but I had a doctor appointment at 12:45, just after it began, and it was cloudy and raining anyway, so I resigned myself to missing it.

The doctor was done with me around the maximum at 1:45 and a few minutes later I walked outside. My car was only about 20 steps away, just a few seconds of walking from building to car.  It had stopped raining but the sky was still full of clouds and I looked up: Just then a large grey cloud moved to reveal what looked like a crescent new moon.  I stared right at it and as the mist further cleared I realized it wasn’t the moon but the crescent of sun behind the dark disc of the moon, also discernible, still through enough mist that it wasn’t bright enough to hurt my eyes but very clear and plain, and all surrounded by heavy grey clouds.  I looked at it about two seconds before another cloud covered it back up and it was gone. A few more steps to my car, we drove off and it started raining again.

It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve ever seen.  No safety glasses, no pinholes in boxes, just perfect timing and no eye damage.  I will never forget it.  You can’t convince me that wasn’t a gift from God.  It’s like He pulled the curtain back just for me, and just for two seconds so as not to let me damage my eyes, just as I happened to look up in the short distance between the building and the car. 

Furthermore as we left the building (my husband was with me) we were delayed several seconds by an old lady with a walker who was in front of us and excruciatingly slow.  But we were patient and did not try to push past her.  If we had, the timing would have been off and I would have missed it.  My husband missed it anyway, he was busy unlocking the car and by the time I yelled at him about it, it was gone.

Maybe that was a lesson from God not to be impatient with slow old people.

Government allows vaccines to be rushed to market, vaccine turns out to not be effective and/or has a lot of negative side effects, said government is footing the bill for vaccines and is attempting, through coercion, to mandate them.  One wonders why said government wants to suppress negative information.

  It wasn't just suppress, the government engaged in full censorship.  Under the guise of an emergency they violated everyone's constitutional rights, then went further.   Doctors who disagreed with the state controlled narrative were censored and banned, and in a few instances lost their licenses to practice.

 

VAERS has been around a long time, but all the sudden during the scamdemic it was deemed unreliable.   

It was always anecdotal and therefore somewhat meaningless.  Never meant to be a scientifically accurate set of data, but rather a collection point for all the perceived and real side effects of drugs so that they could then be addressed and studied. One of the results was the requirement that all “known” side effects be listed with any prescription drug you get, hence the completely useless mice type they give you listing dozens of every kind of woe you can imagine: headache, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue; the ever popular “anal leakage”, and so on and so forth.

That VAERS was ever reliable in the first place was the lie.  But it was at least a source of some data besides the formal studies that drug companies made of their own drugs, with the insane expectation that they would be unbiased.  And as Peter and Jim point out, even a good study has to account for the placebo effect.

The truth is we will never know the truth about the vaccine.  The truth has been hopelessly and permanently compromised.  There are only a few facts we know for certain:

1.  It causes myocarditis in young males (but so does covid the disease).

2.  It is not anywhere near 100% effective at stopping transmission.

3.  It does seem to lessen severity of disease in certain groups (the old and sick).

4.  It becomes less effective as the virus evolves.

5.  It is a massive money maker for the drug corporations.

That’s it. All the rest is speculation, conspiracy theories, or utterly muddled conclusions from incomplete data.  The speculations, conspiracy theories and muddled conclusions may be true.  They also might not be.  Probably some are and some are not or some are in a modified way. 

It’s reasonable to conclude that in certain groups the possible risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits and therefore those groups should never receive it. Children and young adult males first and foremost.  Beyond that it should be the personal choice of every individual. Mandating the vaccine to keep your job or stay in the military or for children to go to school, for a disease that we quickly figured out had a death rate not much worse than influenza is deplorable authoritarian overreach made possible by portraying a flu-like illness into a terrifying monster so the public would be frightened into accepting these mandates.

However, making the vaccine into a similar horrifying monster is also not helpful.  There are men now who refuse to consider marrying a woman who has had the vaccine because of the belief the vaccine is “in her DNA” and will contaminate her children.  Is banishing someone who has had the vaccine any different from banishing someone who has not?  Extremism on both sides. 

This whole thing needs to go away.  Get out of our collective minds. Covid has become just a bad cold. The vaccine and boosters need to go away now and we need to put this whole catastrophe behind us.

What we need to do now is make sure it never happens again. Not the pandemic, there will be other pandemics, but allowing government to use a pandemic for a power and money grab, to force us out of our jobs, destroy our businesses, damage the supply chain, lock us into our homes, arrest us for walking on the beach, and fix an election with unvetted mail in ballots.  That is the real threat, not anecdotal side effects of the vax.

Maybe we are now too complacent and pussified to make sure this never happens again.

April Fool’s.

in any case, regardless of how silly or strained their definition of elite 1%, it is disturbing that people, any one, think that cheating is ok.