Armed Polite Society

Inevitable.

The decline in the Boy Scouts of America can be illustrated succinctly by comparing the BSA hatchet I had as a Scout (and which I still have) to the piece of dreck they sell today:

Then:
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I can't find an image of the current offering. A friend across town has (or had) one. It's a cheap, Chinese piece of junk that Harbor Freight would be ashamed to sell. Flimsy, tubular steel(?) handle. My friend had it in his camper. He said every time he tried to use it the head flew off.

It isn’t nearly as simple as “there is X risk and Y benefit and since the people who sell the vaccine say Y outweighs X, get the Fauci ouchy!”

Covid is highly age stratified, and the potential for iatrogenic harm is much more of a concern with younger people who have many more years to lose.

Terry, you probably made the right call for yourself given your advanced ripeness, but your cost/benefit analysis doesn’t hold universally.

As this thread has pointed out, it doesn't take very far off the beaten trail and people get lost for good.

Whomever is dropping those needs to stay in the woods for the rest of their life.

Counterpoint.

Another example of negative publicity disrupting good sense.  While I always look askance at MSM and government output, I figure the public relations effect of one highly-publicised death or other negative effect of something will counteract the unsung benefits to thousands.

Hey!  We see the same bullshit having the same psychological effects in gun "violence."  You think noise is made about the thousands of beneficial uses of firearms?  Noooooo, you don't, and the effect is that there is an outcry for meaningless gun control.

Wake up, dammit.  No medical treatment is without risk and I, me, myself, would rather work with the real statistical risk (n out of X die, m out of X get ill) than the "if it bleeds it leads" (so to speak) publicity.

I'd rather operate on the X minus n and X minus m numbers than just the n and the m quantities.

Sorry, naysayers, but I'm naysaying it in the opposite direction and I ain't takin' it back.  Be realistic, not just another "if it bleeds it leads" dupe, just like the majority of anti-gunners are. 

Terry, 230RN

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