Just Something To Think About

 One of the determined and absolute groups in existence in America....on regulation and must-do attitudes...is the medical profession.  As much as you'd like to rate computer geeks and engineers at the top of the repeat-behavior professions...the med folks rank higher.

So then you ask the stupid question if all of this hygiene and repeatable behavior has accomplished anything much in preventing medical folks from getting Covid-19?  

Well....no.

If their well-regulated and repeated sense doesn't work, then you might want to stand back and admire this landscape.  It means whatever governors or mayors cook up....has more or less little affect on the spread of the virus.  

This Idea of Bush, Obama and Clinton Getting Vaccinated on TV?

 This started up here in the AM today....Bush, Clinton, and Obama....all going to some camera situation where the three would get vaccinated with the Covid-19 'magic-juice'.

I sat there and imagined this scene.

It'd be live, and probably carried by CNN, Fox, and the big three networks.  

Probably behind them....twenty-odd Hollywood stars, five or six NFL/NBA stars, and maybe even the last ten Miss America winners.

But somewhere in the midst of this live gimmick show....Bill Clinton (74 years old) gets some dose and something wild starts to happen, and Bill flip over on the carpet, with six medics all rushing up.  Some type of crazy reaction with something in Bill's bloodstream.  

Fourteen million folks watching this, and the CNN guy trying to explain this....then cutting to some commercial.  In a matter of three minutes....the bulk of Americans decide that the vaccine might not be for them.  

The truth of the matter....with Bill and all that crazy drug business in the 1980s/1990s....it was simply a reaction that you could not predict with the stupid vaccine testing program.  Who would have thought....maybe you ought to test serious cocaine users from 30 years years ago?  

Here's the thing....thirty years ago, this gimmick type of show made a difference. Today, with skeptical nature maxing out, the 'show' doesn't sell well.   

What's It Means If You Are a Progressive?

(This is my definition)

Generally, ordinary people are supposed to be 'lifted-up', and brought to a better place in life (even if they don't want to go to your place, and would prefer you not to lift them).

Somehow in this vision....you can see some 'enchanted' place where life is better and you know the path to reach it.  You are going from a uncivilized society (in your vision) to a civilized society.

How do you go from 'A' to 'B'?  Well, you use technology, economic development, various organizations (some are created out of thin air), science, and general BULLSHIT chatter (propaganda or just plain lies).  

Somewhere in this discussion, there is always some form of inequality.  It might be financial, racial, status, job opportunity, political in nature, sexual, or even religious/faith situations.

In simple terms, if you go back to the 1700s and view all of the progressive attempts in societies across the US and Europe....it was always two steps forward, and one step back.  Most people came to view progressive changes as necessary, and then wake up months or years later to grasp that it was a success/failure formula. 

Selling it in today's atmosphere?  As long as you believe that you fall into a inequality 'pit', and you need someone to 'lift' you out....then you are for progressive resolutions.  If you aren't identifying as a loser in this mess....then you probably aren't pro-progressive.  

The fact that most all acts of progressive 'repairs' cost something?  Well...this is the tough pill to swallow.  There's a price-tag on each repair and you might want to ask about this ahead of time.  

Selling progressive resolutions to skeptical people?  It doesn't work.  This is the chief weakness of the concept, and you can't get past this point. 

As for the current trend to run it's path and be stopped at some key point?  More than likely, but it's always a twist of 'entertainment' and frankly....all that progressive stuff from the 1970s/1980s....have stalled out.  We need fresh fake stuff to entertain ourselves today.  

Newest Big-Priced Toy?

 I sat and read through a sales brochure that I got this week....the big-ticket item?

A Lego set over the Hogwarts Castle from Harry Potter.  Price?  341 Euro or $413 (with tax included in the price).

Something for a kid?  I kinda doubt it.

It's the kind of thing that you'd give to some geeky 18-year old kid.

I should note here....the Disney Castle is also being sold via Lego....same price. 

Who would buy it?  Probably an engineer who wants attention and brings it to the office to sit on backside of his work-bench.