Re: OT: personal stories

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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Yes, not to perpetuate the system is one of my reasons for not
voting. It is funny, when I was young, I was very conservative. And as
the years have passed, I've become more libertarian. My father, when
he was young, was a communist, and during his life, he becase a
moderate conservative.

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I can say the same.  I was quite more leftist years ago.  It is very
sensible: if people need protection, say, it makes perfect sense that
we'd use our resources to protect them.  But then, with more experience,
you realize how non-trivial the situation is and that all of the
/sensible/ policy actually ends up working against itself.

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Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or do not think
about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at the
immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their immediate,
knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(

Quite right.  And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.

  Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''
  Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.

Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and
are leftists due to political power gains.

And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and
confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so
than in others.

But I found a company that did saliva-based tests, and I called a
doctor who watched me perform the saliva based tests on the phone,
and eventually she was so tired of the process that she said, what
ever... write your own certificate, slap my name and signature on
it, and just email me if you travel so I know.
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So for 1 years, that's what I did. =D

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Lol.  She got tired. :)

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Yep! But the did also not like the vaccine, and let me in on a little
secret.  About 30% of her clinics staff were not vaccinated because
they thought the tests were too few and it was too early. Officially
all said they were, and no one spoke about it out of fear of getting
kicked out of the clinic, but in private, during hushed lunch
conversations, many admitted to not getting vaccinated.

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Very interesting.  I have a similar experience.  Every now and then I
hear from someone that they did not take any vaccine, or took one the
first shots, giving up afterwards.  Some (sadly) remark that they took a
first shot (or a few shots) but they never wanted to.  I have a very
close friend, for instance, who said she wouldn't take anything at all,
but that her son unfortunately took because he wanted to go to the
cinema.  (I almost couldn't believe what I heard.)  Another friend
remarked that she took three shots because she couldn't find a way out
due to her work---but she works in the same organization as I do.  The
rules were the same for the two of us, so that's a case of unclear
understanding of the rules.  That's something I've been telling my
family for many years.  We need to understand how the system works---in
this case, what was available at our work place that we could use to
protect ourselves?  The more we understand, the better we can protect
ourselves.

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I heard about a woman who was kicked out of blue shield due to not taking
vaccines. She won a law suit and got millions in damages! =D There is hope!

We should check whether she really got the money.  Getting a lawsuit
your way doesn't imply an increase in the checking account balance
(until later).