But are they pro life?
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To the same extent that the 6 Supremes who are about to overturn Roe are, given they just ruled against another death row inmate.
Very odd pro-life definitions they have, where zygotes have more rights than born humans.
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Shasta County’s economy is built on resource removal such as forestry or farming, which requires surprisingly large amounts of groundwater removal. With the shift to a telecommuting economy, it may well be than its economic future is based on university educated persons which is probably only more threatening to the traditional dominion-and-control crowd. Relatively speaking, Shasta County is above both the national and state average in terms of its schools, employment and quality of life. Now if they could only learn to spell “sheriff”.
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They seem to be pro Covid 19. Why are public health measures to save lives tyranny?
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If corporations can be people, too, my friend, surely viruses deserve a spot at the table.
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Must be in Article XII.
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The same anti-masking crowd was around in the 1918 flu pandemic. Pandemic is a big word, pan means everywhere and demic means people, i.e. a communicable disease that is everywhere and affects all people. Even Shasta County. Such snowflakes, believing they are special.
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And to add on to this line of reasoning and action, I just read the following:
The centrists and the left now need to up their game as a confrontation is coming. This is insanity. We assume that others have the ability to rationally think, identify the basis for a problem, and then resolve the issue within the bounds of normal, respectful actions. The right, and the Republican Party, apparently no longer believe this to be the case. Now is the time for every politician to be asked whether they are more interested in keeping their job or in doing their job and preserving and advancing the best interests of this country. Seriously, too many idiots will be running around with lethal weapons. Enough.
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If only evolution were that efficient…
More probably, enough people will get the vaccine (or survive after contracting the disease) to create a close enough approximation to herd immunity that COVID becomes a background issue. Those who stood their ground and flaunted policy will claim they were right all along (because they didn’t die) and we’ll go through all this again the next time somebody, somewhere eats the wrong anteater.
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Good analysis in the WaPo yesterday to the effect that cases, hospitalizations and deaths amongst the unvaccinated are running at the same rates as at the height back in January.
Which is doubly alarming (or should be) for the unvaccinated as we’ve largely removed the most vulnerable elderly from the equation, so that means death rates and serious outcomes are skewing to younger and younger folks.
Covid ain’t no joke, and some people are going to be quite unpleasantly surprised.
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I agree that the framing needs to change. Using violence and intimidation to achieve a political end is terrorism, and it needs to be called just that. Culturally we are conditioned to believe that terrorists are just those people in other countries, but we’ve been seeing terror threats for years now. These things need to be called out for what they are. School shootings are terrorism. Death threats are terrorism. Threatening violence to get your way is terrorism. Let’s call it what it is, and prepare ourselves for the inevitable whining from the right. Be ready for those who compare mask mandates to the Holocaust to complain that having to abide by a lawful election result is terrorism.
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All this reminds me of the movie Pleasantville, but on steroids.
And there’s the picture with this article, did this right wing member of Zapata’s group get kicked out of the CA company of the Village People?
Also Red, White and Blueprint seems to be the Right’s answer to Indivisible Project. From their website:
Your local elected officials have more “say” than you think, and could be standing in the way of your rights. We are tired of being misrepresented by these leaders who don’t fight for our values. Join us and we will guide you through a process that will ultimately give you and your fellow citizens control over your lives and your community. Watch as we journey through one of the darkest moments in our Nation’s history and fight to preserve what is ours, using the Constitution as our guide to restore our liberties and to return our country to it’s rightful place as the shining city on the hill. This is a battle between good and evil.
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Yes, but then they’re more for the “Right life” once born. No coloring outside the lines, none of those
can’t we all just get along", It’s pretty much “my way or the highway”, and “stop crying, or I’ll give you something to cry about”.
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Hahahahahaha!!!
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“This is a warning for what’s coming,” he told the board. “It’s not going to be peaceful much longer.”
“I’ve been in combat,” Zapata added. “And I never wanted to go back again, but I’m telling you what, I will to save this country. If it has to be against our own citizens, it will happen, and there’s a million people like me, and you won’t stop us. Open the county!”
Your reluctance to threaten violence and your restraint are a great example to us all. Thanks for not killing anyone without warning them first.
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I live 60 miles north of Redding, the Shasta County seat, which has been over run by the Bethel Church and its Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. Many of the County employees belong to this church. They gave the police $500,000 a few years ago to cover a budget shortfall. The city gave the church a no bid contract to run the city auditorium so that they could use it for their “Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry”; a school that teaches students how to heal thru prayer. Fun fact: a few of those students camped on a cliff, one fell, his friends spent the night praying over his body rather than calling for help. It has always been a conservative County, but now it’s worse. The mask wearing compliance in businesses is about 50%. Funny thing is, right now California has the lowest rate of COVID infection in the country (3/100,000), but Shasta County (and Siskiyou County where I live) have some of the highest rates in the state, as well as some of the lowest rates of vaccination. So everyone else is doing the heavy lifting to get us out of this pandemic, while these clowns strut around and complain.
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In order for this to be true, they almost have to be actively flaunting every safeguard against airborne infection that exists. I mean, at this point, with half of the adults vaccinated, you have got to be trying to achieve these kind of results.
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And those are felonies. Domestic terrorists like Zapata (I hate that he shares that name) need to be investigated, indicted, convicted, and sent away for a very long time.
The public discourse must be free of this BS.
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The new analysis, pretty much the same as the old analysis, is that Covid will continue to affect those who still follow their concept of Trumpian guidance. It is a curious statistic that 99.7% of hospitalized Covid patients are unvaccinated. To be one of the 0.03% in that situation probably does not speak to one’s willful ignorance.
But of the majority: they collectively think that masks do not work, the virus is fake, and the vaccines are moot. As we stay on this steady course, more of these mentally frail and logically impaired people will populate the rosters of Covid sick and dead. There is a book from 1859 that explains how adaptability confers survival. But to these people, that book and its lessons are just a work of fiction -but that wanders astray of my point.
It looks likely that the lunatic fringe of Shasta County are their own worst enemy.
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