“Protection“

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

I was all set to buy tickets to see “A Christmas Carol” at the Guthrie this December. Oops, not going. Mask plus vaccine required.

Well, there’s about three hundred bucks back in my pocket. Too bad about the actors, stage hands, musicians, restaurant staff, bartenders and parking lot attendants who won’t be getting paid from my ticket price. Maybe some big corporate donors will pony up to take care of all the little people who are being protected into the poorhouse?

Joe Doakes

See how bad the state fair is doing this year? I’m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and say the people saying home from the fair are largely “Karens“ from the metro area (domestic Karen’s, not the ones from Southeast Asia)

At least the fair caters to some people from out of state. The Guthrie is largely in Metro Orleans, which these days means largely a audience of Karens.

Whatever the feelings, or economics, of all of the Guthries workers, the Guthrie is definitely playing to its primary market.

The Guthrie will find donors to get by. Of course, those donations will be money that won’t go to some other place that direly needs it as well.

73 thoughts on ““Protection“

  1. Ha! My son and his fiancé are coming in from Denver tonight. They were going to go to the fair tomorrow, but decided against it, because of “all of the unmasked, unvaccinated idiots that will be there”. Even though neither of them is at risk for WuFlu, they still are true believers, just like my wife and her side of the family.

  2. Joe, I am with you. I am not going to an event where I am required to mask and be vaccinated. Despite the fact that I am vaccinated which I did so I could see my mother who is cooped up in memory care. But then the memory care institution shuts down visiting for 10 days every time a laundry worker gets covid. So my plan failed. Now they’ll likely tell me I need a booster. What a scam.

    Went to the fair with family. It was less crowded than usual. Wonderful people there, everyone thoroughly enjoying themselves. It is the great MN get together and great Minnesotans were there. Those who choose not to go. God bless them, they were happier, we were happier.

  3. So the same people who believe that getting the vax is safe and effective also believe that hanging a hanky over your breathing holes stops you from inhaling or exhaling a 50 nanometer virus?

  4. I’m sure that the MNDFL booth was surrounded by drooling sycophants, wearing their masks and rolling up their sleeves to show where they got their jabs.

  5. the people saying home from the fair are largely “Karens“ from the metro area

    They’re busy getting chain link fences installed around their property to keep out the mosquitoes.

  6. Joe: Guthrie Theater vastly overpriced and overrated. Be thankful they are excluding you. I wonder if performers will be masked?
    State Fair us wonderful. Shorter lines, a few mask zombies stumbling around. DFL booth nearly empty. Scott Jensen has a booth. Liberty booth gives one a chance to win a Dump Walz T shirt.

  7. golfdoc;
    Glad you had fun. Sounds like this would have been a good year to go, but, as much as I want to support the small businesses that sell there, I can’t justify paying the entrance fee. Besides, I’d probably get arrested for heckling the morons at the DFL booth.

  8. So, if your mask has actually worked — that is, it has captured some amount of covid that could infect you — what should done with it?
    Stuff it in your pocket when you get in a car? Toss it on your counter top when you return from shopping? Touch it or adjust it without washing you hands immediately afterwards?
    Believe it or not, I know people who have handled this hazardous biological material just this way.
    It is a wonder that anyone has survived the last 18 months.

  9. The Guthrie website says mask-and-vaccination, it doesn’t say mask-and-negative-test, which is what my employer is contemplating.

    How will they know if I’ve been vaccinated? My say-so? Flash a vaccine card issued to somebody (how do they know it’s me)? Demand vaccine cards at the door and match them to photo ID and then to the name on the tickets? But Black people cannot obtain photo ID – that’s why we can’t require photo ID for voting – GUTHRIE IS RACIST! What a virtue-signaling mess.

    In other news, I found a Covid testing place so I can keep my job. Costs $120 per weekly out-of-pocket test. Am I bullheaded enough to pay $500 per month to avoid getting the vaccine? Moving South is looking better every day.

  10. Hey emetic, you dropped a steamer yesterday about anti-vaxer violence. Turns out your link doesn’t have any video of violence. Why don’t you provide a link? Oh yeah, because it is an effing lie. Turd.

    Another question: you say that the abandoned Americans story is gaslighting. Answer one question tool: are there still Americans in Afghanistan?

    Yes or no? We know the answer.

  11. The Guthrie website says mask-and-vaccination, it doesn’t say mask-and-negative-test, which is what my employer is contemplating.

    I’ve been through the vale of very few tears that was the Kung flu and have paid to be tested for the antibodies which are present and now documented. The lack of acceptance or even interest in my antibodies from a legal or societal perspective is still more proof that the pandemic hysteria is nothing more than an authoritarian tool.

  12. Mask plus vaccine required.

    Let’s parse this shall we? If vax is required to enter, this means there will be no unvaxed people inside. Then why do you need the mask? Because science™! There was never, ever any scientific background, never mind logic, behind this insanity.

  13. And speaking of science™. My, my, my…

    Joe Biden made a big deal about always consulting the “science.” He vowed to follow the “experts.” He vowed to control COVID. But well, that promise was like all of Joe’s other promises: Totally phony. Two more leading health care regulators, genuine experts in their field, have resigned their long-held positions just as the flu and COVID season is upon us. Their exit follows high-profile resignations at the Centers for Disease Control — Nancy Messonnier and Anne Schuchat. Word is out that these professionals don’t like being issued orders about what the ‘science’ is from the White House before they can make their determinations

  14. There was a shooting at a high school in North Carolina this morning, but you won’t hear about it on NPR or CNN….

    …because it was blacks shooting at blacks.

  15. Nancy Messonnier was the first person at CDC to declare Covid was a catastrophe (back when everyone else was saying wash your hands and bump elbows). That set off a media firestorm (“Trump isn’t doing anything to save us”) which gave Democrats the excuse to promote mail-in ballots, the least secure form of voting, so they could steal the election from Trump.

    She is the sister of Rod Rosenstein,who was Deputy Attorney General when the Russian Dossier fiasco blew up in the media causing AG Jeff Sessions to recuse himself so Rosenstein could appoint Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump for Russian Collusion.

    Odd how the people stabbing Trump in the back were such a small interconnected group.

  16. JD,
    As we have seen over the years, the DemoCommie cabal is one big crime family. I’m wondering if Joey Demento is the Big Guy or if that’s just in the Biden family.

  17. BH
    Slow Joe is the Phillip Tattaglia analogue – he’s a pimp, its all he’s done all his life.

  18. jdm wrote: “The lack of acceptance or even interest in my antibodies from a legal or societal perspective is still more proof that the pandemic hysteria is nothing more than an authoritarian tool.”

    Looks like you found some information the world’s top scientists and doctors missed.

    Don’t let these “doctors” with their “educations” and “knowledge” tell you what to do. Eat horse paste. Drink fish tank cleaner. Fight the system!

  19. @JD — I want to know when Minnesota will make it legal to sue people for failing to get a vaccination. In a few years I’ll be suing everyone around me based on their vaccination status and waiting for the cash to roll in.

    Easy to imagine this Texas abortion law being used as a model for all sort of bills that don’t involve abortions. (Has there been any comment on this from, say, the gun rights community?)

  20. Man. Arrogant ignorance or malicious stupidity? Why not both?!?! You sure seem proud of being both.

  21. Kind of like a reverse greek play, the audience wears masks, the actors don’t.

  22. Per that noted right wing rag MSNBC:

    Hospitalizations are trending down in Florida.

    Lefties and trolls who are hoping for lots of deaths hardest hit.

  23. Yeah, weird that they don’t use a record of a positive covid test in place of a vax certificate.
    It’s almost like they don’t trust the covid test results.

  24. What is astounding is that no one seems to be running the CDC. They have had problems in basic competence since the beginning of the pandemic. They issued contaminaited covid tests, among other things.
    The NY Times wrote a long article on mistakes made by the CDC since the pandemic began (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-coronavirus.html), but there is a LOT of main stream media criticizing the CDC for being less than transparent and for giving out contradictory messages about covid.

    Who got fired? Who is pushing for top-to-bottom reform of the CDC?
    I can read many essays from think tanks setting out a course for reform of the CDC, but no one who could do anything about the CDC is pushing for reform.
    It is difficult to expalin to the vax hesitant why they should trust the advice of the CDC and that is the fault of the CDC.

  25. Gun control, MP, gun control. Now that the CDC has solved the Kung flu, they can continue their success to now take on guns. Well, except for those wielded by blacks in blue cities.

  26. Yeah, JDM, I thought about the CDC and the gun control issue. The sticky point is that “human health” can be made to mean almost anything. Should the CDC have the power to ban high fructose corn syrup? Or refined white flour? They are almost certainly contributing to the obesity problem. In the last year the CDC has banned foreclosures on the grounds that foreclosures increase the speed at which the pandemic spreads, which is a bit of a reach. The defense and offense of the CDC foreclosure ban has been entirely political.
    If a federal agency is to use its powers to enforce values, those values should be clearly stated and subject to oversight by congress. The Fed is like this, a few clearly expressed values and the way that they should be quantified.
    The other day I heard something on a podcast. It was about the mythical genies and their granting of wishes. The deeper story is that Allah gave the genies the power to do anything, to alter reality itself, but Allah wisely limited this power. The genies could never do what they wanted to do, they could not alter reality in the way that they wish, instead their powers were limited. They could only alter reality the way they had been commanded to by lesser beings with their wishes. They could grant wishes to mortal humans, they could not “wish” themselves.
    The hidden wisdom is that those who exercise great power should not, themselves, decide how that power is to be exercised.

  27. In a few years I’ll be suing everyone around me…

    No you won’t asshole; at least not more than once. You’d have to show up to court, and a man would beat your fucking ass.

    Stick to plagiarizing leftist twaddle anonymously…it’s safer.

  28. “@JD — I want to know when Minnesota will make it legal to sue people for failing to get a vaccination. In a few years I’ll be suing everyone around me based on their vaccination status and waiting for the cash to roll in. – E”

    Interesting. Right now, it wouldn’t work because only the state can prosecute crimes and actions between citizens require a demonstration that A caused B harm in the amount of C. What’s your harm if I’m not vaxxed and you don’t catch Covid from me, and how’s that worse than if I am vaxxed but have a breakthrough case which I spread to you? Tough to prove the amount.

    On the other hand, when Minnesota wanted a piece of the tobacco industry’s profits, they lost every case until the legislature changed the law to make it easier to win. The industry cut a deal to avoid spending eternity fighting the taxpayer subsidized lawsuits. I suppose they could do something similar on an individual basis by inventing a new cause of action, “exposing another to theoretical risk of harm,” perhaps with a presumptive amount of damages in every case.

    Good idea. Call your legislator. (What? I’m a lawyer, I need a retirement gig and this idea sounds like a goldmine. One-third off the top of every case . . . ).

  29. JD, a gig as a Walmart greeter is a good retirement gig. It don’t pay much, but you get to keep your honor.

  30. doctor, heh. Yes, I did think of that, but the article seemed to address a wide variety of existing and emerging global Kung flu narratives.

  31. Lots of interesting developments in Kung flu-world sounds like it’s a new trend (pay-wall-ish): The Covid vaccines may affect periods. Are we allowed to talk about this?

    Millions of British women have been jabbed, so 30,304 reports will be a tiny proportion: a negligible number, you might say. But it doesn’t seem negligible if you’re one of those women. I imagine many will keep a record of their cycle, perhaps in their diary or on an app, and will have noticed a change. In the US, one research survey tracking menstrual changes brought on by the Covid jabs received 140,000 responses. The two biological anthropologists conducting the research said they had expected to receive around 500 when they launched their survey.

    Looking forward to the “it’s all Trump’s fault” angle as the vaccines show themselves to be more dangerous than expected and less effective – the newest boogieman, the Lambda variant is unaffected by vaccines. We’re all gonna die.

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  33. You think Jim Crow laws were bad? Fuck, people will be pining for them good old days!

    Conservative author and commentator Candace Owens was denied medical care in the form of a coronavirus test by a Colorado laboratory because of her political beliefs, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson reported Thursday. Owens was sent a letter by Aspen Laboratories co-founder Suzanna Lee informing her that her “booking” was being cancelled and that she would be “denied service” because of both her aversion to governmental facemask mandates and her analysis of the effectiveness of vaccination shots.

  34. ^ But I thought Ms Owens said that racism doesn’t exist and neither does Covid, so she should be okay.

  35. Daily deaths to covid in the US are now the same as it was on March 4th, when just 16% of the US was vaxxed.
    Another failure of the Biden administration, along with record inflation and the collapse of America’s reputation abroad.
    Way to go, Democrats!

  36. Twat wrote — “JD, a gig as a Walmart greeter is a good retirement gig. It don’t pay much, but you get to keep your honor”

    Pretty clear why Twat doesn’t need sock puppets any more when he’s willing to just be that way openly all the time.

  37. It’s not a ‘gotcha’ unless it’s based on truth, which is why yours so often fail, E.

    Can’t make someone live up to their own book of rules by lying about the rules.

  38. Covid deaths up to levels Biden blamed on Trump last year, a hard fail in Afghanistan by Biden, worst inflation in decades. Also another miserable jobs report, and tanking approval rate.
    Gotta be hard to look in the mirror these days and tell yourself “I voted for Biden because I thought he would be a better president than Trump!”

  39. Great to see that the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.2%. President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, and the success of the vaccination program, has ensured that the United States is the only G7 country whose economy has returned to—and indeed exceeded—its pre-pandemic level.

    It’s a shame, however, that Republican State representatives and governors have egregiously mishandled the Delta wave, spreading conspiracies about the vaccine and opposing the use of masks. They are putting their states’ recoveries at risk.

  40. We’re in the midst of a once in a lifetime pandemic economic shock and recovery.

    It will inevitably involve a few bumps in the road. Just watch out for the SiTD doomsayers and Republican crackpots chanting that the “the sky is falling !….the sky is falling!”

    The extended unemployment benefits get cut off this Saturday. Let’s see if conservatives’ hypotheses about UI stopping people from taking jobs is correct.

  41. Given that you were wrong about the Brexit vote, wrong about the effects of Brexit on the British economy, wrong about Hillary winning over Trump in a landslide, wrong about the “Russian collusion” hoax, I guess I will take your predictions for what they are worth, which are predictions from a person who has a proven track record of failure.

  42. Ann Althouse notes a NY Times article on the best way to sleep at night has this as its 2nd most like comment:
    “I find that imagining I am going to wake in the morning and read in the NY Times that Trump is dead puts me to sleep immediately.”
    https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/09/i-find-that-imagining-i-am-going-to.html
    This is what obsessive insanity looks like.
    NY Times readers consider themselves the cream of the crop the most intelligent, and rational media consumers out there.
    You would find more reason in an Alabama meth factory.

  43. The thing that bothers me is the requirement to “prove” I’m vaccinated. I got it–yes I know there was some risk–after having gotten the disease as well, figuring I’d be less likely to get it or (more importantly) pass it on to others.

    And the Guthrie? Maybe, just maybe, if they want to have plays and audiences, they need to tell their performers “you know, if we get a bunch of us with COVID, we run through the understudies and nobody comes. So let’s get vaccinated.”

    Of course, it might help if they had something worth watching, but that’s another story. Regarding the “drain of resources” from other purposes, my wife & kids visited the MN Zoo, and thought it looked pretty bleak. So it may be starting already.

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