Dear Hostage-Takers – And Hostages

To: Mayors Carter and Frey
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Your Hostages

Mayors,

You just announced your new and, if I may be frank, moronic Covid restrictions:

Let’s make sure we’re clear here.

I had the OG Covid, way back in 2020. Back before it got easy to catch and less virulent.

I’ve donated convalescent plasma. As much as I could, in fact.

Got vaccinated – not out of any ideological drive, but because I’ve got some exceptionally vulnerable relatives.

Pretty sure I just got over Omicron.

I’ve been contributing to herd immunity since most of you, my “Karen” neighbors, were hiding in your basement and dunking your food in rubbing alcohol before eating it. I am likely the immunologically safest person you will meet anytime soon.

And I will not be spending one dollar in Minneapolis or Saint Paul until this is over. And if I get completely out of the habit of spending in Saint Paul?

Oh, no.

Bear in mind – I’ve been trying to spend more money in harried Saint Paul establishments over the past 20 months; I’ve tried to help my neighbors out.

No more. You people voted for these hamsters. You all can go down with the ship.

Not another dime.

12 thoughts on “Dear Hostage-Takers – And Hostages

  1. That’ll stop covid dead in its tracks!
    The “public health expert” who advised Frey to institute the vax passport scheme issued a very qualified statement saying that she hoped it would lower covid transmission. She cited no research to back up her position, or any metric that would be used to see if her advice was working, which is typical of people like astrologers, Oak Island treasure hunters, and medical charlatans. Frey himself kind of shrugged his shoulders and said that he felt that he had to do something.

  2. Seems reminiscent when all the bars and restaurants were forced to close, except the airport because the Chinese Flu stayed out of there. Casinos, as well.

    Even the NCAA has finally acknowledged natural immunity. It only took 20 months, but being the optimist I am, better late than never, right?

  3. I saw a Twitter thread admonishing the mayors for doing this, pointing out the damage to already-struggling businesses. One of the Karen’s replies was predictable: “Can’t open your restaurant if you and your staff are sick, hospitalized, or dead.”

    The same thought process defended the smoking ban in Hennepin County drinking and dining establishments while I still lived there. The anti-smoking harpies first predicted that business would boom, as all the smoking-averse people would patronize the establishments now that the air was clear. When tax revenues showed a trend in the opposite direction, they switched to promoting the health of all the wait staff who might die of lung cancer decades in the future. Curious if they took a poll then of wait staff who preferred unemployment and possible homelessness and starvation in the short term over possible lung cancer in the long-term?

    Doubt it, and doubt the would-be-do-gooders are interested in polling the proles this time around either.

  4. Gov candidate Dr. Scott Jensen had the correct tweet. You don’t need an ID to vote in Minneapolis but you do to buy a cup of coffee.

  5. Black folks have the lowest vaccination rate of any demographic, sooooooo…..could this mandate be classified under “The New Jim Crow”?

  6. Hmmm. Two friends of mine met me at Brit’s last week. We noticed that the tax on alcoholic beverages was 14.63%. Once people start protesting by spending their money in the burbs, this totalitarian bull crap should stop. Wait. What am I thinking?

  7. Boss, once people start “protesting”, Cities will incorporate the burbs and jack the tax to 17.38%. Wanna bet?

  8. Wait, I need more reasons not to buy meals in the Twin Cities? I guess I have them now. Seriously, the huge rise in crime rates there is sufficient for me, and I’ve already gotten going by buying some new pepper spray. Needing a vaccine passport to go out to eat when the current vaccines don’t do much to stop the major variant is just….asinine, to put it very politely.

  9. We were talking about this at work today. Trying to figure out the whys. The unvaccinated are more a threat to themselves than anyone else, especially if they have any increased risk factors. It is obvious with low staffing levels everywhere that there aren’t resources to enforce this. The Police and Firefighters unions successfully fought against a vaccine mandate for police and firefighters. So, it is just empty words to the base, but probably also related to the US Men’s soccer game against Hondurus at Allianz Field in February. Did the Olympic committee request it? Did the mayors want to show off to the national media? Who knows. But, doubt it will change much in the long run. And would bet for Minneapolis it goes away shortly after (St Paul already set their policy at 40 days).

  10. The unvaccinated are more a threat to themselves than anyone else, especially if they have any increased risk factors.

    Really?

    The latest data from the British government shows a disturbing trend among the “fully vaccinated,” who are very clearly dying at a significantly higher rate than the unvaccinated. According to the figures, there are 286 percent more deaths occurring now among people who got jabbed for the Wuhan Flu

    Heh…

  11. With the Supreme Court overruling a vaccination mandate, the Minneapolis and St. Paul restaurants and businesses now face the conundrum that customers must be vaxed, but the servers may not be. Will the mayors double-down, or do an Emily Litella?

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