{"id":79320,"date":"2021-08-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79320"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:18:24","slug":"towards-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79320","title":{"rendered":"Towards Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: Mitch BERG is sitting on his bike, waiting at a stoplight on northbound Hamline at County Road B. As he’s fishing his water bottle out of its holder, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, riding an absurdly complex-looking recumbent bike, riding up from behind. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Merg! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Aaaaah, sssshhhhhhure is a nice morning…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: We need to deny healthcare to those who don’t get vaccines, so that the care goes to the more deserving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: You support single-payer healthcare, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Yes. It’s the only moral choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Huh. So – were you one of those those guy…er, gal…er, people who say “healthcare is a right”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Absolutely! It is a human right, same as voting and housing and food!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Uh…OK. So – healthcare is a right – but rights can’t be legitimately <\/em>taken away for anything but criminal behavior, and then only via some sort of due process. So – maintaining agency over one’s own body is criminal behavior?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Yes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: A future, hypothetical, ultra-pro-life administration will be glad to hear that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Yeah…hey….<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: And since you called single-payer a moral choice – what’s moral about removing a person’s ability to say “Hey, I made a mistake, Vitamin D alone isn’t enough to counter my obesity and diabetes, where can I get some help, here?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: It’s too late! Hahahahahahahaha! Stupid Trumpkins!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Speaking of that – the two single biggest groups of voluntarily-unvaccinated are…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Stupid Trumpies and ultra-stupid Trumpies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Well, no. People under thirty, and black males from 20-40. Young people because the messaging is so schizophrenic, and black males because the messaging is schjizophrenic and because of the medical industry’s history of using blacks as human test animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIBRELLE: Oh, we’ve got people whose job that is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Light turns green. LIBRELLE abruptly accelerates away<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Of course you do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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