Whats your preferred method of rationing scarce resources?
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Yes, people were "nudged" to get vaccinated to by restricting travel and ability to work, aka denial of food and shelter, but not quite physical force yet.
However, I don't recall any civilized government using physical force to pin down their subjects and force-vaccinate them.
There are millions of people with primary (1 in 1000), some more acquired, and hundreds of millions of immunosuppressed globally. "not a single person" just sounds laughable in this context.
500,000,000 vs 1.
Is that science? or is it hysteria?
even if the vaccine is medically inappropriate, or even contraindicated for millions? the comatose on life support? mandates it for foreign travellers in transit who got stuck in your country? mandates for the foreign diplomatic staff? mandates for military, which has their own medical corps and medical decision-making?
What is all?
seems that guarantees weren't worth the paper written on, in the first place, but everyone keeps on talking about them as if they were ironclad somehow.
The sad truth is there was no real guarantees at all, just an empty promise to make it politically feasible for the Ukrainian politicians to sign.
"Regardless, the United States publicly maintains that "the Memorandum is not legally binding", calling it a "political commitment"."[0]
"not legally binding", below.
"Media Statement by the U.S. Embassy in Minsk April 12, 2013 Repeated assertions by the government of Belarus that U.S. sanctions violate the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances are unfounded. Although the Memorandum is not legally binding, we take these political commitments seriously and do not believe any U.S. sanctions, whether imposed because of human rights or non-proliferation concerns, are inconsistent with our commitments to Belarus under the Memorandum or undermine them. Rather, sanctions are aimed at securing the human rights of Belarusians and combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other illicit activities, not at gaining any advantage for the United States."[1]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20140419030507/http://minsk.usem...
when is it simply hypocrisy?
hard questions.
The inactivated vaccine, which is the actual well established old tech, seems to have worked just as well, or just as poorly, depending on how you percieve the vaccine efficacy.
India used mostly the inactivated vaccine, where nearly a billion people have been vaccinated with it. Apparently, that's just not good enough for several western countries that demand you MUST get an mRNA shot, despite being fully vaccinated by inactivated vaccines that were accepted as effective by the WHO. Clearly purely scientific decisions. /s
It gets even better. Licensed Astrazeneca vaccine that was made in India is not accepted by the EU, only the UK version that's sold under a different label. duh, this is obviously The Science. /s
Most of pharma in the world is manufactured in India, btw. Usually good enough, but for some reason not in a critical emergency such as a pandemic.
Why is that?
That only seems like a miracle because you need to do more research into what Crimea actually is.
Crimea was never actually part of Ukraine, only a paper "gift" to Ukranian SSR way back when, negligible amounts of ethnic Ukrainians live there. Nearly the entire jurisdiction is employed supporting the mostly russian tourist industry, or actual russian military, their Black Sea fleet.
There were simply no other outcomes possible. It was a defacto Russian territory, with a token Ukranian security force against an entire Russian Black Sea fleet, and tens of thousands sailors and marines. It seems that even Ukraine itself didn't wholeheartedly consider Crimea it's own territory, essentially no resistance whatsoever.
Given the amount of covid alarmism even now, I'm not so sure. There are people out there protesting to re-instate mask mandates.
People like being governed. Life is hard on your own.
I'm hopeful better policing can be designed.
The core issue is they are paid your tax dollars, but you have very little input or control on what and how they do, and municipalities in general rely on the fact that moving away is high friction to retain citizens.
Unfortunately you cannot easily fire them, if they underperform.
Some people propose having a very local, municipal for small towns, or even smaller for large towns, mercenary force with license to use lethal force that answers to direct democracy of the area they are assigned to and nobody else.
Just like police, only their contract is reviewed every year, for everyone in the force.
some issues can be recovered from completely, some are permanent.
So yes, there is no guarantees.
In some people it can trigger an autoimmune disease as well, that's also for life.
Something tells me they'd simply decide to have an active investigation on everyone from birth to death and simply decline all requests due to "ongoing investigation".
Weird.
It's well past the point of no return. Law failed as an institution.
Worse, they are being produced as such a rate no human can keep up.
Law failed.
The US Army shipped 12 _BILLION_ dollar in cash, multiple cargo flights to Iraq filled with pallets of nice fresh stacks of cash.
but they care to avoid dollarizing conquered countries? LOL.
They just want control over soldiers finances, so that there are no black markets, no soldiers buying drugs and paying hookers, becoming targets for petty crime, or selling weapons/ammo/info.
Dollarization of other nations is in the US national interest, read up some congressional transcripts.
Humans can get IVF. We can even do in-vitro gametogenesis.
What happens to all the wildlife that's being poisoned by plastics?
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