I just convinced a lady I know to get vaccinated. We'd talked about this before and she was not an anti-vaxxer, though some of her friends are. She just hadn't gotten around to deciding if her pro-vaxx friends were right or her anti-vaxx friends, most notably one from the latter group who seems to have incontrovertible proof that hundreds of thousands of people have died soon after receiving one of the three popular vaccines.
You may not have heard about these hundreds of thousands of people because various sinister forces have done a great job of keeping it quiet. But you can't fool this friend of hers. He would know. He fixes mufflers for a living.
Actually, I'm taking credit I don't fully deserve for her decision. It was me but more effectively, it was all the places she now can't get into without showing proof of vaccination or a very recent test. These include concerts she might like to attend, restaurants she might like to patronize, the place where she works and her folks' home for Thanksgiving. She's not afraid of COVID. She's afraid of exclusion and I don't get it but, hey, if it works…
I canceled my trial subscription to Paramount+ which I only got so I could watch the Tony Awards. I wonder how many people signed up for that reason and how many of us canceled. Now I have to contend with Apple TV so I can watch Jon Stewart's new show which starts tomorrow. Some of the advance publicity makes it sound like Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Jon Stewart but of course we shall see.
Early episodes of Mr. Stewart's tenure at The Daily Show have been popping up on YouTube and they remind me how this guy was good when he started and he just kept getting better and better.
Lastly for now: How amazing that we are no longer surprised, shocked, outraged or even that interested when a recount in Arizona confirms that Donald Trump lost that state in the 2020 Presidential Election…and he just goes out and tells everyone it proved that he won.