Goalposts On Wheels
All talk of achieving herd immunity re Covid has evaporated – now, every single individual is supposed to be vaccinated. Dire consequences are threatened for any dissenters. This, & the…
Honour Among Thieves
As politicians intensify the push to make Covid vaccine mandatory (sometimes by resorting to lies), our pliant punditocracy merely parrots their statements instead of correcting them. One wonders why the…
Our New Untouchables
Discrimination & banishment have deep roots in human nature. The push to make a vaxx passport mandatory ignores the fact that such a policy would create a new caste of…
The Sinister Art Of Subjugation
Initially, totalitarianism gains acceptance by recruiting people on grounds of lofty-sounding ideals, and using them to suppress dissenting opinions. What these recruits don’t realize is that they are also the…
Consequences Be Damned
(Image Credit: ‘Uprooted Tree From Storm Sandy’ on Flickr Account ‘Arlington County; the image is at this link. Used without modification under Creative Commons Licence) The debate around ‘vaccination passports’…
Why Vaccine ‘Passports’ Are a Bad Idea
As the push by media & officialdom gathers momentum to have some form of documentation in place for a person’s vaccination status, it becomes incumbent on us to ponder as…
Greener Pastures
It is human nature to fantasize about living in a Utopia. It is also the result of human nature that all attempts to achieve this dream not only fail, but…
Well-meaning Villains
Many atrocities were inflicted on the FN by people who were convinced that they were doing beneficial work. In similar vein, today’s self-proclaimed ‘allies’ of FN only end up creating…
Why Math Is Not Racist
The maniacal zeal required to foist the ideas about racism and oppression on a neutral subject like math necessarily ignores the history of its development. Equally inevitably, it also poisons…
Heads, I win
The proposal to allow biz to check the vaccination status of customers in order to decide whether to serve them is in true totalitarian mode: it ignores the realities on…