Sadly, of course, the pages of Colorado Politics are understandably saturated with stories about the mass murder here in Colorado Springs this week. Even as an even more deadly mass shooting in a Virginia Walmart knocked our shooting off the national front pages, for local and state news, our horrific crime remains fresh and appalling.
But there is other news out there, and perhaps as you are munching on leftover turkey (the key is jellied cranberry sauce on everything except the green beans), your eyes might be drawn to other newsworthy items.
In my case, I noticed a story, yet again, about a couple of military guys who don’t want to get the COVID shots and are taking their claim to court (where they will lose). Both are making the usual and false claims about the vaccine, such as it being “DNA altering,” and “ineffective,” despite both claims being demonstrably false. Oh, and they claim that the shot will cause an “extremely high likelihood of injury or death.” Unless they are talking about the tiny hole the needle leaves behind, more nonsense. One might wonder where these troops are getting their bogus information, but frankly, we know, even if we can’t say exactly on which far-right website they did their “research.”
Over my more than 25 years on active duty, I stuck out my arm for quite a few mandatory inoculations. I remember flu shots administered on a mass basis with a fancy air gun that shot the fluids into your bicep without the need of a needle. Happily, those...
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