Question 2

 

                                   Questions #2

The Russians were blocked from the Olympics for egregious drug violations. Now, how exactly is the ROC different from Russia?

There is a movement to change "Pregnant Mother" to "Birthing Person." What inequality does that change solve?

We now have a gold medal, a silver, and two bronze. Why is that? Inclusion? The guy who came in fifth probably feels bad too. What about gold, two silvers, and one bronze. Or two golds and two silvers. Then maybe bronze for fifth. Or maybe fifth and sixth. Or...

With all the anxieties of past errors, cruelty, and plain bad behavior being raised to disqualify those offending nations from contemporary honors, how about Japan's staggeringly appalling behavior in WW11?  Unit 731? (https://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2016/04/unit-731.html). Or their well-chronicled inhuman savagery whose documentation in The Rape of Nanking drove its author mad? But peanuts compared to Russia and China--so they can have the Olympics, too?

The Pirate's TV promotion, when a Pirate pitcher is introduced, is the Pennsylvania Lottery. Can you believe it?

In the semi-brilliant Asian zombie film, "Kingdom," with a truly great comic scene, a corrupt band artificially keeps the crazed, dead king alive to maintain their power and influence. A metaphor for our time?

At the Olympics in Rio, the three main medal winners were the U.S., the Chinese, and Great Britain. The three gold medal winners were the same. So, how is it possible that a small island country could compete with those two giants? And, on the other hand, how could the Brits have lost in rugby to Fiji? Fiji!

"Fast & Furious 9" — the latest in the Hollywood franchise — appeared to be doing well in China at the beginning of June. The film had taken in $155 million at the box office in China since it opened on May 21. 

In his interview with TVBS, a Taiwanese cable channel, actor in the movie John Cena said Taiwan would be the first "country" to be able to see the film. That led to an uproar in China, which considers the self-governing democracy its own territory to be taken back by force if necessary. Did the free-speaking Cena back down because of the economic risk to the movie? Did an independent actor put money before principle? Did the virtuous artist step back?

So there are Olympic events in women's boxing and wrestling. And the shotput. Am I the only guy who thinks there is a lot of gender appropriation going on here?

A lot of people are not taking the vaccine. They have a lot of different reasons. Is it really a political question? The only political criticism about the vaccine came early from the Dems and anti-Trumpers who said they would not trust a Trump vaccine. This is actually well documented prior to the election as they tried to diminish 'Trump's' accomplishments and influence the vote.
But declining such therapy is not new. When the U.S. decided to attack Iraq, there was some anxiety about germ warfare in response, perhaps from the people-loving Russians' Biopreparate program which hoped to build bioweapons using a base of smallpox linked to Ebola. The Feds assigned 500,000 vaccines for physicians on the interface of that possible disaster--ER, ICU, and the like. Only 38,000 vaccines were used--this by medical people. What is the political explanation for that?

BTW, "Only about half of Americans say they would definitely or probably get a vaccine if it were available to them today, according to a poll released by the Pew Research Center this past week." AP Sept. 2020.

Almost half of the whites in New York City are fully vaccinated, compared to a third of blacks and just under 45 percent of Hispanics. So, if N.Y. bars non -vaccinated people from public places, that means that black New Yorkers will be barred from public accommodations at a far higher rate than will white New Yorkers. Does that mean the policy is discriminatory against Blacks or just against unvaccinated people?

According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Project Public Data Hub, as of August 5th, 15.85 percent of all hospital beds in Florida for inpatients remain unoccupied, and 11.32 percent of ICU beds remain unoccupied. So is there a difference between a diagnosis and a disease?

On Thursday, Amanda Pritchard, the new NHS chief executive, claimed that a fifth of Covid hospital cases in England were young people.
Ms. Pritchard told the BBC about 1,000 young adults were "really unwell" in hospital, adding that the number being admitted was four times higher than at the peak last winter.

However, because of the vaccination success in the elderly, older patient admissions have dropped dramatically, artificially raising the percentage of the proportion of young people. The number of young people admitted was actually the same as last winter, but Ms. Pritchard did not say that. That is not an easy mistake for a scientific person. Wonder why?