COVID Vaccine Update - by Moses

   So now we're aware that if you have the third shot of the vaccine (the booster) you have 75% coverage against contracting COVID, while you have only a 25% coverage against contracting the virus if you only have the two shots.  What this doesn't explain is this;  You have a 75% chance of contracting the COVID virus if you only have the two shots of the vaccine in you, but the likelihood of the virus turning into serious ailment is still very low (less than 5% of those infected with the first two shots).  Therefore, if you have the booster - the reports are that you have 75% coverage against contracting the virus which further reduces risk.  The problem I have with the current situation is that eventually everyone will contract the virus and in a sense become inoculated to the new weird, a day in which there are many strains of viral properties that will probably be treated by pharmaceutical properties in the near future (as vaccines really can't be used to treat every COVID variant with the precision of protection).

  What all this means in layman terms is that a pill will be available to the masses probably within two years.  This pill, taken once a week will offer the 98% coverage from contracting the virus that the medical community is concerned about for the current lack of coverage against current and new developing strains of the COVID.

Our City Employees - by Moses

      These guys are our fire fighters, police officers, sanitation operators, postal workers, and the list goes on and on.  How much does the average city worker make?  $26-27 Hour if you're a postal worker or sanitation worker for the city of Toronto.  As a fireman or a cop you'll see $33/Hour to start on the job.  Are the unions losing clout while inflation is on the rise? or, do workers still have rights in bringing to the table for the next collective bargaining agreement the concern of being low-balled in negotiation for minimum salary.  If it was attacked in this manner the minimum wage in each sect being discussed would go up by $8-9 Hour.  Would anyone really suffer in the least if the cop and fireman got $40/hour to start while the city sanitation workers get bumped up to $34/Hour?

  While it may be a luxury to have money the reality is that most unions today are forsaking and low-balling on salary issues for the vast majority, while 1000-2000 VP's see 20% increase in pay following the collective bargaining process - with the common worker seeing less than 5% wage increase.  This is what the Teachers Union in Canada has experienced in its' history.  The Board of Education see raises in excess of 15% and the teachers were lucky if they saw 4-5%.  It would stand to reason that the well off cannot put their needs ahead of the masses in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.  It should work both ways, and if that were the case we could have all our teachers, fire fighters, police officers, sanitation operators, postal workers, and management within each sect (including all the VP salaries) go up incrementally at the same rate.  At this point the average salary could be raised as high as $50/Hour in each of the aforementioned sects of employment at the sacrifice of an exec getting a fat bonus for being able to say he's more of an asset than the front-line people of the City of Toronto.  

  

The COVID Development - by Moses

   Now that there is another strain of more severity (Omicron) in the mix, flight restrictions are now in place.  This is seeming to be a long orchestrated effort by the World Health Organization and the U.S Military to close up shops and inflate the health care system to bring in money.   

  Wasn't it in 1994 when the movie 'Outbreak' came out and there was a concern that a disease could spread in an almost planet defeating manner.  Wasn't it in 1998 that the first case of SARS hit and researchers deduced then that this wasn't a global concern.  Weren't there two strains of the COVID that were SARS related that has surfaced.  I'm now remembering when I was a tot in 1977 and it used to get said that you should watch out for the COOTIES before washing your hands for dinner.  This is a seemingly long ordeal in the here and now that's being supported by the U.S Military, an exercise that has led to shops closing down because they can't support their businesses.  Of course Vaccine Suppliers, Pharmaceutical companies, Amazon, Walmart, and many other Corporation are feeding off this pandemic.  The small guy is being reduced and the well off are now holding more power as a result.  The American dream?   

Rittenhouse and the assailants in the Arbery Case - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

       One is a vigilante and the three in the Arbery killing were murderers.  Rittenhouse has the audacity to bring an assault weapon to a demonstration rally and pulls the trigger on three is symptomatic of the road America is heading towards.  When a case like this comes up the argument really should never have deflected from the root issue; bringing an assault weapon to a demonstration rally.  At this point we see the Arbery case and three men that hunted Arbery on the suburb streets he was in.  Will America choose to look at the innocence of plain and simply put murder?  When will clout be used to put these matters to rest?  If the Arbery case is dismissed may end up seeing vigilante acts is the way it played out.  A gross crime in the Rittenhouse case is what it turned into.  The argument of hunting on suburb streets because the guy is black, or the vigilante act of killing someone at a rally demonstration because YOU have an assault weapon and THEY don't.  Russian roulette some would say, what about American roulette is what I'd like to know.  Who is going to be punished as a result?