Essentia Health fires 69 employees over refusal to get flu shots

[Nevernose]

73. Im still willing to argue

Because I am, naturally and as always completely correct

My wife, however, says that I’m always jaded and cynical, especially to everyone involved in a medical malpractice lawsuit. More specifically, I’ve been informed that I am just exceptionally bitter and cranky tonight. She’s always right: that’s simultaneously the best and worst thing about marrying someone smarter than you.

I just keep looking at the news and thinking about how stupid people are trying to elect a pedophile so that he can help billionaires steal working people’s money, and even if you show proof of all of it they say “we have alternative facts.” Then I think about that psycho just down the street from me who decided to shoot 600 people with a machine gun, the panicked phone calls from friends and family who work in adjacent buildings, the calls from friends soaked in other people’s blood. Incindiary ammunition aimed at the jet fuel tanks.

Hundreds of lives taken or wrecked. I know people who just went inside their house after the first round of funerals, waited a week, and then made their families hurt twice as bad because they couldn’t live with the survivors guilt. More than a thousand people killed in America since then and no one’s done shit. The gun nuts are so good at repeating the script the NRA has spent forty years perfecting, so good that they muddy up the issue just enough to make even small, sensible gun safety reforms impossible.

So I get depressed and wrapped up and anxious and soon I’m arguing with strangers about the proper way to apply a cost/problem analysis to the solution of things like influenza vaccines and gun violence.

Tl;dr. I’m in a weird mental space tonight. Very funky, but not P-Funk funky. Furious and helpless there's nothing I can do.

So: sorry i wasted your time.