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Remember that young pilot I had who would not get vaccinated because her family didn’t want her to? She just threw off some of the Mennonite shackles and got a dose of Pfizer. But she got it a hundred miles away from home and is not telling anyone! I’m pretty sure that would not have happened if I had not “mandated” the vaccine for all our staff.

Many older people today are lamenting the loss of the America that they knew. They are not racist and will tell you that all day long. But still, the days where black people knew their place, and didn't try to teach our kids or run the country, were better for them. So they will tell you over and over how colorblind they are while they attack Obama, make fun of black culture and try to ban critical race theory in schools. They have nothing against new technology and will tell you that all day long, too. But they miss manual transmissions and the smell of gasoline and the loss of the corner gas station where they knew all the employees. And EV's confound them. They are totally for a cleaner environment and will go on and on about that. But they think that there's just too much of that going on, that cleaning up Love Canal and putting precipitators on coal power plants was plenty, and only America-hating liberals want to do more. It's worth mentioning that in 50 years we will have exactly the same sort of older people - they will just be incensed by the things that changed in 2050 and not things that are here today. They will take EV's and renewable energy and the Internet-in-everything for granted, and indeed they will pine for the days where bad Internet interfaces crippled appliances. The Brent of 2070 will lament that "my generation could fix a simple IP address problem on a toaster, not like today's kids who have never even HEARD of an IP address! And we could manage car system updates ourselves, without needing an AI update manager. We didn't have none of those dangerous wireless EV chargers or fusion plants - we had simple and effective wired EV chargers and solar power systems! We don't need any of this new stuff. The world was just fine the way it was." And so it goes.

The fact that people are used to power doesn’t mean they either earned it or deserve it. Wendy P.