March 24, 2023

You've been numbered

A couple of months ago I was in another city meeting a friend for lunch.  As I waited for her, I took this picture of some graffiti that says, “No Digital ID”.  

I started wondering exactly what kind of digital ID the individual was protesting.  I mean, we have all had digital IDs pretty much since the day our birth was registered.  Don’t believe me?  Check your birth certificate…it has a number.  Check your school records…there’s a student number.  Check your driver’s license…yet another number.  Credit card or Debit card?  Yep, more numbers.  Health card, Social Insurance Number, CAA…all numbers.  Have you got a mortgage or loan?  Have you ever called the mortgage or loan company with a question?  What’s the first thing they ask you?  You bet…”What’s your client (or loan) number?” 

To extend this thinking a little further, the cell phone we all love and carry everywhere…it’s got a number.  Somebody wants to be able to reach you, what do they ask?  They ask, “What’s your number?”  Do you use a computer or laptop?  You may not know this, but your IP address is a number.  Our lives have been so digitalized over the past decades that it’s impossible to function without a so-called “digital ID”. 

Then I started wondering if the protest was more over the government’s insistence on making vaccination status, especially with respect to covid vaccinations, available both on our health cards, but also as a separate downloadable certificate that we were all encouraged to carry on our phones to prove we have been vaccinated.  Nothing has been so polarizing as the whole vaccination issue of the last few years.  While I don’t want to insult a big chunk of the population, I find a close correlation between those decrying the vaccine and their level of – Education? Intelligence? I’m not really sure which is appropriate.  For decades the government has insisted that children be vaccinated for chicken pox, measles, rubella, pertussis, and a bunch of other things in order to attend school.  Nobody ever blinked over this.  However, tell them they should all be vaccinated against covid and they lose their shit. 

For those people, I have this to say:  This is a standard vaccine composition.  Which of these chemicals do you object to having in your body?

        ·         Ethanol
        ·         Propyl acetate
        ·         2-methylpropyl acetate
        ·         Propanol
        ·         n-Butyl acetate
        ·         2-Methylpropanol
        ·         2-Methylbutyl acetate
        ·         n-Butyl propanoate
        ·         n-Butanol
        ·         n-Pentyl acetate
        ·         2-Methylbut-3-enyl acetate
        ·         2-Methylbutanol
        ·         3-Methylbut-3-enyl acetate
        ·         3-Methylbut-3-enol
        ·         3-Methylbut-2enyl acetate
        ·         n-Pentanol
        ·         n-Hexyl acetate
        ·         E-Hex-3-enyl acetate
        ·         Z-Hex-3-enyl acetate
        ·         Hex-4-enyl acetate
        ·         E-Hex-2-enyl acetate
        ·         n-Hexanol
        ·         Z-Hex-3-enol
        ·         E-Hex-2enol
        ·         n-Hextyl-2-methylbutanoate
        ·         n-Heptanol
        ·         Camphor
        ·         n-Octanol
        ·         n-Oct-2-enol
        ·         1-Methoxy-4-(2-propenyl)-benzene

So many of the great unwashed will immediately say, “Nope.  None of that shit for me.”  What they don’t realize is that this is actually the chemical composition of an apple.  It’s living testimony that most people (anti-vaxxers) aren’t qualified to even know what they’re scared of. 

 

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