Today, Jeff Bezos is going into space in a rocket. That’s pretty dangerous. Overall, between 4% and 10% of rockets explode, and 19 astronauts/cosmonauts have died (not even counting those that died in a training exercise). So, who knows?
Anything could happen.
Also, there’s a lot of debris up there in space. Some jackass even put a car into orbit. Wouldn’t it be nuts if a rocket hit that car?
In other news, Monday morning’s episode of Fox and Friends included the cast of the show encouraging their audience to get vaccinated. I have to wonder if conservative leaders are starting to realize that their constituents have made up the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths, and that now, COVID-19 deaths are nearly exclusively conservatives? Given that Republicans have only been able to have any kind of power at the federal level through cheating (gerrymandering and leaning on the anti-democratic electoral college system), you’d think they’d be concerned about loosing a bunch of voters.
Hannity also supported vaccination on his show.
Despite encouraging people to get vaccinated, the Fox and Friends episode still contained the usual Republican insanity, including implying that the vaccine might not work, saying that it isn’t the US government’s job to protect Americans, and irrationally anxious opposition to wearing masks to protect immunocompromised people.
Speaking of COVID-19, the fourth wave has started in the US, and the epicenter is Springfield, MO. So that’s pretty embarrassing for Missourians, or so you’d think. Check out the map in the Time magazine article.
