tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post8120153204498189828..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Links 15 October 2021Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-87295549853816455312021-10-15T13:33:55.360-04:002021-10-15T13:33:55.360-04:00Airless tires are already on the market
Where? I&...<i>Airless tires are already on the market</i><br /><br />Where? I've not seen anything that isn't still a prototype.<br /><br />I know Michelin and GM have stated they hope to have offering by 2024, but nothing is purchasable by the public at the current moment as far as I'm aware. (Or at least, nothing for cars yet - I think you can get them for things like certain industrial vehicles, golf carts, etc.)G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-65730314543510876912021-10-15T13:26:16.963-04:002021-10-15T13:26:16.963-04:00In the US, people over 65 are more likely to vote ...<i>In the US, people over 65 are more likely to vote Republican, more likely to support Trump, more likely to watch Fox News, and generally prone to believe online misinformation, but more than 95% have been vaccinated for Covid-19.</i><br /><br />I wonder if selection bias plays a part here. People over 65 are people who were born in 1956 or earlier - a period in time in which the public was far more fearful of uncontrolled diseases, and far more eager for vaccines.<br /><br />I've read that when Jonas Salk was performing field trials for the polio vaccine in 1954, more Americans knew his name than the full name of the sitting president. Even the youngest of the 65+ crowd, born in 1956, would have grown up in an atmosphere of vaccine positivity - particularly since they had parents, aunts and uncles, older siblings, grandparents, etc, who all would have had direct experience with the terror people lived in before the vaccine became available in 1955.<br /><br />Even the youngest of the group would have been 7 years old when the measles vaccine became available, 11 years old when the mumps vaccine became available, and 13 when the rubella vaccine became available. They would have all gone through their childhoods in constant danger of falling terribly ill from these sicknesses, and they would have all known other people their own age who did get sick, often to horrible effect.<br /><br />People over 65 all lived through the transitional period from the time when these diseases plagued countless children, crippling and disfiguring many, to the time afterward in which vaccines offered mercy and protection from these horrible afflictions and eventually their virtual eradication in the United States. They all saw for themselves the difference vaccines make, and the importance of getting them.<br /><br />However, many younger conservatives grew up in a world devoid of these diseases and their hideous ravages, and consequently lack an appreciation for just how vital vaccines are to protecting the populace from senseless illness and death. Presumably they are primarily the ones who distrust the vaccines, because such vaccines seem to them to have appeared suddenly in a country that has not seen many major epidemics in a very long time, and which has therefor "not needed" vaccines in a long time.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com