https://notthebee.com/article/alabama-just-gave-the-country-a-masterclass-in-how-to-fight-back-against-transgender-indoctrination-of-children-

HB322 is rock-bottom simple, barely over two pages long, the gist of which is: A public K-12 school shall require every multiple occupancy restroom or changing area designated for student use to be used by individuals based on their biological sex.
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SB184 is a bit more involved, but in a good way.

It outlaws the surgical mutilation of children’s genitals and the administration of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children, and

It forbids school officials from keeping secrets from parents about their children’s “gender identities.”

The law itself is chock-full of broadsides against transgender ideology

Gosh, following all this Uncontested Election stuff is almost like playing whackamole…

‘When the COVID concerns are dropped I’ll return’

I have had that opinion about some things but now I have found I don’t need them anymore so they have lost me. I haven’t been to a sporting event in Seattle since 2019 and I used to go to a lot of baseball and football games but not showing my vax card (I’m double vaxxed) and I haven’t flown in almost three years now because I refuse to wear the damn mask for hours on end and I’m afraid I’d be that guy getting dragged off the plane when the flight attendant scolded me for letting my mask slip a quarter inch below my nose. It’s the longest I have gone without flying certainly in my adult life and maybe my entire life. Have taken some road trips and that is just fine.

There hasn’t been an event in my lifetime that has changed my entire worldview like the response to this.

Later they re-opened the zendo, though vaxxed, boosted and masked. Now masks are optional but:
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At this time, we ask that all who attend Zazen or other activities at AZC to be fully vaccinated unless you have a medical condition that prevents a vaccination. Face masks are optional but encouraged due to the presence of older members age 65+ and/or those individuals who are immuno-compromised.
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Given the serious concerns about courtesy and cooperation in the American Zen community, that’s a stronger statement than it might sound.

I don’t feel free to return unmasked to the community. And I don’t feel inclined to wear a mask, which I consider rather spineless pandering to Democrat/Social Justice forces.

Nor do I feel like pushing back against said forces. Perhaps I’m spineless.

I’ll continue to track the Center’s policies. When the Covid concerns are dropped, I’ll return.

Probably not until after the election …

As for “retcon” on the data, yes in CA last year at one point they just magically reduced the COVID death toll by about 25%. I had thought that death rates were somewhat more reliable than case rates but too much manipulation even there.

Here in Seattle proper the masks at the grocery store about three weeks ago were down to about 20%. But then “cases” ticked up slightly in the county (and they’re still going up though nowhere near as fast as the original Omicron wave) and masks went up to about 80%.

Have a gander at the death toll in each successive wave in the UK. The case fatality rate during the latest wave in the UK was about 0.2%. He’s a panic porn peddler.

I live in a deep blue commuter belt. The stickers have been scraped off the floor of the stores, I have not seen anyone asked to mask up in I cannot remember when (medical and veterinary practices are the only places I can recall being told to do this). Yesterday at the grocery, about half the store’s customers were unmasked. They’ll try it in the schools. Other places they’ll get mass noncompliance.