Random Thoughts on a Frigid Afternoon

Sounds like the title of a poem or a book of them. Joe Biden criticized the Supremes for striking down his/OSHA's vax mandate for private employees with more than 100 workers. He claimed his/OSHA's regulations were "common sense" approaches to CoVid. OK, this isn't directly about the governments' (federal, state, local) responses to the virus, although I am pretty sure I could argue they haven't been "common sense" approaches. This is about "common sense," the use of the term. It sure seems to me that requiring a voter to present valid identification before casting a ballot is "common sense." Yet, Biden and the Democrats don't think so. How can that not be? It seems as if that is a selective use of the term "common sense." Another such term is "domestic terrorist/terrorism." I read one day last week that the Department of Justice has established a "domestic terrorism unit." OK, exactly what is that? I recall the Attorney General a while back referring to parents who angrily confront (without violence!) local school boards with legitimate concerns as "domestic terrorists." That was at the urging of some national school boards organization with, perhaps, some involvement of the Secretary of Education. How in the world can parents, who are concerned, but not violent, about their children's education, be it Critical Race Theory or even specific instances of their daughters' rape/sexual assault at the hands of boys claiming to be girls, etc. be labeled any sort of "terrorists?" (One school board which endorsed such a policy of boys claiming to be girls having the right to use girls' bathrooms, where the assaults took place, not only tried to cover up the rapes, but tried to silence the concerned father. The father was met with local law enforcement and, if I recall, was beaten while arrested.) Now, consider this determination, this label of "domestic terrorists" while I have seen nothing of the sort applied to Black Lives Matter and Anti-fa rioters, er, "peaceful protesters" who actually did commit many acts of violence. They looted and burned, private businesses as well as government buildings and property. They were responsible for beatings and even deaths. Perhaps I missed it, but I don't remember any "domestic terrorism" emanating from these riots, er, "peaceful protests." For that matter, in a similar vein, how does the FDA continue to allow the term "vaccine" to be used with the products developed by Moderna, Pfizer, and J & J? Why are the government, Big Pharma, and the medical community allowed to call whatever this is a "vaccine?" It clearly isn't a vaccine (nor is the annual flu shot). A vax virtually eliminates a disease. There are practically zero cases now of polio, smallpox, measles, etc. Those have been eliminated by real vaccines, which by definition provide active immunity to infectious/contagious diseases. What Moderna, Pfizer, and J & J have produced might well mitigate CoVid and its symptoms, but they have not eliminated it, not even close. So, what do the people who compared this, early on, to the polio, smallpox, measles, etc. vaccines now say? These real vaccines were used against my "fake vax" criticisms. "Hey, people willingly get the smallpox, polio, [etc.] vaccines. Now we can eliminate CoVid with this vaccine." But CoVid hasn't at all been eliminated. It's like saying, since Mucinex mitigates cold and flu symptoms, it is a vax. No, it's not! And the FDA is complicit in this scam. For instance, it doesn't allow "frozen dairy desserts" that don't use real cream to be called "ice cream." That's because the frozen dairy desserts aren't ice cream. Why does the FDA allow the continued use of "vaccine" with these CoVid shots? Perhaps some would say I quibble. What's the big deal with how terms such as "common sense," "domestic terrorism," and "vaccine" are used? I don't think so. I think words are important and they matter. When we start changing the meanings of them to suit our purposes, we tread in dangerous waters. These are steps toward creating our own version of George Orwell's "newspeak." He used this term to show how Big Brother tried to diminish the range of thought," to blindly and meekly accept was is being told by the powers that be.