When the first Model S came out. It was rave reviews across the board. Breaking safety score records. Making electrical sexy. Even if it didn’t have the finesse and durability of the incumbent brands.
The idea was they should’ve gone up from there, not down. And they’ve gone down by a lot.
Having to pay tariffs. Sending money to a country with an adversarial government. And it’s not even made in the US.
Not anymore, but at the time it came out it was.
That’s why I think your being naïve. Backed by science, sure. But the link between autism and vaccines was also backed by science. Despite it being false. And who is funding the science? And who is deciding what get’s published? And who is peer reviewing it?
Science is a messy human process. And can be misappropriated by those in power.
That’s probly 1 million job vacancies that regular Americans don’t want to fill. What was the point of this again?
Not rhetoric. It’s a subject I know little about. My initial thoughts though are that the US more or less invited themselves and everybody was fine with that.
That’s very naïve. Right now even doctors in Texas are letting young women die, knowingly, because they’re not allowed to save them because it’s not a disease but a dead fetus that’s killing them. Which they are not allowed to remove.
To prevent those bad choices infringing on others is why Germany has those rules in place.
“I could make the “bad choice” to play bumper cars on the freeway” Sure, but with your logic the solution to that would be to force everyone to take the bus instead.
I agree with you for the most part. But seeing the current trend of right-wing governments and felons becoming presidents. I’m not sure if I’ll be alive to see that day.
I don’t think they meant it that way.
It’s kind of sad to see how Tesla went from some of the best cars you could buy to some of the worst. Even the other models suffer from declining quality and safety issues.
At least if the cybertruck was the unbreakable, unbeatable ultimate truck it was supposed to be, it would have a redeeming feature. But instead they’ve literally glued on steel plates to a car chassis. It’s sheer incompetence.
The point is that forcing vaccines is also opening the gates to other things you might not want.
My bleach example was meant to illustrate that a government could decide substance X was safe, even if the science disagrees. And by law you would be forced to get it injected.
But who put them there? Was Europe begging the US for more troops. Or did the US decide to deploy them?
I mean the last time we tried tariffs it led to the Great Depression. So I’m going to go with yes.
What’s worse is that even if tariffs went away tomorrow. Even our closest allies are now looking to decouple their economies, which means in time the US will matter less in trade but also the US dollar will lose it’s value.
Even if expenses remained the same, the reduced number of patients would mean more attention and level of care per patient.
Careful there.
Whilst the measles vaccine is safe and beneficial. Who knows what a future government might want to inject into it’s citizens. Not that long ago a leader of a certain country suggested injecting bleach to cure Covid. If you give the government the power to force you to inject vaccines, you also give them the power to inject anything else. The downside of freedom is also the freedom to make bad choices.
When the Dutch police was looking to replace it’s standard handgun, the new candidate could carry twice the number of bullets. It was rejected not because they didn’t need that many bullets. But that an potential unfriendly Dutch government in the future would not possess even more lethality to apply on the citizenry.
But US companies cannot make everything in the US. The industrial base was off-shored. And on-shoring means automation to be cost-effective. Which is not going to produce tons of blue collar jobs. And that is even without tariffs.
Want to build electronics? China is somewhere in your supply chain, meaning costs will go up. Want to make a camera? Oops, the rare earths you need to add to the camera lens are not available in the US.
And who is going to buy all this US made stuff? Because all exports are taxed as well.
If the government wants to bring back industry, be more self-reliant. You do so by subsidizing certain industries, tweak tariffs on specific goods, removing red tape for the construction of specialized factories which play a key part in supply chains. Not just put tariffs on everything and everyone and hope for the best. This is how the great depression started.
In Germany if there is an measles outbreak. Unvaccinated kids aren’t allowed into day cares or schools. Much to the dismay of their parents who have to stay at home instead of work. But this of course is protecting the other kids, and the unvaccinated kids themselves and is the best thing they can do in the circumstances. Minimize exposure, minimize the number of victims.
Meanwhile those parents cry foul and consider it pressure from the government to force them to vaccinate.
Electric cars have very little upsides compared to gasoline cars. They’re basically made for the car industry. Not the consumer.
What we need is more cycling and public transportation.
My experience with the toys has been that’s it’s usually single parents with not much money wanting to get something for their kid(s). But your option is also a great idea.
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