I understand your viewpoint, but there is very little that a business can do in these situations. We saw how Danagger Coal, Taggart Transcontinental, and Rearden Steel struggled in such a ridiculous business climate.

Just yesterday, a local TV person approached my university's marketing director regarding a new development in hydrogen energy. Here is my reply.

I used to work in the hydrogen field more than a decade ago, but not so much on fuel cells. In the year before I came here, I was part of a team at Westinghouse Savannah River Company (now run by Department of Energy as the Savannah River Site). Back then, half of our group ran a fleet of hydrogen-powered vehicles as cheaply as off of diesel. The other half of our group was in charge of storing a nuclear isotope of hydrogen called tritium for nuclear bombs. When they gave me a Vice President's Award for my work, I told them that everyone else had at least six more years of experience, but in spite of that, I asked what my chances of promotion were. When they told me that was why they gave me the award, I came to our university.

I worked in hydrogen storage, purification, and sensing for a decade. I then helped start Florida Syngas, a biomass waste-to-chemicals company using some of my hydrogen technology background. Two and a half years later when then presidential candidate Barack Obama promised financial incentives to subsidize the solar power industry (You may remember Solyndra.), my customers who had been happy to exchange their value (money) for my value (a profitable venture not funded by government) to assuage their environmental guilt, my partners and I sold our company.

I switched from being in the energy business toward tissue engineering test beds for driving down the cost of organ manufacturing at that time and ever since.

From Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged:

"You expect industrial giants—who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts—to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort. Drifters and physical laborers live and plan by the range of a day. The better the mind, the longer the range. A man whose vision extends to a shanty, might continue to build on your quicksands, to grab a fast profit and run. A man who envisions skyscrapers, will not. Nor will he give ten years of unswerving devotion to the task of inventing a new product, when he knows the gangs of entrenched mediocrity are juggling the laws against him, to tie him, restrict him and force him to fail, but should he fight them and struggle and succeed, they will seize his rewards and his invention." This paragraph summarizes what happened back then in 2008-2009 and is happening again today in the energy business."



I know this sounds bitter, and I am not as bitter as this sounds, but it summarizes the hydrogen business. Now that fossil fuels are extremely expensive, alternate energy projects look more promising than before. Instead, solar and wind energy and battery technology are being promoted, often with hydrogen as a carrier. Solar and wind are not nearly as environmentally friendly as advertised and arguably not as friendly as fossil fuel energy when one considers the mining-related environmental impact of solar energy and batteries. I have been in every energy technology area there is except wind and batteries. The politicians seem dead set on choosing their winners and losers.

I advise that I and our university politely decline this interview request,
Jim Brenner

I fault businesses for just following orders of the State Science Institute, instead of thinking rationally
and using real scientific method to set business policy. (Ditto for woke ignoramuses.)
"The Information is out there. All you have to do is let it in." - Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson

We have been obeying bad (unjust, irrational, biased) laws for far too long.
As a result the Deep State believes they can do what ever they want to us.

I never complied. I beat people over the head with Statutes.
US 21 (Informed Consent), Americans With Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act, US 18 (Deprivation and/or Conspiracy to Deprivation of Rights. And then the stack of State Statutes. And then all the peer reviewed studies on filtration and the mask manufacturers disclaimers.

In Wis. the commission of a crime while concealing identity carries extra penalties. So, everyone I encountered was masked. Just too funny.

Through this whole exercise I learned the only lawful action was for an individual to withdraw from Public Entity or Public Accommodation. or close the doors to everyone.

My sister who totally drank the KoolAid, and then snorted a few more packets just to be sure, is a masker. She ruminated in a group text with my brother recently if she “should wear her N95 out in public or her KN95?” I gave up on her shortly into 2020. I use her as my control group to gauge what clueless normies think. She’s an aging WASPy helicopter parent, soccer mom to two WOKE daughters. The biggest decision she’s ever had to make on her own is wether or not to marry my brother in-law. The perfect CNN viewer. CNN could air a piece that said “Trump’s son Baron had a laptop with Child Porn on it that the President used his power to surpress.” And she’d completely believe it. Even if they printed a correction in 24hours that it was actually Biden and Hunter. The first headline would stick.
My nieces both think they’re way more intelligent than they actually are. Mostly because they paid people $300 per credit hour to tell them so for 4 years. But as millennials still need mommy to stay with them when they get their wisdom teeth pulled at 26. The only reason that my “uneducated” ass is doing so well (I’m in skilled trades) is because “Patriarchy and White Privilege”. The decade I spent dragging my nuts through literal dirt to learn my trade and the constant improvement in skill sets since then, coupled with not pissing money away on Avocado Toast and trips to Europe, were obviously not a factor.
We won’t be “getting together” anytime soon.

The problems with the mask and vaccine enforcement are many, but chief among them is that the politicians never passed a waiver absolving businesses of responsibility for someone getting COVID at their place of business.

Can we really fault businesses for trying to limit their liability?

Military surplus. P3 cartridges. I'd have to look for "brand". Full forehead and perimeter seal. I purchased this for the possibility of electrical fire in my machine shop. Secondary; I lived in So Minneapolis until 2 years ago. Now I'm out of harms way. Away from high density population.

I was really thrilled to see this important issue on the ballot in the Primaries.

Now don't mess with some peoples' fashion statements. And, a new industry has sprung up offering masks (designer masks even) for sale. This is Capitalism working! Personally I put one on yesterday to visit my doctor and the first thing he said before even greeting me was 'Take that mask off'. Mine was a Lone Star State mask! I even have one that says 'God Bless Texas' (I get a lot of salutes for that one.)

What type of gear is it?

If you're exhaling virus....you don't need the respirator.
Just an objectivity check....LOL!

If I were afraid, the only option is to withdraw or buy the expensive gear. Buy...the way, I have the gear. Sphincter Factor Eight Preparedness.

I have always noted that there is no face seal. Virus particles are flowing in and out of the masks at the pace of breathing.

I used to have to wear a full face respirator, rubber seal 100% around the face, in a cytotoxic clean room. Now even that has a bleed valve, so you're exhaling virus particles out! I'm safe, but no one else is! As if we were going to buy everyone a $300 Scott pack.

I always get a charge out of you!

All my original data searches on P1,2,3 respirators are scratched or really buried. I was trained in military as Disaster Preparedness Response for Nuclear Fallout Decontamination. This N-95/P2 equivalency is BS. Face seal is required for rated working measure. Anything with straps to cloth will not form to the face well. And then, instinctively, we pull the covering away for a "fresh breath". Parallel to our efforts was a bio/chem first response team. P3 respirators and suited up with tape, same as us. We got dosimeters!

This has been, still is, an intelligence test. Imagine sitting in the eye of a hurricane. Make this parable for personal reasoning. The "I" of the storm. Reasoning requires displacement from the reactivity of perception.

Natural is best. But silicone are more realistic than saline :D

Silicone or saline?

Yes, the law. My state has an anti-mask law.

I notice a lot of websites here on the Gulch are deemed unsafe by Google. I push through anyway and they're okay. They must be gathering data as to who will press forward and who will shy away.

Or utilize public concealment codes. It's all for the good of the public
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/mcs/maskco...

There's a voltage knob on the back of their heads. We won't use it of course.

If the voltage is high enough: Silence of the lambs.

Strap a van degraaf generator to their backs, battery operated of course. Every time they try to speak ZZZZZAP!!!

COVID-E Electrostatic.
Degauss with a vigorously rubbed balloon.

It's time for some gaslighting fun. Did you hear about the new variant? Masks attract it! Paper, cotton, polyethylene...what are you gonna do???

Why? It;s so much fun....to cautiously observe. Approach with concern and express that I thought I could see a greenish fuzzy film. Sorry, I thought this may have been developing fungitis.