Does anyone find it strange that some concerts and airlines now ask those at the gate for medical records in order to get into the venue or vehicle?
This seems to have become a socially acceptable thing with this latest disease.
But force everyone to provide a negative HIV test to gain entry, and—I can only imagine—everyone’s all like “medical privacy” and “discrimination!”
What’s next? “You must have had your third chicken pox shot in order to mosh safely . . .” “No one with cancer on the plane.” “You may patronize our restaurant after we view your X-rays.” “No wheelchairs at the ballgame.”
Come on. This asking for medical test results seems very inconsistent with the principles of medical privacy and discrimination—illegal most likely, in conflict with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act or something.
Distrust in media, big tech, corporate America and social media remains high as some sort of an ongoing coordinated propaganda campaign continues regarding vaccines, masks, shutdowns, safety, safety and death, death, death.
Lots of disinformation and questionable logic and statistics swirl. Many seemingly valid viewpoints go under-reported in mainstream media. Many people have grown upset with big pharma, big media, big education, big government and big medicine.
It is a great time to be a small business in many ways. Yes, the past couple of years have created a uniquely challenging road for many small, independent organizations.
But in other ways, I count myself blessed to be at the helm of a small mom-and-pop, rather than at the mercy of a soulless corporation or massive government entity during this age.
A small business can remain more nimble, better able to call its own shots and make its own decisions. It can fly under the radar in certain ways and more effectively avoid the wrath of cancel culture.
Though society continues to undergo divisions, I see a growing group of those who want a more organic, simpler, community-driven existence as distant as possible from big media, public schools, major medical systems, big-box stores, social media and all of that.
Here you go, we present the October edition to you. This Pulse has crepes, pumpkins, 5Ks, turtles, Jeeps, music, tacos and all of the news that really matters.
Well, otherwise there are a few other stories we could have included about a social media mob coming after a local woman’s job at Cigna after she made what they interpreted as the incorrect facial expression at a recent school board meeting; an MTSU student being forcibly removed from class by security because she did not have the proper vaccine; local schools teaching 6-year-olds that wearing a napkin on their faces is the proper, healthy and woke thing to do; concert venues checking medical records at the door, hospitals banning family members from visiting their loved ones in their final days and times of struggle, and a few other strange things going on in the community.
I will try and get to those stories soon, but what a wonderful world when we focus on the positive!
Do not worry about tomorrow—enjoy your now.
