Day: April 8, 2022

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Land Use, Watertown Area

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A lot of farming in Jefferson County but much of it is aimed towards forage production rather than crop compared to the Black River Valley and further south along Lake Ontario. 

Ever wonder what causes traffic jams on expressways? Too many cars at any particular time. 🚘

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Ever wonder what causes traffic jams on expressways? Too many cars at any particular time. 🚘

An expressway can carry 67 cars per lane mile (or 78 feet per car), without delays, but after that traffic slows because there isn’t enough space between cars, and to maintain stopping distance, motorists must reduce speed.
 
So a 6-lane expressway can carry 200 cars per mile at any particular time in one direction, smoothly. Any more then that, and traffic slows to maintain distance between cars and crashes become much more likely. Crashes tend to take lanes completely out of service for several hundred feet, which cause cascading reductions in capacity.
 
At 185 cars per lane mile (28 feet per car, or 20 feet plus 8 foot buffer), traffic comes to a complete stand still, as no more cars can fit on the highway until some motorists are able to exit the highway or move to another mile point.

My endless fascination with the COVID-19 Vaccination Advertising 💉

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My endless fascination with the COVID-19 Vaccination Advertising 💉

I’ve been identified by the internet advertising algorithms as being an anti-vaxxer. I post a lot of diagrams and maps about COVID, in part because the government puts out so much raw data about. I’m friends with and members of many homesteaders, farmers, off-grider types many who aren’t thrilled by government mandated vaccinations although many who aren’t that afraid of needles or science because they use it every day to keep their land producing. Even though the pandemic has largely burned itself out for now, big government money and private foundation money keeps the COVID-19 Vaccination campaign going.

I’m just so fascinated by how the ads try to convince me to get vaccinated. I’m not sure how effective they are at this point as people already know the pros and cons of the vaccine. Maybe it’s because I’m a communications professional by trade, I study messaging, polling and focus groups. But I also know how hard it can be to move partisans. And hell, I’m kind of stuck in my ways. I’m sure most of the ad spend is a waste, then again most advertising is a waste.

I got vaccinated over a year ago and then boosted in December. Come autumn I will probably get my second booster with my flu shot. Not because I love Joe Biden or my cesspool community but because I hate the racketeering medical community and don’t want to get sick and have to deal with snooty medical doctors and nurses who think they are better than their sick patients. I value my independence and I know most medical facilities are looking to make a buck by scamming patients and their insurance. Getting vaccinated so you don’t get sick is a plenty good reason for me.

I think it’s actually a pretty effective message to tell people, get vaccinated so you don’t get sick. Not because you want to protect your community. Vaccination may not be fun, it may make you feel awful the next day, but it’s good to protect yourself from high medical bills, misery in a hospital, and all the other things that come from getting COVID-19 without being protected by the vaccine.