Author: Crowhill Report

The conservative mindset and climate change

Watch out! We only have five minutes left before global calamity!

Ten minutes later …. Beware, the clock is running out! We only have 20 seconds before we’re all dead.

An hour later …. It’s worse than we thought! If we don’t do something in the next ten minutes, everyone will die.

The conservative (or should I say, adult) mindset reacts to this sort of thing as follows.

  • You’re exaggerating.
  • If there is a problem, sure, we should fix it.
  • Let’s wait and see.

It’s been decades now, and while there have been some changes, it’s been manageable. We don’t need to turn the world over to people who are prone to hyperventilate.

Are vaccine mandates doing more harm than good?

You probably heard that Southwest had to cancel a lot of flights over the weekend, and that others were delayed. (Mrs. Crowhill got caught up in the delays last night.)

Southwest blamed the troubles on air-traffic control issues and bad weather, but that explanation is being greeted with a lot of skepticism. Other airlines did not have significant problems, and the FAA disputes Southwest’s claim.

Some people are blaming Southwest’s vaccine mandate. People are walking off the job, coming in late, etc., in protest.

I don’t know how this will shake out, but it’s worth asking why Southwest would lie about it. (Assuming, as it seems likely, that they did.)

It’s also worth asking if vaccine mandates are doing more harm than good. It’s starting to look as if vaccine mandates are going to cause worker shortages in key sectors of the economy, and will harm the operation of basic infrastructure.

The pro-mandate people might be tempted to argue that this kind of pressure will finally get the holdouts to comply. Some people certainly will. Most people can’t afford to lose their jobs.

But is anybody counting the cost? Is anyone looking at this realistically?

Let’s say this works the way Joe Biden allegedly wants it to work, and the mandates force people into compliance. Even the most rosy picture would have to admit it won’t be an easy thing. A lot of careers will be ruined along the way. It will harm an already weak economy. Some companies will be destroyed. It will leave a lot of people very angry, discontent and distrustful. Many will want to punch back in some way.

Is it all worth it?