If only I didn't have a dozen tote bags already. At any rate, the plastic bags around here all get used for disposal of pet waste. Fun project though. My kid is into crocheting and made a sort of rug out of them once.
Every since one of them tore out half the insulation from my car hood and stuffed it in every corner of the engine compartment, I've had it out for them. Furry little obsessive compulsive weirdos.
I just got both COVID and flu shots at CVS on Friday. Walked in, got two little jabs, and was out in less than five minutes. Didn't even ask for insurance or any sort of payment whatsoever. I left thinking "well goddamn, this is how it should go for everything."
Some people legitimately have a bad immune reaction to vaccines, for a wide variety of reasons. It could be a specific allergy to some component of the shot, or a number of other factors. This isn't unique to the COVID shot. It's relatively rare, but everyone who is unlucky to be one of that minority goes online to talk about it, so there this inflated sense of it happening that far outstrips the real world occurrence of it. I'm sorry that you have had bad reactions in the past. That sucks. Thankfully that's not the experience of most people.
It's just a numbers game. There are far more waffling centrists and drooling fence-sitters in this country that there are people who are trans, and the latter are already likely to vote D regardless. It will always be this way: a campaign is always going to spend more resources on the larger and less sure voting bloc.
It looks like Kelley's head photoshopped onto a stock image of a magician.
Edit: Yup, found the magician. Now to see if I can find where that headshot is from. It's definitely TOS era.
Edit 2: Couldn't find it with a simple reverse image search, so I looked for "DeForest Kelley smiling" and found the original image of him on this delightfully old-school web page dating back to 2001. (Bless him, the page is still active and has a counter and everything.) The image makes it clear that it is indeed from Star Trek, but he has on a unique formal looking tunic with a split collar, which should make it easy to narrow down to a specific episode.
Edit 3: Some reverse image searching on the full image led me to the ever-useful site getyarn.io, which provided a clip of the exact moment of this image, in which Bones is saying "a teddy bear?" It's from TOS S02E10, "Journey to Babel". Here's a longer clip with the amusing context:
My headcanon is that it's fiction, and we diverged from it in 1966.