How things work #1:
The following official city notice was published in The Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post recently, but not in the normal spot with the other notices; this one was published in the sports section. Also notice that it was published right at the end of the year, when many people were either gone or busy with the holiday season.
If you plug the address given for the property in question into Google Maps, you get a location in the middle of the local public high school parking lot.
Planned uses for the property in question include everything but the kitchen sink. (Oh wait, one of those planned businesses might just sell those too!)
The brand new city mayor is also a realtor and a property developer. (He happens to share grandchildren with my ex-husband who, along with his brother, is also a property developer.) Another coincidence: one of the persons listed here shares the same last name as one of the main families behind the large organized stalking ring that is based in the San Antonio area.
How things work #2:
The following letter to the editor of The Kerrville Daily Times provides an explanation for why I don't expect to be able to receive a vaccine for Covid19 any time soon.
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It may well transpire that planning permission is being discussed, and granted, for a nearby but different property and that the unlikely published location is to prevent affected neighbours and even the owner of the property actually affected, having a say.
Medawars Law: there is no crime which a property developer won't commit.
As for vaccines: it is not normal and acceptable, outside Texas and Peru, for vaccines to be distributed as an act of patronage and the UK government has recently resisted calls from both teaching unions and the Police Federation, to jump the queue. Largely on the grounds that once you start doing that, you simply disrupt the smooth flow of vaccines to those who need it, in the order in which they need it and simply delay the date on which a reasonable level of herd immunity is reached. It is that herd immunity (ideally, not obtained by herding together without masks) which will actually protect people. Getting an early vaccine according to your personal or political contacts is done more as a perverse status symbol than for actual practical advantage.
To expand on why giving vaccines only to a privileged (or sycophantic?) few is a stupid idea:
The various vaccines that have been trialed seem, depending on which vaccine and when you measure its effectiveness, to give between 60% and 85% protection against Covid infection. None of them is CERTAIN to give protection against future mutations of the virus, however. And if you are only vaccinating a privileged group, that gives the virus unlimited opportunity to experiment with different mutations of itself until it finds one that works against vaccinated persons.
But if vaccines of between 60% and 85% effectiveness are given to nearly everyone in a reasonably short time, there's enough herd immunity to make the virus die out, which would yield 100% immunity in itself (it's been 18 years since anyone was infected with Sars-cov-1, for example) but it would also end the risk that a lucky mutation of the virus would reset the whole process of eliminating it to the beginning.
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