This Is All Your Own Fault, You Know

 h/t WRSA and Chief Nose Wetter

Apparently, too many folks in Flyover Country, from Ohio to New Hamster (oh, and some slop-over in Canuckistan; sorry, eh?), haven't been getting their boosters and dying of Suddenly™ fast enough to suit TPTB, so they've switched to more active measures to thin the herd.

Mighty white of them.

It's always predictable what happens when government has your best interests at heart, isn't it?

Just for giggles, nota bene that the vast bulk of that crap is hanging in the air below 2500m, i.e. at less than 8,000'. Most of it a lot lower. IOW, it's pretty well hugging the ground, not going up high and dispersing. All the way to Canada. PA, yes; but upstate NYFS and Vermont are getting heavily rogered by this. This isn't just the Ohio River Valley. It's the Allegheny. The Oswego. The Oneida. The Hudson. The St. Lawrence Seaway all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Niagara Falls. Lake Erie. Lake Ontario. Along with hundreds of miles of lesser rivers, creeks, canals, lakes, and ponds.

I hope everyone is updating their "WHO and WHERE" lists as appropriate.

What YOU'RE Not Looking At When You Think You're Being Smart

 

Herschel on undercurrents.

RTWT.

Then read the links. All of them.

Twice.

Money quotes:

Your rulers have sold you down the river, boy.  Sold you down the river, boy.  Sold you down the river.

This war is being fought over energy, no matter what the other pretexts are.

Electricity is going to get a lot more expensive.  A lot.  Prepare now, and blame your rulers.

And if this applies: 

Get Putin's junk out of your mouth. 

He's not your savior either, and never was.

Hershel's comments, and David Codrea's , on why you should be cheering Ukraine on for 2A grounds alone, are something a lot of the louder commenters should have known without being dragged to it, kicking and screaming.

There will be a pop quiz on that material presently. Grading will be pass/fail.