Doing Shots
ALWAYS back up your hard drive. Years ago I had scanned a ton of pics from the 1980’s, kept forgetting to back them up, and *poof*, gone forever. If I hadn’t lost them all, I’d share a pic of myself and a bunch of dudes from my old squadron, standing in front of the (then) world-famous Mustang Ranch near Reno, Nevada. A van load of us were headed to Reno when we passed the famous brothel, and decided to pop in to see what all the notoriety was about. All any of us bought there was a beer at the bar, despite the encouragements of the less-dressed staff (you know that part is true, or I wouldn’t be writing about it – my mom might read this!). While not in any way encouraging the oldest profession, I always had a certain degree of libertarian respect for the working girls because, well, they were working and not depending on the welfare state.
At last some good news about this tiresomely prolonged virus panic, which has encouraged creative capitalism in the heart of Old Europe, all in the name of good health. “FunPalast, a brothel in the capital Vienna, has opted to inject some enthusiasm — and Covid immunity — into its clientele by offering free access to anyone willing to get the jab on-site.” The brothel “offers clients a 30-minute session in the sexual ‘sauna club’ with the ‘lady of their choice’ if they get the vaccine at the on-site clinic.” Of said clinic: “We have a perfect vaccination line. We have two doctors, we have nurses…We have a room where you are vaccinated and afterwards, we have a room where you can sit down or lie down, so it’s not a joke. It’s a perfect line for vaccination…” All of which makes offers of a free Krispy Kreme or beer pretty lame in comparison. Hilariously, “Those who want to get vaccinated at the brothel but aren’t interested in accessing its other services, he said, can instead use their vouchers for access to the site’s fitness center.” Fitness center…LOLOLOLOL.
Funpalast CEO Christoph Lielacher is not willing to take the shot over safety concerns, yet is requiring his entire staff to be vaccinated, which is the sort of world-class hypocrisy that would make him an outstanding head of the NIH or CDC here (and clearly, he’d run a much more fun operation than Walensky, Murthy, or Fauci, the Larry, Moe, and Curly of virology). All of this is of course to comply with Austria’s new vaccine passport system “that will block anyone without proof of full vaccination from entering a host of venues, including restaurants, cafes, hairdressers, cinemas — and brothels.” Austria has also considered further segregation, lockdown, and ostracization of the unvaccinated, and amazingly tone-deaf irony in a nation that embraced the Anschluss, and we all know where that went.
With a 65% vaccination rate, interestingly, their national infection rate is on a sharp rise, and the FunPalast is making this move to counter a recent 50% loss in mattress traffic. In Austria as in this benighted land, no one can explain why something that is such a good idea should be implemented with force, or bribe-greased with a visit to the sauna room. But then again, in an Age Of Science (!), some of the shots given to enter the FunPalast may indeed lead to further, more necessary injections a week later. On the other hand, this makes the staff at FunPalast health care workers, which makes them heroes. Not all heroes wear capes…or much of anything else. Great story, but I’ll just stick to my beer.
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