THEY WERE ON A BREAK!

It is a shame that in spite of such overwhelming support for gay marriage, we didn't have the courage to put it in as a Constitutional Amendment (despite there being several successfully passed Constitutional bans in many states, including California).

I see no reason why we can't use Operation Warp Speed on all these vaccines as well. People are suffering and dying every day, if we can expedite trials and avoid red tape to get them a vaccine that will save people: do it. There is no reason to delay these life-changing vaccines a single second longer than is necessary. And the precautions are pointless: the COVID vaccine is the safest, most effective vaccine ever and it was in arms all around the world in less than a year, meanwhile some things tested for decades are being recalled because they didn't anticipate a side effect.

Was Henry Reardon a person who “took women?” Was John Galt? Howard Roark “took” Dominique, but it was clear she wished to participate, and I won’t have you kinkshaming what turns out to be a popular sexual fantasy with women.

And do those men “take” like the government, or do they “deal” like businesspeople?

When you say “raped by a fascist” I’m gonna need to hear, in your opinion, who that fascist was. When did Ayn Rand go pro-authoritarian government? When did Ayn Rand reject individual rights for collective benefit?

Yea, and Darwin didn't really do much for evolution, he just formatted it to make it easier to read. All the pieces were already there, so why does he get so much credit?

And Columbus didn't discover America, it was already here! In fact, Vikings were here before him, and maybe Muslims (odd timing on that Reconquista and Discovery of America in the same year). So why would we give him so much credit, it isn't like his find changed anything. America was already there, some people already knew it, we would have eventually found it anyway....

Ayn Rand HERSELF was the confident, sexually liberated woman. Her marriage was an open relationship, and she bragged about how good the sex was.

Ayn Rand was a confident, independent, sexually liberated atheist woman in the 1900's who felt that the government was corrupt and being corrupted (wasn't it, and isn't it?). She walked so that you could run.

And the protagonist, Dagny Taggart, she was a.... VP of operations?

Well, the Middle East wasn't exactly a paragon of stability even with oil. Interesting to see what comes next for them now that fossil fuels are being cut back.

"Who are They though?"

I wish the hospitals had COVID-19 Safety Workers. Ironically the restrictions were much greater on non-healthcare workers. Couldn’t afford to have them quarantine.