True, but they are more likely to die and bring everyone else down. Let’s go with the unvaccinated for actual medical reasons at the bottom, they must be going through a lot of shit right now. Let us hope they stay strong through this. I’m good with them holding us all up.
I hereby put forth a motion to make "bottom of the barrel" no longer a degrading modifier, as the bottom of the barrel is the most important part of a barrel.
I suppose it also depends upon the substance that barrel holds and your preferences regarding it. If anyone wishes to start a committee about evaluating the complexities of "half full"/"half empty," I fully support it.
Bottom of the barrel is referring to what's left after you remove everything.
It's a saying that comes from food storage, particularly. By the time you got down to the bottom, things were maybe not quite rotting, but close to it.
Ah but the phrase about the barrel is not referencing the bottom of the barrel itself, but the end of the contents within which usually are the nasty, worst leftovers that settle to the bottom.
The bottom of the totem pole seems to actually reserved for the most important people
According to Canadian naturalist, Pat Kramer—an expert on First Nations culture—the lowest figures on the totem pole are often considered the most prestigious. The designs on the bottom are the ones that will be seen at eyelevel, after all, so they are usually carved by the master while the apprentices work on the higher portions. The higher up the figure is on a totem pole, the more representational they are.
So let’s put them on the top or just leave them off the whole thing entirely…
a) nobody’s pretending vaccines are 100% effective
b) you know there’s other reasons for needing a ventilator, right? They didn’t just appear with covid
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