Yea,I know, being a fireman in my younger days, a steering shaft thru a fellows chest in a truck is not something you forget quick. seat belt nice and tidy around his waste.

When Covid hit The Netherlands, I did a risk assessment too.
I didn't just trusted the official numbers or obeyed the government asking us to get vaccinated, I observed what was happening all around me. Many people got sick, some had 'mild' symptoms, some died and everything in between. There was a lot of time between the outbreak and the availability of the vaccine. I saw the reports of the development and its challenges from up close, because I work for a pharmaceutical company and they were very communicative about the process.
There was a lack of time, but there was no lack of research. Everyone involved in the development and testing of drugs prioritized these vaccines. Normally, just a request to get your new drug picked up by the FDA takes 6 months to a year. There is a whole chain of steps of testing, investigating, reporting, deliberating about the groups of test subjects, getting approval to start testing on the test subjects, waiting for enough results to come in, reporting those results, waiting until the FDA has investigated those results, waiting until the FDA approves the drug and then usually after that the production of the drug is started.
The process for the Covid vaccines was all compressed, by taking out all the waiting steps. The FDA was on top of it and shortened their procedures from months to weeks or days. There was no challenge to get test subjects, because all of the world was begging for the vaccines. Normally, vaccines are tested in an environment where only a few cases of the illness pop up. Finding out if the vaccine is safe is easy, but finding out if it actually works is then a very lengthy process. It then can take many years and the statistics then still involves only a few cases and a few prevented cases.

The Covid vaccines were given to 30,000 to 40,000 test subjects (per vaccine) in the clinical phase III trials. It is normally impossible to get so many volunteers in such a short time. What is more important is the numbers of illness case in those groups, to determine the statistical difference between the vaccinated group and the group who got the placebo. There was no difficulty here. Many test subjects either got Covid or got in close contact with people who got Covid, within a very short time. The results were very clear too. About 20 times more people who got the placebo became very ill or died, than in the vaccinated group. That is a statistical efficacy of 95%.
There were many reports of side effects, and all were investigated. Most were absolute nonsense though, because people lack knowledge and there was lots of fearmongering in the media.
What was also important for speed, was that the manufacturers didn't wait until the results came in, to start production. At the risk of losing lots of money, they just started pumping out product, as fast as quality allowed, to build up stock, for when it was approved.
When the FDA approved the use of the vaccine (without formally putting the stamp 'approved' on it), there was massive amounts of evidence on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines. That doesn't mean that corners were cut, it's just way easier to show your vaccine works, when there is a pandemic of the virus raging. I don't understand why people find that so hard to understand.

After the vaccines got emergency use authorization, there was months before I was invited to get it. Many millions of people got it before me. It was easy to ask people for their personal experiences with it. Most people just had a sore arm for a day, some people were ill for a few days. Literally no one I could check had anything worse. There were lost of horrible reports, but the sources were very sketchy.
If the same source spreads nonsense about tracking chips in the vaccines, a conspiracy to decimate the population by injecting people with a time bomb or spreading or showing ignorance on how to interpret statistical data, then I'm not going to trust those sources.
Meanwhile, lots of people were still dying from Covid (or with Covid, if you please), but proportionally way less people in the vaccinated group were getting severely ill or were dying from Covid (or with Covid, if you please).
Of course those are official reports, than many people distrusted, but my personal observations were in line with the official reports and there was more consistency there than on the opposing side.

So, I got the vaccin and had a sore arm for a day. Months later I got infected with Covid. I had mild symptoms; a headache, a moderate fever, a runny nose and to end a week of couching and a sore throat. That's about the minimum I've heard from unvaccinated people. My own 4 year younger brother got hit with it way before he could get a vaccine and his symptoms were way less comfortable. He got very ill for two weeks and his recovery took a long time. After three months he still had trouble walking up stairs. I didn't even have that during the peak of my symptoms.
It's now years later and I'm still alive. The population wasn't decimated by the injection (yet). Fear mongering predictions about the government taking away people's bodily autonomy and installing an authoritarian regime were all bogus. Only Trump banning abortions and trying to overturn the election are consistent with those predictions.

So, whatever trust I had in the government before, was only strengthened by their information getting confirmed. All the conspiracy theories of the anti-vaxxers did not come true, so they have lost all credibility to me. I don't tink many anti-vaxxers have learned from seeing all their predictions failing. They are on believing the next ridiculous conspiracy theories.

why would they need to go to interviews? Companys are not supposed to hire illegals??
Besides, the vehicals shown were not "heaps"

This horn of plenty that folks like cat and annanas and leo think America has can't take care of the veterans that fought for it, but yet, liberals take care of people that don't belong here, have done nothing to help America,and don't intend to. Every dollar those illegals make that doesn't feed them directly,gets sent home to bring in more family.

Either way, that’s how it will turn out. BTW, I respect your opinion but I rather the economy to continue as now and want my country to be seen as a legitimate country and not a dictatorship.

I will be honest, I would HOPE NOT. But considering the way they acted in this case,it was almost as if they were thinking, "Maybe if we leave him alone he will not shoot anyone else"?
Or "Oh my, this bullet proof vest might get a hole in it if I go in there".
Or was it, "oh, I don't want to be the 1 that shoots the shooter,his family will sue me?
I honestly can't come up with a logical reason why they didn't go in after that sumbitch right off the bat and at least TRY to do something besides posturing outside with their dark sun glass's and intimidating badges.

Well I always thought that was the cops instincts, to do what was needed to protect the citizens, but now it is protect themselves. Makes me wonder why they bother turning on the blinking lights and siren if they just going to pull up at the scene and hide behind their car or under a shade tree,hell just stay home

Phart, first read my response to Bella then, consider this. The barbed wire is dangerous to life and limb. And b4 you say they shouldn’t cross, remember, seat belts are required to save lives even though many people don’t like them. Cutting down the wire is an humanitarian move. Gov. Abbott is wrong.