I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Those who are living in fear of a virus with a 99% survival rate don’t give a damn about anything else. Drug overdose are sky rocketing. Millions are unemployed. Children are stuck in abusive homes. The rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer. This is turning out be to the biggest transfer of wealth in US history! COVID isn’t the only problem in this country. Time for America to wake up and realize that lockdowns don’t work. California is your proof. Most of the state has been closed since the end of June. Masks have been mandatory since May and none of that has slowed the spread. The death count is way down. Hospitals aren’t overrun. It’s been 8 flipping months now. If you want to stay home, good for you. No judgement here. But don’t judge others who aren’t doing the same.
Live your life the way you want. Life is too short to stay home in fear of a VIRUS.
There is a new shingles shot that is much better than the last one. I’m definitely going to get it. My husband recently had shingles and it is miserable. Very painful!
Almost 250,000 dead in the states alone. If that number doesn't impact you even a little bit then I guess nothing anyone on here says will either.
Wear a mask!
Wash hands!
Social distance!
Stay out of crowds!
Do everything possible to lower your risk of Covid.
They reopened bars here and cases are up! We are on the verge of them being shut down again.
The point of my initial response which clearly went over some people’s heads is that our elected leaders are telling us follow rules for “our safety”, while they themselves are not following those same
rules. And those sane elected leaders are telling us that when we don’t follow those rules we ar spurring others lives at risk while they arrest us, fine us and even shut off our water and electricity if we get caught violating those same rules. When they get caught, nothing happens. Why should we blindly follow along and do what they say? Why are they allowed to put others at risk? If COVID is so bad why have most governors and many mayors been caught doing the very things they keep telling us aren’t safe? Nancy Pelosi got hair cut while salons were ordered to shut down and she did not wear a mask. 2 violations. If that was me, I would have been slapped with a $250 fine for violating the mask order. Shouldn’t these people be setting a better example? And again, why should we take their rules seriously when they don’t follow them?
The only people Who should be shamed and ridiculed are those who are blindly following along while believing the government knows what’s best for them instead of thinking for themselves! It is not in my families best interest to follow Newsolini’s guidelines. We are young and healthy. We’re not at risk. So we choose to LIVE LIFE. My dad was just diagnosed with cancer. Like hell I’m going to abandon him NOW and wait until the government decides its “safe” for us to visit in person. I spent all last week with my parents in another state and I will be back with them in a few short weeks. It’s what’s best for our family. My parents need me now more than ever and it wold be cruel and heartless to stay away from them!
In Oregon you can legally shoot up heroin and smoke meth. You can legally commit euthanasia. But you can’t have thanksgiving dinner with your mother!
In California you can have more people at a funeral than you can have over for Thanksgiving dinner. You can commit euthanasia, you can set up a tent anywhere you like on public or private property & fill the street with trash and human waste. you can even take a dump on the street if you want BUT you can’t sing Christmas carols in your own home this Christmas! Newsolini believes he can dictate how many people we have in our own homes! His ridiculous rules that few will follow: outdoor gatherings ONLY and limited to 2 hours. Masks required. Stay 6 ft apart. No singing. No more than 3 households. Hosts must keep a list of all attendees in case the government needs that information. Hahaha he just had a party with at least 12 households and he thinks Californians are going to follow his idiotic draconian holiday rules? This is all about fear and control. California has the highest mask compliance and strictest lockdown in the country and it hasn’t slowed the spread of COVID because THE GOVERNMENT CAN’T CONTROL A VIRUS. New Zealand is a perfect example. Total shut down and the virus is still there. It never went away. They aren't the success story some think they are (and let’s not forget they are smaller than Los Angeles county alone!). Or hey what about the researchers in Antarctica isolated alone for months but still caught common colds??? Viruses gonna virus! We haven’t eradicated the flu yet and 60k a year die from it. Still no HIV vaccine either. Anyway.....in closing......
I am sad to announce to the passing of our pet turkey, Butterball. He was killed by the police. We will be having a big funeral for him on Thanksgiving. Followed by a protest on Christmas Eve.
It isn’t about shaming anyone. It’s about staying safe. Especially for those who have other medical situations.
My husband was recently diagnosed with cancer. I’m not about to place myself at risk and jeopardize his health.
My husband is able to work remotely and I am grateful. He has to get through these radiation treatments. I want him to remain safe.
For me, it isn’t a government issue, it’s a health issue.
People who don’t care about getting Covid will just spread it to others. I hope the vaccine will be successful in helping our nation but it isn’t available yet. Hopefully it will be distributed as soon as possible.
Try to be like a turtle - Be at ease in your own shell.
- Bill Copeland (poet)
Yes, we get frustrated and lonely but it’s better than the alternative of getting Covid-19!
As humans we have two choices:1) You can be part of the solution or 2) You can be part of the problem. The choice is yours. Just remember you are putting other people's lives endanger! That is a fact!!
By the way, the death count keeps going up because people are not following the rules. I see this when I am out buy groceries. And I am not living my life in fear...by any means!!! I just don't want to make any body sick! I care for my fellow man!
It is attitude like yours that is causing COVID to explode. My next door neighbor was diagnosed on Wednesday. Now his wife and they are extremely sick. They have two children, 4 and 8. Seventy-five teachers in this very small school district tested positive this past week, as well.
You are teaching your children self-centeredness and selfishness. All that matters is what YOU want to do. To hell with everyone else. I have three children between the ages of 35 and 42. Two of them take this seriously, the third, not so much. Yet their area is exploding with cases, too.
My neighbors are very, very sick. They, too, thought, "oh well" if I get it, I get it, and I probably won't. Well, it got them. Both are healthy, mid to late 30's and now wish they had done things differently, including teaching their children compassion and patience and understanding.
I am sure that you will chastise me for my comments as you do so many others. You always have to be right and seem to know it all. So have at it, I am expecting it.
I hope you and yours remain healthy and that you soon realize the danger that others are exposed to by attitudes like yours.
But then again I am a socially compliant soul, happy to conform with anything that will or might help (not to mention obliged to when at work).
I have one dilemma on which I have been offered three different answers by my seniors. The NHS has launched a nationwide app for Test & Trace, you stick it on your phone and carry it with you wherever you go. I have it on my personal cellphone. Should I install it on my work phone? I asked this question in the spirit of purest enquiry at my office, not at all intending mischief. Glances were exchanged among those present. Lovely Shift Leader has done the same as I have, and has it on her personal phone, but when it came to work... not sure. Waiting for guidance on that, said a senior. Not necessary, said another.
Some few of our clients are Covid+, even in our little backwater of a county. Well of course they are! - they've just got back from a variety of hospitals, being treated for all sorts of things from broken hips to pneumonia to cancer. But if more than one or two or four of us workers are told to self-isolate because we've come into close contact with an infected person? - within a week there won't BE a reablement service because we'll all be stuck at home. Doing nothing and probably not infected, thanks to our strict observance of PPE and infection control measures.
I'm not taking my personal phone into clients' homes, that's my current compromise solution.
All I want for Christmas is a reliable test I can take every day 15 minutes before I leave for work. How long O Lord how long?
- The death rate is the only number to keep an eye on and it has actually gone down even though infection rates are going up.
- 50% of deaths are still the most vulnerable by age + underlying conditions. Protecting them is going to be an ongoing battle.
- The point of the lockdowns (originally) was to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed, not to prevent the spread.
If the media wanted to be truly helpful and informative, they'd broadcast what the death rates are for each age group (with no underlying conditions). This would be the most honest reporting. But because news is a for-profit business and the covid story is "free" (meaning it doesn't cost any time or money to gather this information), this is what they constantly talk about because they must fill the airwaves. I learned this Journalism 101 in college and it's only gotten worse since then.
In my MIL's facility there is now 1 health care provider and 1 staff member who tested positive. The irony is that the health care provider "always wears an N95 mask" (per the communique from the NH admin) which begs the question: if this is true then how did this person get infected in the first place? The moral of the story is there will never be 0 presence of the virus (for now) so if you are in the vulnerable group (and not in a NH) you are in the best position to protect yourself in the best way. Also, no one can really prove who "gave" them the virus -- it may not have been "that person" who wasn't wearing a mask...it could have been from touching a surface or eating out.
My sweet neighbor's adult son with bipolar disorder (50+ yrs old) committed suicide a few weeks ago. I ask her specifically if she thought all the forced isolation from lockdown and constant hysteria added to his despair, and she said "absolutely!" So if anyone is mistakenly thinking there aren't any other consequences to the lockdown except inconveniences, please consider my poor neighbor's tragedy, which is playing out in who-knows-how-many other homes throughout the world (because this would be another helpful fact that the media ignores). This is why I believe each person should choose their own level of self quarantine and isolation and let others have a semblance of normal life. If you feel like you can't have any risk of covid then don't go out at all or come in contact with other people until there's a solution. There's just no other way to avoid it completely.
As for contact tracing apps, I only know about the one here in Ontario and parts of Canada, it seems perfectly anonymous and I wish that more people, especially those in urban areas where untraceable spread is most problematic, would bloody well download it.
Everyone wants the same outcome.
I am a liberal. Not one of the wing nuts, but a liberal through and through.But even I know we cannot close down our country for two years and survive. My daughter is a teaching assistant in Washington State, special ed little ones. She and three little ones who "cannot rule keep" are in one room with another asst and a teacher. That is three salaries on three kids. How long can we sustain this? How long keep everything closed and have anyone with a job?
Something has to give. And I would say that that means that the WINGNUTS on all sides need to be right where they are--irrelevant, and some decisions have to be made.
Some things are EASY.
MASK for Godsake. Do it for you; do it for others.
Hand Wash.
Avoid crowds.
Watch for symptoms, test and isolate.
We all need to know that nothing here will be perfect. Our elders are virtually JAILED at this point. They are in their rooms without visits. Something has to give, and I am saying whatever way we go there is no guarantee of perfection. This is a virus. Not going anywhere. We don't even know its long term affect.
Hope for a vaccine.
Hope folks will take it.
All the best to all of us struggling for a way through this.
Of course no one is naive enough to think there won’t be deaths.
I am with Alva on this one. Protection! Take all precautions to be safe. Be good to ourselves and each other by doing all that we can so we don’t spread it.
This doesn’t have to require strict lockdowns. We have to behave wisely by being sensible, wearing masks, washing hands, not being in large crowds unprotected, and so on.
I am certainly not looking for an argument, nor am I playing devil's advocate. I want everyone to be safe. I care about all of us.
No one wants to see others suffer. That is what I mean by my message.
I totally agree with you, cwille. I don’t care to discuss anything if it cannot be discussed reasonably. It’s disturbing, slightly confusing and a bit disappointing.
All I know is I will do whatever I can and follow the health professionals advice that are caring for my husband who has been diagnosed with cancer.
So, subject change.
What is your "spirit animal" and why.
For me, while I WISH it were the fox, it is in fact the Raven.
I guess it is the "witchy thing". I love how clever, naughty, perverse they are, and their instinct to survive, to use tools. I have hiked steep canyons and listened to them in the cliff nests above, their echos and the diversity of their language with one another is amazing. I think they will outlast the cockroach. I love the way their feathers go all irridescent colors, and I love the bump of their beaks. Their blinky eyes. I love that they can talk, as can some other corvids with training. I have crow teeshirts and a crow tarot deck. I love cats, dogs, pretty much everything, but the Raven--he "speaks to me". So, while often these days I consider the "old lizard", I for now will stick to the Raven.
I don't know why this subject. Just that Corvid rhymes with Covid.
I agree, we all want reliable tests. My oldest daughter has to be tested frequently because she has medical issues that must be treated regularly. There are different results with different tests. We do need a reliable tests for all of us.
I have never explored my spirit animal. I do love animals.
I read ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allen Poe every Halloween though 😊.
I never even considered that, let alone say that. In no way am I accusing anyone of anything.
I was merely pointing out that I was not wanting to argue with anyone.
Please don’t read anything more into it. I was only stating how I personally feel.
I agree that discussions are wonderful. I respect anyone else’s view. I hope that they respect my right to my opinion as well.
No one has to agree with anyone else’s opinion. We are all entitled to our own opinions.
Foxes are clever! I can see you as a fox! 😊
Well your spirit animal is way better than mine. Gee, I wish my spirit animal was an owl. They can see a mouse move under leaves a mile away in the dark. In other words, they see things were others can't and that is me; however, mine is a crow. Crows can be nice when they need to be and they can be down right mean when they need to be. Example, I had a cat name Tigger. There was these two crows trying to get something out of our yard (don't know what they wanted), but Tigger decided that he was going to get himself a bird (as he was a very good hunter) well the crows got him instead. One crow got Tigger's front elbow. I kid you not, Tigger had a hole right were his elbow was, I could see the bone. He needed 4 stitches & meds. It cost me 200.00 dollars! After that, the crows would chase him under cars or where ever he could hid. The pair would tag team him. The two crows did this for a month. Tigger wasn't allow outside for 3 weeks. By time he could go back out the two crows moved on-thank God! Crows can survive anything. They are very smart even known to be very clever. But no one likes them though I am sure they don't care who likes them or not. They are also known to be trickters. But let's be honest they are not very good looking birds:(
OR you go on a quest to the mountains, and sit. Think LittleBigMan. No food and water. About three days without food and water, and lots of animals will come to you. One will be your spirit animal.