I think we in western NY are going to get rain, and am supposed to go to my godsons outdoor birthday party. Also, how can he be 19!

I am shocked by the RNs not vaccinated. People are literally dropping out of our school because we require students to be vaccinated. We are a nursing school.

My best friend's wife is one of these RNs, and she usually has a lot more common sense. I suspect the Woo Woo nurses must have chanced upon some really plausible-sounding explanation for why Covid-19 vaccination is bad and it's spread like wildfire to their more grounded co-workers. I don't know how you can ignore the fact that more than 99% of recent Covid deaths in the US are among the unvaccinated, but a frightening number of healthcare professionals seem to be doing so.

Yeah, I don't get it at all. My otherwise smart, normal, commercial airline pilot cousin won't get vaccinated.

She thinks her daughter had a reaction to a vaccine as a kid (acute, not causing any kind of syndrome), same now adult daughter had only a mild case of Covid and didn't infect her parents even though she was living with them at the time. Cousin doesn't "trust what it might do to her body" - said she'd rather contend with Covid than an "unknown." My mind boggles, but what can you do? There's so much to dismantle there.

Anyway the rest of her family got vaccinated, I believe -- like, her brother and his family, her mother/my aunt, husband, not sure about the grown kids. But anyway. Don't get it. Especially for an airline pilot.

I got ESPN bundled with Hulu and Disney+ and this is only the 2nd time I've actually turned it on, to watch the Euro final.

Gotta say that first goal was nice, but Italy is really controlling play so far. It'll be interesting to see what happens next.

Laura, my private reaction to that email would be "Thank you for providing a clear reason to cut you off for the remainder of ever", but I can appreciate that your cousin may be rather hurt.

(It's partly for the disregard for the health of a vulnerable newborn during a public health emergency, and partly for using the announcement of said newborn's imminent arrival to Make A Statement. Could've just said "Yay, baby! Have a present!", not visited, and had thoughts about people's medical decisions on their own time, but nope!)

Italy and England tied at full time . . . .

Timelies all!

For some reason I'm very sleepy today. Haven't done anything strenuous other than vacuuming the upstairs.

Those PKs were wild, but I feel bad for the poor guys who didn’t make it—they were so young and will likely get so much shit for it.

I work, at the school of nursing, with BFF Maria’s brother. He isn’t vaccinated, and really has no good reason except he is a contrarian and doesn’t like to be told what to do. So according to our rules, he has to wear a mask, but I don’t, at work. But it ends up being silly, because we are not masked outside of work. Today I got his cousin who is a doctor to get after him to get the vaccine. Now they are actually offering $1000 to people to participate in a vaccine study, I think he may do it.

Hey Monday! I see you being so very Mondayish. You shall not defeat me.

My cold symptoms have mostly gotten better, though there's a little congestion lingering. Husband has progressed to ugly hacking, so I've convinced him that he needs to be tested today.

I know, statistically, it's unlikely to be covid. But I swear to god, if it's covid, I'll...be very mad online.