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.

Healing~ma for the both of you, Dana

oof! it's Monday and the office has officially re-opened. And, again, there are PEOPLE around. They're engaging in an office-wide scavenger hunt, since people took their monitors, keyboards, etc., home and didn't bring them back. I reminded the appropriate people that we have a box of cords and cables locked in our server room, which may help.

In other news, we have a new single-cup coffee brewer. I was going to give it a try but couldn't figure it out, even with the explanation (which was, of course, less than clear) and couldn't figure out how to get the packets out of the contraption they're connected to.

In re unvaccinated nurses - I saw that one hospital that fired nurses who refused to be vaccinated is being sued by those nurses. um ... I think it's in Texas, where they can fire you for just about anything. sigh ....

I don't get the nurses who are anti Vax either. The team manager who is kind of anti Vax & anti mask did get the vaccine. I think so she didn't have to wear a mask. She claims that that disposable medical masks cause respiratory problems and her daughter, who is a nurse, developed breathing problems after wearing masks as a nurse.

At lunch one day a couple of people were talking about vaccines being magnetic and how one person was told by her nurse that they tried it at work and every person who had either Moderna or Pfizer shot had the magnet stick and the ones who weren't vaccinated didn't.

I tried to say that there wasn't anything that could make it magentic but that there are other reasons why a magnet might stick to skin.

Both women who were saying this are vaccinated but according to one "it makes you wonder". I do wonder but about why people believe stuff like that.

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Healing~ma, Dana and DH!

Yes, people continue to be idiots about the vaccine, including too many in my family. My 11 year old nephew spouted the "more people get struck by lightning than die of Covid" nonsense yesterday, but of course my sister and I shut him down on that. He wears his mask anytime he is in public since he can't get his vaccine yet, and can't wait for it to be available for him.