I feel this so much. Really during the campaign of 2016 I started to change and it became a transformation by 2017, and has only continued to spiral in the same direction. I'm trying to find the old Laura, but I keep running into obstacles that just reinforce the realization that the world has gone mad.
I used to marvel at your ability to stay friends with all your Republican/Conservative neighbors during the Bush years.
Nowadays I feel like I get my nose shoved daily into George Carlin's observation that "by definition half of everybody in the world has below average intelligence."
A cross country road trip sounds awesome Kate! I hope you’re having fun!
I went to a happy hour tonight and it was so weird seeing all these people I didn’t know, and going and talking to them?!!
That said, I’m still even in my city where something like 75% or more are vaxxed, having trouble eith the businesses with signs like “no mask needed if you’re vaccinated and we aren’t checking we trust you!” And I’m like “trust?!? That is so long gone….I have no trust in the American public to do anything good or necessary or right!”
My town has a 68% vaccination rate but with the Delta variant and optional indoor masking cases are on the rise again after declining to almost zero.
ION, I woke up with a headache and so far have tried coffee, exercise, and ibuprofen but I STILL HAVE A FUCKING HEADACHE. Stupid human body with its stupid pain receptors and stupid sinuses that don't like the stupid weather we're having.
Only 27% of my city is fully vaccinated despite it having opened up to all adults in April, and when I go out I'm often the only person I see in a mask except servers and workers required to wear them on the job. I have a strong trust that I'm surrounded by idiots and they need to keep the hell away from me.
My county in NY shows 54% and in Florida 50%. Do better people!
The numbers in my town are good, but I've got to go to Tacoma and then Olympia today; I may be double masking.
I just looked up my county numbers, 64%. I'm not out and about enough to know what the mask situation is like - everyone I see are wearing masks while they work with the public but I don't know what the public is up to. Oh look, my city has the lowest rate with 58%. What's that about, Suisun?
Wait, that's from the end of May. How weird that there aren't newer numbers available. Probably not good, then.
You guys inspired me to look mine up. Looks like San Diego county is at about 70% , though the state is apparently only at 51% (*grumble, grumble* frickin' Central Valley).
Statewide, Ohio is about 45% fully vaccinated, and my county is about 47%. Both of those are below the national average of 48.5%. Jesus.
