Came across this tale of a traveler's recent experience with Covid-19.
The article is informative and infuriating and saddening and fuels my cynicism about people and protocols and privilege: [link]
Nandi: I ain't her. Mal: Only people in this room is you and me.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Sep 01, 2021 5:53:13 am PDT #8870 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
bennett - Sep 01, 2021 7:07:26 am PDT #8871 of 30000
Very interesting, dcp. Thanks.
lisah - Sep 01, 2021 8:04:41 am PDT #8872 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Oof. That guy's a real piece of work.
DavidS - Sep 01, 2021 8:16:45 am PDT #8873 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The article is informative and infuriating and saddening and fuels my cynicism about people and protocols and privilege: [link]
What an asshole!!
Dana - Sep 01, 2021 9:03:51 am PDT #8874 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Wow. Fuck that guy.
"Hmm, I dunno about vaccines. I got real sick." Maybe because you waited 10 days to fucking get treated?
bennett - Sep 01, 2021 9:33:23 am PDT #8875 of 30000
I was fascinated by the mind set of someone who SHOULD know better. This was not some uneducated hick and yet he did something really stupid. People are strange.
Toddson - Sep 01, 2021 9:46:13 am PDT #8876 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It's been pointed out by several people that those who won't get the vaccine (they don't trust the medical system) and get sick then go to the hospital and trust the medical system to take care of them. jeepers
And my nomination for comment of the day is:
Sen. Incitatus says we must respect the horse paste.
Steph L. - Sep 01, 2021 10:25:15 am PDT #8877 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
It's been pointed out by several people that those who won't get the vaccine (they don't trust the medical system) and get sick then go to the hospital and trust the medical system to take care of them. jeepers
The owner of the place where we rented the RV (who had a big Trump 2020 sticker on his printer, ugh) said that he's not getting vaccinated because he has an autoimmune disease and the vaccination will make the autoimmune disease worse. My eyes bugged out like a cartoon character, but I didn't bother to launch into a diatribe about all the ways he's wrong. At this point, I just feel like, fuck it; anti-vaxxers are going to believe what they want, right up until they're on a ventilator, so I am not wasting my goddamn energy on them.
meara - Sep 01, 2021 1:55:44 pm PDT #8878 of 30000
Ugh. It has been a rough day—was supposed to have a 7am call (which is bad enough). But when I came downstairs I discovered something very strong/hard had hit my window in the middle of the night and utterly shattered it, so there was/is glass everywhere. Picked up as much as I could and called a few places—everyone has said “we can fix it in 3-4 weeks/6-8 weeks/we aren’t taking new clients for a few months”. Fuuuuuck me. And I got yelled at in a client meeting which was no fun and finally managed to go to the store to get some bread to hopefully pick up the many pieces pn the floor I won’t even be able to see….
meara - Sep 01, 2021 2:06:00 pm PDT #8879 of 30000
Omg just read that guy who got covid in Ecuador and decided to fly home contagious and lie to everyone. What a piece of work. Even if you did that, which you absolutely shouldn’t, bragging about it on the internet is not the right move. If you really wanted to be treated elsewhere you shouldn’t have gone to Ecuador in a pandemic (with the less-effective J&J too!) or you should’ve got travel insurance with medical evacuation covered.