@bluebelle I am in Washington as well. Telling my clients with developmental disabilities that holiday plans may have to be postponed is rough
@tybin. I’m so sorry. That must be incredibly difficult for you. It’s hard for all of us to deal with this pandemic, but for people with developmental disabilities, it must be very confusing as well. Stay safe. We will get through this.
We got the "work from home" message from my boss yesterday -- an hour after she told us our Superintendent expects us to continue reporting so -- whatever local updates the health department gives must have been dire to go from "Everyone must report" to "Everyone who CAN stay home must stay home" - I'm packing up my plants and everything else this time because I didn't during the first lockdown and we were barred from re-entering the building so they all died when it was extended from three weeks to three months.
I will provide a little light to you all -- last night I told my twins that our morning routine would look different because I was going to be working form home (they're still going to school -- if the procedure and rules for switching to virtual weren't so draconian I'd pull them for this period.)
The older twin said: Why, did you get fired?
I replied: No - I'm working from home. Why would you think I was fired?
The older twin: Man! I don't know if you're good at your job or not!
Out of the mouths of babes. ?
You lit up ny morning with such laughter! Oh my goodness! Hilarious!
"I will provide a little light to you all -- last night I told my twins that our morning routine would look different because I was going to be working form home (they're still going to school -- if the procedure and rules for switching to virtual weren't so draconian I'd pull them for this period.)
The older twin said: Why, did you get fired?
I replied: No - I'm working from home. Why would you think I was fired?
The older twin: Man! I don't know if you're good at your job or not!
Out of the mouths of babes. "
@Dannyboy thank you for that laugh. Kids they sure know how to cheer you up in a spectacular and funny way.
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Here in CA we are nearing 1 million cases total. In my county, 700 new cases per day. I have decided to put us back on self-isolation. I re-stocked dry goods so I can revert to 1 weekly market trip for fresh foods only. I cancelled all appointments for the rest of 2020 and postponed renovation work we were going to start in December. My husband resisted and called me "paranoid", but I pointed out that it's worse now than in March, and our governor is still not doing enough. He did cave, somewhat resentfully, but at least he's consistent. I did NOT remind him that on March 2 when I went grocery shopping (and spent $600 to stock us up) he also called me "ridiculous", and then lockdown came 2 weeks later.
Too many maskless - that has not changed. Outdoor dining is still allowed and get this - the restaurants are tenting their outdoor spaces with plastic or vinyl sheeting. REALLY???? How is sitting inside a giant garbage bag with a bunch of maskless strangers safe???? Never mind that the tables never were 6 feet apart to begin with. CA is allegedly on Travel Advisory - which means out of state visitors are supposed to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival - HAH! My block is still full of maskless throngs of AirBnB-ers who come and go every couple of days (mostly from UT, TX, NV, AZ). I have lately observed grocery workers stocking raw, unwrapped produce gloveless as well, and even though that's not a primary mode of transmission, just common sense should dictate.
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My daughter's Bf's mother is insisting they do both Thanksgiving and Christmas with her (she's a controlling dumbass, but that's a story for another time). Indoors. 10+ people. Maskless. My daughter called me distraught. I reminded her of my scrooge tendencies, and not to worry about spending any holiday with us, and to either go or if she wanted, to throw me under the bus and say they can't because WE remain high risk. She didn't win that battle, so I'm making some turkey and yams this Sunday, and I told her that they will have to stay away from us for a minimum of 2 weeks and will have to get tested before they can even return to my yard. Same for Christmas...
The LAST out of my house activity is on Thursday - going to pick up a second kitten (brown tabby) as a brother for Django, and whisking him to our vet. After that I'll bring him for shots and neutering, but that's about it, I'll just be at home like I was 7 months ago.
The dance studios I zoom with insist they want to reopen - even circulating online petitions! Um, no. I sent the governor an angry email today. This has to stop. I know Joe can turn things around, but in 8 weeks it will be much worse, he'll be behind the 8 ball, or worst case scenario he contracts COVID himself.
Chuck Grassley, tested positive
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1248059
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Double topic posting to spread our attention and good energies to the Covid beleaguered Navajo Nation making the evening news tonight ?
Love, prayers, compassion and mercy for the Navajo Nation. When all of us sewists were still sewing mass amounts of donation Covid masks, we had so many heartbreaking pleas for masks for them. The need was so great.
Now it's far, far, far worse. Worse per capita then even New York at its very worse. Hearts are pleading and crying and begging for help!
May we all send love, light, and healing energies and high to them as well as all others in this pandemic now and especially in our Wednesday Circle of Light on zoom.
Listen to the President of the Navajo Nation here:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/11/17/navajo-nation-lockdown-coronavirus-intv-harlow-vpx.cnn
Pfizer is saying that their vaccine is 95% effective and will looking into applying for the US Food administration emergency use within a few days.
Pfizer cannot roll that vaccine out fast enough with surges in CV growing at such an alarming rate, and wonder how fast it can be administered from state to state?
Here in NM it was reported that hospitals are stretched to the breaking point right now ...
"NM experienced another Coronavirus explosion Tuesday setting a new all time high in cases,deaths and hospitalizations" (from The Santa Fe New Mexican news source)..... and most probably higher today.
This state has an estimated pop of only 2.35 million, and if it's an 'micro to the macro' indicator, we are in some serious s**t. Just when so many states relaxed their guards and everyone thought it was safe to go back in the water, here comes the Meg.
It filters down to everyday stuff like when you are hesitant to go into a laundromat with that mountain of essentials that's been building up, and figuring what is really essential to your life's functioning (shortages,etc)...
I'm sure that so many have made big strides in this dilemma since last March or so, and we are all bone weary of it by now... fear doesn't even factor in anymore as much as "What fresh hell is it today?"
And please, no one project that Joe Biden could become sick ... just nooo.
It's time to focus on a stretch of positive intention for healing that may exceed anything we have ever manifested before ?
More possibly good news on the covid front. Im not sure if its reported yet, but just heard from a friend in the Australian upper government that a new strain has been found in the south of the country. Its more infectious but only has a 24-48 hour incubation period and symptoms thusfar are showing to be mild or non existent. This is good because another major mutation happened and it is following the typical evolutionary paint of getting less deadly and more transmissible. When this happens with viruses, the new strain tends to overtake the older ones and become dominant. What this means is covid should become more widespread with a much lower mortality and hospitalization rate, and because the likelihood of all but one useful protein staying the same, the new, weaker strain should give a period of immunity for the older more dangerous strains.
I know I've said this before, but this is what I expected to happen. This happened with the Spanish flu, among many other viruses, and now it is just one of the common influenza strains we have. The same is starting to happen with covid which is a light at the end of the tunnel.
That is good news ... and also the Biden administration will be behind the Science to flatten the curve I know....
It's gonna be a long haul until (January 20, '21) ?
(Got paper towels?)
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Sounds like people actually trust Pfizer and the FDA. Unlike Trump, they do use science. But Pfizer's goal is profit and upping their stock quote. The FDA is influenced by Big Pharma and by pressures to fast-track a vaccine. I'd like help figuring out if the vaccine is safe. There must be some outside parties who are evaluating it.
Yes, agreed, but at this point ..well. The whole world is begging for the medicine that will deliver that miracle, and it might not be the Pfizer fast- track, but then again, it's possible.
Maybe (mas1581) can come up with some more reliable info on that scientific front? I hope that someone can shed some certifiable light there .....
I want the one Dolly Parton funded. Kinda joking, kinda not. I trust her more than almost anybody else. ❤️
It's time to focus on a stretch of positive intention for healing that may exceed anything we have ever manifested before ?
Agreed!!!!!