After making this post I began wondering if maybe the phone call was a prank. It was just too over-the-top. But then she called back and arranged an appointment that her “healthy” brother would keep.
He just left. The entire time he was here he (masked and as distanced as possible) complained about the way his sister was treated and vowed to sue me. I never. said. a. word.
As I finished my work he asked if I was going to answer him. I told him no, he was just a funny story for me to share with my friends, as I walked away and shut the door.
Sis texted me this morning, asking if I’d cat sit for four days at the end of the month. Sure, where are you guys going?
To South Dakota (remember, the state that just had Sturgis and the governor is a moron?) for a relative graduating nursing school.
Seriously? That’s a reason to go? I mean, it is an accomplishment, sure. So send a card. Face time.
I reminded her they’ll be on 14-day quarantine when they get back.
“But it’ll just be his family!”
Don’t care.
Guess who is now being mean?
CNN recently had 6 women Trump supporters on, asking if they still support Trump for re-election. On of his still supporters is a public health nurse and she said she is because of his great response to the pandemic.
You can’t fix stupid moron.
You’d think. I know a Nurse Practitioner with a graduate degree who thinks this is all no big deal, something of a hoax and at worst “just another flu”. She wears a mask only to satisfy clients, which is something I suppose.
Sorry if this has already been posted in this thread. Bears revisiting. My bold.
This story was updated since its Aug. 30 publication to include additional deaths and cases that health officials linked to the wedding.
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There was a three-tier cake, a flower garland strung up by the entry and a crowd of about 65 family and friends gathered to celebrate Aug. 7 outside the rural town of Millinocket.
They clustered together in the restaurant of the Big Moose Inn and spilled into the small lobby, their numbers exceeding the state’s 50-person cap for indoor events during the coronavirus pandemic, state health officials would later declare. They weren’t keeping much distance from each other, other hotel guests noticed, or wearing masks.
It wasn’t until the next day that one of them reported having symptoms of covid-19. Soon others did, too. By early September, officials with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention had linked at least 147 cases to the wedding — including outbreaks at a jail and a nursing home in York County, more than 200 miles away. And the outbreak turned deadly.
On Monday I attended a dear relative’s funeral via streaming. He died on his ventilator due to Covid. You can imagine my level of sympathy for this crap.
I have necessary surgery in a week. Last week I went to the surgeon’s office for pre-op testing. And his receptionist was wearing her mask under her nose – the entire time. Completing my online survey about the visit, I included this behavior, along with a suggestion that he send his staff to the local Chik-Fil-A for training in competent mask use. We’ll see what happens, I guess. (They’ll probably find a mask sewn into my abdomen on my next X-ray as a response)
Most recent Covidiot story. Had to make a quick stop in a uncrowded convenience store this week. Father enters store with 2 pre-school kids, continually asking them to put their masks on. They refused and like the typical incompetent parents of today, he did absolutely nothing. Of course, all this time his mask is under his chin, protecting us from those oh-so-dangerous chin viruses. The store had a display of kid-sized vuvezela toys, which weren’t in plastic. And both of his kids rummaged thru the selection and blew thru them, chasing each other around. Father is not only clueless about what his spawn are leaving, his intellect cannot grasp what said spawn may be picking up in this exchange.
This is why I don’t get overly upset about the political handling of the pandemic. Our population doesn’t possess the mental horsepower to comprehend or deal with infectious diseases. We were doomed to the current levels of infection no matter who was in charge.
everybody in both aruHouseholds mask and glove, use copious amounts of hand sanitizer and wash frequently [I hate the smell of industrial soaps so I carry around soap leaves I get on amazon … love them] even my roomie who is waiting for surgery to her nose - the cartilage has deteriorated so much she is starting to resemble Michael Jackson and wearing conventional masks is painful. mrAru has worked to customize masks for her to wear. If she can mask, random Chads and Karens can mask up.
Habits can be really hard to break. Today, I stopped to get gas, filled tank, did all of the touching things, then pulled my hand sanitizer out of my pocket. Used some, noticed that the lady in the truck behind me didn’t have some and offered bottle to her. I just cannot seem to remember to offer to squeeze some out for folks rather than letting them do it themselves.
Had dinner tonight with Sis, BIL, and Mom (actually IN a restaurant!) for Mom’s birthday.
Me: Let me preface this question with the note that I’m asking it out of love and concern, ok? What the everlovingfuck are you thinking, going to SDak?
Sis: It’s his goddaughter, no one goes anywhere anyways, and Mitchell isn’t Sturgis.
Me: And leaving Sturgis to return to Minnesota or Wisconsin, don’t you drive through Mitchell? I mean, like on the main SDak highway?
Sis: Well, yeah, but it’s a small town.
Me: Did your niece start working?
BIL: Yeah. She actually graduated back in June. She’s at the hospital there.
Me:
Edited to add: I know dining in a restaurant was a covidiot action. They literally have four tables in four separate rooms. A restaurant that used to seat over 200, down to four tables.
I live near Ft. Lauderdale, one of the COVID hotspots of the last 2-3 months. Although things are looking much better around home now. By and large mask compliance is way up except at the beach where it’s nil.
So this week, for the first time in months, I’ve gone more than 3 miles from home: I flew to St. Louis MO. What a change.
Once away from the airport where mask compliance was nearly 100% things changed.
I went to an outdoor touristy area of cutesy shops to kill some time. About 1/3rd of the stores had signs saying “Masks required”, 1/3rd had signs saying “Masks NOT required!”, and 1/3rd had no signs either way. About 10% of the pedestrians were wearing masks or showed any sign of having one on their person.
I went to visit an office to meet a supplier. 10 people in the office; zero masks in sight. These are sensible decent people I’ve known for years, not drooling Trumpers.
All the hotel & restaurant workers are fully masked up, even at the little Mom & pop joints. And all have signs requiring masks except when eating. At least teh state or local authorities demanded that much. But the public isn’t exactly playing along.
Not a good omen for them in the fall when flu kicks up.
I’ll be glad to get back to FL tonight where it’s safe(r ).
My neighbors two doors down are having a big party. At least 20 cars are parked on the street. I saw couples from two cars headed that way when I went out to feed the neighborhood kitties. I can see their backyard and there are about 10 folks out there right now. Nobody is wearing a mask. They aren’t barbecuing so I guess the food is in the house. With at least 20 or more other people. Covidiots for sure. Is there a collective noun for that? A stubbornness of covidiots? A murder of covidiots?
