Ah, you are correct. My “I” finger stuttered.
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And it keeps getting worse. Yesterday saw aother record number of COVID-19 cases detected in the USA:
We’re now over 153,000 cases per day. And deaths are beginning to spike as well.
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The only question is how high will this spike go? Worldometer had to change the y-axis on their graph to accommodate this monster. Hoping they will not have to adjust it further.
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News today: nephew (6) quarantined. Siblings ain’t. Parents ain’t. That’s the standard in Germany right now. Talked to my boss today, one of his is also quarantined, the other kids ain’t. Kids are not gonna be tested. Quarantine orders don’t arrive, the school sends them into quarantine. There’s no legal basis for this, but thankfully it seems parents are complying.
92 year old grandmother-in-law in hospital, her daughter infected and in home isolation.
Friend at hospital told me she had no news about the 28 year old pregnant women without any preexisting conditions whom she mentioned to be near death ist Saturday, and would be afraid to ask because she could not take it. Told me she saw five people surround the bed in the isolation ward on Sunday, and a mountain of a man who sees people die all the time was helplessly crying in front of the door.
Told me also that all infections among the staff (as mentioned, they eclipse Covid patients in care) come from the outside, not from the patients. They have a research lab, and good data on that. They are still able to get people tested and get results within a timeframe of a couple of hours.
The mother of my nephew tells that in their hood, several people got tested. Results only arrived five or six days later. Someone from her kids class got tested on Tuesday, “please quarantine, test was positive” info came today.
We are a bit behind compared to the neighbouring countries, but we are so fucked, too.
On Twitter, an account which usually tweets reliable info (a physician) posted that a colleague in Breslau, urologist, died in an ambulance in front of his own clinic. There was no bed to treat him inside.
I am having a sore throat and feel wobbly, but I think it’s because I am sort of raging since days, and shouting inwardly.
On my way to work - currently must go there once a week - I passed three younglings today who were sharing a joint, at 9:44 am. I considered asking them why they weren’t having individual spliffs, but I would have shouted at them like the angry old man I am these days.
We are so fucked. And I really was thinking at some point that people could be educated.
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One of the best hikes. Highly recommended.
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Somehow I don’t think there will be much of a mention of COVID here (except for wrongly taking credit for Pfizer’s trials).
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I’ve seen nursing unions able to throw a bit of weight around over the years, maybe it’s professional call-of-duty that prevents it but I think it’s time they stand up and say there needs to be a hard nationwide lockdown or else they walk. Don’t want hospitals coming to a screeching halt and associated death? Fine, then do the fucking lockdown.
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So sorry, man. Take good care of yourself and try to help others as much as possible. I refuse to fall into the pit, but only because I am clinging by my fingernails.
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I’m struggling with this so much as well. It’s being perceived as fearmongering by people in my life now because to some extent those people have already decided what they want to do and I am just not going to be able to control what happens to them and by extension to me. It’s painful. Close to me it’s painful and the cumulative effects are harrowing because this is happening everywhere. But personally I can’t struggle to control so much that I really can’t control anymore without going legitimately crazy… so eh… dunno what I’m even trying to say here just feel your sentiment is all.
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They’re trying:
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This disease has killed at least 300,000 Americans. If I were hospital security I would shoot to kill.
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WHY CAN’T ANYBODY IN CHARGE TAKE THIS FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!
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Wait, there’s a new Matrix movie?
Reeves and his partner, the artist Alexandra Grant, were sat at a table drinking wine, and left early on in the evening, reported Bild.
Knows when to walk away, if not when to run.
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Because you don’t get to be in charge until you commit to prioritizing the bullshit over everything else.
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I hope no… But it’s just like Paul Weller said: The world in which I live in - keeps trying to prove me wrong.
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Un-fucking-believable.
Templeman argues that such a tax has been a long time coming, pointing out that “between 2005 and 2018, internet technology fuelled a 173 percent increase in the number of Americans who regularly worked from home.”
And?
“That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits,” Templeman writes.
If only I could think of a class of people like that, one which makes an order of magnitude more money for their “work”.
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oh yeah, and also offsetting the death of the planet by not getting stuck in traffic everyday. but no biggie, cars are just one of the biggest emission sources. get back out there everyone!
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