Yeah, I feel ya. Some percentage of my family is on the right, but for the most part, I don’t think any of them have been denying the pandemic or not masking up to make a political statement. I really can’t talk to my brother in law (husband’s bro) anymore about politics, because he does do some throwing around of terms like “marxist” to describe middle of the road centrist democrats… He’s a smart guy, but he has no fucking clue what a marxist actually is, so…
But we’ve also been fairly lucky that we’ve not seen anyone this year, except for my BIL once and then to a memorial at a friends house (and some of them are pretty right wing, so, that was weird).
I’m not on the facebooks or twitters, so I don’t see if anyone in my more extended family has gone over to the darkside there. But when we did a family zoom for xmas, and they asked my daughter who she was voting for in the senate election and she said Warnock/Ossoff, almost everyone on that side clapped!
This is almost identical to the dicta coming out of Norway when the pandemic first took hold a year ago, though I don’t see Trondheim (where NTNU is) on the most severe “Level A” list.
I still get emergency emails from the embassy in Oslo. A year ago I ignored the exhortation to return to the US asap, and I’m glad I did. Today it might be a good idea, the trend in Norway looks worse than that here in Hawaii.
This is the province’s first drive-thru site and it will be able to immunize approximately 1,600 people per day when fully operational.
They say “the province’s”, but that’s bullshit. They mean “in the province”. Doug Ford has dumped it all on the regional health authorities, while keeping things open.
When it comes to bureaucracies, it means that if you can’t come up with a plan that satisfies all interested parties, i.e. “a perfect plan”, then you don’t do anything.
An essentialist view of the German national character might be that they (usually) all believe that there is a single most correct way to perform any given task. They just don’t all agree on what that way is.
This makes me feel a little better about the all the visitors we’re having in the next month. One visitor will have only had one dose and another is a child, but the child has had Covid in the last three months, the others have had two shots, and all of us (save child) have had at least one shot.
In the silent promotional clip, neither one speaks or smiles as a nurse inserts the hypodermic into their arms. I later asked Weissman, who has been a physician and working scientist since 1987, what he was thinking in that moment. “I always wanted to develop something that helps people,” he told me. “When they stuck that needle in my arm, I said, ‘I think I’ve finally done it.’”
The infection has killed more than 2 million people globally, including some of Weissman’s childhood friends.
