Shit, that’s a really high-seeming infection rate for an open-air event, even if they are packed in there. This is scary.
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there are years i feel like my brain doesn’t work as fast as it should. whole decades even
your post made me realize that the title “arrival” isn’t just or even primarily about the aliens ( since the aliens are a metaphor anyway ) it’s about the baby… the newborn arrival
i think books and movies should have a mandatory blurb about the writer’s intent right at the end. it’d save a lot of time… 
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All those particles floating around on a heat dome, like the crowd was a city made of concrete and asphalt.
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Oh I dunno. I think the fact that we are talking about it and having different views as to what’s important speaks to what a rich imaginative environment the story and film made. Narrowing it down to one authorial intention is unnecessarily reductive. Plus which author? The film has many. The author of the story made their points already in the best way they could, making them turn it into bullet points would probably give them palpitations.
There are things in both the book and film I might have done differently, but in both cases they are more than 95% things I wouldn’t and couldn’t have come up with or done.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Moved to Rehab Center After COVID-19 Diagnosis While His Wife, Jacqueline, Is Moved to the ICU
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Just some seriously irresponsible bullshit he spouted at a town hall.
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Today, Tokyo Prefecture reported 1,915 new cases, making this the first day in nearly a month with less than 2,000. The country as a whole reported 13,638, which is a major decline after a couple of weeks above 20,000 each day. The number of new cases is always lower on Mondays, but I am hoping that this downward trend continues.
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As much as I’d like to believe it’s all going to be just fine with the new school year in Ontario 
starting next week, comparing last year to this year does not fill me with hope. Our government’s message hasn’t changed all month: “Ontario is now in Step Three of the Roadmap to Reopen.” I think the “roadmap to not damaging lives and businesses with a 4th wave of COVID” dropped out of the glove box and is under the seat somewhere.
Edit: I realize this missing a digit or two before it looks as bad as the Southern U.S., my sympathies, I hope America finds its way again and things eventually change.
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Those numbers look awful good from here in Ireland (kids start school tomorrow) even though the vaccination rate is higher here.
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Today is Monday. Monday is my regular day off. So how am I spending my day off? I am in the office seeing 36 patients (so far.) Because that’s how we roll now, apparently. I know I have said this before, but guys, this is not sustainable. You cannot keep having people work beyond their limits and think that will fix the shortfalls. And there is no end in sight. OMFG, I am tired.
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Thank goodness it looks like there are ways to push back against this:
A spokesman for the state Medical Board, which licenses physicians, said its jurisdiction is over the practice of doctors and how they uphold standards of care — not lawsuits.
It’s unclear why the hospital didn’t mount any defense under a new law passed in the state budget this summer that grants health care providers the “freedom to decline to perform” any service which violates their “conscience,” as informed by moral, ethical or religious beliefs.
It’s a horrible slippery slope when the “justice” system tries to compel doctors to perform procedures on people. Worse, when patients take the advice from commercials (and other sources) to tell their doctors about medications too far and attempt to force them to prescribe whatever the patient wants.
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Must be one of those people with superior jeans.
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I’m so sorry you have to endure this. Thank you and all our medical personnel for your work and sacrifices.
Have a soft kitty belly. I wish I could loan him out to stressed out friends.
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Don’t @anon29537550 , it’s a trap!
(actually my kitteh loves her belly rubbed and will grab your hand if you have the nerve to stop. But geberally, it’s a trap)
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Sometimes it is a trap, but he always knows when someone needs comfort and restrains himself. He has keen human-stress sensors.
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