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soniaThe CDC is trying to kill me. Us. People living in the US. Which includes me. OMGWTF "no masks needed if you're vaccinated" are you KIDDING me. I thought the government stopped being actively malevolent after the last election.
Zeynep Tufekci is more diplomatic in an essay in the New York Times. Maybe We Need Masks Indoors Just a Bit Longer, May 14, 2021. Yeah, MAYBE.
Oregon has been having a spike in Covid cases over the last two months (coinciding with sending kids back to school, incidentally) which was just starting to ease a bit. I am predicting that the curve will turn right back around and head for the stratosphere.
I am so tired of being afraid. Not of the pandemic itself, but of the inability of this country to act coherently in our own best interests. I had just started being able to go grocery shopping without feeling like I was taking a huge risk.
At the farmers market this morning I stood in line for one booth where there was someone already inside with her mask around her chin. The line kept getting longer as she very slowly examined and breathed over each basket of vegetables. When she reached into one of her bags and tossed a broccoli stalk back on the table, I broke. "Sorry, I can't do this," I said out loud, and backed out of the line and away from the booth.
Everyone else was masked. I didn't look back to check, but I wish everyone had followed my example. I understand why booth owners don't want to be enforcers and maybe weren't even watching, but I'd like there to be consequences all the same.
Zeynep Tufekci is more diplomatic in an essay in the New York Times. Maybe We Need Masks Indoors Just a Bit Longer, May 14, 2021. Yeah, MAYBE.
Oregon has been having a spike in Covid cases over the last two months (coinciding with sending kids back to school, incidentally) which was just starting to ease a bit. I am predicting that the curve will turn right back around and head for the stratosphere.
I am so tired of being afraid. Not of the pandemic itself, but of the inability of this country to act coherently in our own best interests. I had just started being able to go grocery shopping without feeling like I was taking a huge risk.
At the farmers market this morning I stood in line for one booth where there was someone already inside with her mask around her chin. The line kept getting longer as she very slowly examined and breathed over each basket of vegetables. When she reached into one of her bags and tossed a broccoli stalk back on the table, I broke. "Sorry, I can't do this," I said out loud, and backed out of the line and away from the booth.
Everyone else was masked. I didn't look back to check, but I wish everyone had followed my example. I understand why booth owners don't want to be enforcers and maybe weren't even watching, but I'd like there to be consequences all the same.
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Date: 2021-05-16 12:58 am (UTC)I predict a new nationwide surge by July.
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Date: 2021-05-16 01:14 am (UTC)Prediction noted. Yeah.
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Date: 2021-05-16 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-16 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-16 02:46 pm (UTC)I know what it was meant to do, but I also know that we have a whole bunch of people who will use it to be cruel and for harassment.
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Date: 2021-05-16 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-16 03:53 pm (UTC)It is not a working public health policy to say "those who are With Us can enjoy the freedoms that come with allegiance and Those Against Us can just die." I would have expected them to understand that from the last administration.
Precisely!
Date: 2021-05-19 08:39 pm (UTC)/and why I'm hiding again.
Re: Precisely!
Date: 2021-05-20 01:51 am (UTC)