In 2016 when so many celebrities passed away, this meme came out:

Now she’s gone and 2021 can suck it!
Thanks for the memories, Betty. It’s a Golden Girl palooza for us tonight!
RIP
In 2016 when so many celebrities passed away, this meme came out:
Now she’s gone and 2021 can suck it!
Thanks for the memories, Betty. It’s a Golden Girl palooza for us tonight!
RIP
We’ve almost made it to 2022 and look at what we still have:
1 Monkee
2 Beatles
and Keith Richards
That says something for the New Year, right?
Shortening isolation time from ten days to five days isn’t going to make the coronavirus crisis any better. But it will make some businesses happy. And confuse people, as well as infect many more.
Mailing 200,000 at-home coronavirus test kits to school teachers and school staff isn’t going to make the coronavirus crisis any better. Today is Wednesday. Hope they’re not being mailed regular USPS mail. You’ll be lucky if you get them by next Friday. Remember there are only two more regular mail days this week. And if you’re lucky to get one in time and test positive on Sunday? Guess who won’t be in school on Monday. And that’s just for the teachers and staff. And I doubt everyone will get one.
Waiting in a long line to get tested isn’t going to end the coronavirus crisis. Especially since you’ll be told that you can’t get tested because they just ran out of tests. And tomorrow isn’t going to be much better.
Running around in public without wearing a mask isn’t going to end the coronavirus crisis. But there’s a good chance it could get you sick. Especially if you aren’t vaccinated.
It’s a good thing Charlie Baker is not running for governor again. Because I, along with many fellow Massachusetts residents, wouldn’t be voting for him. Especially after his announcement of the “big plan” he has to help fight the coronavirus in the state.
Yesterday Baker issued an “advisory”. The advisory is “advising” everyone in the state to wear masks in public places. An “advisory” by definition is “having or consisting in the power to make recommendations but not to take action enforcing them”. You know, like the “advisory” on a pack of cigarettes saying that smoking causes cancer or a weather “advisory” saying the roads may be slippery due to ice or snow. The problem with Baker’s “advisory” is that most stores and private businesses already post “advisories” on their property about wearing masks. Some even require it. Which is what Baker should be doing. As State Representative Ayanna Pressley stated Baker “falls well short” on his “plan”. In other words, Baker’s “advisory” is a big joke and a huge “fuck you” to the people he governs. Because ol’ Chuck has stopped caring. Baker has “no interest” in a state-wide mask mandate and it’s quite clear he has checked out and has “no interest” in his constituents either.
He can also take the 500 National Guard members and shove them up his ass. Shit, UMass alone could use 500 National Guard members and they would STILL fall short of medical personnel. That’s a drop in the fucking bucket.
And the two million shit tests Baker has sent out to poor communities in the state? Why bother? As I said, the at home tests are shit tests that give false-positives nine out of ten times, causing the person taking the test to have to run out to CVS for a more accurate test, only to discover that, yes, you tested positive at home but CVS is saying you are negative. So which is it? I speak from experience on this.
Speaking of shit at home coronavirus tests, Biden came up with the brainstorm of making 500 million of these worthless tests available to anyone who wants one (allegedly) but not until January. Because they have to build a website for them first. Then they have to figure out how many will be allowed per household. They’re not even figuring out the time it’s going to take to get them mailed to anyone because you know how the USPS is these days with DeJerk in charge. Then once you take that shit test, you will once again need to get a more accurate test. Such a waste of time and money. And for what? Omicron will still be there. So will Delta. A test isn’t going to make it go away. Nor will 1000 deployed troops to hospitals in January or February. Or FEMA members or other medical personnel. They are nothing but a big band-aid which will barely stop a greatly bleeding wound. They will help but the bleeding will continue.
So how did we get to where we are? Why are we so far behind the eight ball when, given vaccines and boosters, we should be way ahead? Why are we the dog chasing the tail it will never catch? There are several factors that got us here:
Almost two years after the first known case of coronavirus we’ve pretty much come full circle. Covid was the third highest cause of death in 2021. More people died from Covid this year than in 2020. The new year hasn’t even started yet and it’s already looking pretty grim.
As the year went on we flew internationally again, and went back to work and back to our bars and nightclubs and concerts. We saw relatives again that we thought we’d never see again. And as the year went on and it began to get colder, we got ourselves a new dominant variant to enjoy 2022 with. Hospitals are right back where they were at the start of the pandemic, if not worse, testing is out of control, cases are even more out of control and it’s utterly insane.
But hey, at least we all got to enjoy 2021, right?
Earlier this week I was bamboozled by a relative who texted me to tell me that it “sucked that she could lose her job” because her company was mandating vaccinations and she is refusing to get vaccinated.
Considering this relative tends to be one of those “extreme” people (i.e., the ones who believe you get microchipped when vaccinated, that you’re going to grow three heads, that you’re going to be controlled by Bill Gates, etc.), I was tempted to leave well enough alone and not say anything. Instead I did the opposite, which really angered my relative.
I actually started out on her side by saying how I don’t agree with the mandates (which I don’t). I don’t feel anyone should be forced to get vaccinated in order to work somewhere or attend some event. I feel it is their choice. On the other hand, in life there are rules and it is the company’s choice to have a policy of mandates, or any other policy, especially if it’s a policy meant to protect people. It is your choice if you decide to follow the policy or work elsewhere. And that’s pretty much what I told my relative. Which she didn’t like.
I told her if it were me who was in her situation and I needed a job, I would certainly go and get vaccinated. She didn’t like that very much. At this point I really didn’t know what else to say. Did she just want to argue with me about the vaccine and how her company was forcing her to get vaccinated? What did she want me to do about it? There is nothing I, anyone else or the lamppost can do about it. It’s all up to her.
She rambled on about her constitutional rights, etc., etc. I told her it is her constitutional right to choose to not get vaccinated. And it’s also her company’s constitutional right to issue a policy stating that if you aren’t, you can’t work there.
I reminded her that, considering she is in very poor health, it would only be wise to get vaccinated. I told her that she should want to get vaccinated. I asked her if she would balk at her company asking her to comply with a drug test.
She rambled on telling me if she lost her job she’d lose her house. And I told her “then you know what you need to do”.
Every time I told my relative something she became more and more angry with me. It was as if she wanted me to do something about her situation. What would I be able to do about it? I don’t control her company’s policies.
In the end I told her, “Look, if it’s any consolation to you, the vaccine lasts for about six months, if that. Get the shot and in six months you won’t even have any of it in you anymore. Then you don’t have to worry about it.” She didn’t even like that.
Then she threw the “Let’s Go Brandon” thing at me and asked me if I knew what it meant. I told her yes, but it doesn’t change the fact that your company still wants you vaccinated to work there. But while you’re rambling on like the eccentric idiot that you are, why not throw politics into the measure?
In the end I stopped replying to her texts. She’s a big girl and she’ll figure it out. It’s very simple. She’ll either comply and continue working at the place where she hates to work or she won’t comply and maybe understand in hindsight it’s an opportunity to move on. Money aside, because that’s really what it comes down to for her (she will be hard-pressed to find a job making the kind of money she is at this shit job that she has despised for the past twenty years), maybe she’ll cut her losses and find something that makes her happier. She may still have to get vaccinated, but let her find that out.
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