Covid Support Thread
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Oh, nice @Copa! LOL, probably. The A/E industry is such a small world.
I’ve been considering a Divvy membership too. The husband has one and uses it. I think I might have to.
@ktfran and @copa: traffic has been a steadily increasing nightmare. I would definitely think about the Divvy membership. Also, it’s been near-impossible to get a ride-share. COVID/Carjacking concerns. Even though I’m a reverse commute, driving home is white-knuckle for me. You have a mix of people going the speed limit in the left lanes (ultimate sin!) along with a few people thinking it’s a Nascar race and weaving in an out.
I had to go into the office a few different times over the last week and I have used rideshare to get there since it’s so infrequent. And OMG, each time it took two to three times as long as it once did. I can vouch for the difficulty getting an Uber/Lyft.
Agreed on the way longer time to get a Lyft or Uber. I’ve taken to scheduling them ahead of time when I can. Of course, right now I’m basically house bound for the rest of the week because everyone in this area panic bought gas due to the colonial pipeline problems and now there isn’t any gas left over for the rest of us!
So we went on a trip a few weeks ago and when we came back to Chicago, there wasn’t a single Lyft or Uber to be found. We both had our phones out trying our luck with different apps, and nothing. There were plenty of cabs, so it was fine, but it was odd. The boyfriend used to travel for work so frequently that he had some perfectly-timed Lyft-ordering routine down, but it was a no-go this time. My sister had to travel for work recently and called me in a panic that she couldn’t find a ride share and asked me to drive her because she was starting to worry she’d miss her flight if she didn’t get moving.
We had to leave our house at 4:15 last Tuesday to catch our flight for our first post-vax trip. We ended up scheduling our Uber the night before for the early morning pick up because we knew it had been hard.
Lyft and Uber are a mess in LA. Not sure why that is… but they used to be so amazing. Now… cabs are just as cheap.
Here’s why. Uber and Lyft treated their employees like utter shit during the pandemic, didn’t reach out to them, didn’t care about them or their safety. A driver told me this. There was more to how bad they were treated but I forget. So the drivers are not going to risk their health and safety driving for pennies – oh, that is it too, they get NO extra hazard pay or incentive to reflect the danger they’re in – so they just don’t. It’s better for them to stay home. I think they can still collect unemployment.
In MA too, not sure about other places, the governor doesn’t let them charge surge pricing at busy times, or at least didn’t during the pandemic.
Be wary even of scheduling them ahead of time. They still may not show. We went to Mexico in April and ordered an Uber Black the night before to get to the airport. He was on his way, on his way, then he was 5 mins away and just stopped. Never moved again, wouldn’t pick up the phone. We were like, oh fuck, we’re going to miss our flight. We ran to my car and somehow ended up still making it, thanks to TSA Precheck. Paid for airport parking, but better than fucking up the trip.
Also, we were in an Uber (somehow my husband manages to get them, though it takes a while), and the driver asked if he’d mind changing our address one street number. I guess someone had booked him for the next ride but she was 30 minutes away and he didn’t want to go that far, so if we changed the street number of our destination, it would cancel her ride.
Anyway. Cabs might be a better option now. Uber and Lyft are super shitty companies.
Can I just rant for a minute?
My great aunt is in her 80’s. Her idiot son is in his 50’s and will not get the vaccination. His granddaughter is 6 as in not eligible for the vaccine (yet). MOTHER FUCKER WILL NOT GET VACCINATED. He’s “Scared”. I blurted out “What, he’s scared he’ll get autism at 55?”
She’s still not fully vaccinated because she got COVID in February and had to wait 90 days from antibody treatment. Who gave her COVID? One of her children. They all got COVID because they are all idiots. So since they got it and recovered, they decided they are immune and don’t need the vaccine.
I’m so angry at him for putting everyone at risk. I’m sick of these shit heads who believe these preposterous lies when they can see that people die from COVID and they don’t die from the vaccine. We know that COVID can kill children; it’s unlikely but possible. Why would you take any risk, no matter how small, if you didn’t have to?
And you can get COVID once you’re vaccinated (one of my mom’s neighbors is proof of this – she was vaccinated in Feb – has COVID in May), it’s just less likely to kill you – but that means you can give it to someone who isn’t vaccinated and it can kill them. I swear to Jeebus – I’m so sick of “I didn’t know, I didn’t believe it could be this bad/was fatal and now I know and I’m doing a 180 and want everyone to believe me….NOW.”
The misinformation out there is insane. I’ve been looking at this whackadoodle Instagram page of a woman who is anti-vaxx, and wow. People believe it harms your baby. It makes you sterile. It makes other people sick from being around you after you get it. It doesn’t work. On and on. Interestingly, no comment on the actual adverse events with J & J. Just utter bullshit. I honestly think the Russians are at work with disinformation, which a lot of conservatives want to believe, and it becomes an echo chamber. They are not living in reality. It’s waaaayyy beyond a debunked autism concern. It’s just complete cuckoo-town nonsense. It’s all tied in with the election lie, QAnon, conspiracy theories, etc. there’s literally nothing you can do. But I hope your great-aunt gets vaxxed and will be safe from these people.
Also, here’s the thing, they’re not exactly idiots. A lot of them are pretty educated and intelligent. It’s not even about that, it’s about a mass delusion based on white supremacy and misogyny.
My favorite forehead-slapping one is (and yeah, I’m looking at you Miami school) that people who get the vaccine will be shedding “something” and that people have to protect themselves from getting the “something”.
Oh, how do you protect yourself from getting the something? YOU WEAR A MASK.
That’s right folks – a subset of the people that brought you “I ain’t wearing no mask because I have rights and freedom and ‘merica” are now “We all have to wear masks to protect ourselves from people who are vaccinated.” And you know what I say to that? ‘Bout fucking time. You need to wear a mask to protect yourself from me? That’s awesome. You do that, you wear the fuck out of that mask.
I swear to the Lady Madonna and her extensive cheek fillers that some people simply like being on the non-mainstream side. To make themselves feel smarter or more in control, they choose to ignore 99% of reality because clearly if everyone agrees with it, then it can’t be right.
I’m so thankful my republican loving, small town, catholic family all got vaccinated. Thank you for that, at least. I’m actually surprised my dad signed up to get it the first week he was able to back in February.
