Covid Support Thread
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It’s times like these that I really wish I had my preferred superpower of telekinesis.
I’m not sure which aggravates me the most:
1. The idiots protesting in masks
2. The idiots protesting without masks
3. The morons with the “my body my choice signs” that are also wearing pro-life gear
4. Any uninsured person who “isn’t afraid of the ‘rona”
5. Any insured person who “isn’t afraid of the ‘rona”** If you recall I mentioned I had to go to the ER right when this was all starting up and new protocols were in place… pre-insurance bill: 6 hours, a bunch of tests = $20K+. Luckily I do have insurance and so my actual costs are far lower but I have a good paying job and a ton of work and can afford those costs. One week in the ICU with insurance would likely be more than most people make in 6 months… but sure, bowling is really important too.
I broke down and got semi-permanent hair dye from the grocery store for my roots. It turned out okay, actually. Not as good as when my stylist does it, obviously, but certainly good enough for the current situation. I don’t need others to risk death for my roots. Or nails. Or a massage. WTF is the matter with these people, anyway?
Our out of town neighbors asked us if we could take their boat out to see if it would run (it’s just been sitting there since February), so yesterday, we said screw it to work and did just that all afternoon. (Boating is allowed here as long as you stay 50 feet from other boats – easy to do on a Tuesday.) We drove around for a bit to make sure it was running okay and then just anchored, listened to Radio Margaritaville and sat on the water in the sun and let the dogs swim. It was a really, really nice break.
Unfortunately, due to construction work on the condo building somehow deemed “essential” (which is unbelievable!), we have to leave our place here for two weeks, so we’re going back to New Orleans at the end of the week. It’s freaking me out. New Orleans is a hot spot, though it’s getting better, and things are a lot tighter there than here. Masks mandatory, etc. We *think* I had it last month, but of course, there’s no way to know for sure right now. And then, if we come back here, which is likely unless things change significantly, it’s voluntary self-quarantine time for us, just in case. So I’m glad we took the opportunity to get out while we had it.
At least I have a courtyard there to work in, and it definitely needs some TLC after being basically left to run wild for the last weeks. I may start restraining furniture, too. Fortunately, I bought all the supplies back in January and just procrastinated and didn’t do any of it. Anything to avoid the news, really.
I also don’t think the vast majority of those demonstrating outside of state capitals are there because they want a haircut or to be able to shop or go back to their job. This is a right-wing astro-turf series of protests, led by very conservative leaders and organizations, including the Koch political apparatus. They are the same folks who made up the early Tea Party demonstrators — folks supposedly terribly, terribly concerned about deficits as President Obama spent to pull us out of the GWB near-recession. The same folks who haven’t said squat about Trump ballooning the deficit and who went along with GWB turning surpluses as far as the eye can see into permanent deficits. When Republicans are in charge, the subscribe to “Reagan taught us that deficits don’t matter.” There issues have been what they always have been: they don’t like blacks, Hispanics, or even white women in positions of power; they hate gays, they hate people with darker skins, they worry that their tax $ go to these people, they hate abortion but love capital punishment, oppose birth control,and they want their southern white evangelical religion to be the official philosophy of the entire United States.
So fun fact some of my extended family in Michigan (where I grew up) participated in the protests that blocked entrances to a hospital. AND they are pro-life and have none or limited health insurance. I CAN’T WITH THEM. Oh and another fun fact these family members had a mother/grandmother who is in a nursing home and they still don’t care. UGH….it’s so hard being related to them.
Meanwhile, my Uncle (also in Michigan but my mom’s brother) is a CFO at a regional hospital and is working 7 days a week shifting funds around and trying to source more PPE and ventilators for the staff there.
AND meanwhile in Virginia, my father-in-law (who will be 82 Friday) just had to go golfing yesterday. This man has all the pre-existing conditions and he should probably not leave his house let alone go golfing. He never listens to his son, who went to med school, but takes medical advice from Trump and FoxNews. It is exhausting having extended family in average times, but especially right now.
The protesters are idiots and assholes but there are always going to be a few hundred idiots. A higher percentage of the populace believes in vampires than wants to open things up early. And I think that some people are scared and afraid and this is their way of lashing out. I do blame the monsters in right wing media and the Republican party who are hyping them up.
In other news, I was finally able to get a home delivery order on some heavy grocery items we’re out of or almost out of. Since the husband and I don’t have a car and have to walk 1.3 miles to and from our closest grocery store, I’ll take the small win!
Yup – idiots – the lot of them.
I predict a few months of Covid-grets – the “I’m not skeerd of the ‘rona! This is ‘merica! I’m going to the shootin’ range and I’m going to touch people!”
followed by gofundme’s for funeral and medical bills. It’s already started.People. People who are stupid. Are the stupidest people… of all…
not all of it I agree with (salons etc), but it was nice to see republicans giving credit to Pritzker and his team for good communication throughout this. and the acknowledgement of the decisions at hand (and that it will probably differ by region). That at least gives me hope that whatever extension is put in place will have support from both sides in an effort to continue to keep people safe.
Did anyone read Wisconsin’s governor’s clapback at the republicans suing him? too funnyHave you seen all the posts of people who called Covid a hoax, and have now died? Family I once respected now believe that everyone has been exposed and that Democrats just want to ruin the economy. Because even though this is worldwide, somehow it’s also the Democratic Party’s fault.
Mark my words, Covid trutherism* will become an important form of Republican in group signaling and will be espoused by Republican presidential candidates in 2024, much the way that birtherism got Trump the nomination. Fox News already gives plenty of airtime to people who argue that the death toll is inflated and the whole thing is a scam.
*this will include some combination of denying the number of deaths, saying that it only affects people who would have died anyway, saying that Democrats deliberately destroyed the economy, etc.
