Well…as you know I still wear a mask whenever I’m out and around people because I’m not going to get that damn disease…and it doesn’t bother me in the least when people give me dirty looks (hasn’t really happened much) when I’m grocery shopping…but today something weird happened…I’m normally the only one that has a mask on but not today…I must have counted almost 20 people in masks at Meijers and Aldis…and that surprised the heck out of me since people aren’t taking covid seriously anymore…but I am and I will continue to after reading the serious health effect of getting it just once…wear a mask to prevent brain damage? Yep…wear a mask to prevent Alzheimers? Yep…wear a mask to prevent heart and lung damage? Yep…you get the picture…my body is wearing out fast enough without letting a damn virus speed that up….at least more people are starting to figure that out, too…geez…
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Another reason…
Well…as you know, I continue to be careful about getting infected with covid by social distancing and still masking up whenever I go out anywhere…and with reading more about the damage the virus does to your body, it gives me another reason to continue being careful. Just yesterday, I read an article that said a recent study of infected people found that the virus suppresses the immune system by up to 80% making infected people much more susceptible to the other viruses going around like RSV and the flu…and this effect lasts from 8 months to a year…and this is in addition to the debilitating effects that you get with long covid that many people still feel years after their infection and is going to result in a tsunami of permanent disability in the near future…and don’t get me started on the 1,000 people a day who are still dying and adding to the total of 1.1 million who have already died…so, am I trying to justify my being careful? Nope, I’m comfortable with what I’m doing to try to avoid this disease and I really don’t care that no one else is…it’s their lives…
We have a winner!
Well…in the continuing contest on the right to try to be the dumbest person in the country, as of this morning we have a winner! Marjorie Taylor Greene even beat out Louie Gohmert and that takes a lot of doing…and how did she win? With a tweet this morning comparing covid to cancer and it went like this: “1. every single year more that 600,000 people in the US die from cancer….the country has not once shut down….not a single school has closed….and every year, over 600,000 people, of all ages and all races will continue to die from cancer.” Okay, now this is the dumbest way to go after covid restrictions and vaccines that I have ever seen…I wonder if she even went to grade school because, by third grade, I knew the difference between a disease like cancer and an INFECTIOUS disease like covid….marjorie you idiot…you can’t get cancer from just being in the same room with someone with cancer…cancer is not transmissible….oh, that’s too big of a word for you? Let’s put it this way, you can’t catch cancer from someone else that has it…is that more understandable to idiots? I am constantly surprised how stupid the modern repub is and they wear their stupidity like a badge of honor and their voters love them some of that stupidity since most of them are just as stupid…they’d have to be to listen to this moron and electing her….geez….
Ignoring the virus isn’t working for the repubs…
Well…gee, who would think that ignoring the virus and doing nothing to fight it wouldn’t work for the repubs? In Florida, Ron DeSantis’ approval rating has plunged to the lower 40′s from the high 50′s in just a couple of months once the milestone of him killing more people than his margin of victory was passed…and, with 99% of those dying being unvaccinated and 99% of those being repubs, the damage is going to get worse….how the hell do you run on killing 50K people and doing nothing for anyone but your rich buddies? The ads write themselves for the 22 election and if Charlie Crist can’t win in this environment, he just needs to go away. Oh, and here’s a funny bit…with the trampling of women’s rights and voting rights in Texas, a new poll shows that Abbott would lose to…wait for it…Matthew McConaughey by almost 10 points if the election was held today…and Abbott’s approval ratings are flirting with the 30′s as many, many tech companies are re-evaluating their moves to Texas as women are turned into second class citizens with less rights than men….I really hope these morons lose and lose big next year…how can you live in Texas or Florida with these assholes in charge? Geez…
The anti vaxxers could cost me 5 grand…
Well….when I was on the bike this morning, a thought hit me that really, really pissed me off…with the anti vaxxers getting sick and spreading delta everywhere, these assholes could cost me 5 grand if I get sick and have to go to the hospital…see, even with my Medicare advantage plan, I am on the hook for 5 grand of co-pays if I end up in the hospital and that is pretty damn personal for me…and for the retirees who are still on regular Medicare, the plan only pays 80% of the bill and the patient is on the hook for the rest…and you know that weeks in the hospital with constant care is not going to be cheap…it could run up to half a million bucks and that would leave the patient with a bill of 100K….and I don’t know of many retirees who could foot that bill with leaving them completely broke…so here’s another reason to hate these selfish assholes who are solely responsible for the trouble this country is in…and who are responsible for me and many others masking up again when we did everything right by getting vaccinated to help our country…I have had enough and have no sympathy for those who chose to not get vaccinated and who are killing our healthcare workers…shame on them….geez…
Stupid repub of the day…
Well…gee, I guess no one could have seen this coming…after the right wing asshole governors got laws passed that prevent mask mandates, I think one of them, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, is having second thoughts on the bill he just signed since his state is one of the hot spots of the revived pandemic….and now he is whining to the repubs that passed the law that they have to come back in a special session and repeal the law so most of the kids in his state won’t get sick and possibly die when the go back to school. Folks, this is what happens when politics replaces science in public health decisions….and this guy was pandering to the far right morons who won’t get vaccinated or wear masks but the virus doesn’t care and most people who are dying right now are the un-vaccinated, and it is a shame that most of them are kids up to 12 years old and these morons don’t care and won’t protect them by being vaccinated…so, the next time anyone says that the repubs are pro-life, just call bullshit on that idea…they are pro life until a fetus is born, after that you are on your own….
The new policy is to ignore them…
Well…it appears that there is a new dem strategy tha is being played out int he House right now…and that is to ignore the repubs completely…and I think that Nancy started it when she did not let McCarthy appoint the bomb throwers that he uses to disrupt every damn committee and even the two impeachments….and she called McCarthy a moron yesterday for opposing the mask mandates to try to stem the uncontrolled spread of the delta variant in the House…she wouldn’t have to do that if the dam repubs would get vaccinated…all of the dems have but at least half of the repub reps aren’t and that is a recipe for disaster in any enclosed space right now….and it appears that even though Michigan is doing good against the delta, mask mandates are coming back even for the vaccinated and I am pissed about that…how long do we have to shut down our lives just because a bunch of right wing assholes refuse to be vaccinated? How long do we have to let these pricks screw up this country with their delusional bullshit? I really have had enough of coddling these morons…how about we exclude these idiots from normal life until they are vaccinated…okay, this one veered off course but that happens sometimes…at least I wrote something….