September 8, 2021

Our Catholic hospital here tried to kill my mother's SO,

who had Alzheimers, when he was there with pneumonia. He was costing the Catholic run care program more than they were getting for him from the government.

The program then put heavy pressure on her to sign a DNR when she wasn't ready to, and also to just let him die instead of going to the hospital the next time he got pneumonia.

I don't count on Catholic run hospitals or other health programs to be more concerned about "life" than they are about money.

I'm going to wait and see how this situation develops.

August 17, 2021

Herman Cain Award.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

July 23, 2021

Another perspective on this. Nurses getting abused and threatened by covidiots.

Nurses quitting due to "compassion fatigue" when dealing with those who are sick by choice. There is absolutely no other comparable situation in this country's history that I know of.

The surreal lives of Arkansas nurses fighting Covid-19 inside the hospital and denial on the outside

Video is called: Nurse explains why she doesn't like the term 'healthcare hero'

No, I'm not suggesting that patients should be turned away, but when people see or hear about this kind of shit, I find the sentiment to be understandable. And if too many healthcare workers quit because of burnout or compassion fatigue, or just sick of the bullshit, it's a guarantee that patients WILL be turned away, though it probably won't be the ones who deserve it.

July 22, 2021

It doesn't surprise me. My mother just spoke with an old friend.

She and her husband and her elderly mother all got it, and were all fully vaxxed. The mother got extremely sick, and was hospitalized, I believe in the ICU, though she fortunately survived.

All the real world evidence that I've seen suggests that Delta is highly transmissable, even to vaccinated people.

Everyone can do what they want, but I personally feel like not masking, at this point, is insane.

July 10, 2021

This is a really pernicious form of voter intimidation.

Threatening people with a felony conviction and years of imprisonment if they make an unintentional mistake in voting. Isn’t there already a woman in Texas serving a 5 year term for an honest mistake?

And I wonder which kind of people are more likely to be convicted and have the book thrown at them?

This could potentially have an incredibly chilling effect on voting, especially among groups more likely to be targeted.

I'm surprised people aren't making more noise about these laws.

July 8, 2021

Other countries have gone completely over the edge. Many times, and within living memory.

It's the height of magical thinking, or belief in American exceptionalism to think that such things can't happen here.

I worry about total societal breakdown, and the possibility of unspeakable violence happening here. Just like has happened in so many other places.

July 5, 2021

Wish I could get my hands on some of that.

At the current rate of progress, I'll be dead before they come up with an effective, commercially available, treatment for my kind of depression/anxiety disorder.

June 20, 2021

I joined at the height of the pre primary season for 2004..

That was every bit as bad as I can ever remember this site being.

I got accused of being a Republican, loving GWB, and being part of some sort of organized invasion of the site, operating under military type discipline, because of the candidate I supported.

2008 was the last season that I ever really participated in candidate discussions. Just too toxic

I don't think this place was ever the paradise that people imagine, though it was much better in early 2003 when I first started lurking. At least everyone was pretty much united in opposing the imminent invasion of Iraq.

I missed the first couple years of this place. Maybe that's when paradise existed here.

June 8, 2021

Randy Rainbow going on tour in fall. Tickets on presale right now.

This is not spam, just information, so please don't alert.

We just got ours for the nearest performance, a 4 hour drive from here. Was already practically sold out, but I think that's mostly because it had been scheduled and then canceled in spring of last year.

May 15, 2021

I will continue at least until the viral spread around here

is close to nonexistent.

I'm also going to watch to see if there's an increase in rates of infections among the vaccinated. The fact that people who are more likely to get vaccinated are also more likely to comply with mask mandates could have some sort of impact on numbers.

I'm sure that we will continue to get lots of interesting data.