SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

Just sell all new harleys with and injection waiting in the seat. Those fat ass accountants will never know they got vaccinated. By this time sturgis is probably like burning man. It is a whole bunch of white dudes looking for a safe adventure while pretending to be bad ass.

Shit, I might have forgotten who my audience could be composed of. Don't get me wrong, I like myself a good safe gathering with the comforts of technology myself. It is just that I am always the person who has to go rescue people from the woods at night. Do you know how many times I have had to hand bearded men my flashlight and carry the wood back to camp while in a dress? FFS I should be called the Fairy of the Wilderness for all the fucking times I have bailed out manly men. Let us not talk about fixing motorized vehicles while in a dress while bigger dudes sip beer.

Some guy: Where is tererun?
My friend: He is under the car fixing my brakes
Me: I had better not have heard you call me a he while I am fixing the thing that will help you stop before you die.

Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk



I think it's time to take a page from Return of the Living Dead and drop a few tactical nukes in those red zones.

In addition to eliminating COVID-19, it would solve a bunch of other problems.

like the republicans say, we should keep all the options on the table because we would not want to be partisan.

Quebecers who are not fully vaccinated could be shut out of bars, gyms, festivals this fall

Can we charge those governors for murder or attempted murder?

Pfizer is developing a booster aimed at the Delta variant. The gap between the vaxxed and un-vaxxed is going to get even wider and the consequences of the stupidity are going to be even more severe. I won't be nearly as pissy about those who don't get the booster (especially those who had really nasty reactions to the first shots) as those who just flat out refused to get any kind of protection. The bad news is that the risks that come with Delta, and whatever comes after it, are even greater. The good news is that the idiots will die quicker...but of course, they will take some innocent victims, such as children and others who can't take the vaccine, with them.

The anti-vax idiots won't be happy until they've spawned a variant that can overpower the current vaccines and kill us all.

In other news, new cases in Alberta are down to only a couple/few dozen a day, so the government has decided now's the perfect time to try cutting nurses wages by 5%.

I got one of those a few years back that lasted from thanksgiving to february. The doctor finally recommended switching to flonase for my allergies and blasted me with antibiotics to get rid of it. Now I save the benadryl for making the stucco ceiling crawl like bugs and the smell of sweet flowery flonase for whenever the PND starts flowing extra heavy.

I’ve felt like I’m dying for about a week now. The only thing that makes me feel better (and I use that term loosely) is edible.

There might be opportunistic viruses venturing out with their hosts now. Besides COVID-19 I mean.

Oh, I stopped going to the dispensary. My aunt makes canna-butter for me. From that, I can make cookies or … cinnamon-honey butter for toast.

Well, I think we know what has happened to @Asyncritus

So, last Tuesday, July 6, we were all supposed to be back in the office by order of Rick Gonzales, CEO of [company I work for].

I don't hate it as much as I thought I would.

Things that I never realized I did that take up time -

• showering
  • who knew this took a half hour?
• brushing teeth
  • 30 seconds in each quadrant - x4 quadrants ... how the hell does that equal 5 minutes to brush my teeth?!
• finding what to wear?
  • I have like 5 blouses and 5 jeans. it shouldn't be this difficult
• and where the hell are my socks?
  • and bras for that matter

Things I didn't realize I did when I was alone at home

• apparently, I burp occasionally
• swear. A lot
• play with the dog

Anyone else back at work?

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never left. it annoys me that people are coming back like it's some big deal.

I preferred it when all these other people were working from home. Parking was a lot better until recently.

and driving in general.

I haven't stopped working, but I also haven't been in the office for over 15 months.

Prior to the pandemic, most of the time I was traveling for work or just didn't go into the office because I didn't need to.

I do miss the travel, but I'm hoping I never have to go into the office ever again.

Do I really need to spell it out?

In that case "is anyone else back in the office after working from home for the last 15/16 months"?

I didn't get furloughed, and even though there were options to work at home, which was not a guarantee, I stayed working onsite and mobile. For the first few months we had some modifications, but nothing drastic. We were issued safety equipment like gloves, masks, face shields, and had restrictions on how to interact with clients. I still worked pretty much my regular schedule, we did go from a 4 day, 10 hour schedule to a 5 day 8 hour schedule. I've been back to the 4/10 for several months now. When lockdowns were in place at the state level, we did the option of not coming in and having to work at home, but we still were paid with either choice for four weeks. During that time, I was assigned/volunteered to do a good amount of administrative type work. Found out a few months ago that I was the only one asked to do the work, apparently I'm the most responsible person that was trusted to be able to do the work correctly and not likely to screw it up, or pretend they do it. And then once we had procedures in place while the lockdowns were still active, we were also given a temporary pay raise (around 15%) and guaranteed 36 hours of pay a week even if we didn't hit that. Some weeks we averaged around 28-30 hours a week work. We also had very strict restrictions on contact with our clients, if we felt that we were unsafe or in danger of being exposed or contracting Covid, we were and still are 100% empowered to cancel appointments or contact with any client.

Looking back, my work really took great care to make sure we were taken care of and felt safe.

Employers at all levels are frightened and angry that after decades of having workers by the (figurative) balls they're going to have to adjust to a new reality. I think at least some people have decided that working to keep up with the Joneses ain't worth it. Others have used the extended unemployment benefits to buy time to find better jobs, which really pisses off the exploiters. Of course, this will increase the demand for illegal aliens who have no recourse to low pay and unsafe working conditions. So many consequences...

True. I've also read about people quitting their jobs when their employer said 'back to the office" to find other work from home jobs. I know, for me, there is only one reason I haven't done the same.

I go back to the office next week, but we're moving toward hybrid, partially because of all the remote hiring we did over the past 18 months.