Good Things Friday (128) and Link Love
August 6, 2021
1. Getting to see a few people I have missed deeply lightened my heavy soul. I guess even I need a little in person time.
2. I’m slowly catching up on shedloads of work that I had to get through.
3. I missed a big annual bill by a few days, but I caught it in time to mail the check within the grace period and didn’t start to beat myself up over it other than feeling a gust of exasperation in the moment. Progress!
Challenges this week: We memorialized a dear friend’s passing.
Travel with little ones is HARD.
Preparing for a new school year hardly any better equipped or informed than last year feels awful. How are we still in this muddle?
NOBODY WANTS TO BE A SERF ANYMORE
The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
I’m so sick of people. Comparing vaccine requirements to Nuremberg? Really.
Fauci fears that a variant worse than delta is coming, says COVID-19 cases may double. Thinking about how variants arise and how adults who can but refuse to get vaccinated just makes me furious all over again at the cost to everyone else around them. If they had all gotten vaccinated, we wouldn’t have given the virus enough time and bodies within which to mutate and get stronger and more virulent. So now even vaccinated folks are able to carry and transmit high quantities of virus. Ngh!
How Financial Independence Let Me Leave An Abusive Relationship
Being Purple seems like a lot of fun.
This is amazing: Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
Scuba-diver photographs Scotland’s colourful marine life (these are absolutely gorgeous)
My kid’s school is supposed to start in person classes in 12 days. The county already communicated that they’ll be doing masks optional for all, but her actual school– a charter– says that they’re working on their plans and will communicate them by Friday of next week. So, 5 days before classes begin.
They had previously said that they would be requiring universal masking on campus, so the fact that they’re now “planning” is a bit of a Thing.
I really wish they would just go virtual until January at the earliest. I’d rather have the continued disruption to my life and career than the risk to my child.
Ugh I am so sorry your experience is also not good.
I have so much more ranting from this week for Monday.
I, too, wish everyone had just gotten vaccinated – which would definitely lower transmission! – but there are literally billions of unvaccinated people all over the world who are getting sick and the virus will continue to mutate in all of them. (See also: India.) Also, the fastest replicating virus strain will always become the dominant strain, so I feel like this was always going to happen. But it didn’t have to be this bad in so many ways.
Good point, I still feel really frustrated at willfully unvaccinated people but Delta didn’t originate in the USA.
Yep, it’s a separate thing for me. I hate the stress of Delta, that’s one. I’m mad about the willfully unvaccinated, that’s another.
It’s true – my anger about the variants taking hold here with higher transmission isn’t because I think they wouldn’t exist. I know they would. It’s because it didn’t have to be this bad here. As has been the theme of the past…years…
Hitting the second Covid start-of-school is really hitting me hard mentally, worse than the 1 year lockdown anniversary. Because then I was looking forward to getting vaxxed soon… and now there’s nothing concrete to look forward to.
Both of my kids will be in high school in a week, and it’s fully masked (required) for everyone, with an 85%+ vaccination rate. I wish it was higher, but that’s what it is. My youngest missed half of middle school, and my oldest missed his first year of high school, for all intents & purposes. It’s just crazy, and like you, I get really angry & frustrated with people who have the ability to get vaccinated & don’t.
I’m glad you have that much of a vaccination rate! With the elementary school…sigh. no such luck and we know that they definitely have teachers who aren’t vaccinated.