Just a little (link) love: baby armadillo edition
July 16, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1589.82; Rural libraries, $321.62.
Scientists warn of potential wave of COVID-linked brain damage
A tiny part of me wanted to believe that just maybe it would be possible to see some things improved by the end of the year. Just some. Not all, not a lot. But I’m betting Scalzi‘s right that we’re looking, at the very least, at this complete bullshirt through the end of the year.
I read that younger children are supposed to be less susceptible and less likely to be carriers. Then I see reports like this and this and I remember how many people are selfish idiots who refuse to mask or do anything to keep people around them safe, or naive and ignorant of proper masking, or have no idea they’re asymptomatic carriers, and my risk assessment goes way the hell up. Because it’s not just a risk based on the biology of the virus. It’s amplified by human behaviors. And too many Americans are not trustworthy.
The Plague States of America. Painful to think about how true a lot of this is: It’s not that other nations don’t want to welcome Americans, they just can’t. The point of a passport is that a sovereign power vouches for its bearer, but America can’t vouch for the health of their citizens at all. America’s public health regime is far less trustworthy than Liberia’s (which is actually quite good). Its sovereign is mad.
At the same time, you can’t trust Americans. Americans have poor hygiene (low masking rate) and at least 40% of the population can’t be trusted to even believe that COVID-19 exists, let alone to take it seriously. They’re likely to refuse testing, not report symptoms, break quarantine, and generally follow rules. Americans have a toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance that makes them unwelcome travelers.
I am so sick of this administration and their attempts to further destroy this country. This time it’s their attempts to bring down USPS. USPS isn’t perfect, what is, but none of the private companies that compete with it are any better and in a lot of ways they’re worse in my experience.
People looking for permission to lie to stand out on their applications. It reminds me of the candidate who would have been a shoo-in for the job but I knew the company he had come from so the way he chose to lie made it obvious he had inflated his title. He would have been just fine with the truth. But I will not hire someone who is willing to lie to get a foot in the door. Why would I trust them?
Are you an anticipatory joy person or a live in the moment person?
It’s 2020 and people (Americans, I assume) are still looking for ways to discriminate against pregnant employees. I can’t stand the “values” in this country.
baby armadillo plays with his toy pic.twitter.com/5OOSgq8k1C
— Nature & Animals 🌴 (@AnimalsWorId) July 10, 2020
Reading that science article on young children and Covid was like an emotional rollercoaster – on the one hand, phew! *sigh of relief* On the other hand, yikes on a bike!*gasp of anxiety*
Ah well, at least you know it’s a well balanced article in that sense. Thank you for sharing!
So much. And we still don’t know nearly enough about the science to really depend on anything we’re hearing right now, this is just what we have observed *so far* under certain conditions and certain countries. LE SIGH.