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Hopalong:
I'm seriously considering Amber's news diet for a while. Or just getting what really matters from NPR when driving. Or just waiting for M to tell me about the big political stuff.
Otherwise, I'm soaking my brain in negative, alarming or tragic headlines/articles day after day after day...to what end? What I can do something about locally, I am. And the rest serves either to frighten or depress me or even break my heart.
I CANNOT help/fix/rescue people who themselves (or their problems) are out of my reach (either personally or financially). So why do I start my day with soaking in tragedy?
I've actually turned to those "Restoring Faith in Humanity" or "Dudes Being Bros" or "Acts of Kindness" or animal-rescue videos on YouTube to correct the balance. But now I'm feeling that a more-extreme step might be appropriate. News diet, full tilt.
hugs
Hops
Hopalong:
And he just got a jab in that bowing arm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWWzmha1_jE
love love love
[especially at the end where you see the folks sitting and their bodies look SO relaxed....}
hugs
Hops
Twoapenny:
How amazing, Hopsie, he makes it look so effortless as well :)
Well we have good news here. Deaths in the over 70s have dropped 97% in the last ten weeks. That is genuinely the best thing I've read in the last year :) They are easing lockdown restrictions slowly and carefully and have made it clear it will be straight back into lockdown if there's any sign of hospital and/or death rates rising significantly, or if the vaccine programme gets derailed in any way. I don't think they're going to worry too much about infection rates if the infections don't result in lots more hospital admissions or deaths. It still seems to be that young, fit and healthy people aren't likely to be seriously affected - it does happen, of course, but on the whole it doesn't seem to be too much of a problem for them, and I'd hope they're taking care to avoid anyone who might still be affected seriously.
We'll still continue to stay home as much as possible, particularly over the upcoming school holidays as it's going to be mobbed here with holiday makers. But that's okay, I'm happy to let everyone else mingle while we get on with things at home. Fingers crossed that by September/October time we'll be in a much better place than we were that time last year. It does feel like there's a light at the end of the tunnel now xx
Twoapenny:
I was reading an interesting article earlier; apparently the overall death rate here (deaths from all possible causes) is much lower than usual. They think we've more or less missed flu season (as everyone's been inside and/or masked and keeping distance) and road traffic fatalaties have been a lot lower (again, because people have had to stay home). There doesn't seem to have been an increase in cancer deaths despite a lot of people not being able to have treatment but they didn't seem to have an idea why that would be. They do think that a lot of people who would have died by now from other causes died earlier because they caught Covid (5 - 15% of the total deaths, apparently). I just think it's so sad that people couldn't die with their loved ones by their side and having spent time with their families before hand. I know lots of doctors, nurses and care home staff have sat with people but it just isn't the same. I think that's sad.
Johnson is apparently talking about vaccine passports for large events and public places; I have to say I'm confused about that. I'm not sure if I've missed something but I thought the vaccines aren't known to prevent transmission? So I'd assume anyone who's worried about catching it would have the jab and anyone who isn't worried is presumably healthy enough to cope with catching it? So I don't quite get the need to have it enforced for access to public spaces. But maybe I've missed some info along the way. Anyway, overall things are looking better, not out of the woods yet but I think it's looking promising now.
Hopalong:
I'm glad it's looking better over there, Tupp!
We're looking at a 4th surge here, and the variants have just arrived. Fairly scary article about those in the Post today...more unknown than known, although they seem confident that vaccines are protective against some of them. The big danger with the political stupidities is that the virus will keep on mutating the longer people don't take the precautions (vaccinated or not). At some point, a mutation may be impervious to the present vaccines, which could throw us back to square one.
My understanding is that the reason even fully vaccinated people now are asked to continue social distancing and masks is that it's as yet unknown whether, even though you may be mostly safe from contracting it yourself once vaccinated, they don't yet know whether you still might be/become an asymptomatic carrier to someone else.
I'm avoiding all crowds for a lot longer. Look forward to eating at outdoor cafes though, as it warms up.
hugs
Hops
PS I agree about how sad Covid deaths apart from family must be.
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