Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

No but giving the finger was never easier

 

It's surprisingly awkward, actually. Make a three fingered hand, just to get the feel of it. Now try to present it as if you were angrily flipping someone off. Using two fingers to flip a bird just feels wrong.

 

Wonders what the big deal is.

 

Had some conversations with some friends today - apparently there is a big gap in terms of getting eligible seniors vaccinated - many don't have a computer or lack the tech literacy to find the info and schedule an appt. - or maybe even be able to get to a vaccination spot. Those in care homes are taken care of by staffers, but what about those who live on their own?

 

Fun times in Frisco, where the city is suing the school district.

San Francisco sues its own school district, board over reopening: 'They have earned an F'

 

I am so glad that my parents lived full lives and died at the age of 80 and never came within a decade of the Trumpandemic. My best wishes to those dealing with this continuing tragedy.

 

Stay safe, @wicked and Mrs. Wicked. Hoping for the best, @bigpern23.

 

I wonder how my dad, who died in '95, would have responded to Trump. If I'm brutally honest with myself about it, he probably would have drunk the Koolaid. Still, every time something really bad happens here, in Central America, or the Middle East, I'm glad he missed it.

 

My dad died in 2014. He was a Catholic born in NI during the war and came of age during the Troubles. He was always talking about how we were losing freedoms in this country and how we should appreciate them (he was very sensitive re: civil liberties). I'd like to think he was an open-minded guy, but he sounds like the type who would've taken Trump's propaganda whole. Bullet dodged, perhaps.

 

I understand. Dad alternated between thinking progressives had a point and yelling at me that I "would grow up to cry about the Indians."
Morgan Freeman: He was right.

@tea and ease So sorry. Keeping you and yours in my prayers. At this point, from my prayers, God knows which hockey teams I like, a bunch of screen names, and the Dean of Canterbury's cats. He's probably passed my prayers on to a minor saint.

 

This is a very valid point. My 89-year-old mom thinks it's rude and wrong that a lot of things can only be found or done online these days. She actually gets angry and annoyed about it sometimes.

I agree with her, too, because I've seen the reasons first-hand.

To wit: My mom has an also-elderly friend who is actually pretty savvy with a current phone, and yet, she doesn't have a computer, or a printer, at home. My mom, herself, is an intelligent person, who still has her marbles, who nonetheless is just not comfortable with a computer. She has become frustrated enough, often enough, whenever I've tried to show her how to do the basics of navigating around a computer keyboard, that she just has no interest in attempting to do it anymore. She has a computer in her home, but she'll no longer go near it without one of her kids or grand-kids around. She just doesn't care enough about it, and believes there's still enough of her generation around that they ought to still be being considered and respected in everything, too.

One of my brothers had to go in and set her up to get registered for a COVID-19 vaccine, and she's now awaiting word from him about where and when to go get it.