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shadowkatEveryone talks about their POD. My POD is basically me, and the wildlife out my window. Although I'm not sure that counts - since it is outside my window. So in reality, my POD is me and the aerogarden lettuce that I'm growing in my kitchen. Also the occasional delivery person or super or neighbor - but they are all wearing masks. Well that is except for this guy....
If you can't see the picture - which you won't in about a month or so, it's a Hasidim Orthodox Jew in full gear without the mask.
Other than that it's a cat's life outside my window. I much prefer the backyard view to the front - it has birds, feral cats, and squirrels. There's the occasional human - but I can't see them all that well.
I've nicknamed the cat "Patches", there's also Ghost, and Spunky Kitty.
But mainly it's just Patches and Ghost.
Less birds about. There was however a couple of squirrels...
You can sort of see them - one camouflaged with the tree. I should buy binoculars with a camera attachment - but I'm not exactly techie, and my hands shake - so it may not work. But I've been debating. By the time I get them - I'll probably be in the office again.
Speaking of which...our tele-work from home agreement to the surprise of no one - has been extended to March 5. Like with everything else? I got four emails - just in case I missed it. (I suppose this is progress - considering from February to roughly November of 2020, getting any information was akin to pulling teeth. Now they've gone for overkill.) Personally, I think they should just make it indefinite until further notice. But what do I know?
Staff Meeting From Doom!
Well, informed boss of three project change orders that had potential issues. Boss proceeded to tell me that I need to keep them in the loop. (Kind of am, it's not my fault they don't read my status reports and work from home logs. Although admittedly one just happened. Maybe they want four emails too?]
Also, I had to tell them who the new PM was, whose last name I can't pronounce. I struggle with pronunciation of names. Moscow helped. He knew the guys name and provided it. Ironic that it was the guy with the thick Russian accent who helped me out. Although, I don't have problems with accents and listen closely and with empathy - mainly because I can't pronounce things well, and experienced an speech impediment myself - the experience has made me empathetic of others issues, more so than some. It's been a gift. I don't make fun of how people pronounce things, I don't laugh at them, and I don't mimic or mock it - because people have done that to me, over and over again. In school - I was ruthlessly mocked for it. So much so, that now, I just state - "I'm sorry, for some reason I can't pronounce the name, I'll try to spell it for you or write it down. This is as close as I can come." When they make fun of it or find it funny, I shrug it off. (I skipped Bible Study again last night in part because the last session I'd attended involved having my pronunciation of the name Magdalene (which I cannot pronounce to save my life) ruthlessly mocked. And I didn't want to deal with them again at the moment.]
Anyhow...I did ask a question, I'm the only one with the guts to do so.
I've been getting lots of emails lately from Crazy Org (in duplicate) because they send all emails now in duplicate - about applying for positions with the new agency within the agency. "Apply for your Positions, we are doing the three levels, to the function leader". And I'm thinking okay, what the frigging heck does this mean exactly? I hit on Transformative Plan - which is basically a powerpoint presentation provided by a consulting firm for upper management about how they need to restructure their organization, etc. I'd seen it before. And on the job position link - none of the positions apply to me. Should I be concerned? Am I missing something?
So I ask.
Boss: Unless it asks you to apply for "your" position, I wouldn't worry about it.
Breaking Bad: Actually really none of them apply to us at the moment - they are mostly legal, and yeah, I know you're a lawyer, but unless you want to work with those guys - which I really don't think you do...
Me: I don't. And yeah, I noticed none of them seem to apply - but with all the emails, I just wanted to be certain. Thanks for the verification. Feel much better now.
I'm less stressed over meeting with BYT next week - I've come to the conclusion that she got pushed into this. If it had been her idea, she'd have did it prior to now. I wouldn't want to meet with me bi-weekly and discuss my work. I don't envy her at all - managing people is not something I'd want to do. People are difficult. I'm thinking we're in the same boat - more or less.
Boss apparently is going to be gone through most of March - it's his birthday and he's turning 60, so he's decided to go to Mexico. I informed mother of this.
Mother: But Mexico has the virus.
ME: He may have gotten the vaccine and figures he's safe? Or will get it?
I had also told Jay this, who was flummoxed. Jay is afraid to go to Martha's Vineyard in August with her friends, and is considering cancelling. I told Jay she should be fine - it was in August, it was Martha's Vineyard (which hasn't had that many cases), and the flight was less than 45 minutes. Jay's son is a flight attendant, so she knows what the airlines are like at the moment and does not want to fly anywhere. She thinks Boss is nuts.
Mother: Also, you're not really a lawyer any longer and not licensed in NY.
Me: I know that and you know that, but my co-workers and bosses seem to keep forgetting this small factoid. [It's easier to let it slide. Reminding them all the time is exhausting.]
Not that I want to be a lawyer. I'm perfectly happy doing what I'm currently doing - I've no interest in doing something else.
Family
Mother was in a better mood today. She'd talked to a lot of folks. Also my father was pleasant and lucid. And her POD people (the home health care aids who she calls her POD persons) - have been very helpful.
Mother: My arm is tired, I should let you go.
Me: Small wonder - I'm last in a long list of people you've spoken with today.
Mother: I spoke with you twice.
Me: So I'm first and last -
Mother: No, you're cousin Jim called before you did.
Mother found out recently from a friend of her dead sister's - who she'd gone to school with - that per Ancestry.com they were distant cousins, and their family (mothers) went clear back to the Revolutionary War.
Me: Yeah, I know, I already told you that - about a year or so ago. I'd fallen down the Ancestry.com rabbit hole and tracked it back as far as I could go to 1609. Then I got stuck and got bored. And gave up. I might go back now and see if someone managed to verify us even further.
I think my cousin Anita and cousin Jim played on it - because I was able to go back further with Mother than Father's side. In part, because mother's side immigrated to the US much earlier than Father's. And the US has better record keeping than Europe does. Europe has lousy record keeping. Germany, France, Belgium and Scandinavia are particularly dire - in part because of all of those Wars. Nothing like a War and a bunch of idiotic Nazis to make family record keeping impossible. Although the US made record keeping for minorities difficult.
My family is rather boring. Well, unless you go back to Wales in the 1700s, there was my great great great great great grandmother - who had several kids out of wedlock, and apparently gave my great great great great grandfather her maiden name - which means my surname originated as a grandmother's maiden name or is matriarchal in lineage. Cool.
On FB, pesky family members (my father's family - mother's family is better behaved) are giving unasked for pseudo-expert advice on Face Masks. I've been advised that I shouldn't be handwashing the KN95 masks that I received from VIDA in July - it wears out the filter. I don't know I've been wearing them for the last four months now with no issues. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that I'm not doing what they are doing. I only leave my apartment to do laundry by myself, and to walk around the park by myself, and to go grocery shopping by myself. With other people who are wearing masks and social distancing. I think I'm safe. But alas, they have to provide advice.
I've learned to let them and just not respond in any way. That's the lovely thing about social media - you don't have to respond. And will float on by into the ether. It's only taken me twenty years to figure this out.
Meanwhile - I restrained myself from ranting about the annoying social media habit of calling White Women who act like entitled/privileged brats - "Karen" and White Men who act like entitled/privileged brats "Kevin". [It's admittedly not everyone - just the folks who hang out too much on Twitter - so I'm thinking this was another Twitter trend? It's recent - it happened in 2020 right around the Black Lives Matter march - it may have existed before then, but I didn't hear it until then.] Seriously? You know these are actual names of people from various races, who are not guilty of this behavior and may not appreciate you maligning their names on social media. How would you feel if someone used your name in this manner? Although, I beginning to understand why people hate the use of "Jesus Christ" as a curse word. Even though it's one of my favorites. My father used it all the time - and I kind of caught the habit. "Dick" is another one - that is kind of cruel. My Uncle Dick - made everyone start calling him Richard instead. It wasn't always that way. Some asshole decided to do it. You get to choose, you know. You can choose to be an asshole and use the word Karen. Or you can be more creative, and just call the entitled bitch - an entitled bitch or if you want to go crazy? A Maskless Asshole Gone Awol. It's not hard - I mean some of these folks are academics, writers and poets - you'd think they could come up with something else?
That said, I do agree that calling someone Karen is NOT the same thing as using the "N" word. See I heard the "Niggah" a lot in my work place and on from Lando, who is black and used it frequently. But he pronounced it differently. He pronounced it softer. I've also heard a lot of black people on the street shout at each other using it. And heard it a lot on my commute again by black people to each other.
I won't use it. And I can't stand it when a white person does - the meaning changes completely.
It's kind of similar to a woman calling another woman a bitch, or a gay man calling another gay man a bitch - as opposed to a white heterosexual man calling a woman a bitch. Some words, particularly slang, change meaning depending on who uses them, the context, and the tone. Words in the English language often have numerous meanings, many of which are contradictory. Which is one of the many reasons English is such a hard language to learn. Other languages aren't this confusing.
Other news..
* Hee Hee Hee... Fox News is Sued By Election Techonology Company for over 2.7 Billion
Ah karma is a beautiful thing.
And Smartmatic, an election technology company, filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox and three of its anchors, as well as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, over their representations of election fraud.
See this is how you shut down Murdoch and company, take a page out of the handbook of the folks who kept suing the National Enquirer and won. Sue the bastards for defamation and libel.
* Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with officials from financial market regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss the market volatility created by retail traders after the remarkable rise in prices of GameStop and other “meme stocks” (or “stonks”) — some of which are now taking precipitous falls.
A timely reminder from our economics correspondent Neil Irwin: The best way to make money through investing is extremely boring. Just take a simple approach and have patience.
This reminds me of the advice my father gave me in regards to the stock market - "Don't try to predict or outguess the stock market - you'll lose. Be patient, and don't trade when it's too high or too low." I don't have any patience for it - so I have brokers do it for me. I need to talk to financial advisor at some point - since I've money in about four different places. And no way to consolidate.
I knew that would happen with Gamestop. But I enjoyed watching it - because it taught Wall Street a lesson they desperately needed to learn - which is regulations are a good thing. Without them, you can end up with things like Gamestop, and well the 1929 stock market crash and the 2008 crash. I like Janet Yellen. Biden's cabinet is a breath of fresh air, qualified, diverse, and no-nonsense. Next time some idiotic Republican whines about cleaning out the swamp, I'm going to kick him into a swamp and watch the gators eat him for breakfast.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
New York still has the most deaths in the US, although California is working its darnedest to catch up. It's just 1400 below New York at the moment, with Texas and Florida not that far behind. Honestly, considering how dumb Texans and Floridians are - I wouldn't be surprised if they did catch up soon. Mother told me today that a man in Naples - who managed a grocery store - refused to believe 400,000 died of the virus, no one wore masks in his store, and he was blatantly ignoring the whole thing.
Anyhow, NY isn't quite so stupid - it got blind-sighted in the Spring, and is taking it seriously. Oh we have our maskless wonders - mostly the conservative orthodox Jewish community, that doesn't speak much English, keeps to itself, and is more or less a Jewish cult. Think the Amish on speed. People whine about Jehova's Witnesses - Jehova Witnesses wear masks and get vaccines, and social distance. The Hassidic Community doesn't.
If it weren't for these idiots - Brooklyn wouldn't have been slammed by the virus. But on the bright side, since the virus hit - I've not seen any soliciting my building - they were prior to the virus. I think the Super scared them.
COVID hospitalizations dropped to 7,967. Of the 169,186 tests reported yesterday, 7,414, or 4.38 percent, were positive. This is the lowest daily statewide positivity rate since November 28. The 7-day average positivity rate in all NYS regions is below 6 percent. There were 1,506 patients in the ICU yesterday, down 16 from the previous day. Of them, 986 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 135 New Yorkers to the virus.
2. As of 11am this morning, 95 percent of first doses received by the State have been administered. This represents 1,475,122 first doses administered of the 1,554,450 first dose allocations received from the federal government. So far, 369,186 second doses have been administered out of 725,050 second doses received. See data by region on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
3. More than 27 million Americans have received a first dose of the COVID vaccine. In total, over six million Americans nationally have been fully vaccinated, the New York Times reported.
4. You've heard of mRNA vaccines—but do you know how they work? Both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are mRNA vaccines. New York State released a video explaining how mRNA vaccines work to safely protect individuals from COVID-19. Three key things to know: They do not affect your own genetic material or DNA in any way; they do not contain the actual COVID-19 virus; and they cannot give you COVID. Watch the video.
5. New York State is encouraging eligible New Yorkers to train to become vaccinators. If you are a licensed practical nurse, a dentist, an EMT, a medical or nursing student with at least a year of clinical experience, and more — then you may be eligible to take training to become a vaccinator and help New York administer COVID vaccines over the coming months. See how you can get involved here.
Ah well, that's it for tonight. I didn't do a long walk because...well, there's snow. I'm tired. And while it was pretty - the human obstacle course to get to the cemetery quickly - is difficult with snow. The snow is melting though. Depending on what the weather looks like on Sat - I may take a walk then. I won't have such a small window. It is staying lighter longer at least. Sunset was closer to 5:30 tonight, and sunrise was closer to 6:45 this morning.
If you can't see the picture - which you won't in about a month or so, it's a Hasidim Orthodox Jew in full gear without the mask.
Other than that it's a cat's life outside my window. I much prefer the backyard view to the front - it has birds, feral cats, and squirrels. There's the occasional human - but I can't see them all that well.
I've nicknamed the cat "Patches", there's also Ghost, and Spunky Kitty.
But mainly it's just Patches and Ghost.
Less birds about. There was however a couple of squirrels...
You can sort of see them - one camouflaged with the tree. I should buy binoculars with a camera attachment - but I'm not exactly techie, and my hands shake - so it may not work. But I've been debating. By the time I get them - I'll probably be in the office again.
Speaking of which...our tele-work from home agreement to the surprise of no one - has been extended to March 5. Like with everything else? I got four emails - just in case I missed it. (I suppose this is progress - considering from February to roughly November of 2020, getting any information was akin to pulling teeth. Now they've gone for overkill.) Personally, I think they should just make it indefinite until further notice. But what do I know?
Staff Meeting From Doom!
Well, informed boss of three project change orders that had potential issues. Boss proceeded to tell me that I need to keep them in the loop. (Kind of am, it's not my fault they don't read my status reports and work from home logs. Although admittedly one just happened. Maybe they want four emails too?]
Also, I had to tell them who the new PM was, whose last name I can't pronounce. I struggle with pronunciation of names. Moscow helped. He knew the guys name and provided it. Ironic that it was the guy with the thick Russian accent who helped me out. Although, I don't have problems with accents and listen closely and with empathy - mainly because I can't pronounce things well, and experienced an speech impediment myself - the experience has made me empathetic of others issues, more so than some. It's been a gift. I don't make fun of how people pronounce things, I don't laugh at them, and I don't mimic or mock it - because people have done that to me, over and over again. In school - I was ruthlessly mocked for it. So much so, that now, I just state - "I'm sorry, for some reason I can't pronounce the name, I'll try to spell it for you or write it down. This is as close as I can come." When they make fun of it or find it funny, I shrug it off. (I skipped Bible Study again last night in part because the last session I'd attended involved having my pronunciation of the name Magdalene (which I cannot pronounce to save my life) ruthlessly mocked. And I didn't want to deal with them again at the moment.]
Anyhow...I did ask a question, I'm the only one with the guts to do so.
I've been getting lots of emails lately from Crazy Org (in duplicate) because they send all emails now in duplicate - about applying for positions with the new agency within the agency. "Apply for your Positions, we are doing the three levels, to the function leader". And I'm thinking okay, what the frigging heck does this mean exactly? I hit on Transformative Plan - which is basically a powerpoint presentation provided by a consulting firm for upper management about how they need to restructure their organization, etc. I'd seen it before. And on the job position link - none of the positions apply to me. Should I be concerned? Am I missing something?
So I ask.
Boss: Unless it asks you to apply for "your" position, I wouldn't worry about it.
Breaking Bad: Actually really none of them apply to us at the moment - they are mostly legal, and yeah, I know you're a lawyer, but unless you want to work with those guys - which I really don't think you do...
Me: I don't. And yeah, I noticed none of them seem to apply - but with all the emails, I just wanted to be certain. Thanks for the verification. Feel much better now.
I'm less stressed over meeting with BYT next week - I've come to the conclusion that she got pushed into this. If it had been her idea, she'd have did it prior to now. I wouldn't want to meet with me bi-weekly and discuss my work. I don't envy her at all - managing people is not something I'd want to do. People are difficult. I'm thinking we're in the same boat - more or less.
Boss apparently is going to be gone through most of March - it's his birthday and he's turning 60, so he's decided to go to Mexico. I informed mother of this.
Mother: But Mexico has the virus.
ME: He may have gotten the vaccine and figures he's safe? Or will get it?
I had also told Jay this, who was flummoxed. Jay is afraid to go to Martha's Vineyard in August with her friends, and is considering cancelling. I told Jay she should be fine - it was in August, it was Martha's Vineyard (which hasn't had that many cases), and the flight was less than 45 minutes. Jay's son is a flight attendant, so she knows what the airlines are like at the moment and does not want to fly anywhere. She thinks Boss is nuts.
Mother: Also, you're not really a lawyer any longer and not licensed in NY.
Me: I know that and you know that, but my co-workers and bosses seem to keep forgetting this small factoid. [It's easier to let it slide. Reminding them all the time is exhausting.]
Not that I want to be a lawyer. I'm perfectly happy doing what I'm currently doing - I've no interest in doing something else.
Family
Mother was in a better mood today. She'd talked to a lot of folks. Also my father was pleasant and lucid. And her POD people (the home health care aids who she calls her POD persons) - have been very helpful.
Mother: My arm is tired, I should let you go.
Me: Small wonder - I'm last in a long list of people you've spoken with today.
Mother: I spoke with you twice.
Me: So I'm first and last -
Mother: No, you're cousin Jim called before you did.
Mother found out recently from a friend of her dead sister's - who she'd gone to school with - that per Ancestry.com they were distant cousins, and their family (mothers) went clear back to the Revolutionary War.
Me: Yeah, I know, I already told you that - about a year or so ago. I'd fallen down the Ancestry.com rabbit hole and tracked it back as far as I could go to 1609. Then I got stuck and got bored. And gave up. I might go back now and see if someone managed to verify us even further.
I think my cousin Anita and cousin Jim played on it - because I was able to go back further with Mother than Father's side. In part, because mother's side immigrated to the US much earlier than Father's. And the US has better record keeping than Europe does. Europe has lousy record keeping. Germany, France, Belgium and Scandinavia are particularly dire - in part because of all of those Wars. Nothing like a War and a bunch of idiotic Nazis to make family record keeping impossible. Although the US made record keeping for minorities difficult.
My family is rather boring. Well, unless you go back to Wales in the 1700s, there was my great great great great great grandmother - who had several kids out of wedlock, and apparently gave my great great great great grandfather her maiden name - which means my surname originated as a grandmother's maiden name or is matriarchal in lineage. Cool.
On FB, pesky family members (my father's family - mother's family is better behaved) are giving unasked for pseudo-expert advice on Face Masks. I've been advised that I shouldn't be handwashing the KN95 masks that I received from VIDA in July - it wears out the filter. I don't know I've been wearing them for the last four months now with no issues. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that I'm not doing what they are doing. I only leave my apartment to do laundry by myself, and to walk around the park by myself, and to go grocery shopping by myself. With other people who are wearing masks and social distancing. I think I'm safe. But alas, they have to provide advice.
I've learned to let them and just not respond in any way. That's the lovely thing about social media - you don't have to respond. And will float on by into the ether. It's only taken me twenty years to figure this out.
Meanwhile - I restrained myself from ranting about the annoying social media habit of calling White Women who act like entitled/privileged brats - "Karen" and White Men who act like entitled/privileged brats "Kevin". [It's admittedly not everyone - just the folks who hang out too much on Twitter - so I'm thinking this was another Twitter trend? It's recent - it happened in 2020 right around the Black Lives Matter march - it may have existed before then, but I didn't hear it until then.] Seriously? You know these are actual names of people from various races, who are not guilty of this behavior and may not appreciate you maligning their names on social media. How would you feel if someone used your name in this manner? Although, I beginning to understand why people hate the use of "Jesus Christ" as a curse word. Even though it's one of my favorites. My father used it all the time - and I kind of caught the habit. "Dick" is another one - that is kind of cruel. My Uncle Dick - made everyone start calling him Richard instead. It wasn't always that way. Some asshole decided to do it. You get to choose, you know. You can choose to be an asshole and use the word Karen. Or you can be more creative, and just call the entitled bitch - an entitled bitch or if you want to go crazy? A Maskless Asshole Gone Awol. It's not hard - I mean some of these folks are academics, writers and poets - you'd think they could come up with something else?
That said, I do agree that calling someone Karen is NOT the same thing as using the "N" word. See I heard the "Niggah" a lot in my work place and on from Lando, who is black and used it frequently. But he pronounced it differently. He pronounced it softer. I've also heard a lot of black people on the street shout at each other using it. And heard it a lot on my commute again by black people to each other.
I won't use it. And I can't stand it when a white person does - the meaning changes completely.
It's kind of similar to a woman calling another woman a bitch, or a gay man calling another gay man a bitch - as opposed to a white heterosexual man calling a woman a bitch. Some words, particularly slang, change meaning depending on who uses them, the context, and the tone. Words in the English language often have numerous meanings, many of which are contradictory. Which is one of the many reasons English is such a hard language to learn. Other languages aren't this confusing.
Other news..
* Hee Hee Hee... Fox News is Sued By Election Techonology Company for over 2.7 Billion
Ah karma is a beautiful thing.
And Smartmatic, an election technology company, filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox and three of its anchors, as well as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, over their representations of election fraud.
See this is how you shut down Murdoch and company, take a page out of the handbook of the folks who kept suing the National Enquirer and won. Sue the bastards for defamation and libel.
* Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with officials from financial market regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss the market volatility created by retail traders after the remarkable rise in prices of GameStop and other “meme stocks” (or “stonks”) — some of which are now taking precipitous falls.
A timely reminder from our economics correspondent Neil Irwin: The best way to make money through investing is extremely boring. Just take a simple approach and have patience.
This reminds me of the advice my father gave me in regards to the stock market - "Don't try to predict or outguess the stock market - you'll lose. Be patient, and don't trade when it's too high or too low." I don't have any patience for it - so I have brokers do it for me. I need to talk to financial advisor at some point - since I've money in about four different places. And no way to consolidate.
I knew that would happen with Gamestop. But I enjoyed watching it - because it taught Wall Street a lesson they desperately needed to learn - which is regulations are a good thing. Without them, you can end up with things like Gamestop, and well the 1929 stock market crash and the 2008 crash. I like Janet Yellen. Biden's cabinet is a breath of fresh air, qualified, diverse, and no-nonsense. Next time some idiotic Republican whines about cleaning out the swamp, I'm going to kick him into a swamp and watch the gators eat him for breakfast.
New York vs. the Corona Virus
New York still has the most deaths in the US, although California is working its darnedest to catch up. It's just 1400 below New York at the moment, with Texas and Florida not that far behind. Honestly, considering how dumb Texans and Floridians are - I wouldn't be surprised if they did catch up soon. Mother told me today that a man in Naples - who managed a grocery store - refused to believe 400,000 died of the virus, no one wore masks in his store, and he was blatantly ignoring the whole thing.
Anyhow, NY isn't quite so stupid - it got blind-sighted in the Spring, and is taking it seriously. Oh we have our maskless wonders - mostly the conservative orthodox Jewish community, that doesn't speak much English, keeps to itself, and is more or less a Jewish cult. Think the Amish on speed. People whine about Jehova's Witnesses - Jehova Witnesses wear masks and get vaccines, and social distance. The Hassidic Community doesn't.
If it weren't for these idiots - Brooklyn wouldn't have been slammed by the virus. But on the bright side, since the virus hit - I've not seen any soliciting my building - they were prior to the virus. I think the Super scared them.
COVID hospitalizations dropped to 7,967. Of the 169,186 tests reported yesterday, 7,414, or 4.38 percent, were positive. This is the lowest daily statewide positivity rate since November 28. The 7-day average positivity rate in all NYS regions is below 6 percent. There were 1,506 patients in the ICU yesterday, down 16 from the previous day. Of them, 986 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 135 New Yorkers to the virus.
2. As of 11am this morning, 95 percent of first doses received by the State have been administered. This represents 1,475,122 first doses administered of the 1,554,450 first dose allocations received from the federal government. So far, 369,186 second doses have been administered out of 725,050 second doses received. See data by region on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
3. More than 27 million Americans have received a first dose of the COVID vaccine. In total, over six million Americans nationally have been fully vaccinated, the New York Times reported.
4. You've heard of mRNA vaccines—but do you know how they work? Both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are mRNA vaccines. New York State released a video explaining how mRNA vaccines work to safely protect individuals from COVID-19. Three key things to know: They do not affect your own genetic material or DNA in any way; they do not contain the actual COVID-19 virus; and they cannot give you COVID. Watch the video.
5. New York State is encouraging eligible New Yorkers to train to become vaccinators. If you are a licensed practical nurse, a dentist, an EMT, a medical or nursing student with at least a year of clinical experience, and more — then you may be eligible to take training to become a vaccinator and help New York administer COVID vaccines over the coming months. See how you can get involved here.
Ah well, that's it for tonight. I didn't do a long walk because...well, there's snow. I'm tired. And while it was pretty - the human obstacle course to get to the cemetery quickly - is difficult with snow. The snow is melting though. Depending on what the weather looks like on Sat - I may take a walk then. I won't have such a small window. It is staying lighter longer at least. Sunset was closer to 5:30 tonight, and sunrise was closer to 6:45 this morning.
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Date: 2021-02-05 04:29 am (UTC)Stay away from financial advisers till the Democrats restore the rule that they have try to work in your best interests. Thanks to Trump they currently don't.
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