Day #45 of Year 2
Apr. 30th, 2021 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatMy shoulders ache along with my hands, I think it a combination of the shifts in barometric pressure, and sitting hunched over a 13 inch lap top - which I've placed as ergonomically perfect as I can on my computer desk. (No, I've not purchased a new monitor or computer as of yet - but if this continues past July, I might.)
I did a 20 minute yoga work out via the Headspace app and lifted my arm weights for a bit. The yoga work out - had a couple of poses I could not do, so I ignored those.
Union informed us that they had no clue when we'd return to the office, and requested that folks stop asking them about it. Quite a change from last year, when they were acting as if they were in charge. I think Crazy Org squashed that, and stated it was up to the managers, and each individual situation was different - not up to the union. In short, they finally kicked the union out of the decision making process during the fall.
New York's numbers are getting better in regards to COVID,we have between a 1-2% infection rate - according to the testing at the moment but that's due to the following factors - increased vaccinations. We're currently at 45% one dose, and 34% two doses. Most of the older population has been vaccinated, they are working on getting everyone under the age of 60 vaccinated now, including 12-25 year olds. Also, more activity outside, less inside.
Debating whether I want to enroll in and take Cornell's free public health advocacy course. I'm on the fence. And keep forgetting about it.
***
In other news..
1. This is good news, or at least I think it is good news, don't really care about the rest of the world.. Biden Defunds Border Wall and Returns Billions to the US Military.
Per Twitter..." DOD is canceling all contracts for border wall construction on the US-Mexico border that had used funds originally intended for military missions and functions. Under Trump, the administration dipped into Pentagon funds to build additional border barriers."
Yay, Biden is returning the funds to the correct channels.
2. The New York Times Found an Interactive that shows how the Pfizer vaccine is made.
3. I'd been waiting for COVID to take out India, I knew it was going to. I'm just surprised it took this long - why? Because India has the worst health care system on the planet, and the biggest population next to China. Except unlike China, it has no pandemic protocols in place, and extreme poverty. Also it's dense in population. And I knew they don't have the same reporting/testing in place. So the information coming out of India last year was circumspect at best.
This is a Catastrophe - In India - Illness is Everywhere
NEW DELHI — Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens at a time, and at night, in certain areas of New Delhi, the sky glows.
Sickness and death are everywhere.
Dozens of houses in my neighborhood have sick people.
One of my colleagues is sick.
One of my son’s teachers is sick.
The neighbor two doors down, to the right of us: sick.
Two doors to the left: sick.
“I have no idea how I got it,” said a good friend who is now in the hospital. “You catch just a whiff of this…..” and then his voice trailed off, too sick to finish.
He barely got a bed. And the medicine his doctors say he needs is nowhere to be found in India.
I’m sitting in my apartment waiting to catch the disease. That’s what it feels like right now in New Delhi with the world’s worst coronavirus crisis advancing around us. It is out there, I am in here, and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before I, too, get sick.
And I thought it was bad here in 2020, India is worse.
The world is trying to save India.
After a Year of Loss, South America Suffers Worse Death tolls Yet.
Experts worry that Latin America is on a path to becoming one of the globe’s longest-haul Covid patients — leaving public health, economic, social and political scars that may run deeper than anywhere else in the world.
“This is a story that is just beginning to be told,” Alejandro Gaviria, an economist and former health minister of Colombia who leads the nation’s Universidad de los Andes, said in an interview.
“I have tried to be optimistic,” he also wrote in a recent essay. “I want to think that the worst is over. But that turns out, I believe, to be counter-evident.”
If Latin America fails to contain the virus — or if the world fails to step in to help it — new, more dangerous variants may emerge, said Dr. Jarbas Barbosa of the Pan-American Health Organization.
“This could cost us all that the world is doing” to fight the pandemic, he said.
He urged leaders to work as fast as possible to provide equal access to vaccines for all countries.
“The worst-case scenario is the development of a new variant that is not protected by current vaccines,” he said. “It’s not just an ethical and moral imperative, but a health imperative, to control this all over the world.”
The spread of the virus in the region can be attributed at least in part to a variant called P.1 first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus late last year.
***
NY's news is good. We're moving slowly towards opening up more fully. I texted my insane friend today - "when you are fully vaccinated, would you like to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with me?" I'm considering a few excursions around the city. And I may make the trek to the Far Rockaways this summer, or possibly up to see my brother.
Baby steps you know?
NY Times keeps throwing an article at me about someone I've never heard of, some self-help guru names Rachel Hollis - whose world and business imploded as a result of the pandemic, or her inability to sanely navigate it.
Reminds me of WeWork, which had the same thing happen to it. [I'd heard of WeWork - which took over the Lord & Taylor building.)
I think I need to watch a fun superhero or action film this weekend that takes down the bad guys. I have this craving for that.
Anyhow, TGIF, and all that - it appears to be finally clearing off, and with it my pain.
Considering watching Falcon & Winter Solider, The Nevers (2 episodes behind), and starting Shadow & Bone. I may also find a good action flick.
I did a 20 minute yoga work out via the Headspace app and lifted my arm weights for a bit. The yoga work out - had a couple of poses I could not do, so I ignored those.
Union informed us that they had no clue when we'd return to the office, and requested that folks stop asking them about it. Quite a change from last year, when they were acting as if they were in charge. I think Crazy Org squashed that, and stated it was up to the managers, and each individual situation was different - not up to the union. In short, they finally kicked the union out of the decision making process during the fall.
New York's numbers are getting better in regards to COVID,we have between a 1-2% infection rate - according to the testing at the moment but that's due to the following factors - increased vaccinations. We're currently at 45% one dose, and 34% two doses. Most of the older population has been vaccinated, they are working on getting everyone under the age of 60 vaccinated now, including 12-25 year olds. Also, more activity outside, less inside.
Debating whether I want to enroll in and take Cornell's free public health advocacy course. I'm on the fence. And keep forgetting about it.
***
In other news..
1. This is good news, or at least I think it is good news, don't really care about the rest of the world.. Biden Defunds Border Wall and Returns Billions to the US Military.
Per Twitter..." DOD is canceling all contracts for border wall construction on the US-Mexico border that had used funds originally intended for military missions and functions. Under Trump, the administration dipped into Pentagon funds to build additional border barriers."
Yay, Biden is returning the funds to the correct channels.
2. The New York Times Found an Interactive that shows how the Pfizer vaccine is made.
3. I'd been waiting for COVID to take out India, I knew it was going to. I'm just surprised it took this long - why? Because India has the worst health care system on the planet, and the biggest population next to China. Except unlike China, it has no pandemic protocols in place, and extreme poverty. Also it's dense in population. And I knew they don't have the same reporting/testing in place. So the information coming out of India last year was circumspect at best.
This is a Catastrophe - In India - Illness is Everywhere
NEW DELHI — Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens at a time, and at night, in certain areas of New Delhi, the sky glows.
Sickness and death are everywhere.
Dozens of houses in my neighborhood have sick people.
One of my colleagues is sick.
One of my son’s teachers is sick.
The neighbor two doors down, to the right of us: sick.
Two doors to the left: sick.
“I have no idea how I got it,” said a good friend who is now in the hospital. “You catch just a whiff of this…..” and then his voice trailed off, too sick to finish.
He barely got a bed. And the medicine his doctors say he needs is nowhere to be found in India.
I’m sitting in my apartment waiting to catch the disease. That’s what it feels like right now in New Delhi with the world’s worst coronavirus crisis advancing around us. It is out there, I am in here, and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before I, too, get sick.
And I thought it was bad here in 2020, India is worse.
The world is trying to save India.
After a Year of Loss, South America Suffers Worse Death tolls Yet.
Experts worry that Latin America is on a path to becoming one of the globe’s longest-haul Covid patients — leaving public health, economic, social and political scars that may run deeper than anywhere else in the world.
“This is a story that is just beginning to be told,” Alejandro Gaviria, an economist and former health minister of Colombia who leads the nation’s Universidad de los Andes, said in an interview.
“I have tried to be optimistic,” he also wrote in a recent essay. “I want to think that the worst is over. But that turns out, I believe, to be counter-evident.”
If Latin America fails to contain the virus — or if the world fails to step in to help it — new, more dangerous variants may emerge, said Dr. Jarbas Barbosa of the Pan-American Health Organization.
“This could cost us all that the world is doing” to fight the pandemic, he said.
He urged leaders to work as fast as possible to provide equal access to vaccines for all countries.
“The worst-case scenario is the development of a new variant that is not protected by current vaccines,” he said. “It’s not just an ethical and moral imperative, but a health imperative, to control this all over the world.”
The spread of the virus in the region can be attributed at least in part to a variant called P.1 first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus late last year.
***
NY's news is good. We're moving slowly towards opening up more fully. I texted my insane friend today - "when you are fully vaccinated, would you like to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with me?" I'm considering a few excursions around the city. And I may make the trek to the Far Rockaways this summer, or possibly up to see my brother.
Baby steps you know?
NY Times keeps throwing an article at me about someone I've never heard of, some self-help guru names Rachel Hollis - whose world and business imploded as a result of the pandemic, or her inability to sanely navigate it.
Reminds me of WeWork, which had the same thing happen to it. [I'd heard of WeWork - which took over the Lord & Taylor building.)
I think I need to watch a fun superhero or action film this weekend that takes down the bad guys. I have this craving for that.
Anyhow, TGIF, and all that - it appears to be finally clearing off, and with it my pain.
Considering watching Falcon & Winter Solider, The Nevers (2 episodes behind), and starting Shadow & Bone. I may also find a good action flick.