Year 2 - Day #99 - News Flashes
Jun. 24th, 2021 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatIt's been a day - feel ever so slightly beaten up by it from various quarters. Various work-related phone calls, few that were productive. I am tired of being beaten up by my union and my workplace, but alas, I don't want another job - however tempting. Some days, I feel like there's no one in my corner - rooting me on. Well, except mother that is - but she's so far away.
Enuf whinging.
News...mostly good, some bad...but mostly good.
1. From the Governor's bi-weekly email (they took it from five days a week to two days a week. Actually it used to be seven days a week, then it was five days a week, not it's just two days a week.):
Today we close out the emergency chapter in the pandemic—effective today, New York's COVID-19 State of Emergency has ended. Federal CDC guidance will remain in place, meaning if you're unvaccinated, you should still wear a mask in public indoors. Masks will also still be required on public transit and certain other settings, like health care facilities.
2. New York State passed the Gender Recognition Act Today.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed the Gender Recognition Act, removing longstanding barriers to equality under the law and ensuring expanded protections for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers. The legislation (S.4402-B/A.5465-D) allows New Yorkers to use "X" as a non-binary sex designation on New York State driver's licenses. It also ensures that New Yorkers will be able to have their gender identity on official documents and provides protections to reduce discrimination against nonbinary and transgender New Yorkers by permitting name change and sex designation changes to be sealed more easily. Finally, the legislation will provide New Yorkers the ability to amend their birth certificates and use a designation of mother, father, or parent for the first time. [Source Governor's live briefing and NYS Government Web Site
3. We only had five people die of COVID in NY today. That's the lowest number of daily deaths since the whole started in NY State. [Source: Governor's Email.]
4. New York State finally suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license.
New York State suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license after a court ruled he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” while fighting the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump.
An appellate court said that Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. The court also said that he would most likely face “permanent sanctions,” which could include disbarment. [Source NY Times Evening Briefing.]
Took them long enough. But hey, better late than never.
5. Found out about it on Twitter during lunch, and discussed with mother tonight - the partial collapse of a 12 story, 136 unit beach condo complex at around 1:30 Am, just a few miles south of Miami Beach.
About 55 of the 136 units at Champlain Towers South collapsed around 1:30 a.m., officials said, leaving huge piles of rubble and materials dangling from what remained of the structure in the beachfront community a few miles north of Miami Beach. At least 99 people were unaccounted for as of Thursday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta.
At least one person died because of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. A total of 102 people have been accounted for, she said. The mayor said the cause of the collapse was not known.
I watched on CNN this morning - it was horrible. There was no warning.
***
I'm tired. After a less than helpful and ultimately patronizing interaction with Boss, that left me impotently furious, I got up from my computer and did laundry. (The good thing about being moved over to the new agency is no longer having to deal with Boss on everything.)
Also my legs are bugging me again - I want to stretch them. It's most likely back related.
Came back from laundry and called co-worker to get a second opinion - he was also patronizing, less than helpful, and more interested in watching the Yankees beating the Royals.
Went back to switch out laundry. Came back to discuss with mother, who informed me that she'd talked to an old friend whom she'd not spoken with in three years - and who was far worse off than she is. Said friend has a shattered pelvis, lost ten inches due to osteporsis, and is on CBD with THC, and an ophoid patch. Went back down to grab laundry. All the while listening to the audio book Menopause Manifesto by Jen Guttner (?) - which is really good actually. I was surprised. It goes into the historical medical background, views, and medical symptoms and treatments regarding menopause, along with the societal stigma. I've found it to be oddly reassuring and quite informative. It's allayed some worries, and explained quite a few things that I was concerned about and not getting any straight answers. [My gynecologist may be too young. On the other hand - she may not be wrong not to put me on any meds right now.]
Then went for a long walk to the Coop to pick up a few things - that I can't get at the fruit and vegetable market or Foodtown. The COOP is about twice as expensive as the other two, believe it or not.
Less said about work the better.
Enuf whinging.
News...mostly good, some bad...but mostly good.
1. From the Governor's bi-weekly email (they took it from five days a week to two days a week. Actually it used to be seven days a week, then it was five days a week, not it's just two days a week.):
Today we close out the emergency chapter in the pandemic—effective today, New York's COVID-19 State of Emergency has ended. Federal CDC guidance will remain in place, meaning if you're unvaccinated, you should still wear a mask in public indoors. Masks will also still be required on public transit and certain other settings, like health care facilities.
2. New York State passed the Gender Recognition Act Today.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed the Gender Recognition Act, removing longstanding barriers to equality under the law and ensuring expanded protections for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers. The legislation (S.4402-B/A.5465-D) allows New Yorkers to use "X" as a non-binary sex designation on New York State driver's licenses. It also ensures that New Yorkers will be able to have their gender identity on official documents and provides protections to reduce discrimination against nonbinary and transgender New Yorkers by permitting name change and sex designation changes to be sealed more easily. Finally, the legislation will provide New Yorkers the ability to amend their birth certificates and use a designation of mother, father, or parent for the first time. [Source Governor's live briefing and NYS Government Web Site
3. We only had five people die of COVID in NY today. That's the lowest number of daily deaths since the whole started in NY State. [Source: Governor's Email.]
4. New York State finally suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license.
New York State suspended Rudy Giuliani’s law license after a court ruled he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” while fighting the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump.
An appellate court said that Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. The court also said that he would most likely face “permanent sanctions,” which could include disbarment. [Source NY Times Evening Briefing.]
Took them long enough. But hey, better late than never.
5. Found out about it on Twitter during lunch, and discussed with mother tonight - the partial collapse of a 12 story, 136 unit beach condo complex at around 1:30 Am, just a few miles south of Miami Beach.
About 55 of the 136 units at Champlain Towers South collapsed around 1:30 a.m., officials said, leaving huge piles of rubble and materials dangling from what remained of the structure in the beachfront community a few miles north of Miami Beach. At least 99 people were unaccounted for as of Thursday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta.
At least one person died because of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. A total of 102 people have been accounted for, she said. The mayor said the cause of the collapse was not known.
I watched on CNN this morning - it was horrible. There was no warning.
***
I'm tired. After a less than helpful and ultimately patronizing interaction with Boss, that left me impotently furious, I got up from my computer and did laundry. (The good thing about being moved over to the new agency is no longer having to deal with Boss on everything.)
Also my legs are bugging me again - I want to stretch them. It's most likely back related.
Came back from laundry and called co-worker to get a second opinion - he was also patronizing, less than helpful, and more interested in watching the Yankees beating the Royals.
Went back to switch out laundry. Came back to discuss with mother, who informed me that she'd talked to an old friend whom she'd not spoken with in three years - and who was far worse off than she is. Said friend has a shattered pelvis, lost ten inches due to osteporsis, and is on CBD with THC, and an ophoid patch. Went back down to grab laundry. All the while listening to the audio book Menopause Manifesto by Jen Guttner (?) - which is really good actually. I was surprised. It goes into the historical medical background, views, and medical symptoms and treatments regarding menopause, along with the societal stigma. I've found it to be oddly reassuring and quite informative. It's allayed some worries, and explained quite a few things that I was concerned about and not getting any straight answers. [My gynecologist may be too young. On the other hand - she may not be wrong not to put me on any meds right now.]
Then went for a long walk to the Coop to pick up a few things - that I can't get at the fruit and vegetable market or Foodtown. The COOP is about twice as expensive as the other two, believe it or not.
Less said about work the better.