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shadowkatWe're starting to get the remnants of Hurricane Elsa, although we've been having thunderstorms nightly anyhow. It's also hot and very humid in NY.
The day started out well enough...work wise. BYT manager liked my write-up of one of my modifications. We have to write a ten page memo to file for every modification or contractual award. It's a financial and legal business paper, complete with footnotes, attachments, references, etc - justifies the cost, and details what we did. I'm still getting compliments on my writing - it's the one thing I've managed to excel at in my life.
I may never become a famous writer, or win huge awards, but I don't really want it either. Fame is kind of painful.
Did laundry. Or rather sweated doing laundry - it's humid today. I'm wearing a very soft, new, white cotton t-shirt from Talbots. Which I love.
Talbots has become my online shopping - source. Along with Amazon. And Macy's. Although Macy's can be hit or miss at times.
Anyhow...then I talked to mother, who managed to scare me. She told me that she'd visited my father, and the visit went well. He was lucid for a change of pace - and remembered various things, recent things. Also, he told her that he didn't believe she was going to get any better - and had accepted that he was not coming back home.
ME: Wait, what? So he's accepted he's going to stay in the long-care facility, but he thinks you won't heal -
Mother: Yes, that I am disabled and we're just going to have to learn how to live with it going forward. It's been six months, and it's unlikely it will get much better...
Me: I've read that people can take up to 12 months, it's possible it could heal -
Mother: Unlikely. I'm seeing the trauma specialist, and we're doing the bone stimulator, but I don't hold out much hope.
Then she shifted gears to talk about my niece who is kind of manic at the moment - constantly doing stuff with friends, every day. Yesterday Yoga, and today Karate.
And I got upset. I worry about my niece - we have bi-polar on both sides of the family, my father's side, and sisinlaw's mother's side. Sisinlaw's mother was bi-polar, and her grandfather was bi-polar, and I've two cousins who are bi-polar, and were never treated for it. It tends to manifest in the post-adolescent years.
I also worry about my mother - her broken hip scares me. People who get fractured hips at my mother's age, often are disabled for life, and/or die within a year or two. Also, it makes it difficult to visit. I'm so frustrated. This is where it sucks beans being single. It also sucks not being able to drive.
I'm going to have to figure out a way to go down and see her in the fall - I think. Just take an uber from the airports. Or get a car service. Or lyft or something. [Note I don't take ubers in NY, I've taken Lyft, taxies and car services.]
Then when I get there? Then what? Do I stay with her? Do I stay somewhere else. I'm so fucking angry that she broke her hip. But there's nothing I can do. And I'm so fucking angry that I can no longer drive, and I have no one who can help me.
And I was looking forward to seeing my niece this summer - but that's fallen through as well. She's too busy, and not interning in the city after all.
All my summer plans fell through - I'd planned on seeing my parents this spring. I planned on seeing my niece this summer.
Enuf.
There's worse things. A lovely older woman that I met on the FB GH fanboard, who is kind to everyone. And who keeps talking about how her son has cheered her up, or taken her places. He even helped her find the fan board and set it up for her. Well, he died unexpectedly. She doesn't know how.
My god. She's 74, he's in his fifties, and she'd lost her husband several years back. She's alone. Not feeling well. And struggling with chronic pain.
***
When I went down to pick up a package - CBD Relax and Rise Gummies from Winged - I ran into Super's wife, who showed me security footage of a man staking out their van, and stealing from them.
At 8 pm the other night, on the corner of our street, a man staked out their van, cut open the window and stole their tools and other equipment out of the back. It was horrible. She also told how someone in our building had a lap-top stolen out of their apartment. They'd used the fire-escape from the 6th floor. This scared me enough to fiddle with my kitchen window. It's hard to get open, but they could if they wanted to. I finally decided it was unlikely, that fire escape leads into the courtyard of the building, which is closed off, so you can't go anywhere. And the Super has security on it. The Super's wife even told me that my apartment was difficult to access and fairly safe as a result.
Super's wife remarked that she'd never had issues with people stealing stuff like this in the past. Wales noted she'd had packages stolen. I think someone stole the binoculars. So, I've been diligent about getting packages lately.
***
The Universe decided, you know what? I'm frigging bored, so I know, let's go scare and depress the heck out of shadowkat again tonight. See this is why I stopped watching horror films for the most part - I'm scared enough as it is.
I took a CBD and listened to more of Kathleen Turner On Acting - it's not very good. Way too much patting on the back and ego-stroking, not enough information. The interviewer/writer kind of falls over himself complimenting her.
I don't know what I'm going to do about my parents. Or my family. Or my situation. Just lumber on, I guess. What can you do? Making connections is really hard. So much of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time, or meeting the right people who can hook you up or want to.
Wales brought up at lunch on Monday - that neither of us really saw this happening with our parents. I told her - no, I've actually been dreading it for some time, but had hoped it wouldn't happen.
NY vs. Covid
Good news? Super's wife told me that she was vaccinated, and she'd gotten her husband and was getting her son vaccinated as soon as was possible. In short she made him do it. She's smart as a whip.
Bad news? COVID cases are going up again. Went from .6 to .7 to 1.7 percent. Also co-worker told me - one of my project managers, who gets reliable data on it due to his job.
Why are they going up? Because there are dingbats out there who won't get vaccinated. And unvaccinated ones not wearing masks. With the dangerous Delta Variant running rampant - it's now the main variant in the US.
Here's the skinny from the New York Department of Health and New York Governor's Office:
COVID hospitalizations are at 347. Of the 98,677 tests reported yesterday, 607, or 0.68 percent, were positive. The 7-day positivity average was 0.68 percent. There were 80 patients in ICU yesterday, up three from the previous day. Of them, 39 are intubated. Sadly, we lost three New Yorkers to the virus. - we went up again, but it's better than last year. The 1.7% infection rate is in my area, but statewide it's .68 percent. Also ICU is way down, which is a good thing.
As of 11am this morning, 72.8 percent of adult New Yorkers have received at least one vaccine dose, per the CDC. Over the past 24 hours, 43,808 total doses have been administered. To date, New York has administered 21,443,054 total doses with 66.2 percent of adult New Yorkers completing their vaccine series. See additional data on the State's Vaccine Tracker. - Well that's going in the right direction. I want 75% fully vaccinated. I'll feel safer with 75%.
Outdoor dining rules have been extended for another year. Yesterday, I signed legislation that allows bars & restaurants to continue using municipal spaces for outdoor dining. Outdoor dining was popular throughout the pandemic and was an important lifeline for many businesses. [I think it may go until 2024...since it's keeping people going.
The pop-up vaccination sites at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal have been extended through July 10. Individuals who get vaccinated at either of these pop-up sites can receive a free 7-day Unlimited MetroCard or two one-way Metro-North or LIRR tickets. Trying to get people to do it still.
The Javits Center vaccination site will cease operations. At its peak, Javits vaccinated as many as 10,000 people a day and was the largest such site in the nation. The convention center became a symbol of New York's vaccination efforts overall. Due to reduced demand and the success of the state's vaccination program, Javits and two other State-operated mass vaccination sites—Suffolk County Community College (Brentwood) and SUNY Ulster—will stop operating as of Friday, July 9. The State will reallocate resources on localized vaccination efforts to better reach under-vaccinated communities in the State. - Wow, a major milestone.
The New York Public Library reopened nearly all of its branches earlier this week. The Library's many branches closed to the public in March of last year due to COVID, but as of July 6, the libraries have reopened across five boroughs—including the famous Rose Main Reading Room at the library system's Main Branch on 42nd Street in Manhattan. [Wales will be happy - she goes there to beat the heat.]
Not really COVID related - It looks like Eric Adams is declared the winner in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. He'll most likely win the General Election. He's a good choice since he gets the police issue better than anyone else does. Wales doesn't think he understands the housing issue and supports real estate developers - some of which funded his campaign, but I don't know. He won't be the first black man in the office - we had Mayor Dinkins before him. But we did get close to having a woman, so the glass ceiling is getting very close to being broken. Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley came very close.
The World vs. COVID
* More of the Delta Variant: The Delta variant can sidestep the body’s immune defenses, according to a new study. But the fully vaccinated are still protected.
Blood samples from just 10 percent of people immunized with one dose of the AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were able to neutralize the Delta and Beta variants. But a second dose boosted that number to 95 percent.
That's good news. I'm hoping the Moderna also protects against COVID since most of my family members and friends are Moderna. My parents are Moderna, my brother and his wife are, all the extended family members except for a scant few that are Pfizer. I suspect so, since they are fairly similar.
But I don't think they know yet. Since they keep going back and forth on the matter. One article says 64%, the next 95%, the next 64%, the next 94%.
Me: If you don't know, admit it. Stop flipping back and forth - it's giving me a headache.
The global death toll of the pandemic has now surpassed four million, and seven of the 10 countries with the highest death rates over the past week were in South America. Scientists are also watching the Lambda variant, which is spreading rapidly through parts of the continent, but it is not clear how much of a risk it poses.
And I think it's most likely more than that. Evidence suggests that's a huge undercount, which is kind of painful.
The world’s known coronavirus death toll passed four million on Thursday, a loss roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
It took nine months for the virus to claim one million lives, and the pace has quickened since then. The second million were lost in three and a half months, the third in three months, and the fourth in about two and a half months. The number of daily reported deaths has declined recently.
Those are officially reported figures, which are widely believed to undercount pandemic-related deaths.
“The numbers may not tell the complete story, and yet they’re still really staggering numbers globally,” said Jennifer B. Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ms. Nuzzo said the number of excess deaths reported around the world suggested that “lower-income countries have been much harder hit than their official numbers would suggest.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, called four million dead a tragic milestone on Wednesday, and said the toll was continuing to mount largely because of dangerous versions of the virus and inequities in the distribution of vaccines.
The reason for the undercount - is most countries don't have the ability to tabulate the data the US and wealthier countries have, also, they are only counting the hospitalizations. Note their count is "conservative" - the death must be COVID related, and from complications to COVID. They are not counting people who died from car crashes, pneumonia, cancer, the flu, etc.
Following a spike in coronavirus cases in Tokyo, Olympic organizers said they would bar spectators from most events at the Games, which open in two weeks.
Poor Tokyo can't catch a break. They finally get to host the Summer Olympics. They delay it a year - it was supposed to be in 2020. Now, they finally get to do it - but they have to bar the spectators. The poor international athletes don't get to bring their family members and fans to cheer them on. This is so painful.
Plus people who have been training for this for years...god, it's just painful.
***
Other news
Super's wife talked about the assassination of the Haiti President.
Super's wife, Monica (pronounced Monique-ka): It's so shocking the Haitian President was killed. And the country is now under martial law, and they killed him...
Me: Well not really. He was an asshole. And they had a couple of devastating earthquakes after the hurricanes, plus the pandemic - so there's gangs ruling the streets. Also there's lots of civil unrest right now.
It's horrible. I feel for the folks living in Haiti. Actually this may explain why one of my co-workers was snappish over email today. She's from Haiti and has family members who live there.
The world is on fire. Still. And there's lots of civil unrest. It's 2021, and I still want to retreat to a beach in New Zealand with my entire extended family, and maybe Wales. I may look into retiring there - and writing. Set myself up in a beach house, and write and paint and draw, and maybe play with cats. Assuming they have them in New Zealand.
Co-worker and I were chatting about this over the phone today - about how 2020 changed everything. Everything was going to be different. The job was going to be different. Work was going to be different. It was all changing.
It was a watershed year that makes 9/11 look like nothing in comparison.
Mainly because it was global not just NY and DC. We're all in it together.
***
My moods seem to fluctuate like the tides. This morning, I was in a good mood, which got better as the day progressed, then while talking to mother, I cried, then cried when I read the news about the woman who lost her only son, then realized I was sad and scared, then finally...comfortably numb.
I don't know if anyone else feels like this? But I feel like the Universe is Lucy from the Peanuts Cartoon holding up a football, while I'm Charlie Brown - and every time I go to kick it, she yanks it away.
It makes it hard to plan, to hope, to create, to do much more than just keep on trucking and crossing out the days as they drift across my calendar.
The day started out well enough...work wise. BYT manager liked my write-up of one of my modifications. We have to write a ten page memo to file for every modification or contractual award. It's a financial and legal business paper, complete with footnotes, attachments, references, etc - justifies the cost, and details what we did. I'm still getting compliments on my writing - it's the one thing I've managed to excel at in my life.
I may never become a famous writer, or win huge awards, but I don't really want it either. Fame is kind of painful.
Did laundry. Or rather sweated doing laundry - it's humid today. I'm wearing a very soft, new, white cotton t-shirt from Talbots. Which I love.
Talbots has become my online shopping - source. Along with Amazon. And Macy's. Although Macy's can be hit or miss at times.
Anyhow...then I talked to mother, who managed to scare me. She told me that she'd visited my father, and the visit went well. He was lucid for a change of pace - and remembered various things, recent things. Also, he told her that he didn't believe she was going to get any better - and had accepted that he was not coming back home.
ME: Wait, what? So he's accepted he's going to stay in the long-care facility, but he thinks you won't heal -
Mother: Yes, that I am disabled and we're just going to have to learn how to live with it going forward. It's been six months, and it's unlikely it will get much better...
Me: I've read that people can take up to 12 months, it's possible it could heal -
Mother: Unlikely. I'm seeing the trauma specialist, and we're doing the bone stimulator, but I don't hold out much hope.
Then she shifted gears to talk about my niece who is kind of manic at the moment - constantly doing stuff with friends, every day. Yesterday Yoga, and today Karate.
And I got upset. I worry about my niece - we have bi-polar on both sides of the family, my father's side, and sisinlaw's mother's side. Sisinlaw's mother was bi-polar, and her grandfather was bi-polar, and I've two cousins who are bi-polar, and were never treated for it. It tends to manifest in the post-adolescent years.
I also worry about my mother - her broken hip scares me. People who get fractured hips at my mother's age, often are disabled for life, and/or die within a year or two. Also, it makes it difficult to visit. I'm so frustrated. This is where it sucks beans being single. It also sucks not being able to drive.
I'm going to have to figure out a way to go down and see her in the fall - I think. Just take an uber from the airports. Or get a car service. Or lyft or something. [Note I don't take ubers in NY, I've taken Lyft, taxies and car services.]
Then when I get there? Then what? Do I stay with her? Do I stay somewhere else. I'm so fucking angry that she broke her hip. But there's nothing I can do. And I'm so fucking angry that I can no longer drive, and I have no one who can help me.
And I was looking forward to seeing my niece this summer - but that's fallen through as well. She's too busy, and not interning in the city after all.
All my summer plans fell through - I'd planned on seeing my parents this spring. I planned on seeing my niece this summer.
Enuf.
There's worse things. A lovely older woman that I met on the FB GH fanboard, who is kind to everyone. And who keeps talking about how her son has cheered her up, or taken her places. He even helped her find the fan board and set it up for her. Well, he died unexpectedly. She doesn't know how.
My god. She's 74, he's in his fifties, and she'd lost her husband several years back. She's alone. Not feeling well. And struggling with chronic pain.
***
When I went down to pick up a package - CBD Relax and Rise Gummies from Winged - I ran into Super's wife, who showed me security footage of a man staking out their van, and stealing from them.
At 8 pm the other night, on the corner of our street, a man staked out their van, cut open the window and stole their tools and other equipment out of the back. It was horrible. She also told how someone in our building had a lap-top stolen out of their apartment. They'd used the fire-escape from the 6th floor. This scared me enough to fiddle with my kitchen window. It's hard to get open, but they could if they wanted to. I finally decided it was unlikely, that fire escape leads into the courtyard of the building, which is closed off, so you can't go anywhere. And the Super has security on it. The Super's wife even told me that my apartment was difficult to access and fairly safe as a result.
Super's wife remarked that she'd never had issues with people stealing stuff like this in the past. Wales noted she'd had packages stolen. I think someone stole the binoculars. So, I've been diligent about getting packages lately.
***
The Universe decided, you know what? I'm frigging bored, so I know, let's go scare and depress the heck out of shadowkat again tonight. See this is why I stopped watching horror films for the most part - I'm scared enough as it is.
I took a CBD and listened to more of Kathleen Turner On Acting - it's not very good. Way too much patting on the back and ego-stroking, not enough information. The interviewer/writer kind of falls over himself complimenting her.
I don't know what I'm going to do about my parents. Or my family. Or my situation. Just lumber on, I guess. What can you do? Making connections is really hard. So much of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time, or meeting the right people who can hook you up or want to.
Wales brought up at lunch on Monday - that neither of us really saw this happening with our parents. I told her - no, I've actually been dreading it for some time, but had hoped it wouldn't happen.
NY vs. Covid
Good news? Super's wife told me that she was vaccinated, and she'd gotten her husband and was getting her son vaccinated as soon as was possible. In short she made him do it. She's smart as a whip.
Bad news? COVID cases are going up again. Went from .6 to .7 to 1.7 percent. Also co-worker told me - one of my project managers, who gets reliable data on it due to his job.
Why are they going up? Because there are dingbats out there who won't get vaccinated. And unvaccinated ones not wearing masks. With the dangerous Delta Variant running rampant - it's now the main variant in the US.
Here's the skinny from the New York Department of Health and New York Governor's Office:
COVID hospitalizations are at 347. Of the 98,677 tests reported yesterday, 607, or 0.68 percent, were positive. The 7-day positivity average was 0.68 percent. There were 80 patients in ICU yesterday, up three from the previous day. Of them, 39 are intubated. Sadly, we lost three New Yorkers to the virus. - we went up again, but it's better than last year. The 1.7% infection rate is in my area, but statewide it's .68 percent. Also ICU is way down, which is a good thing.
As of 11am this morning, 72.8 percent of adult New Yorkers have received at least one vaccine dose, per the CDC. Over the past 24 hours, 43,808 total doses have been administered. To date, New York has administered 21,443,054 total doses with 66.2 percent of adult New Yorkers completing their vaccine series. See additional data on the State's Vaccine Tracker. - Well that's going in the right direction. I want 75% fully vaccinated. I'll feel safer with 75%.
Outdoor dining rules have been extended for another year. Yesterday, I signed legislation that allows bars & restaurants to continue using municipal spaces for outdoor dining. Outdoor dining was popular throughout the pandemic and was an important lifeline for many businesses. [I think it may go until 2024...since it's keeping people going.
The pop-up vaccination sites at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal have been extended through July 10. Individuals who get vaccinated at either of these pop-up sites can receive a free 7-day Unlimited MetroCard or two one-way Metro-North or LIRR tickets. Trying to get people to do it still.
The Javits Center vaccination site will cease operations. At its peak, Javits vaccinated as many as 10,000 people a day and was the largest such site in the nation. The convention center became a symbol of New York's vaccination efforts overall. Due to reduced demand and the success of the state's vaccination program, Javits and two other State-operated mass vaccination sites—Suffolk County Community College (Brentwood) and SUNY Ulster—will stop operating as of Friday, July 9. The State will reallocate resources on localized vaccination efforts to better reach under-vaccinated communities in the State. - Wow, a major milestone.
The New York Public Library reopened nearly all of its branches earlier this week. The Library's many branches closed to the public in March of last year due to COVID, but as of July 6, the libraries have reopened across five boroughs—including the famous Rose Main Reading Room at the library system's Main Branch on 42nd Street in Manhattan. [Wales will be happy - she goes there to beat the heat.]
Not really COVID related - It looks like Eric Adams is declared the winner in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. He'll most likely win the General Election. He's a good choice since he gets the police issue better than anyone else does. Wales doesn't think he understands the housing issue and supports real estate developers - some of which funded his campaign, but I don't know. He won't be the first black man in the office - we had Mayor Dinkins before him. But we did get close to having a woman, so the glass ceiling is getting very close to being broken. Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley came very close.
The World vs. COVID
* More of the Delta Variant: The Delta variant can sidestep the body’s immune defenses, according to a new study. But the fully vaccinated are still protected.
Blood samples from just 10 percent of people immunized with one dose of the AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were able to neutralize the Delta and Beta variants. But a second dose boosted that number to 95 percent.
That's good news. I'm hoping the Moderna also protects against COVID since most of my family members and friends are Moderna. My parents are Moderna, my brother and his wife are, all the extended family members except for a scant few that are Pfizer. I suspect so, since they are fairly similar.
But I don't think they know yet. Since they keep going back and forth on the matter. One article says 64%, the next 95%, the next 64%, the next 94%.
Me: If you don't know, admit it. Stop flipping back and forth - it's giving me a headache.
The global death toll of the pandemic has now surpassed four million, and seven of the 10 countries with the highest death rates over the past week were in South America. Scientists are also watching the Lambda variant, which is spreading rapidly through parts of the continent, but it is not clear how much of a risk it poses.
And I think it's most likely more than that. Evidence suggests that's a huge undercount, which is kind of painful.
The world’s known coronavirus death toll passed four million on Thursday, a loss roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
It took nine months for the virus to claim one million lives, and the pace has quickened since then. The second million were lost in three and a half months, the third in three months, and the fourth in about two and a half months. The number of daily reported deaths has declined recently.
Those are officially reported figures, which are widely believed to undercount pandemic-related deaths.
“The numbers may not tell the complete story, and yet they’re still really staggering numbers globally,” said Jennifer B. Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ms. Nuzzo said the number of excess deaths reported around the world suggested that “lower-income countries have been much harder hit than their official numbers would suggest.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, called four million dead a tragic milestone on Wednesday, and said the toll was continuing to mount largely because of dangerous versions of the virus and inequities in the distribution of vaccines.
The reason for the undercount - is most countries don't have the ability to tabulate the data the US and wealthier countries have, also, they are only counting the hospitalizations. Note their count is "conservative" - the death must be COVID related, and from complications to COVID. They are not counting people who died from car crashes, pneumonia, cancer, the flu, etc.
Following a spike in coronavirus cases in Tokyo, Olympic organizers said they would bar spectators from most events at the Games, which open in two weeks.
Poor Tokyo can't catch a break. They finally get to host the Summer Olympics. They delay it a year - it was supposed to be in 2020. Now, they finally get to do it - but they have to bar the spectators. The poor international athletes don't get to bring their family members and fans to cheer them on. This is so painful.
Plus people who have been training for this for years...god, it's just painful.
***
Other news
Super's wife talked about the assassination of the Haiti President.
Super's wife, Monica (pronounced Monique-ka): It's so shocking the Haitian President was killed. And the country is now under martial law, and they killed him...
Me: Well not really. He was an asshole. And they had a couple of devastating earthquakes after the hurricanes, plus the pandemic - so there's gangs ruling the streets. Also there's lots of civil unrest right now.
It's horrible. I feel for the folks living in Haiti. Actually this may explain why one of my co-workers was snappish over email today. She's from Haiti and has family members who live there.
The world is on fire. Still. And there's lots of civil unrest. It's 2021, and I still want to retreat to a beach in New Zealand with my entire extended family, and maybe Wales. I may look into retiring there - and writing. Set myself up in a beach house, and write and paint and draw, and maybe play with cats. Assuming they have them in New Zealand.
Co-worker and I were chatting about this over the phone today - about how 2020 changed everything. Everything was going to be different. The job was going to be different. Work was going to be different. It was all changing.
It was a watershed year that makes 9/11 look like nothing in comparison.
Mainly because it was global not just NY and DC. We're all in it together.
***
My moods seem to fluctuate like the tides. This morning, I was in a good mood, which got better as the day progressed, then while talking to mother, I cried, then cried when I read the news about the woman who lost her only son, then realized I was sad and scared, then finally...comfortably numb.
I don't know if anyone else feels like this? But I feel like the Universe is Lucy from the Peanuts Cartoon holding up a football, while I'm Charlie Brown - and every time I go to kick it, she yanks it away.
It makes it hard to plan, to hope, to create, to do much more than just keep on trucking and crossing out the days as they drift across my calendar.
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