Year #2 - Day 92

Sunny and cooler. Blue skies. Took a brief walk after signing out of work, and talking to mother - but got distracted by a car accident on the corner of Ocean Parkway and Church, near where I live in South Brooklyn.

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In other news... Mother informed me that two of my distant relatives on her side of the family contracted COVID after being vaccinated. She doesn't know which vaccine they got. Since they are over the age of 70, I'm guessing Moderna. Anyhow, Everett had injured himself and was in a rehab facility - when he contracted it from an independent contractor (who'd not been vaccinated). Then he died. He was 87.
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After that conversation - I got paranoid again - and when I went for my walk around my neighborhood, donned the mask. Most people are still wearing them, for the same reason. Although the two guys in the car accident weren't. Mother told me not to worry - I'm vaccinated, I'm healthy, and considering I was wandering about un-vaccinated, no mask, etc when the virus was out there and we had a 48-50% infection rate in NYC back in November 2019-March 2020...

Other than that she's doing well enough. My brother is going to buy my Dad a television set from Walmart, and take her to get a CAT Scan tomorrow.
Both my brother and sisinlaw have informed mother that she needs to stop floating the idea that my father can return home - and the Preston is temporary. It's instilling him with a false hope. My brother also reminded her that they chose this place. We didn't. (True, we didn't. We had no say in the matter. My father and mother made this decision all on their own.)

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Staff Meeting From Doom

Sigh.

I'm beginning to wonder why we bother having any management. They provide little direction, and don't appear to know what we're working on.
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It was amusing though - since one of my co-workers was having issues with his feed, (we were on a MS Teams call) and he kept adjusting it. Making us dizzy watching him, also Boss tried to talk during this adjusting, but just gave up.

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News such as it is

1. Russia vs. the US and Cybersecurity.

Basically the US is getting tired of Russia's cyber attacks, and told them to cut it out or else. The US even provided Russia with laundry list of critical infrastructure that was off limits. In other words - if you have to do this - please don't attack these items, or we'll have no choice but to respond in kind. Russia reluctantly agreed without admitting to doing anything.

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2. The US wants to investigate what went wrong and how the pandemic got so bad in the US. (I don't know why they need to investigate it - it's kind of obvious. I could tell them.)
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Off to make dinner. The rest of the news is depressing. I gave up.