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Year 2- Day 94 -Corona Virus Diaries
Jun. 18th, 2021 09:18 pmDidn't make it to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens after-all. Around 9 am, I checked the times - to see when it was open, and discovered that you had to get tickets ahead of time. Not only that - you had to purchase the tickets for a specific time and entrance, and you could enter fifteen minutes before or forty-five minutes after your timed entry point, but there were no refunds, just exchanges.
The price is about $18, which isn't bad. But I don't remember ever having to pay before. Also you have to pick an entry point - and I didn't know which one to pick. The logistics of this have become crazy.
It did explain how people were doing the Botanical Gardens during the pandemic. I'd wondered. Would have been nice if they'd included that information in their posts. Thank god, I checked the website for times - if I'd just wandered over by train, I'd have been disappointed. The Brooklyn Museum of Art is even more interesting - you get a mobile voucher to wait in a line for a ticket, outside the museum. (Also discovered via their web site.)
It amuses me considering that unsafe places such as restaurants, bars, gyms, sporting events are all opening up and lifting restrictions. Yankee Stadium is completely lifting restrictions. They strongly advise folks who haven't been vaccinated to wear a mask, but they aren't enforcing it any longer. I'm more likely to contract a virus from going to a Yankees game than from wandering about the Gardens, which only permits people with proof of vaccination to wander about outside without a mask, inside everyone must wear one.
So, instead, I wandered about the Lake at Prospect Park listening to a book on audible for about an hour and a half - or until my leg and stomach began to bug me, and I went home. Also I was sweating profusely. It was only 81 degrees, god knows what this summer will be like. At any rate, I was glad that I chose to just walk to the Park. Still considering getting up the courage to take a bike ride at some point. Maybe Monday, the Park is less crowded on weekdays now. The Cemetery is also less crowded now - that everyone can do whatever it was they were doing in NYC prior to the pandemic.
Full Bloom - the florist competition that I'd been watching on HBO Max, is not as good as the British reality shows, Great Pottery Throw Down and Great British Baking Show, possibly because it has a monetary award? Also HBO MAX has the worst interface on the planet (more on that later).
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I'm angry at my gynecologist and considering either getting a new one, or abandoning her completely.
( Read more... )
And..
* The idiotic American branch of the Catholic Church voted to deny President Biden the Eucharist because he is pro-choice. While they did nothing to Trump, who is responsible for killing 600,000 people. This is one of the many reasons I despise the American branch of the Catholic Church - it's run by hypocritical misogynist losers.
* ( Florida had another COVID-19 outbreak that killed four people who hadn't gotten the vaccine due to the Delta Variant )
Source: https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article252212853.html
* "The S&P 500 fell 1.3 percent, the fourth consecutive daily drop, bringing losses for the week to 1.9 percent — the worst showing in nearly four months. Wall Street’s focus has been on the Federal Reserve and the potential for it to increase interest rates or take other steps to cut back its emergency support for the economy."
* For those who hate to read, and need a cartoon to explain Juneteenth.
Juneteenth Explanation by way of Blackish or the Roots or School House Rock
or
OR
Why Do We Celebrate Juneteenth
* Republican-controlled state legislatures are seeking to thwart President Biden’s gun control proposals.
( Read more... )
* Finally, 19 Lines that Turn Anguish into Art - or Analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's Poem, the Art of Losing isn't Hard to Master
The price is about $18, which isn't bad. But I don't remember ever having to pay before. Also you have to pick an entry point - and I didn't know which one to pick. The logistics of this have become crazy.
It did explain how people were doing the Botanical Gardens during the pandemic. I'd wondered. Would have been nice if they'd included that information in their posts. Thank god, I checked the website for times - if I'd just wandered over by train, I'd have been disappointed. The Brooklyn Museum of Art is even more interesting - you get a mobile voucher to wait in a line for a ticket, outside the museum. (Also discovered via their web site.)
It amuses me considering that unsafe places such as restaurants, bars, gyms, sporting events are all opening up and lifting restrictions. Yankee Stadium is completely lifting restrictions. They strongly advise folks who haven't been vaccinated to wear a mask, but they aren't enforcing it any longer. I'm more likely to contract a virus from going to a Yankees game than from wandering about the Gardens, which only permits people with proof of vaccination to wander about outside without a mask, inside everyone must wear one.
So, instead, I wandered about the Lake at Prospect Park listening to a book on audible for about an hour and a half - or until my leg and stomach began to bug me, and I went home. Also I was sweating profusely. It was only 81 degrees, god knows what this summer will be like. At any rate, I was glad that I chose to just walk to the Park. Still considering getting up the courage to take a bike ride at some point. Maybe Monday, the Park is less crowded on weekdays now. The Cemetery is also less crowded now - that everyone can do whatever it was they were doing in NYC prior to the pandemic.
Full Bloom - the florist competition that I'd been watching on HBO Max, is not as good as the British reality shows, Great Pottery Throw Down and Great British Baking Show, possibly because it has a monetary award? Also HBO MAX has the worst interface on the planet (more on that later).
( Read more... )
I'm angry at my gynecologist and considering either getting a new one, or abandoning her completely.
( Read more... )
And..
* The idiotic American branch of the Catholic Church voted to deny President Biden the Eucharist because he is pro-choice. While they did nothing to Trump, who is responsible for killing 600,000 people. This is one of the many reasons I despise the American branch of the Catholic Church - it's run by hypocritical misogynist losers.
* ( Florida had another COVID-19 outbreak that killed four people who hadn't gotten the vaccine due to the Delta Variant )
Source: https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article252212853.html
* "The S&P 500 fell 1.3 percent, the fourth consecutive daily drop, bringing losses for the week to 1.9 percent — the worst showing in nearly four months. Wall Street’s focus has been on the Federal Reserve and the potential for it to increase interest rates or take other steps to cut back its emergency support for the economy."
* For those who hate to read, and need a cartoon to explain Juneteenth.
Juneteenth Explanation by way of Blackish or the Roots or School House Rock
or
OR
Why Do We Celebrate Juneteenth
* Republican-controlled state legislatures are seeking to thwart President Biden’s gun control proposals.
( Read more... )
* Finally, 19 Lines that Turn Anguish into Art - or Analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's Poem, the Art of Losing isn't Hard to Master