Year 2 - Day 117 ...Working Remotely

I'm in the office Monday and Thursday, and working remotely Tuesday, Wed and Friday. Next week? It's in the office Tuesday and Friday, except I'm taking Friday off.

Drab day - it's just overcast, no sun, no rain, kind of boring actually. Been like that a lot this year, actually. Last year we had more sunshine, weirdly.

My father is off again - today he informed mother that he thought she was dead. Apparently he'd just finished planning her funeral and everything.

Father: Whoa. Aren't you dead?
Mother: No, I'm very much alive.
Father: But I just finished doing your funeral and everything.
Mother: Yeah, well, I'm alive. Sorry.

Also, at one point he informed her that various folks had seen her wandering about naked. And a psychiatrist named McCarthy - he had to find the number - had diagnosed her as schizophrenic. Mother just nodded, said hmmm.

This is so not fair - mother has had to deal with this three times now. Both her parents, and now her husband.

ME: Yeah I know. I'm upset about it too. I hate Alzheimers. It's the worst disease. And everyone has it...
Mother: You think we're both doomed.
Me: The Universe and I are going to have words. I just want to ..
Mother: Smack them? (She giggles. She loves my phrase - "smack them". It amuses her greatly.)

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I'm ignoring politics again. It's irritating me. The GOP needs to be spanked in the worst way, and no is doing it, and it bugs me. There is no such thing as justice, until someone fines the GOP and spanks them.

Also, I'm annoyed at the nitwits who aren't getting vaccinated. You can get them in your homes now. You can get free stuff if you do it. They have pop-up mobile sites. It's available through Pharmacies and Doctors. Come on.
It's not like how it was this past Winter, when people had to line up and work to get a vaccine.

( Tennessee fired the top immunization office for attempting to educate the public about the vaccine )

Source: the NY Times. [ Granted it is Tennessee, the Southern United States, much like the Midwestern United States Leadership isn't exactly known for being the brightest bulbs on the planet. But honestly, how stupid can you be? No offense to those who live there on my flist.]

Okay this is just...bizarre.
( South Korea is fighting the virus by slowing down music and treadmills in gyms, figuring if people don't exert themselves they won't get the virus? )

The gist? If people don't breath to hard or sweat on other people, the virus won't spread, so they are playing music no faster than 120 beats, and treadmills must be slowed down. Gymgoers are understandably confused by the guidelines.

* Israel is allowing those with weakened immune systems to get a third Pfizer-BioNTech shot. (There's a booster shot for Pfizer-BioNtech that is being debated.)

* More than 1.3 million people in France booked vaccination appointments after President Emmanuel Macron announced that inoculation would be made mandatory for health care workers and that proof of immunization or a negative test would soon be required to enter restaurants and cultural venues.
[Now that's not a bad idea. We should do that.]

*A 24-hour concert to benefit the global recovery after the pandemic, with the Weeknd, Ed Sheeran and Billie Eilish, was announced for Sept. 25, The Guardian reports. [Well, that's wishful thinking. I'd wait for 2022, personally.]

*The pandemic promised the end of cities. Why was that prophecy so alluring? [Except for those of us who actually studied history and know that this isn't going to happen. Honestly, did the stupid media never read about the Bubonic Plague, the Spanish Flu, the Cholera Pandemic, Polio, etc? I've come to the conclusion that a lot of journalists are really dumb.]

* Hee - Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings sued Florida’s surgeon general on Tuesday, accusing the state of preventing it from “safely and soundly” resuming trips by barring it from requiring customers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The filing represents the latest twist in a monthslong fight over the resumption of cruises from Florida, a hub for the industry. Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state has fought vaccine requirements by cruises and other businesses, claiming that such policies are discriminatory. Supporters of vaccine requirements have argued that requiring vaccines is necessary to protect public health.

I hope Norwegian wins - but I no longer trust our judicial system to make rational decisions. Too many dingbat Republicans in there.

* Sigh...( why does it seem to take forever for subways to show up now )

Oh god, I didn't know about that. I'm going to have to plan extra time - to make my Amtrak train next week. Morning commutes are okay so far.

Okay, enough of that.

Here's another photo..