Year 2- Day 150...Apathy has set in...

Feeling rather apathetic about the human race today. At this morning's church service or as one savy former choir director states - "music and a lecture", it also has a wisdom story, and candle lighting, and asking for money - they were talking about the intrinsic value of every human being on the planet, and how this is one of our faith's guiding principles. [Non-profit organizations ask for money all the time, they are constantly wanting money. Out of one side of their mouth they are condemning our greedy nasty world, out of the other they are begging for money. I feel at times as if the world runs on money and greed. But I digress.]

I'm losing grasp of my faith in humanity or anything really. It's hanging by a thread. I'm finding it hard to care. ( why should I care about immigration when people are dying in a pandemic? )

And, I've lost patience with the unvaccinated or anti-vaxxers. Apparently they had another outbreak at the ABC studios where General Hospital is filmed. One actor had to cancel a comedy tour that he'd planned during hiatus, and had rescheduled numerous times, because he got exposed to the virus at work and tested positive. He had no symptoms at least. He's been vaccinated. But clearly others had not. Right now actors and various union members of the Screen Actors Guild are fighting for it to mandate vaccines and masks. They don't feel safe at work any longer.

We all fear the same thing of course - that the next variant will not be vaccine proof - that it will be far worse than the others. And as long as anti-vaxxers exist - this is a possibility. Long ago I nicknamed this pandemic "The Big Mutant Zombie Apocalypse that Wasn't" - as the days wane on, more and more does this phrase fit, metaphorically speaking - which to be honest is how I applied it - as a metaphor.

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Read the Doctor's summary finally - and as mother stated, when I repeated it to her, doctor was spouting routine advice, without thinking it through.
( If I die of high choloestral - which I can't even spell - so be it )

Mother told me today that she thinks humans are bewildering and fascinating creatures that make no logical sense whatsoever.

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Finished watching S1 of The Morning Show - which was compelling, then left me hunting for something similarly entertaining - but alas, I couldn't find it. I wanted more of it, yet at the same time - it kind of ended in a good place. It's a little operatic in the last two episodes, but I watch soap operas - so am immune. That is to say - I like melodrama or opera, it works for me. And this wasn't that operatic. (Again I'm a fan of two operatic franchises - the X-men, and General Hospital, you kind of have to work hard to beat either.)

What I thought it did rather well - was get across the human toll caused by toxic work environments and a culture that permits sexual harassment to continue in the work place. It also sets itself up well, with some nice surprises - that ensure the viewer sees how complicated and painful this culture is for everyone involved, including the predators. No one gets out unscathed.

There's also some rather good lines here and there. I particularly liked this one.

Cory to Barkley: I get that you want to run away when anyone disappoints you. But I hate to break this to you - that will happen no matter where you go. Humans are universally disappointing. That is universal. No getting around it.

He's right, about that.
( spoilers for The Morning Show )

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Also watched What If? Episode 1 - Captain Carter on Disney Plus.
It's actually rather well done - particularly in how it follows the arc of Captain America, but switches things around. Peggy Carter is in the role Steve Rogers plays, while Steve is kind of in the role of Peggy Carter, and ends up being the person she left behind. The gender subversion or flip is inspired and very Marvel. (It's actually why I prefer Marvel to DC at the moment.)

The animation is also well done. Fluid and realistic in tone. But they also have Disney Studios behind them this round.

"What If?" is based on Marvel's comic series of the same name. Where Marvel plays around with other versions of its classic stories or orgin tales. What if Peggy Carter took the super solider serum instead of Steve Rogers?

Looking forward to other episodes in the series. I think they have eleven in all - not positive though. It's also a nice off-shoot of Loki which sets up the concept of a multi-verse. Per What If - a multiverse exists when you change something in the time-line setting up a whole new time-line as a result.

My difficulty with Loki and continuing to watch Loki right now - is after talking to my brother, I can no longer watch Tom Hiddleston without cringing. Any more than I can continue to watch Andrew Cuomo without cringing or look at Joss Whedon without cringing. And yes, he's guilty of doing the same things they did - just hasn't really paid for them yet.
I hid this from you all last time. But I just can't after seeing the Morning Show. I know people are more than one thing. But...I'm tired of people hurting others to benefit themselves.

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I guess I'm not quite as apathetic as I like to think? [ETA: I'm angry and irritable. It seems the wrong people are dying.]