I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

IllinoisLady

Sometimes we're tested not to show our weaknesses but to discover our strengths.

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IllinoisLady

So many people who just have to stamp their feet and do foolhardy things to prove no one can tell them what to do -- while they listen to someone telling them to do things they obviously have great regrets about if they are having to call the poison control centers. In time, I do hope there is some possibility some of these souls might come to their senses. Sadly, it appears a lot more people yet will end up losing their lives over all this. It will take a long time to restore faith in all the departments and agencies that the Reps. and Trump have worked so hard to tear apart and dis-credit. Likely, it will be the will and forbearance of the younger generation. Hopefully we can all hold on and push for sanity to prevail and get back to building government that works for all and that most will be able to trust with a good measure of confidence.

IllinoisLady

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DivineMrsM

ChiSandy

Those "I know what's best for MY kids" anti-mask parents say that it's emotionally traumatic for kids to have to cover their faces and not be able to see their friends smile. But it's NOT traumatic to have to go through active shooter drills?

One parent in a Republican suburb west of Chicago actually said "If I need to, I'll keep my kids home so I can see them smile." Well, whether or not they're wearing masks at school, unless they accompany the kids into the classroom, they can't "see them smile" anyway. Never could. Idiots. As a songwriter friend of mine sang, "Life's an Intelligence Test." Unfortunately, now their stupidity is making us flunk, too. They remind me of the spurned lover who maims or kills his inamorata, declaring "If I can't have her, nobody can."

exbrnxgrl

This bears repeating: Merck, the manufacturer of Ivermectin, cautions the public against using it for COVID treatment.

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Don't you think that a big, money hungry, profit driven pharmaceutical company would be shouting it from the rooftops and pushing its efficacy if it were true?

DivineMrsM

exbrnxgrl

I continue to spend too much time watching the news about my poor Afghanistan. I have heard a few commentators bring up the things no one really wants to say with respect to Afghanistan. President Biden accurately pointed out that Afghanistan has never really been a united country in the sense that most of us think of a country. When I lived there, supposedly the time of great progress and moving into the modern world, we all understood that life in the capitol was one thing but traveling to the provinces was moving between tribal encampments and clans. This was true under the monarchy, under the nominal democratic government or any government before or after. Another commentator, when addressing out of control crowds outside the airport mentioned that Afghans don’t have a strong tradition of queuing up. That is an understatement!

Some of you may have seen footage of people standing in what was described as sewage. Actually, in Kabul almost all sidewalks, paved or unpaved, have narrow canals running parallel to them. They are called jewees and are used for everything from dumping trash to toilets to dumping animal waste (lots of donkeys!). Pretty gross and a good reason why there is no reliable clean water supply. So the airport does not have a sewage canal, it has a jewee, like almost every street in Kabul. And yes, despite the best of the Peace Corps precautions, I have had parasites! Amoebiasis, giardiasis… good times.

exbrnxgrl

divine,

Another problem with people having misconceptions about the vaccine is that they seem to have forgotten their biology lessons. I have heard people worry about it altering DNA. I tried to explain to them that DNA is in the nucleus of the cell. Since the vaccine does not enter the nucleus, DNA is unaffected, I think I lost them at nucleus!

ruthbru

IllinoisLady

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. -John Heywood

IllinoisLady

Exbrnxgrl, that is amazing about losing people at the word nucleus. To me, that word represents the heart of something where its viability is most centered. Also read their are eight or ten clans or so in Afghanistan and none of them get along -- so you could never get a democracy supported there. Any from of government would be strained and hard to maintain.

Makes Pres. Biden quite right and I do believe that trying to extricate from the country would always be rather ugly and subject to debate as to how it should go. The Reps. so bent on trying to degrade Pres. Biden have little care that they are trading on a tragedy to try and make points. Then again, for a number of yrs. they have been rather shameless and proud of themselves for it.

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

From the ignorant maga bunch, who foster destruction if it means Democrats might fail. Despicable.

exbrnxgrl

At the risk of repeating myself too much, yes, Afghanistan is and always has been a tribal/clan based society, period, full stop. Whether monarchy, nominal democracy or whatever else arose, there has never been a truly united country in the way most of us understand a country to be. Every country that has tried to mold Afghanistan into what they believed it should be has failed. Although not the entire reason, the US effort to tame Afghanistan owes it failure to understand this simple truth about the country. Seriously, someone should have asked a Peace Corps volunteer!

DivineMrsM

DeathSantis is one FUCKED UP dude

From Heather Scott Richardson’s post yesterday:

Spookiesmom

On my car. Should say DeathSantis.

Our news is full of stats. The big hospital in Tampa had to turn away a cancer patient for treatment cause they didn’t have room. That was on cnn and yahoo.

exbrnxgrl

I don’t think I can say anything about DeSantis that hasn’t already been said. I speak to my dear friend in FL a couple of times a week. She moved to FL full time a year ago. Like me, she was born and raised in the Bronx. At least part of our conversations center on her shock and disbelief over De Santis’ policies re: Covid19. Yes, they were tired of cold snowy winters but she is utterly flabbergasted by the governor’s flavor of crazy.

Spookiesmom

WOOOOOHOOOOO

IllinoisLady

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Betrayal

Love that sign. Needed a laugh and it worked.

Spookiesmom

Betrayal

Spookiesmom: So you have a nut job advising another nut job? One thing I learned on my mandatory psych rotation as a student nurse was there was a very thin line between the psychiatrists and their patients and it was sometimes hard to define who was saner.

Spookiesmom

Hahahaha my son in law is a nurse at a psychiatric hospital here. I think he’d agree, but he is a trumper.

Miriandra

This is truly tragic. If this man could have been received by an ICU team, he would have been out of the hospital and back home in a couple of days, making room for the next patient. They should have a lottery for willfully non-vaxed patients (with exceptions for pre-existing medical issues). If a non-COVID patient needs a bed, someone on the lottery list will have to go home early. If a bed opens up again, they can come back and get back on the lottery list; but the hospital should be allowed to triage patients for those who have done their reasonable part to avoid COVID in the first place.

Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors "playing musical chairs"

IllinoisLady

When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie. -Susan L.Taylor