So, now it's May, it has been a nice spring, much gardening underway. Since Trump left I painted several paintings and then focused on a bedroom renovation, taking out the old carpet and painting the room navy blue, very Regal!!! Then I was onto garden work so I haven't been focusing on news which has made me a better and happier person too. Biden is doing very well, with a 65% approval rate, there are loads of stupid nonsense from the Republicans but I think it may work out, who cares anyway? its not even my country! Because of continued bungling from Jason Kenney Alberta has the highest covid infection rate in all of North America, even beating most other countries too!!! Great job! I think it's from the under 40 crowd who cannot stay at home. My neighbour sent me a pic of himself in a crowd at an outdoor beer garden, right before things got bad and we had another lockdown. I don't care if the Kenney government thought it was allright for this kind of behaviour, they also believe strip mining the Rockies is a good idea or Doug Ford is a great guy to form an alliance with, it shouldn't take much to know by now that large crowds even outdoors weren't a good idea! Now we are on a lockdown until the end of May, no school, work from home if possible, restaurants closed only delivery now, but it's kinda late and now we have rates into the stratosphere. It is likely hospitals could be under a severe crunch, elective operations are cancelled again and we have seen in Ontario where they have asked the nation for any nurses you can spare please, I think only Newfoundland sent some, we're too nervous in Alberta of running out of our own.
Worldwide India is finally having a surge, having to let people die because there is an oxygen shortage, It's hard to believe it took this long, what with 100 people per square foot I was wondering for a long time why covid wasn't killing millions there!? India is now second in the world, USA still #1 !!!, but India has new infections in the 300,000's and deaths in the 250,000s far out pacing the US at 28,000 new infections and deaths at almost 600,000, world wide we are at just over 3 million deaths, I thought it would be more by now actually.
Biden is doing well getting shots in arms but now the problem is knuckleheads who either don't want it for political reasons or don't believe in vaccines because they read a meme on facebook once. So insane, who ever would have thought we would be devolving into anti science stupididty in the post Space Age??? We have to get tough with these people, stop them from travelling, flying, attending large events, sports, stoppping them from voting would be the best idea!!!! LOL unfortunately since Trump lost so badly Republican states everywhere are trying to stop people from voting, since it's the only way they can win, we'll see, Biden may have a surprise for y'all when the time is right!
We got our shots a few weeks ago, YAY! I was getting really angry as it was getting close to our turn, they were up to 1964 birthyear and then everyone panicked over the Astra Zenica vaccine causing blood clots and the rollout got paused for several weeks. As a sidebar, there are more clots from birth control and Covid itself, not to mention the odds of dying from covid as it is contagious while blood clots are not, duhhhhhh. So, the best advice was to sign up at your pharmacy and wait for the call, which we did. When they did open vaccines to my age group, in a 15 year group which was not fair, it had been in 5 year groups before, and I was so mad saying "they have always done this to our generation!" we managed to get our shot in a most unusual way. Gord was talking to his cousin about renovations and they had heard from his brothers girlfriend on facebook that there were shots available at the convention centre, so when Gord looked there were actually a few hundred spots available, there was nothing in the media about this, apparently you just had to have the right connection on social media, this is how we run our health system? Ok? It was a beautiful spring morning, we took the bus downtown, the whole thing took maybe 20 minutes, it's hard to believe something like this would run smoothly, please tranfer this talent to airlines, motor vehicles, and the CRA! The shot is incredibly small and over in seconds, not like a flu vaccine which is a lot more juice! I felt tired and a little run down the next day but no blood clot so there ya go. About a week later I got the call from the pharmacy so I guess I was getting upset for no reason as usual!? Now I think we're back to banning Astra Zenica because one woman my age died, cripes, how do we know she wouldn't have died anyway? Shit happens but the danger of covid far exceeds the risk of a small amount of blood clots, weigh the risks people. Now the vaccine rollout has been completely unfair with a focus on getting shots to the Native population for reasons I do not understand, they do not spur the economy, or at greater risk than anyone else, is it because we were mean to them? Well, we were mean to a lot of people including the gays so lets get some sane policy. Turns out the biggest outbreak is in the Wood Buffalo district due to oil companies not using precautions for the rig workers, like meat plants, these companies are money focused not people focused, they were letting 100's of men have lunch together with no masks, it's criminal but hey it's Alberta not some communist country you fucking snowflake!!!
Anyway I still think most of us will be vaccinated before the fall and then we can return to normal, all my neighbours can go back to work, back to all tomorrows parties and world travelling, why learn any lessons?
