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We are now a nation divided by who is willing to wear a mask in public. Such a little thing. Almost all medical authorities agree they will halt the spread of Covid yet idiots insist it's their constitutional right to spread the virus.
Recently a friend's 93 year old mother-in-law went to get her hair done. She had forgotten her mask but the stylists said she doesn't believe in them and wouldn't work on her IF she had a mask. Idiots such as her a why this will never end. She lives in the MAGA area of Michigan.
My daughter-in-law is still friends with a college friend who said that masks are unhealthy as they block oxygen which we need. Besides it is good to expose yourself to viruses and bacteria to build up immunity. We need hugs not masks. My DIL responded that you can't pray Covid away. Well after that, I suspect she was defriended but good riddance.
God has been allegedly telling his minions through various intermediates that masks are the devil's work. Hopefully God will tell them to stay out of hospitals as they are run my 'scientists' and 'doctors' who told them to wear the mask in the first place.
As for cutting off oxygen, they put on pulse oximeters to masked versus unmasked: same reading. Still we have idiots insisting they have a medical condition that precludes mask wearing. So stay home.
The south was initially spared but that is no longer the case. Europe will reopen its borders soon but will keep them closed to Americans because as a whole we are idiots and covid infested though the ones most likely to travel are the ones less likely to have it. Uneducated poor white guys don't do a whole lot of international travel.
We did rebook our river cruise for next May. Hopefully a vaccine will be available then.
So I am still running and biking alot. There is a lot of sweet grass this year so the hot humid air is perfumed with this. Warm weather in the shady wetlands mean deer flies. They are clumsy fliers and take their time trying to suck your blod so I usually can kill them first but annoying to run through clouds of them. But at night, the sky lights up with fireflies so that is special.
I was made a great aunt last week for the first time though it is a step grand nephew. They tried for a home birth so her partner could be at the birth but after 55 hours, they went to the hospital. I saw him on Zoom. Very cute.
I finally got on the scale today dreading it as all my hard work seemed to become unravelled after my operation last summer and th einactivity after plus even more hormone loss. Well I did lose some of it during this Covid crap butnot enough desite my constant activity. I could stop drinking I suppose...
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Speaking of baking, I finally found whole wheat flour that I didn't have to enter a store to get, and it was at Target.
I enjoyed the photos. I love dogs that look like that black one.
What did you bake with your flour?
Kaya, the black German Shepherd still thinks she is a lap dog. Usually in the 2nd year of life they fill in so 90 pounds will probably be her weight.
I bake yeast bread, baking powder biscuits, crackers, pancakes, and cornbread (in which case, I use 1/4 barley flour, 1/4 whole wheat, and 1/2 polenta), and Peggy and I join forces to bake waffles, cookies, and pie crusts. Because I have, my whole adult life, stayed stocked up on essentials, I was able to go all this time (until this week) without running out of whole wheat flour, so imagine my dismay when I heard one NPR program after another about how the whole damn nation is spending their quarantine time baking. Baking with what?! Not with whole grain flour it seems. Anyway, when Target had some listed, I ordered all they would allow, which was eight four-pound bags. When I order again, I'll probably buy eight more because I simply don't know what might happen when things start getting scarce again. I also don't know, of course, how your family is set for dog food, but I initially had to wait weeks--as opposed to days--to get cat food from Chewy, and since our five cats are indoor only, I stocked up on cat litter from various sources, so I wouldn't have to dig up the yard in order to provide for my cats' use.
Peggy and I had precisely one mask each, but since we avoid going out, that didn't prove to be a problem, but I just now ordered fifty surgical masks from Amazon, and I might also try making some non-sewn masks with bandannas.
Toilet paper? As I'll be doing with flour, I bought a little more every time I ordered groceries (that is after Costco had it to sell), so we're set for that.
Might I ask how your buying habits have changed, and whether you're shopping inside stores or on the Internet. For someone like I who is a hoarder by nature, most of what I've had to do to provide for my little family (Peggy and our cats) has been more along the lines of a happy challenge than a burden. The one thing I've been struggling with is whether I really think there's enough of a possibility of a serious societal breakdown told buy a shotgun. I don't like guns, and I feel a little nutty to even be thinking about such things, but I also owe it to Peggy to take all means necessary to insure that we are safe, and no one on earth really knows what's going to happen. Do your own fearfulness ever inspire you to ponder such things?
Hopefully you have a cool place to store that whole wheat flour as it has a bit more oil than white and can go rancid.
I have been in only two stores since early March: a garden store and a hardware store. I have been to the Farmer's Market several times where people are diligent about wearing face masks Steve does the shopping for food. We have a freezer where we stockpile frozen veggies.
Steve only goes to towns where people observe the mask rule. We have ordered more non food items on line. I did like to go to resale shops but haven't been since Covid appeared. We haven't had shortages here, not even in toilet paper. Steve picks things up at Costco.
I am out and about but on my runs and bike rides, sometimes I don't even see another person. I don't wear a mask out here. I have visited several friend's backyards as well as my son's. I do go inside my daughters house but we keep away from each other.
I am afraid this will go on and on. Trump's ridiculous rally last night in South Dakota spread it further. First rule when dealing with enemies: divide and conquer. Putin selected the best person to divide our country. And I am getting less and less tolerant of his minions.
Guns. I am out in the country and I do hear them often. I am not considering getting one. If I lived inside of an inner city I might consider one.
I store flour in the air conditioned part of the house, my only limitation being that I have to keep it in a closet so that our lady cat, Scully, won't break the bags open. I have often stored fifty or more pounds without it getting weevils or going rancid.
I'm going to have a dental implant this week, and Peggy and I will be getting an eye exam and new glasses next week. After that, I'm hoping we can stay almost completely quarantined.
You know about Instacart, I suppose. For awhile, we were getting them to do our Costco shopping, but they're too spendy for us to feel good about their service (they charge 20% above what the groceries cost, plus a 5% tip). I will instead don my mask and go to Costco during senior hours. Most people here are good about wearing masks and respecting other people's space. I did go to an organic store last week because I got tired of having no barley, polenta, and nutritional yeast, and I was shocked to find that only about half of the people in the crowded store with its tight aisles were wearing masks, the deciding factor between who did and who didn't being age. I left there feeling that I had been really, really stupid to risk my life for things like polenta, so I suppose I will start ordering them off the Internet.
Yes, it will go on and on. I can but surmise that Trump's supporters are emotionally immature people who want to do what they want to do when they want to do it, and to hell with Covid. It would be nice if only stupid people caught it and died, but, sadly, they don't live on an island, so all it takes is one shopping mistake or one tooth implant for someone who is trying to be prudent to catch it from someone who isn't, bring it home to his wife, and them both die.
It's a bit chilly here today. I've lived in Oregon for 32 years, and I'm still not used to how variable the weather can be from one day to the next. I'm sure you heard that my home state of Mississippi is at long last retiring its Confederate flag, although a proposed replacement has "In God We Trust" on it. It seems that the whole point of having a state flag for white Christian Mississippians is to single out some group for exclusion.
Good for your former state retiring the Confederate flag and Nascar too. Little signs of hope.
I did get a mammogram, much delayed, recently. We all wore masks and few people were in the waiting room. A friend getting a more invasive procedure needs to test negatively for Covid within 3 days of her procedure.
Every day I think Trump can't be more myopic and stupid and then he is. Insisting on the schools be open despite Covid. Well if the situation was handled correctly in the first place, everything could have been open by now but no...stupidity reigns.
They say Ann Arbor is an island surrounded by reality. It is an island surrounded by stupidity.
We have some weather situation they are calling the Omega Block. Stagnant hotter than hell air has been hanging around for a week now. Rain evaporates as soon as it nears our house. I spend a lot of time keeping my plants hydrated. Until this goes away, I bike instead of run.
Will the hair stylist who doesn´t believe in mask refuse to have a surgery if doctors and nurses in OR are wearing a mask ?
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