Conavirus......

[bae]

I transported an 80-year-old patient to the mainland the other day for essential life-saving surgery. Surgery went fine, both legs were saved, and they'll walk again, and likely live productively for years more.

When I went to return the patient to the island by ferry, post-op, I had reservations on the state ferry system for the journey, and a medical priority loading certificate.

I arrived well-ahead of the scheduled sailing at around noon. The boat was scheduled to leave at about 12:45pm. Well, some of the fine employees of the Washington State Ferry system had decided to stage a sick-out, on 9/10 and 9/11, to protest the vaccination requirement that the State has issued for this class of transport workers.

So, my patient, and about a dozen others, did not arrive home until noon. The NEXT BLOODY DAY. They waited, stuck at the ferry terminal, while the chaos unfolded, as boat after boat got cancelled as crews failed to show up, or walked out. For some of these patients, mine included, this was life threatening.

At the ferry landing on my island on the other end, hundreds of people were stranded overnight, with no food, water, shelter. Our local fire/EMS agency and several social services agencies had to respond to the ferry landing to provide support.

My patience has run out.

[Yppej]

A lot of people's patience has run out. I talked with the guy who cut my hair today. He came to the salon because at his previous job all the employees got vaccinated but the owners refused to. Then they mandated that the employees all wear masks to protect them, so he quit. This "your vaccines don't matter you still have to mask up to protect anti-vaxxers" is exactly the policy of my city and it's not fair.

Here are the facts.

1. With school underway outbreaks are still occurring in schools with mask mandates because masks don't stop covid.
2. These outbreaks are not making children seriously ill or in many cases ill at all.
3. The outbreaks are detrimental to unvaccinated adults.

An example is the Miami-Dade public schools where an outbreak killed 13 people. None were children. All were teachers or other staff who refused to get vaccinated.

People are sick and tired of not being able to get back to normal because the government only cares about the anti-vaxxers and doesn't give a s*** about the people who followed public health guidance and got vaccinated. As a result I am hearing more and more people saying they won't get boosters. We are living in an idiotocracy.

[GeorgeParker]

I understand feeling suicidal "today is a good day to die", I don't think people with suicide ideation are ridiculous fools. I think they are suffering, that is all.

"Today is a good day to die" isn't suicidal. It's what you say as you're going into battle. It means "I'm going to fight like hell to stay alive and kill my enemies, and if I die in the process, this is a good day to do it."

[bae]

"Today is a good day to die" isn't suicidal. It's what you say as you're going into battle.

It's generally the sort of thing people who see too many movies say.

In my business, we say" Omnis Cedo Domus" though.

[Yppej]

If people want to try to impress others with dead languages, maybe they should first get the grammar of them down:

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_...omus'_mean

[bae]

If people want to try to impress others with dead languages, maybe they should first get the grammar of them down:

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_...omus'_mean

I did not come up with the translation, Yppej. It is however what is printed on the shields.... I suspect the fellow who got it put there nationwide was not a Latin scholar.

How many burning buildings do you run into each year, btw?

[Yppej]

How many burning buildings do you run into each year, btw?

I do have a burn mark on my arm as we speak, from serving others by making popcorn. It is something I did not have to do but volunteered for at work. Everyone was so happy when they could get vaccinated and they all said covid was over. We started providing food and beverages again to those in our essential industry.

If you're vaccinated covid is medically over, but in civil liberties terms it's still not over due to tyrants who like to use pseudo emergencies to make themselves feel important. In my area we have ample hospital capacity, PPE, vaccines, and monoclonal antibody treatments. The "emergency" is fabricated.

[bae]

If you're vaccinated covid is medically over, ...The "emergency" is fabricated.

Wrong.

[happystuff]

bae, she will not believe anything until she actually catches covid in any of its changing forms. And even then... maybe not.

razz had the right idea with a time-out. The Simple Living forum is slowly turning into a Yppej's rant against everyone and everything forum. Most threads are not fun reads any longer. Hopefully time will change things - who knows.

Blessings to all. And, no, I'm not being "run off" - I'll be around.

[Yppej]

From tonight's news - some hospitals are no longer delivering babies because so many nurses have quit rather than get vaccinated.