yeppej: secretly snuck away and got a booster but can't admit it to save face. well at least it will probably reduce transmission.
yeppej: secretly snuck away and got a booster but can't admit it to save face. well at least it will probably reduce transmission.
Trees don't grow on money
I believe I had covid in late January - early February 2020 and so that combined with my two shots has probably given me what is known as super immunity. I don't feel the need to hog a booster shot that could go to someone who needs a first shot in parts of the world without adequate access to shots. If we all worked towards vaccine equity instead of hogging shots in the first world we wouldn't have all these variants like Delta out of India and Omicron out of South Africa.Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
My rant today is that not one single neighbor has offered to help us with our windstorm mess. A chain saw would have been very helpful or a few strong bodies to help pull pieces of fence out of the trees.
Oh, wow. That sucks. I remember after Hurricane Sandy, our neighbor across the street had a tree that fell down. DH offered our chain saw. I think they took us up on it, but really, as it turned out, they mostly got rid of the tree with a butter knife. It took them forever. They're Asian, and they are definitely frugal and resourceful. This septuagenarian couple just hacked away at it for months until it was gone.
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That’s too bad. Here when we’ve had a big storm and there are trees down there neighbors out with chainsaws doing helpful work.
I would never expect my neighbors to help me like that - though in the past (after a big ice storm) they have.
In my book, work holiday parties belong in the rant dept and cancelled work parties belong in the rave dept.
It depends, I've never minded if they were on work time, like end of the day was holiday party rather than working (and that usually comes with go home early after), there have been a few good things, bowling, restaurants. But on my time of evenings and weekends, yea rant.
Trees don't grow on money
Pinkytoe, am I understanding the damage - trees down, destroyed neighbouring fence?
Is it possible that such damage would involve home insurance coverage?
In that single situation, would it not be hard to determine if helping is leading to some liability for further damage plus personal injury?
There may be some very rational reasons for not jumping in to help.
Where widespread damage impacts a whole community such as in Kentucky after the tornado, liability and insurance coverage might be viewed differently.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
A dozen or so years ago a windstorm toppled one of the mature trees on my side of the property line border, just missing the neighbors house. I rushed out as soon as it was safe and began cutting, transporting the cut logs and cleaning up tons of debris. The neighbors thanked me for being so prompt.
A few years ago those neighbors moved and the new owners commissioned a surveyor to establish exact property lines for a new fence they wanted to install. It turns out that tree I worked so hard on wasn't mine.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
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