Oh she has a therapist, has been seeing her since the beginning of the pandemic. And yes, I'm sure her pursuit of avoidant guys has something to do with her absentee sociopath dad. Thankfully, her step-father (my sister's second husband) was a good dad and went to all her high school basketball games and took the family camping etc. She actually started seeing the therapist after HE died, before the pandemic.
So my ex accidentally butt dialed our middle son yesterday. When he called my ex back, he could hear noises in the background and learned he was in the hospital! Apparently he had a skin cancer removed from his ear, and it got so infected that he has to spend a couple nights in the hospital on IV antibiotics. This sounds a bit extreme, must either be an unusually aggressive bacterium, or an abscess in the cartilage, which can lead to a deformed ear.
My ex has had a lot of unfortunate medical issues since our divorce. I SWEAR I am not sticking pins in a voodoo doll!!!!
And for those following along about Covid, I recommend reading an excellent recent commentary in Nature titled: “Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore“
Covid has been described elsewhere as a “mass disabling event”. For those of you who read or watched the movie Awakenings, that was a (still poorly understood) consequence of the Spanish Flu pandemic. Too little attention is being paid right now to how we will handle the large numbers of people being disabled by Covid infections.
For the rest of you following along on Covid, cases are now down 81% from the most recent peak. The last hold out mask mandate, Washington state, announced they too finally saw the light and are ending in a few weeks. Of course everyone still has the personal choice and freedom to wear whatever they’d like to wear - or not. 70,000 people mostly massless people attended the super bowel. Right or wrong, good or bad, the insanity is coming to an end and by the end of the year we will see no additional damage. Cold and flu season will now become cold, flu and Covid season. The world will not come to an end after all. Oh, and on March 1st, Biden will declare he beat Covid and the pandemic is over - watch and see.
DonH Midwest Me 56 WAW-EXW 55 Met 11/95 / Married 5/00 Bomb 6/20/05 / She Filed on 6/2/06 / Divorced on 10/9/06 4 who'd qualify as GF since D & dated about 25 women since D
The Siper Bowl required proof of vaccination or negative test and required masks. Los Angeles still wisely has a mask mandate. Last summer our local new cases were 50 a day. Right now we are still at 2,000. Yes, it’s coming down, but these mask mandates are being removed prematurely for political reasons only, not medical reasons.
Oh I know it was “required” but the reports, photos and camera shots told a vastly different story. It’s required for drivers to come to a full stop and not exceed 65 mph too but…
Even California health officials lifted the statewide COVID-19 indoor mask mandate in public settings for vaccinated people on Feb.16 at 12:01 a.m I’m guessing your patients are becoming aware of this. And yes I fully understand private businesses can set their own rules as it should be and have always been and people are still free to wear multiple masks if they so choose. Of course customers also have the freedom to choose as well. This has been the case for many states all along. It’s just quickly spreading to all of the states - even California and Washington.
DonH Midwest Me 56 WAW-EXW 55 Met 11/95 / Married 5/00 Bomb 6/20/05 / She Filed on 6/2/06 / Divorced on 10/9/06 4 who'd qualify as GF since D & dated about 25 women since D
We are fortunate right now, the covid in our hospital is one patient who will be just fine. It’s at an all time low here.
Schools in my state are ditching the masks on 3/7.
I have to be honest, I hate what this has done to my daughter. She is literally scared not to mask. Kids now are scared to get sick. Like we still will get sick with colds and stomach bugs, and kids are actually scared of that.
I believe we should mask up when surging. But I prefer my kid does not when we don’t. I don’t want her to be fearful to be in public without a mask. It’s shouldn’t be a fear. Believe it or not, I asked her to please take it off in this open air store we were in and no one was around. I just don’t want her to be afraid to not be with it.
She’s nice and vaxxed. And a very healthy girl. I don’t want her to be fearful of everything .
“ At a White House task force news briefing Wednesday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky tried to assure the public that she and her colleagues understand the exhaustion with masking guidance and other pandemic restrictions. The problem is the data: By the CDC’s count, 97 percent of U.S. counties still have “substantial” or “high” community transmission of the virus.”
