Category: Current Events

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It's Almost As If…

…the Universe is telling humanity, "I gave you a chance to change your ways—break the capitalism/trash-the-planet cycle and for a while you did. But now you're being stupid again and we're going to do it my way this time."

The mask/social distancing mandates are returning to my workplace—for the unvaccinated as well as the vaccinated—starting Monday. They are however—as stated in the email announcement—strongly encouraging everyone to start immediately.

Once I heard that the Delta variant was infecting even a minuscule number of fully vaccinated folks I said fuck it…I'm masking up again like last year. Surprisingly, I'm seeing the number of masked folks rising when I'm out and about as well.

I haven't come this far in life and survived what I have to be knocked down by this—or any other—fucking COVID variant. I'm just not.

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Delta Is Raging Where You Are

More from Tengrain:

We are in a world of trouble, the Delta variant of the Trump-Virus is surging and the merde is hitting the fan as Possum Hollar —as a matter of Fox News orthodoxy— still refuses to be vaccinated.

In at least 46 states, the rates of new Trump-Virus cases this past week were at least 10 percent higher than the week before.

Unvaccinated fools are being hospitalized in alarming numbers. And while nearly all new coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths nationwide are among people who weren't vaccinated, a steep rise in cases has prompted Los Angeles County health officials to reinstate an indoor mask mandate, regardless of vaccination status.

The County of Los Angeles is about 10M people. This is not a small sample. They don't go Shields-Up, Mr. Sulu lightly.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta said that there are two types of Americans now: The vaccinated and the infected. If you're not vaccinated you will eventually get infected. And if you get infected, you will get very sick and may die.

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Fuck Them All

Any one of these guys could end hunger in the United States like that, and still have enough money leftover to buy a few dozen yachts. And yet they choose not to.

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I'm Not Holding Out Much Hope for the Former

I mean (and I've said this before) that COVID gave us the opportunity to start doing things differently; to make a new way of life. And it was working!

But noooo... As soon as they could (some say it's still too early) the powers that be declared it was time we get back to the exact same horrid state everything was in prior to COVID—even with the knowledge that the average person actually preferred the slower pace of life; the freedom of not having to waste time sitting in traffic to get to a job that it was proven could be done from home instead of being trapped in a beige cube for 8 hours a day, and the multitude of other positive things that were happening. (Like cleaner air; less emissions. Less—if only a minuscule—reduction in global warming? Remember how that spontaneously happened a few weeks into lockdown?)

Remember when almost everyone was working from home and the streets were nearly deserted? Remember when wildlife started appearing in the cities again? Remember when we were actually paying attention to health and safety?

And there's a not-so-subtle resentment that's building because of it. People are saying hell no to going back to into the office and it's going to be interesting to see if the wheels of industry adapt or continue thinking they can crush people under the weight of "it's always been done that way."

While not perfect, the entity I work for is at least allowing for most of the employees who have been working from home over the last eighteen months to continue to do so two days a week going forward. (I was hoping for a two-day/three-day alternating week schedule, but this is the best we're going to get at the moment.)