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Dr. B don't be jinxing stuff. We already have an entire school district shut down here for about a week or so because of the rise in cases. Nelle- Glad to hear Lee's friend is on the mend. Throw an extra slap to the head for me when you do rip into him.

It legit doesn't take much. But sure, let them be dumb and purge themselves and take out innocent bystanders along for the ride. Fuck them.

......................... I have not heard of this new development, and kinda wish they went back to drinking bleach.

Wait....what????

I would be too. So much of this is so fucking infuriating of just how much people seem to keep thinking they can just selfishly ignore all this. It shouldn't have had to be drawn out like this by hypocritical fucktards. Next Monday is when the indoor mask mandate takes effect here in WA and I'm not looking forward to see just how much people will still ignore it. And thankful that I'll be starting vacation shortly after it takes effect so that I can actually step away from that environment for at least a short bit. I don't care that I will hardly be going anywhere as long as it won't be there for 6 days.

I'm so sorry for Lee. I hope for Lee's sake and his wife that he pulls through. One of my friends posted today that his brother and brother's GF caught it. Brother sounds like he'll be okay but his Gf is another matter. My dad also said the facility where my grandparents are living in is doing lockdown again so only window visits allowed. Which is better than no visits at all.

So 3 hours ago our gov made the annoucement: "It has been a long pandemic, and our students and teachers have borne their own unique burdens throughout. This virus is increasingly impacting young people, and those under the age of 12 still can’t get the vaccine for themselves. We won’t gamble with the health of our children. K -12 educators, staff, coaches, bus drivers, volunteers and others working in school facilities will have until Oct. 18 to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. This includes public, private and charter schools. This does not impact students, regardless of age. Childcare providers affected by the requirement include: • Licensed, certified and contracted early learning and childcare programs • License-exempt early learning, childcare and youth-development programs • Contractors (coaches, volunteers, trainers) We are also instituting a statewide indoor mask mandate to all individuals, regardless of vaccination status. We have seen over the last year how widespread masking also saves lives by reducing infection." There was a protest in the capital building while he held the meeting over this. So many fucking entitled people saying that this is tyranny, "freedom and rights" and all rhe other BS. What pissed me off more is that there was kids of all ages there too, even babies. Everyone unmasked. Fuck those selfish fucks for exposing those kids. Fuck each and every one of them.

A lot of states are raging at schools not to enforce masks which is fucking stupid when children are at even higher risk with the delta variant and kids hospitals/clinics are already hitting max capacity down there. https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2021/08/10/what-we-now-know-about-how-to-fight-the-delta-variant-of-covid-column/ I'm fine with places requiring vaccines in places or face termination. I'm totally fine with restaurants and Cons requiring proof of Vaccination because I'm done with people treating this like a God damn class project where 1-2 people actually do the class research/work while the rest of the group just kick back and fuck off. I'm done. In other news it's now come time to talk about what we've been thinking was bound to happen. Booster shots to the vaccines. https://www.axios.com/booster-shots-covid-vaccine-biden-b1c15165-83d7-42c9-bcc2-e8f47c9af8fa.html With this logic I would be due for mine in....Jan next year? Makes me wonder how work would go about this.

Mail ins are way easier since you can look over stuff in the comfort of home and not be around people anyways.

But it's more now on how stupidly reckless the unvaxxinated are getting and putting people at risk vs the vaccinated are. The US is only 50.1% vaccinated including those with at least 1 shot. That's still a ridiculously number of people who are unvaccinated and not taking the precautions and add that to everything reopening and the desperate need of people to get back to "normal" is why we're spiking in cases again. To the point that kids are getting hospitalized by the masses of (once again) overstuffed hospitals.

One of my friends was getting his daughter moved in with her BF over the weekend I was at Faire. Apparently the BF's dad isn't vaxxed and exposed all of them, making my friend and his daughter mad rush to try and find rapid covid tests. Thankfully they came up negative along with the boyfriend. And then just today he found out the same father exposed the rest of their family and now they all have Covid. My friend thinks (he honestly can't remember if he was told correctly or not) that the mother and siblings of BF are vaxxed but still caught it. So hopefully they'll pull through it. But my friend wants to go hunt the man down and ream him for not only putting his family at risk but those they have interacted with as well. (He knows the BF isn't at fault but it infuriates him that a fellow father would do this to his family). Gov Inslee announced a mandate that all WA state employees and health care workers are required to not only Vax but also show proof of Vaccination or face termination. Also saw this happened too. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-vaccine-us-military-requirement-pentagon-3975940c732352f72e41f6e34a3a2669

When I was younger I went to Cons for a lot of reasons. Nowadays it's to check out the awesome costumes, the artists alleys/showcase floors etc., and catching up with folks I rarely see unless it's certain events. Which was one of the few things I liked day tripping to Faire, I hadn't gotten to see most of the people I work with at that faire in almost 2 years now, and a few of them were also day tripping and not being part of it for similar reasons that I had. So while it felt weird to not be part of the show after being in it for so long, it also felt really nice not having to worry about a schedule/being "ON" when walking the field/or having the pre week packing and prep before then. Sooooo idk if you have these stores where you are but we have one of those cliche shops called Spencers, owned I think by same people who do Hot Topic but more adult and hippie stuff. Last time my friends and I did the mall run we saw that they had what they called the "Social Distance Zapper" It's basically a non-lethal cattle prod/little tazer ball on a stick. It actually hurt and the tingling didn't leave my finger for a solid hour or so.

I'm trying to keep my anxieties over it low because -We were planning with being prepared with masks/personal lysol wipes/etc. -We were going to help support our vendors and gig performers after they got hit hard last year from events cancelling. In fact majority of my money went to tipping every busker and show even if I didn't sit in to see it. (like if we were walking by a show wrapping up and I saw 'the hat' or a tip jar I went and threw money in. - We were winging it and not stressing over details, it was the first time my friends and I weren't performing in 10 years so we were going in with no plans. Just enjoying. It just totally threw us off of just how PACKED it was. Which was probably a combo of people having an excuse going somewhere as well as opening usually being busy. I know the crew and performers who are part of that show have all done their part of being safe and vaxxed so while I wasn't too worried about them, it was the crowds because the county it's held in is a big 45 cult county there so...we pretty much did the best on our part about being safe. Not to mention being a patron this year and seeing so much holes in disorganization or the new layout and because of how many big guilds had stayed out this year made me wonder other things from the administration side. With the spikes of the Delta and now the Lambdent variant cropping up. I wonder if big events like PAX and ECCC will actually happen. PAX is supposed to start next month and they only just announced after selling tix that they'll be only allowing people in with proof of Vax. So that's going to be difficult for what few friends work that event. There has been some smaller Cons happening with summer with also the same requirements but they were already announcing that before announcing their ticket release and so far from what I have heard on my vendor friends at those Cons that things were well handled. Even my SCA organization has been cancelling a couple of events that were supposed to be happening soon because of the spikes and atm we're still going to try and hold in person fighter practices and socials since they're much smaller scales.

So even though I chose not to perform in the Ren-faire I've worked at every summer I day tripped with a couple friends to support local shops and performers who got a hard financial dig from covid. We planned on being cautious, had already planned on masking up when walking into booths and had personal packets of disinfectant wipes for the bathrooms.......I am very glad I chose not to perform because in the 10 years I've worked at this faire it was packed tighter than a sardine can..... Once we saw how full the parking lot was getting we decided to mask up the entire time, everyone was practically bumping into you, food lines were the worst I've ever seen it. We kept to as much as open areas as possible and completely stayed out of majority of shops because of how stuffed to the brim of patrons they were. And hardly anyone else was masked up and we know this was one of the counties that was a 45 cult county. So the possibility of a lot of people not being vaxxed was high and with delta variant numbers picking here as well as the new variant being confirmed in Texas. I seriously hope this doesn't backlash on them.

Whelp, Corp just sent the line down saying that starting tomorrow we're requiring masks indoors again. So yay get to do the whole "8f I see a customer without a mask ask them if they want one and if they decline let it go BS." Again. It doesn't change much for myself since I haven't stopped wearing mine to work. Fucki g people just get the goddamn Vax unless your medically unable to.

Sending hugs your way.

One of my friends shared this Twitter post that shows a chart on just where the Delta variant stands in terms of deadlines and transmission speed. Which isn't that promising. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1420957777409740807?s=19 And according to Washington Post this is where we're looking like at current %'s of vaccines.

CDC is now asking Vax people to mask up again indoors. Good fucking luck with that ya dumbasses since you guys were the ones who let the leash off people earlier this year. While some folks around my work or in WA have been still masking even when they lightened up mask regulations, I've only noticed a slight pick up of them and thankfully I've been seeing businesses and the like post about requiring proof of vaccination or requiring masks indoors more on FB and I am proud of them for it. I'm glad that I chose not to perform in Ren-faire this year because of it. There's still so many idiots out there that are just pretending it's all sunshine and fucking rainbows in the summer even though we're surrounded by fire and plague. (Fires being all around the PNW that is right now) I am so fucking tired of all these fuckers. @MT- That restaurant owner is such a douche and I hope they lose their business. I hope they everything that they deserve to get for risking the public like that. @Birdy WTF ALBERTA

Time to take up yoga but no, seriously that sucks.

WA state officially hits full reopening today. Mask guidance is still following CDC where if you're vaxxed you're fine unless businesses require it, if you not vaxxed mask up (but like fuck they will) and indoor events have to be at 75% capacity and will be revised in end of July. I'm still gonna wear mine to work and in public for a bit. But it has been nice doing group gatherings with vaxxed friends. Get some sanity back.

This is how I'm feeling about things. Sort of a weird anxiety between the masks and no masks and whether it's because that person's vaxxed and just being considerate still wearing one/vaxxed and no mask/ not vaxxed and masked or not vaxxed and no mask because they're assholes. I've been still wearing mine during work hours because I know enough regulars who were a pain from the beginning about masks or coworkers who I know didn't Vax. One chart says we've issued 84% of vaccinations but only 51.4% is fully vaxxed in WA. And they're doing full reopening whether we hit our percentage goal or not at the end of June so.....*shrugs* all we can do is take care of our own at this point. 😕

So in order to boost numbers to get people vaxxed. My state is doing a special lottery that will have a weekly drawing until the 13th of July including a 1mil cash prize. This will also auto apply anyone who's had at least 1 vaccine shot before they had set up this form of bribery. While I find it sad that we have to resort to this in order for people to GIVE A SHIT ABOUT A PANDEMIC. At this point I don't care anymore if it gets more people to vax up. That being said send me all your good luck juujuu so if I win the big prize Next Center Group Meet is in my state my treat or I'll get to fucking travel to where-ever we have it next. Fuck ya!

I've been making sure to share any place that advertises they have vaccines and are accepting walk ins anytime I see someone share it on my feed. Work recently updated to where if any employees are vaxxed they can choose to wear their masks still or not. I'm still wearing mine because I know too many customers that never masked up to begin with and I'm not comfortable with it until WA gets somewhere closer to herd immunity (as of today we're at 46.7% on fully vaxxed). Not to mention I know a couple of coworkers who have chosen not to get the vaccine. *sighs* I even had one lady try to talk to me about "doing my research" and started going into conspiracy theory rants. I know I've said this enough times but FUCK I'm so done with people.

Worked through most of this Mem weekend especially today. Yesterday I had off and my friend's giant baby that she had during the pandemic has turned 1! So we had a small gathering with some of her fam and a couple of our friends who were all vaxxed. It was a good time. We kept joking how it was a Bday party/Housewarming combo since this was also the first time they had a big group of people since moving into the house before lockdown.

@Anelle I'll send you the recipe, it was totes fucking easy to make and it gave me the excuse to use up more of the extra butter lettuce and shredded carrots I had since I didn't want to make rice for it. And that Peanut Sauce is fucking amazing!