Comments | miwahni: A black day

miwahni

A black day

Jan 07, 2021 20:51

What terrible scenes coming out of the US today; the result of a total narcissist stoking the cult of personality to the limits. I've heard that the US economy was doing well until Covid hit, and that a lot of people believe Trump made their lives better - but to try and overturn the principles of democracy is just shocking. I sincerely fear for ( Read more... )

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ali15son January 7 2021, 11:52:19 UTC

I couldn't believe what I was witnessing yesterday, really shocking scenes and I can't believe how much people actually hang on to trumps actual words.

In other news, our covid deaths in the uk are touching nearly a thousand a day and the vaccine seems very slow to be reaching our part of the UK.

miwahni January 7 2021, 12:33:09 UTC

I see the Covid news coming out of the UK and the US and I just despair, it's terrible. And I guess the vaccination rollout will be slow due to the sheer number of people requiring it. Listening to our health minister on the news tonight, our rollout is expected to begin late next month but it looks like it will be well past the middle of the year before I can expect a vaccine dose. I understand the need to vaccinate the health workers and aged care residents / workers first, plus others in high risk groups, but it still makes me anxious.

ali15son January 7 2021, 12:38:44 UTC

Yes , i was thinking more of my elderly parents who, if according to Boris Johnson, should be vaccinated by atleast the middle of February but listening to reports from my town, the vaccine is very limited. Me i will probably be one of the last to get vaccinated.

Stay safe.

miwahni January 9 2021, 12:57:09 UTC

I guess there's only so much to go around so they have to prioritise.

byslantedlight January 7 2021, 21:13:24 UTC

It was bizarre, wasn't it - all the warning that there'd be trouble, and no one there to stop it because it was Trump who was in charge of making that call... I think alot of the healing comes down to educating people so that they can recognise what's real and what isn't, and education them towards empathy and compassion rather than my-priority-is-me... but that's a very long-term thing, and people need to recognise what's required first...

Ack for the poor cleaner, hope she's okay. But presumably she caught it somewhere too, so I hope they're able to track that back... We seem to be in a very super-spreading stage at the moment, and I'm pretty much battened down and hoping everyone I do have to meet is sensible... Hope you guys can stay safe!

miwahni January 9 2021, 12:56:30 UTC

Cleaner caught it at the hotel where she works - it's a quarantine hotel, where returning travellers are placed in mandatory quarantine for two weeks upon arrival in Australia. There was a recent traveller returned from the UK who was infectious, and it's believed the cleaner caught it there. We've now been placed in a three day lockdown while all of her contacts are traced.

You stay safe too - the news coming out of the UK is a LOT more worrying!

byslantedlight January 10 2021, 00:05:32 UTC

Ah, thanks for letting me know what happened. I can't understand how people are still allowed to be travelling between countries with high infection rates (like we have here!) at the moment... quarantine or no quarantine, it just doesn't seem like a good idea...

And yeah, it is all rather worrying, but it wasn't unexpected that rates would go up over winter (okay, the new strains were less expected!) - and I always figured that all the mixing Bojo was allowing when covid was still around over the summer etc., and then insisting that kids went to school and students to uni would mean it kept getting worse instead of better... I'm hunkering down here in the country, and hoping it will all work out and they really will get a move on with the vaccine...