anyone born recently doesn’t have the same clout, so it doesn’t matter what they think.
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yeah, no. she’s a nice try, though.
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I got an email yesterday saying it would be here on 2/10/22, but it came in today’s mail!
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This is nice, but can we NOT have to do it ever again?
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I hope they all never had chicken pox as kids and that they get it NOW. I had it when I was 29 years old; it was the worst thing ever (though I did have an upper UTI and the stomach flu at the same time, but still it would’ve been BAD even w/out those).
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That’s creepy af
Sang there years ago w high school choir. Lovely acoustics.
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And heart-wrenching, for those of us who have 'em. I started tearing up when I first heard it. Reminded me of this (a much smaller number, but still - it’s the respect for the dead that matters the most).
addendum: fuck, I’m starting to leak from the eyes now…
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I’m not sure… if they’ve already had it before, then shingles is a possibility.
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I’ve never had shingles, myself. If they get that, I hope it’s the most painful kind.
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I have not either, but from the descriptions of shingles I’ve read, it sounds like the chickenpox is the better side of the virus.
Having suffered through chickenpox as a kid, I’d prefer not to experience that second phase. I do plan to look into the vaccine at some point…
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I asked for the shingles vaccine a couple years ago, but my doctor said it’s only for people over 50. I’m getting there, but a friend had a bad case of shingles in her early 40s so that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. What she had was painful and horrible looking on her neck and face, and her doc said she could get the vaccine, but not until the rash went totally away.
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I don’t know a lot of people, apart from people I know through work. Through the pandemic I haven’t known well anyone who died, though there are a several people my partner knows who have died. He’s more involved in the community, than I am.
But, this weekend, it finally happened. The departed was a friend of my partner, and a (mostly) good person I’ve known for 20 years. He went full MAGA, but he was there for us when things went wrong, and he did a lot of good in the community as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. I guess you’d say we’re family friends (as in our family and his family are friends).
He had a series of heart attacks, as a product of COVID, according to the doctors. I’m sad, but I’m also kinda pissed because he went to an anti-mask rally a couple weeks ago, and that’s probably where he got infected. It just didn’t have to be like this.
We’re fully vaxxed, so we’ll go to the viewing, but skip the (indoor, full of anti-mask, ant-vaxxers, 2 hour) funeral. We will go, to show support for his son, a genuinely good human being who lived with and supported his parents, and who got vaccinated to protect them even though he knew they would be pissed. He performed CPR on his dad for 20 minutes until the ambulance showed up. That had to have been excruciating, even though he is a trained first responder, and physically very strong. But, when you live that far into the boonies, help isn’t there very quickly.
In the end, it didn’t matter, he had two more heart attacks after the EMTs arrived. But, it just didn’t have to be like this.
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I’m so sorry for your loss. May he rest in peace.
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Unsurprisingly, that Education Minister has been copping quite a lot of heat online over this. So, today:
The usual bullshit about “no, nothing to do with the scandal, I’m just stepping down to spend more time with my family”.
Once again, cyberbullying shitty politicians is a worthwhile thing to do. It doesn’t really change the system, but at least you can occasionally make one of the bastards suffer some consequences for their actions.
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Because of the tiny Tasmanian Parliament (only twenty five seats, about half of which are usually occupied by opposition parties), she was also Minister for Skills, Training and Workplace Growth; Disability Services; Children and Youth; Tourism, Hospitality and Events. The Tasmanian government has many more departments than it has ministers to run them.
The Tas Parliament used to be substantially larger (which greatly reduced this problem), but the major party duopoly collaborated to shrink it back in 1998 as part of a mostly-unsuccessful attempt to nobble the Greens.
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