Same. Most of the people I know are probably always carrying. But it’s all concealed and I don’t pay much attention. I assume someone is armed every where I go, basically. We do have a lot of gun violence in the city I am a paramedic in, but those guns aren’t legally purchased.

I think it’s completely possible to believe that nobody should have been there, KR(or any 17 year old really) had no business with an AR—15 hanging out in a volatile situation, and still think that the state failed to meet the burden of proof per the law.

I think the biggest revelation today is that the state has subpeoned Bobye Holt(and the elusive JB, who they can’t find to serve) as Josh apparently confessed sexually assaulting a girl to her or she has knowledge of it. Unfortunately, I think there’s no way the identities of his victims isn’t going to be revealed. We know the Duggar sisters, but they’ve kept the identity of the babysitter quiet. I am sure that’s going to come out now.

That is what I believed too, but I watched a lot of the trial recordings today. Honestly it’s all very different from what I’d been led to believe. I’m at the point where I don’t feel I can have opinions based on media reports anymore.

I didn’t take it that way 🙂. I was trying to figure out how it was possible for IM injections to be somehow administered intravenously and if that’s a frequent or even semi rare occurance. I really don’t think it is.

Apparently I was wrong—his mother didn’t drive him to Kenosha and didnt know he was there. She was in Illinois getting a documented Covid test. The weapon was kept at a friend’s house and never crossed state lines. his mother did take him to the police station to turn himself in once he told her what had happened. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/rittenhouse-testified-he-drove-himself-to-kenosha-without-weapon/

Rant of the day: My mom cannot get help with my end stage Parkinson’s grandmother. She’s going to throw her back out lifting her and when I called office of the aging today to see about putting a ramp in for getting grandma out of the house, I asked what happens when my mom is injured or sick. I work 57 hours a week. I have three kids. I have one cousin who works 60 hours a week and has two kids as a single mom with zero assistance from baby daddy. I have a sister with CP who is unable to lift or help transfer. My mom’s sister is also older, widowed and still has to work full time. She does not have access to paid family leave because she works across the state line in a state that doesn’t offer it. Office of the aging said, well, the paperwork says there are 13 grandchildren, so it wouldn’t be an emergency case and you wouldn’t get any help since there is family. of those 13 grandchildren, 3 are effectively estranged or low contact and don’t live in the same time zone as us anyway. The others live between 200-1800 miles away. They literally expect people to leave young kids and jobs to fly home for six weeks to take care of grandma, who is now total care. Five months on the waiting list for every nursing home and home health agency in the area, and my mom can get zero help.

I am horrified over the Julius Jones case. I am not pro-death penalty anyway, but especially here. Kyle Rittenhouse….I actually thought he was guilty of murder until I watched the trial and some of the footage. Now I can buy an argument for self defense. I have shot AR 15s and don’t have a clue why he’d need one or want one…but it doesn’t appear that he was really in any violation of the Wisconsin weapons laws and he’s not on trial for mere bad judgement. (He shouldnt have been there and what mother drops her 17 year old kid off in that situation with a weapon! What?!) Mostly the prosecutor has just come across as an idiot. He lost me when he started questioning KR about him invoking the 5th Amendement.

Do you have a contract?

I’ve been trying to think about this. If someone had a rogue vein in their deltoid, I could potentially poke it on the top with the needle—but then it’s probable the needle would go right through it, not just stay in the vein. And IM injections go deep, they aren’t subQ for a reason—we have to go a little deeper to get into the muscle. Would someone have a random vein in the muscle tissue? I think it’s far more likely that the long term vaccine side effects, which do happen, even if rare, are more of a result of a immune system mistake. That is, the immune system has overreacted or something else there has gone haywire for reasons other than a vaccine somehow getting into the bloodstream. I don’t feel great today and my brain is fuzzy, so I could be completely off.

People in general. the immunosuppressants I’m on to stop a corneal transplant rejection have wreaked havoc and now I have an incredibly uncomfortable fungal infection. I’m burning in places I didn’t know it was possible to burn. And I really need to work tomorrow, but I dont think it’s going to happen, and I used all my sick and PTO time on the four times my daughter was quarantined this year.

I was never taught to aspirate when doing a deltoid IM vaccination. I actually went and pulled out the paramedic and nursing textbooks last night to see if I had just forgotten and it’s not mentioned. I did Google “IM injection techniques” and some websites mentioned it and some didn’t.

I went and read the actual study (here: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm ). It’s fairly compelling and definitely concerning, especially since the dna damage appeared to be caused both by the vaccines and by Covid itself.

I’m glad you posted it, but it’s about the most depressing thing I’ve read in a while.

My first Covid infection I really thought I was going to die. My second Covid was not nearly as bad, I had fatigue and body aches, but it wasn’t awful. However—that one left me with long Covid symptoms and even a year later, I still do not have my taste or smell back. Anecdotally, the people I know who caught it a second time have been all over the map. From asymptomatic to death. It’s very individual. I see Pfizer is asking for approval for their new treatment drug today, so hopefully they receive that. The data looks strong. I personally believe we’ll all go back to normal life at some point and probably get Covid once a year, like the common cold. Hopefully there will be treatments that make it more benign.

We got the Switch two years ago as a family present. Honestly I wish we’d either gotten two or not gotten it at all. I thought there was more two plus player family style games, like the Wii. I also found it a pain to hook up to the TV because we had to unhook something else and then hook it up. So often it’s just two kids playing on a tiny screen. It works great for long car trips though. Personally, I miss the Wii and wish they hadn’t stopped production.

To be fair, Anna’s mother’s first name is actually Lillie. Suzette is her first name. https://fundamentalists.fandom.com/wiki/Suzette_Keller I honestly think Anna probably doesn’t think of it as the “Ashley Madison” scandal, and she really may not have the emotional connection to the name that we’re assuming she does. That’s what it’s been called by the media; but I’m sure Anna has her own words for it.

Now I think my kids found two ticks on the puppy. I have to pull them right? DH won’t be home till tomorrow night, and the smell makes me want to vomit. Ugh.

Also puppy photo just because I can. My doctor strongly recommends rehoming. The puppy—maybe if it was temporary. My 8-year-old golden? she’d be so traumatized. There’s also a 2 year old golden who’s very bonded with the older one. I think rehoming is a horrid idea, but it was all the ENT could come up with. I hate Covid.

Stupid problem, I know. My sense of smell is extremely distorted since having Covid. Things that used to smell good, like coffee, smell terrible now. Mostly I can’t smell at all, but when I can smell something it’s terrible. Right now my sense of smelling my dogs has come back, and it’s horrid. I can’t stand them near me. I can’t deal with the smell on my kids or in my house. We have two acres and an invisible fence, but it’s cold and since moving they’ve become strangely destructive(I think because we have now have no outside structures to climb on like we did at the old house—a multi level deck, piles of wood, and a trampoline, all of which they used to spend hours using as an obstacle course). We’ve tried increasing grooming appointments and spraying dog deodorant, but they don’t really smell bad to anyone but me. And it’s not just them—suddenly I can smell all dogs and they all smell terrible to me. Any other ideas??? We don’t have anyone who can take the dogs while I try to work on my sense of smell(which the ENT doctor was pessimistic about anyway).

I haven’t had a period in three years thanks to PCOS and birth control pills used to control PCOS. I intend to never have a period again. I always had light periods that weren’t uncomfortable, but I hated the whole process. Glad to be rid of it. 😂

I’m working a 24 hour shift today with DH as my partner on the ambulance. He is also the paramedic supervisor on tonight. I feel you.

Crappy movies that claim to be based on my favorite books. A Wrinkle in Time, I’m looking at you. What’s annoying you today? Vent away. 🙂

I think this is the answer, to be honest. It really depends on what your goals are. If your goals are to never get Covid, then you’re being perfectly reasonable. Eventually, I think everyone is going to have to decide their own goals. There are truly some people who don’t care about catching Covid or catching it again. There are others I know who truly just plan to stay locked down forever, because they absolutely don’t ever want to catch Covid. I think most of us fall in between—once we all had Covid(except my husband who has never tested positive despite enormous exposures), I loosened up greatly. We’ve had it, it’s endemic, we’re all going to get it again I’m sure but it’s no longer novel to our systems. The vaccines are not foolproof, but they’ve reduced the risk of hospitalization and death to a point I’m comfortable living with. But it’s a different risk/benefit analysis for everyone, and I think you have to determine what you personally want to accomplish, and then use that to determine reasonableness.

We have a portable air compressor and I can’t believe how much use we’ve gotten out of it. I might ask DH for my own for Christmas.