The dead are bushed an' stoned to keep 'em safe below

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! I am having a great deal of difficulty with my state continuing to reopen as our delta cases spike. I was obliged to be inside two buildings for purposes of errands this afternoon and while I appreciated that more masks were in evidence than not, it did not make me feel as safe(r; safe as an absolute has been out of the question for some time now) as it might have even a month ago. I was just about the only person wearing a mask on the street. Somerville is recommending indoor masking, but not requiring it; Massachusetts as a whole has not reinstated the mask order it rescinded in May. We are officially no longer in a state of emergency. Please ignore the rates of community transmission blooming red across the map. It feels a bit like living in that blown-off splinter of reality in Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week (1982), except I don't think there's much chance of merging into a healthier worldline. As of this week, spatch has returned to work in person. At least he is mostly interacting with dust.

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[asakiyume]

The time tax: Yes. I was baffled and very angry when I realized this when we moved back to the US from the UK and had no health insurance and very little income. I was incensed at how much time I had to spend dealing with bureaucracy. It struck me that the amount of time the bureaucracy demands of you is in inverse proportion to its respect for you as a member of society. Grrrrrrrrrr.

[sovay]

It struck me that the amount of time the bureaucracy demands of you is in inverse proportion to its respect for you as a member of society.

That is crystallinely said.