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is recommending indoor masking, but not requiring it; Massachusetts as a whole has not reinstated the mask order it rescinded in May.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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[larryhammer]

We are in a state of high stress here, with transmission rates going up. Eaglet returns to school next week, and Arizona has passed a goddamn fucking law that bans public schools from mandating masking. Some school districts are planning to defy it, but not ours because the board is set in a CYA mindset -- publicly criticize, sure, and do every other mitigation they can, but not the measure that actually does the most good. And of course, Eaglet is sick ...

[sovay]

And of course, Eaglet is sick ...

*hugs*

That sounds appallingly stressful. Those are not laws it should be possible to pass.

[larryhammer]

There is a thin hope that the measure won't pass (state) constitutional muster as it was snuck into a budget bill and clauses not described in the law's title are supposedly verboten. However, any redress here won't be for weeks at best.

Eaglet is much better this morning -- fever low, sinuses less snotted up, which makes a quick cold an even more likely diagnosis. But still....

[sovay]

Eaglet is much better this morning -- fever low, sinuses less snotted up, which makes a quick cold an even more likely diagnosis. But still....

Your argh icon remains appropriate.