I enjoyed Blade Runner but it’s not in my favourite 5 movies…
I got my second jab yesterday, the first never bothered me but the second did knock me out last night.
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I saw The big Lebowski just a few weeks ago, having th opportunity to do so, and wondering why it gets so many references in US movies. I enjoyed it, but wouldn’t rate it as a favourite. Blade runner was one of my favourites many years ago, but though enjoyable seeme dated last time I saw it. Mind you I do find it very hard to pick a favourite as it is so much a of the times, and of personal mood. Betty Blue aka 37.2 le matin is certainly one of my favourites (though not a family film). Another is The good, the bad and the ugly (alongside its companion two). Oh dear, now I’ve started I can think of a whole string of favourites!
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My favorite film is probably…
Сталкер / Stalker
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This explains many things…
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I only saw it for the first time within the last six months. It might explain why a friend has been calling me Dude all these years, I never bothered asking.
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I had an excellent working day. Sometimes that happens.
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I believe some folks may feel this way. The majority of my career I spent working in a health care. I still follow the statistics coming out of the University of Washington Medicine. As of last week they had 96 people hospitalized across their four hospital system. 36 people were in the intensive care units and all were unvaccinated. Some of the people who were in acute care beds had received both vaccination shots but their symptoms were milder and did not require the higher level of care provided in intensive care.
The UW system is receiving a number of patients from other areas of Washington State due to community hospitals closing down their inpatient beds due to clinical care staffing issues. In turn once again the system is cancelling elective surguries and procedures due to the need to care for covid patients. The burn out rate of health care providers is on the rise and recruiting efforts to find replacements is a large problem across the country.
Not sure when this will end but vaccination, masking, isolation from large group of people indoors and practicing caution with family and friends indoors and outdoors will be with us for some time to come.
COVID-19 is like the punch line from the joke, “When are you finished when having sex with a 400 pound gorilla?” …when he’s done.
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I manage a team of 40 at work, and I have a family of 4. I have seen a little bit of everything in the past 18 months, it has not been easy.
I can tell you that I care, I care about my family and employees. I have worked very hard to protect them.
I have asked for help and learned: distance, mask, cleaning (hands and surfaces), isolation, test and vaccination are the way to protect yourself and others.
Vaccination is a right and a responsibility, not an obligation or a passport. It is not at all a limitation of freedom. We all live in a community, we are not less free because we pay tax or respect the traffic laws or because we have to get a jab.
At some point in time last year I stopped reading news and watching TV about Covid-19, it was (is) a total mess.
Let’s help to change this mess, let’s protect us to protect others.
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I had a similar conversation with someone in the next village recently. He didn’t think it was acceptable to be coerced in to having the vaccine. I pointed out that he accepted the need to respect the speed limit to save lives, and would be fined or even imprisoned for repeat offences to save lives. How is being coerced to having a vaccine different?
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Some people feel that coercing someone to inject a foreign substance into their arm violates their bodily autonomy. Ethically this makes it a bit more difficult perhaps than for instance adhering to the speed limit…
I do feel that people should always have the right to refuse a vaccine. But the question then becomes, would they also accept certain social, medical or economic consequences or restrictions to exercise this right?
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Yes, I understand the objection but at some time the government have to make those difficult decisions backed up by science, that protect us all. They take us to war and risk all of our lives in much more cavalier way, so I think the greater good- if it can be shown, is the price we individually pay for belonging to the society we are in.
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Morning all (or good evening), I watched a fact checking show last night and was surprised to learn that over 2/3s of all anti vaccination posts (all social media) started from just 12 people. Most had alternate reasons, selling alternative medicine etc some a misguided religious belief most of them have no medical or scientific qualifications.
People really have to stop sharing and spreading this crap.
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Most people ultimately think with their wallets, so if for instance health care premiums would become higher when non-vaccinated, i think many vaccine-sceptics would eventually change course and get a shot.
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That might help but where health care is free or tied to your income that mightn’t be as effective as it would be in counties with no universal healthcare.
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I’m a left of centre bleedin’ heart liberal but on this I think that no vaccine then no go to public spaces, events, pubs, restaurants, transport etc. I am connected via family and friends to the health service and via previous work. This virus is unlike anything else that has threatened us. I know of many people who have died unnecessarily and know of even more that are suffering the after effects of infection. If you can have the vaccine, get it.
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Anti-vax activists (as distinct from people for whom that is simply a personal choice) are like extreme religious crusaders. On pondering this with others recently we came to the conclusion that it is much the same driver, in effect trying to affirm their own belief by convincing others.
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True I understand people who may be hesitant however the problem is those anti vaxers feed on their fear for their own purposes.
It’s like Fox News (really think they should drop the word news and replace it with opinion) winding up their already highly strung audience to confront people wearing masks. Apparently Fox thinks it makes them feel uncomfortable, also funny that it was coming from states that allow you to carry a gun.
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Just like the new anti-abortion law in Texas, promulgated under the slogan all human life is sacred …yet gun-carrying is legal and vehemently claimed as a right!
This is just an observation of the anomaly - we need to be careful not to let any discussion becoming political or religious.
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Interesting development in Mexico this week:
With the second largest Catholic population in the world (after Brazil), Mexico is now officially more progressive than Texas when it comes to women’s rights.
Oh and please remember guys: no politics or religion!