When you feel despair & are fed up, think of it this way. Look what we may have done in spite of the goverments shambolic handling of the pandemic.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up the last eleven or so months of your regular life, being careful and socially distancing, could very well be the reason somebody else is alive today - and it will *always* have been worth it.
President Higgins today welcomed a group of First Nations People from Turtle Island including Poet Laureate of the Canadian Parliament Louise Halfe, Cree knowledge keeper, singer & storyteller Joseph Naytowhow and choreographer/dancer of Anishinaabe & Irish heritage Brian Solomon
Dr Who hasn't been dubbed in Irish yet so my guess is as good as anyones.
But this does give me the opportunity to mention that *one of* the expressions for travelling back in time is "dul siar ar bhóithrín na smaointe" (going west down the mind's road/the road of ideas).
Shoutout to all the humans who honestly believe it’s a year or two of skipping the flu causing kids to get extra sick this winter and not all the damage I’ve done to everyone’s immune systems. I love you all, but sometimes your capacity for denial blows even me away. 🦠 ❤️
I am not one to engage in conspiracy theories but here is what I really think. At this point, the lack of public warnings about long covid is deliberate. They want people to go back to normal because otherwise the corporations stop making the ching ching (money), problem is ..1)
how are the journalists going on mastodon? well, journa. host just kicked a trans journalist for complaining about journa .host allowing transphobia, and journa. host is now getting widely defederated. lol. what plays in the British media doesn't work there.
The urban study called “Homelessness is a Housing Problem” found that the biggest factors in the homeless crisis are not necessarily addiction or mental health but rather a combination of high rent prices and a lack of affordable housing. https://t.co/Xwpp4RNHT3