I was pretty sure we were done for laundry weather til the spring but it’s a sunny day with a stiff breeze, and it’s a bit too warm for the radiators to kick in, so what the hell eh?
Status:
This morning I had a message from my GPs surgery saying that because of the flu “we have been told to ask all patients attending surgery to wear face mask” which feels like a very long sentence for “please wear a mask”.
Shortly after that I had a call from the Chronic Fatigue centre saying my appointment with the occupational therapist this Friday had been canceled because she has the flu. Hope it’s not too serious. I probably won’t get seen until well into the new year now.
Our local hospitals declared a Critical Incident yesterday due to too much flu in A&E.
We had the flu vaccine a few weeks back mostly because Fi was worried about me getting ill and it making my CFS worse, not because it was recommended or anything. It cost £25 which was certainly a sum of money but not a crazy one.
I’m finding myself wondering how much time and money (not to mention lives and quality of lives) would have been saved by rolling out the vaccine a bit more thoroughly and being a little more firm about masking when unwell. It’s not like we haven’t had a lot of practice in recent memory, or had a recently concluded enquiry into that period which said maybe the government could have acted sooner.
Or maybe that’s the problem.
Overnight listening:
Music:
Reading:
- The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud - "Does it even matter what the law actually says? As a lawyer, I would hope so. But in reality, frightened of being sued, I can see how organisations would be tempted to capitulate"
- The Kevin O’Neill interview - by coincidence I’ve been re-reading the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen this last week so LMG reposting this epic Comics Journal chat was nicely timed.
- Discourse 2000: I Will Not Be Treated As Property: M.A.C.H. 1 ’78 / M.A.C.H. ZERO
Watching:
- Buying the Old TO-11 Loader frame for the K-701 Tractor - kinda fascinating that there are still hunks of Soviet-era farm equipment scattered across the Estonian countryside.
- Restoring an Instrument You’ve Never Heard - prototype of the first electric piano from ~1933.