Tuesday, January 25
Jan. 25th, 2022 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Very beautiful weather outside.
A phone conversation with my sister S. We talked about Mom mostly. S is still feeling guilty about Mom being in a care home, and I still don't understand why. Mom seems more cheerful and alert than she has been for the last couple of years, and I feel better knowing that she is no longer alone most of the day, and in great danger of falling. Mom does not seem upset to be there, seems to be enjoying having people around, likes the food, and gets lots of visits from the two people allowed to see her right now. That's about as good as it gets at her age.
I went to see River, and we were really working on the same wavelength today. I really focused on being soft in my asks, and clear with my body, and River seemed to respond to that. Under saddle he was super soft in his giving to pressure, and I ended up being able to work almost entirely with my seat today, and almost no reins. It was a lovely ride.
Not so grateful: I was barely able to enjoy such a beautiful connection with River though, because the barn owner R and another rider taking a lesson came in, and started discussing Covid vaccinations.
There is a "Freedom Convoy" travelling across Canada right now, that is made up of truckers protesting against having vaccines required for them to work. R and this other person were loudly in support of these truckers, in spite of the fact that truckers carry disease all over the place (they are actually used by the Center of Disease Control as a predictor for outbreaks of all kinds of diseases including STDS, not just Covid. You can basically watch syphilis spread along trucking routes.)
Both R and this other person say they are not anti-vaxxers because they do have their vaccines, BUT I know that they only reason why R got hers is because she needed them to keep her barn open. She is a big believer in our natural immune systems etc.
They kept talking for quite some time, and I just went silent. They talked about things that did nothing but demonstrate that they had no idea how science works, or how governments function.
People seem to forget that sure, people who survive terrible illnesses DO have some protection, but who wants to roll the dice and see if they live through Ebola or the Bubonic Plague just to build herd immunity? Do they realize that it isn't even a guarantee that they wouldn't get it again? You can certainly get Covid again, especially with the variants.
The horrible truth is, it's not like herd immunity even really works the way they think it does. We don't end up with strong survivors immune to something like Covid. We end up with people who have some resistance, but whenever someone is a little weak for some reason, they will still be able to catch it, and could still die or have serious complications. They could be allergy sufferers, or post surgery, or even a little anemic.
Just because Europeans lived through the Black Plague doesn't mean we would really be okay with having it go through again now. We'd still suffer horribly.
They talked about how we still have a ton of people in the hospital, so I guess the vaccine isn't working, and why even bother? What they don't get, is that we may be working within a "best case scenario" because Canada does have about 80% vaccinated. What if we didn't? What if no one bothered? We would have gotten to experience what a One Percent Fatality Rate would have been like without any protection: one percent of 38 million people is 380,000 people. That's if really is only one percent, and not say....1.2 or 1.5 percent. So far we have had about 32,000 people die. Isn't that enough?
I was disassociating so badly I was barely aware of my surroundings. I was numb. I tried to only be aware of River.
R means so much to me, and I want very much to maintain a working relationship with her. Having her move towards the anti-vax side of things just cannot become an issue with us. I would rather that she never bring it up again.
Anyhow, I just came home and freaked out for a while.
Very beautiful weather outside.
A phone conversation with my sister S. We talked about Mom mostly. S is still feeling guilty about Mom being in a care home, and I still don't understand why. Mom seems more cheerful and alert than she has been for the last couple of years, and I feel better knowing that she is no longer alone most of the day, and in great danger of falling. Mom does not seem upset to be there, seems to be enjoying having people around, likes the food, and gets lots of visits from the two people allowed to see her right now. That's about as good as it gets at her age.
I went to see River, and we were really working on the same wavelength today. I really focused on being soft in my asks, and clear with my body, and River seemed to respond to that. Under saddle he was super soft in his giving to pressure, and I ended up being able to work almost entirely with my seat today, and almost no reins. It was a lovely ride.
Not so grateful: I was barely able to enjoy such a beautiful connection with River though, because the barn owner R and another rider taking a lesson came in, and started discussing Covid vaccinations.
There is a "Freedom Convoy" travelling across Canada right now, that is made up of truckers protesting against having vaccines required for them to work. R and this other person were loudly in support of these truckers, in spite of the fact that truckers carry disease all over the place (they are actually used by the Center of Disease Control as a predictor for outbreaks of all kinds of diseases including STDS, not just Covid. You can basically watch syphilis spread along trucking routes.)
Both R and this other person say they are not anti-vaxxers because they do have their vaccines, BUT I know that they only reason why R got hers is because she needed them to keep her barn open. She is a big believer in our natural immune systems etc.
They kept talking for quite some time, and I just went silent. They talked about things that did nothing but demonstrate that they had no idea how science works, or how governments function.
People seem to forget that sure, people who survive terrible illnesses DO have some protection, but who wants to roll the dice and see if they live through Ebola or the Bubonic Plague just to build herd immunity? Do they realize that it isn't even a guarantee that they wouldn't get it again? You can certainly get Covid again, especially with the variants.
The horrible truth is, it's not like herd immunity even really works the way they think it does. We don't end up with strong survivors immune to something like Covid. We end up with people who have some resistance, but whenever someone is a little weak for some reason, they will still be able to catch it, and could still die or have serious complications. They could be allergy sufferers, or post surgery, or even a little anemic.
Just because Europeans lived through the Black Plague doesn't mean we would really be okay with having it go through again now. We'd still suffer horribly.
They talked about how we still have a ton of people in the hospital, so I guess the vaccine isn't working, and why even bother? What they don't get, is that we may be working within a "best case scenario" because Canada does have about 80% vaccinated. What if we didn't? What if no one bothered? We would have gotten to experience what a One Percent Fatality Rate would have been like without any protection: one percent of 38 million people is 380,000 people. That's if really is only one percent, and not say....1.2 or 1.5 percent. So far we have had about 32,000 people die. Isn't that enough?
I was disassociating so badly I was barely aware of my surroundings. I was numb. I tried to only be aware of River.
R means so much to me, and I want very much to maintain a working relationship with her. Having her move towards the anti-vax side of things just cannot become an issue with us. I would rather that she never bring it up again.
Anyhow, I just came home and freaked out for a while.
