Elusive Rural Liberal

MAGAt in-laws get their knickers in a twist when my family wear masks. (I’ve got a medically complex kid & it’s respiratory season.)

But when ICE agents wear masks to terrorize, beat, and kill people they’re all: “Well, they have to wear masks for their protection.”

🙄 🤦🏼‍♀️

This is a new one for me. Gonna give it a try.
“But his emails!”
“Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!”
That’s how it goes, right?

Minnesotan here. This feels a lot like George Floyd. My heart is broken for Renee Good and her family. And my rage for the current administration is infinite.

I still can’t believe Tim Walz is leaving us. He’s a good man. I hope we find someone worthy to take his place. (But not Amy Klobuchar! We need her in the Senate!!)

Change doesn’t happen overnight, but tonight, we saw the tide turn. Let’s keep pushing for the future we believe in.

Teacher to my kid’s class as she was coughing: I’m not feeling well. I hope I don’t give this to all of you!

Y’all. The teacher was not wearing a mask.

I’m sure her “hope” will do the trick though. 🙄

Update: It’s up to 11 now.

Covid outbreak at local nursing home. 3 residents at first, now 6. One person has moved to hospice care. Staff are wearing, you guessed it . . . baggy blues. Ridiculous. I would be beyond pissed if my loved one lived there. It has to be willful negligence or something at this point, right?!

It’s been a real treat trying to find a pediatric COVID vaccine in rural MN. Finally found a pharmacy willing to order it in. For a state that is protecting access, it’s sure not easy to find a kid dose outside of the twin cities metro area. Most places I called aren’t even ordering peds vaccines.

I’m just catching up on your posts after randomly seeing one. I’m so sorry about your dad. That royally sucks. I’m glad you have a good support system.

Called 5 places to try to find a child COVID vaccine in rural MN where supposedly there are no limitations as to who can get one. Finally found a grocery store pharmacy 50 minutes away that’s willing to order some for next week. I have high risk kid who should’ve had it already. Ridiculous.

Trump and Melanie’s escalator malfunctioning at the UN

Well, it’s not like we didn’t already know his escalator doesn’t make it all the way to the top . . .

Just had to lie to get my teen a COVID vaccine. I can’t believe this is where we’re at. Sure. She has a mood disorder. Whatever.

ACIP anti-vaxxer member is upset that the ACIP committee was called anti-vax. 😆 Losers.

So far the ACIP public comments are 🔥. Lots of highly-credentialed, well-spoken people (so far) have advocated for continued availability of vaccines. Nice job to the 75 year old woman who told it like it is, too!

Milhoan is now indicating that since COVID19 vaccines don’t always prevent infection, it’s not effective.

The COVID19 vaccine prevents hospitalization and death very effectively. One might argue that this is an important fact.

How long before any decisions made go into effect? Is it immediate?

I’m yelling at my screen during the ACIP meeting. It seems, beyond all rational reasoning, that I might just know more about COVID vaccines than they do at this point — and I’m a social worker.

Well f%#k ABC and Disney. They can go to hell right along with CBS. First Colbert and now Kimmel. 🤬

Week 3 of school & 2 of 4 kids are sick. Covid negative so far for both, and neg strep for one. This sucks. We do everything we can & still end up with sick kids — and that means extra precautions around my high risk kiddo. It’s been a bumpy start to the year even outside of this. I’m tired.

@governorwalz.mn.gov 👀

Ope! Hello der, @governorwalz.mn.gov! Mightcha just scootch on over der lickety split and join with dem der states listed? It would be da bees knees fer sure if we could, ya know, not get sick and die, don’tcha know? Okie dokie. Catch ya later.

SIL has no problem with a plane full of kids being thisclose to being dropped off in Guatemala — kids that were supposed to be protected.

Also SIL: “Come with me on a church mission trip to Guatemala to help poor children!”

She doesn’t make any connections. Ever. Never ever. None of them do.

Holy hell, more like this:

Why must you get my hopes up?

You can’t just be out there speculating that he’s dead/dying unless you KNOW.

It’s like dropping hints to a kid all week that they’re going to Disney World & then being like: “Nah. We were just thinking about it. We’re going to the Walmart for groceries instead.”

I remember fighting for vaccines for under 5-year-olds, emailing, calling, and then searching for someplace to find one, etc.

And now, years later, here we f-ing are again except it’s even worse — even many adults can’t get them now.

I’m tired.

Actual conversation from this weekend.

Me: I just really don’t like my town.
Person: Is it the Mexicans?
Me: What? No!
Person: The Somalians?
Me: Are you serious?
Person: *waits for response*
Me: It’s racist MAGA’s I have a problem with. Town is full of them.
Person: *abruptly changes subject*

This makes me happy. More of this, please!

Dental exams are stressful when you’ve got vulnerable people in your household/are vulnerable yourself/just plain don’t want to get sick from random people breathing directly in your face.

Back to school comes with an astronomical level of stress when you are parent to a medically complex kid.

There’s so much illness & nobody wears a mask when actively ill and unable to stay home.

So my kid (& siblings to protect her) wears one all the time at school.

And that super sucks.