"All too human, dear," Ainsley had said, her blue old eyes looking at the Thames, "and the moment we forget it, we're lost."
- William Gibson "The Peripheral"

I'm incredibly lucky. I've got family and friends outside of the US, and so have the ability to bail. My friends and family here in the US don't have that option.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do.

Might be petty and directly reply to everyone who told me not to be such a negative nancy about the prospects for the election...

How'd that positive attitude work out?

Ballots burned, Russian bomb threats, voter suppression, voting and tabulation machine errors, ballots not counted....and the entire democratic leadership rolling over and showing their bellies to a dictatorship.

We're on our own.

My mom went in for wound care over a month ago. It was supposed to only be for 2 weeks. Right as her wound healed enough to come home, someone in the facility tested positive for covid. She then tested positive a few days later and we had to fight with them to get her started on paxlovid immediately. She's symptom free thanks to being vaccinated and paxlovid, but she's still testing positive. We're hoping she can come home soon.

Please wear a mask you guys. Covid, h5n1, and rsv are ramping up.

"At the end of all things, all of us, together, against the darkness.”
- Argus

I'm going to miss the VA.

I'm going to miss Medicaid.

I'm going to miss medicare.

I'm going to miss vaccines.

I'm going to miss having safe food to eat.

I'm going to miss The United States of America.

I'm going to miss democracy.

I'm going to miss public schools.