@lotlizard
Excellent. Posted it back to the local climate group. Michael Dowd says religion is one of the ways we got here. yep

Very heavy stuff. Here are some links to help with coping from the Deep Adaption group.

Dear Professions' Network member,

What a year! Perhaps 2020 will be remembered by millions as the end of ‘normal’?

If you are struggling with the new normal to the point where you need help, guidance or support then there are Deep Adaptation Guides who might be able to help.

One of the qualities of collapse is that it proceeds unevenly, and so appears quite differently, to different people in different places, with different stresses, challenges and priorities, which invite different responses.

The Deep Adaptation Guidance site seeks to bring together guides and support wherever you are and whatever stresses and strains are arising for you. If you are struggling in some way to find or express a loving response, our guides are here to meet you wherever you are and whatever you are going through.

Maybe it is about how to talk to loved ones or colleagues about the gap between what you and they are seeing and feeling?
Maybe it’s about anxiety, hopelessness or regulating grief and managing uncertainty?
Maybe it’s about how to make better sense of what is happening, or how to cultivate resilience and community or to move into action?
Or maybe you’re looking for self-guided methods for supporting your internal adaptation?

We have a growing community of guides adapting their processes and practices to offer very different kinds of help and support, to meet the very different kinds of need that arise. Many of the offers are free, low cost, or discounted from their usual rates. For those that can afford to pay, you are enabling collapse aware guides to step-up and develop the capacity and skills to innovate and serve the growing need.

If you are struggling with collapse or your adaptation, or know someone who might be, check out the Deep Adaptation Guidance site to see what is on offer - and let us know what you need if you can’t find help there.

Brennan
Kat
Matthew

Thanks for this! Take good care. Stay safe!

Thesis of presentation: too late; collapse can’t be stopped / won’t be stopped; it’s over. So, for those among us fully willing to face up to the situation, now what?

[video:https://youtu.be/iQeK04WOGaA]

@usefewersyllables
Got that. Hunkering down more than ever. So there will be another surge two weeks after xmas and another 2 weeks after New Years. That puts us to mid January. So best case we might see the numbers go down somewhere around the beginning of February. Maybe.

There are many people who are having long term complications from covid. Here is a recent article from the nyt (yes, nyt). I have seen a number of other similar articles.

He Was Hospitalized for Covid-19. Then Hospitalized Again. And Again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/covid-hospital-readmissions.html

Data on rehospitalizations of coronavirus patients are incomplete, but early studies suggest that in the United States alone, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands could ultimately return to the hospital.
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A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 106,543 coronavirus patients initially hospitalized between March and July found that one in 11 was readmitted within two months of being discharged, with 1.6 percent of patients readmitted more than once.

In another study of 1,775 coronavirus patients discharged from 132 V.A. hospitals in the pandemic’s early months, nearly a fifth were rehospitalized within 60 days. More than 22 percent of them needed intensive care, and 7 percent required ventilators.

And in a report on 1,250 patients discharged from 38 Michigan hospitals from mid-March to July, 15 percent were rehospitalized within 60 days.

Be safe and take good care.

fucking-around part already.

Now we get to do the finding-out part.

For our parts, we're hunkering down more than ever, and keeping up with the vitamins and personal hygiene regimen- to the point that we both have to use Bag Balm on our hands, since there's no humidity here.

Our friend who was a vocalist is back in the hospital with complications of Covid, after narrowly recovering from her May case. She's been on supplemental O2 since, but has started having more breathing issues and had to be readmitted. We haven't heard yet if she's positive again or not. Our other buddy who successfully weaned himself off the supplemental O2 just went diving again for the first time since contracting the virus in June, going shallow on Nitrox 50. He may finally be able to get back to work, assuming that things eventually reopen (he's a diving instructor).

I'm also happy that the British have approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. We're trying to figure out a good way to travel somewhere in the old Empire to get it. It won't be approved here in the US for months yet (if ever), since it was intended from the start as a not-for-profit effort. When it comes time in a year or so to get vaccinated, I'm much more interested in that one than in anything that has been blessed by the US government. Mostly, we're watching for reliable reports on side effects of any of the mRNA vaccines, but there is a great deal of noise out there and very little signal.

I mourn the state of what used to be called journalism. We'll see a lot of newly-homeless people get very ill in the coming snowy months, but we'll never hear about them in the Carefully Curated And Approved News That Fits.

@enhydra lutris
Seriously, thank you so much for Cool and the Gang. Rock on out. Made me smile. heh.

And from that day on the people throughout the land called it

The England Virus

.

You are in good form, chronological absolutism withstanding. Not yet 1929 and maybe with a whimper not a bang.

Stay safe and take good care.

we dropped the pretense and called this new so-called variant of Corona Virus SARS-2 (Covid-19) The England Virus? After all, that's where it was discovered. Besides, it probably escaped from their bioweapons facility at Porton Down. You know, where they allegedly merely verified that Novichok was used on the Skripals, some new-fangled less lethal Novichok that nobody had heard of before they, ahem, discovered that it had been used right in their back yard? What else, I wonder, are they working on?

/snark (or not)

So thanks for the OT and the early New Year's wishes and happy round-eye collective New Year's to you too. Given that entire cultures have different New Years, the question presents naturally arises whether we should have individual ones? After all, I won't be an even number of years old tomorrow, that happens much later (or earlier) in the year, on my birthday. Not that I will let chronological absolutism interfere with this opportunity to celebrate, but, don't we all need innumerable opportunities to celebrate. After all, the ship is sinking. I mean, is it 1929 yet?

So party like there's no tomorrow, 'cause, after all, there might not be ...

So happy new year to you too

be well and have a good one

@randtntx
Hospital is so revealing. It paints a picture of unbelievable incompetence. Heart breaking. I have forwarded to a number of people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/those-of-us-who-dont-die-are-going-to...

I honestly thought we would handle covid. But to paraphrase; our response was a shit show. We have had eight months and here we are in December...a complete disaster.

The nurse who is highlighted in this article concludes that it was too expensive to take care of people and so we didn't.

@snoopydawg
Thanks for all the news. It is just kabuki as you say. Theater to put on a good face but nothing, absolutely nothing ever happens. Or if it does it is not in the interest of the 99%.

Thanks for keeping on and keeping us informed. Stay safe and take good care.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UKX5Dooo18&list=TLPQMzExMjIwMjDi4awnM73...

He comes right out and says that millions of people are afraid that they are going to lose everything, but McConnell doesn't care. However, 41 democrats voted for cloture I think anyway they voted to pass the aumf forward whilst voting against the money.

Schumer has also ripped Mitch even though he joined the other 40, and now I just saw a headline saying Mitch blocked it for a 3rd day. At least they are still in DC and I hope they miss every party they planned on attending. The world is watching as the US of A deliberately kills some of the most vulnerable among us, but for gawd's sake won't they think of the children? It is immoral and every other word that fits here. Children are to be protected at all costs. This is going to put lots of moms and dads in positions where they might make really bad choices. But what is their other option?

@smiley7
Thanks. It’s for my friend and ex co-convenor Marion. We met in 2016 and fought in the front lines together for years. How lucky I am to have met all these wonderful people who all came together for the, as I see it now, ‘war’ for a better world. Hoping your beach-side perch is bringing you joy. Be safe. Be well. Take good care. And Happy New Year to you.