US pol
Quite like “sadopopulism” to describe the GOP actually. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-stimulus-bill-passes-republicans-use-cancel-culture-hide-their-ncna1260549
PDX: way to possibly access COVID-19 vaccine
Passing this along from a local street medic group: signing up as a Red Cross volunteer allows you to get on their waitlist for the vaccine. I know of people who’ve registered and put themselves on the waitlist last week and got notified this week that spots became available. So this isn’t a guarantee, more of a wait and see.
Being an EMT in a Pandemic
Someone made the nurses at one of the Covid-heavy hospitals custom stickers. This is the kind of thing that if they put it in a movie I’d be like “that seems a bit much”
Being an EMT in a Pandemic
I got my first dose of the vaccine on 12/31 (it knocked me on my ass, it was like Baby Covid).
PPE shortages continue and it’s starting to take a toll on everyone at work, as seen in the tone of the bathroom graffiti.
Being an EMT in a Pandemic
Haven’t updated in a while because I at long last got Covid. (I’m fine now.)
This gas station keeps their bathroom keys in a bucket of food grade sanitizer and fishes them out with tongs. I asked if they were going to keep using it after the pandemic. “Everyone asks that, and I’ve asked the boss if we can. I like it.”
Being an EMT in a Pandemic - wildfire edition
Also, the kN95 masks have extremely aggressive elastic loops, and after about 60 seconds your ears start to hurt. The “solution” is to rip the ear loops off a surgical mask and staple them to your kN95.
I did it, I finally found another example in the wild of the soap dispenser that prompted this thread in the first place!
I have MANY questions. The branding. The “flavor” (??) choice. Even the color tbh. I can’t show you in a photo but it smells almost exactly like that raspberry body mist B&BW sells that all my friends who stripped in college used because they said it made men tip more.
This is a lot for a hand soap.
Being an EMT in a Pandemic
I promise to never make fun of videogame graffiti ever again. (Well...I will continue to mock its placement on buildings since it’s so rarely at arm-level, but the superliminal messages...I was wrong to doubt.)
Also the billboard looks like a compressed jpeg file because it’s digital 🤷♂️
Update on this critical situaton: Sushi is still at the shelter, still unbearably small and soft and precious.
Continuing to be impressed by the game’s willingness to let the player be a tiny yellow dot in a huge developed world
Jock Dad of Friend Camp.