Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Feeling *very* 1933 out there

 Today's big news is, besides the round-ups of people who "look" like illegal immigrants including Navajo, Tono O'odham, etc., now the orange turd has, somehow, shut off Medicaid funds. 

"If one single person can now undo our laws and completely control spending that a majority of our representatives voted for becoming law and where our tax money is allocated, things that have been in place for quite some time, what the fuck kind of system are we now living under?" - u/somethingsomethingbe on Reddit.  

Without Medi-Cal I'd have had to pay for my covid shots, no problem with budgeting but something like $120 each time. And my visit to the hospital to check out my back, forget about it. 

I'm seriously considering going down to the clinic at Walmart to get the latest covid booster plus any other vaccinations they recommend (all I can think of is flu and rsv). 

On the other hand I've had something like 6 covid shots and they've either done their job or, I have a suspicion, that Ken and I are both winners in the genetic lottery where we can get sick from it but not super sick. I suspect that "coughing thing" we both got in the winter of 2019-20 was the first bit of covid which, if a possibly now "disappeared" PBS Frontline episode is correct, was in the US as early as October of 2019. 

Plus we're all taking better precautions these days, at least in my area. I see masks, and I'd wear one if I had a sniffle, and would also avoid going out if possible. That's just common sense in Asian countries and of course we have tons of Asians here. 

I managed to pack 10 or so things, get them to the post office, eat a beef bowl at Nijiya, get over to Campbell OK with time to study for an hour before class, did the class, and get back. It's cold out there! But I didn't get really cold. 


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