The warmth of the sauna vs. your naked friend
Plus, like the Queen of England, Google fails to understand things
The CDC has issued revised guidelines about covid, saying, among other things that if you are vaccinated and you want to visit other people indoors who are also vaccinated, that’s fine.
And, I kind of already thought so? But it’s nice to hear it’s okay.
Here are stock photos that different news outlets chose to use with the story.
I think the big question now is how will that feel? My guess: it will be like going to a sauna with a friend. Yeah, it’s your friend and you’re glad to see them but it will be much… nakeder than usual.
I’ve been putting together an episode for the new show about trauma and covid, namely: how was this messed us up and what will the effects of that be? One guest said if you have been through something traumatic before where your health and life were threatened, you may have a harder time shaking this off than those blessed souls who are brand new to this. Which is disappointing to me. I thought I might have an edge because of hard-earned wisdom accumulated from being beaten up by life a few times. I guess not, though.
One of the experts I talked to mentioned that we’re probably done with handshakes for a long time and maybe forever. Which surprised me but then I thought about how handshakes are basically nude wrestling in a localized area. I do miss hugs, though.
Oh here’s something very very messed up. When employees complained to HR about racism and sexism, the employees were told to seek mental health counseling.
“Going on leave is so normalized. I can think of 10 people that I know of in the last year that have gone on mental health leave because of the way they were treated,” said a former Google employee, who is a person of color and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasnot authorized to speak about his work at Google. He went on medical leave last year after he said he had numerous unproductive conversations with human resources about how his colleagues discussed race.
Google, with all the knowledge at your fingertips, couldn’t you have looked up a goddamn clue?
It’s easy to imagine three of something. Lemons, hats, whatever. Three in a row. Sure. Even four. When you get to five or six I need to imagine patterns on dice. Beyond seven I have to start counting, which is the point where you need to start using systems to understand a number in front of you.
So I can’t visualize or comprehend the 523,850 covid deaths in the US (as I write this, per CDC).
Instead of attempting a visualization like they did when we hit 100,000, the New York Times goes small with a series of video remembrances of those lost by those left behind.
It’s well done and worth your attention, although have a box of Kleenex nearby. I should note that the heavy site is severely hinky as I write this, at least for me, but maybe you’ll fare better or they’ll work it out sooner.
The shattered, I’ve-been-through-a-war look of Maisy after being subjected to a bath. The hilarious world of dogpression.
