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arlyellowdog

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19. Right now! (Aside from everything Trump)

Tue May 11, 2021, 08:55 AM

May 2021

But just pandemic related, my adult autistic son cannot return to his day program because he takes off his mask. He (and all the other participants) are fully vaccinated, but a number of employees are refusing vaccine. They cannot be required or even asked whether they are vaccinated. This issue also affects transportation for disabled persons. It is a horrible limbo. He is 45, got Covid early, fully recovered, got the vaccine, is ready to leave the house after over a year....and cannot go. Antivaxxers (of all types) are holding America hostage. My solution is: the vaccine is available, if the people in a workplace or situation are of age to take the vaccine, open up at people’s own risk. Vaccinated people are protected.

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What was your low point of the pandemic? [View all] Takket May 2021 OP

And, she drank A-list whiskey... 🙄 Quakerfriend May 2021 #1

She ate bread? Poor Gwyneth. My lowest point was losing a good friend to Covid. Siwsan May 2021 #2

I don't think Paltrow has any idea about real world problems Rorey May 2021 #5

I agree - she's always seemed pretty oblivious to how the 'common folk' live Siwsan May 2021 #12

mine too gopiscrap May 2021 #30

I DO have an issue with her Rorey May 2021 #3

VERY nuts. Grokenstein May 2021 #18

who are her parents gopiscrap May 2021 #31

Blythe Danner (actress) and Bruce Paltrow (director now deceased) FakeNoose May 2021 #36

I never liked her either BoringUsername May 2021 #32

If she admitted to bread, she's probably also eating cake... Blues Heron May 2021 #4

My John Ludi May 2021 #6

It definitely exposed some ugliness in some people Rorey May 2021 #8

Yep. Just saw the North/South Carolina "gas shortage" panic. Grokenstein May 2021 #20

They'll use it through summer. jimfields33 May 2021 #25

Lying in a hospital bed somethingshiny May 2021 #7

I'm so sorry Rorey May 2021 #10

Thank you. somethingshiny May 2021 #11

Glass half full Rorey May 2021 #13

The big deep freeze (weather). ananda May 2021 #9

I can empathize with that! Siwsan May 2021 #14

But you survived! Rorey May 2021 #15

Realizing how selfish some people are. Akacia May 2021 #16

Sitting on the floor, hand feeding mnhtnbb May 2021 #17

Sorry for your loss. IrishAfricanAmerican May 2021 #26

Right now! (Aside from everything Trump) arlyellowdog May 2021 #19

the impact is so huge...still. Maxheader May 2021 #21

When Mom tested positive last spring MissMillie May 2021 #22

I'm so sorry for your loss of your mom Rorey May 2021 #23

When I got a bad mammogram, showing 3 suspicious spots, after 10 years of Nay May 2021 #24

My spouse died from COVID-19 in April of 2020. It's been downhill ever since. nt joetheman May 2021 #27

It isn't over; I can't think of the pandemic in the past tense. lagomorph777 May 2021 #28

Yeh... Hugin May 2021 #33

On my read, she succumbed to alcoholism, or at the very least Greybnk48 May 2021 #29

Losing my 96-year-old father in just three days. MineralMan May 2021 #34

oh, how to deal with such heavy losses all at once bedazzled May 2021 #41

The very long days between... lame54 May 2021 #35

Paltrow's "going off the rails" is pure Rage-Bait. maxsolomon May 2021 #37

having a maskless asshole back me into a corner bedazzled May 2021 #38

Staying in a cheap roach infested motel after returning from Vegas. Initech May 2021 #39

Realizing, even as vaccinations rolled and death tolls dropped, how many morons were still out there hatrack May 2021 #40

My low point so far is seeing people talk about the pandemic in the past tense, as if it were over. Towlie May 2021 #42

The same low point I've reached every few months for the last 30 or so years. Iggo May 2021 #43