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04/11/21 - Thursday
Took a picture of the sky this morning at the bus stop, it was very pretty and made me feel good to be awake and present which is rare...😓
Also we got a book in at work that I really want to read! Has anyone read it and can recommend?😊
Sitting down to study after work today is proving really really difficult because it's so dark early now and I'm exhausted from my job, but onward we go!
Academic grind dont stop📚💯
Notes for you, future historian, pt 2
• Respirators in critical short supply.
Yes, and why? We are a society that gets stuff manufactured elsewhere, then shipped in. Stop global trade, and we can't move (in this case) the required medical respirators around.
My wife's friend, BC, an anaesthetic doctor, was helping develop a way to get up to 4 patients on a respirator.
She also pointed out how they still needed some respirators for accident victims.....
I'm sure that there were multiple situations where a doctor had to choose between a covid patient and an accident patient, which one goes onto the respirator, which misses out.
• America has a capitalism approach to health care.
We were shocked and appalled at the Trump administration decision to seize surplus respirators and then get various hospitals to bid on getting them supplied.
Rest of the world just went with its version of health care for all. It wasn't perfect, but we didn't try to make a profit from citizens not dying.....
• Lots of service industries suffered after global travel ceased. Baggage handlers, waiters, chefs....
Also the volunteer services that check in and drive around the elderly and socially isolated.
Plus the amount of people further trapped within a abusive relationship.
All of the trickle effects that make a situation worse.
Ironically, we sent kids to either make burgers, or youths to drive the food via uber (or similar) to your home. Essential workers logic. Because a hamburger, fries and a ice cream are part of the food economy, and essential services.
• Unemployment and underemployment
So the tourist industry, and travel agents, cruise ships, airlines, and the people that made it work all lost work. There was an increase of applications to the military, fly in fly out workers had problems, coffee shops were on less than 1% sales. Why pay some one to make coffee when the income won't cover rent of the business site?
Lots of people went to fraction of a work week.
• Lots of poorly handled stand downs.
Some were handled well, other people got stood down with no pay, or had their leave soaked up by lock down.
My friends wife, KB, who worked for a local council library, went through a very improper and so poorly managed process that all staff went unionised and had a lawsuit started for redress, because the stand down was so unfair.
• Lockdown we all get creative
There were a lot of posts about family making movie night like a night out to the cinemas. Had to buy a ticket, get some popcorn or whatever. Settle and watch a movie from the family couch.
Baking banana bread, or croissants or multi tier cakes, something else that was a popular post.
Along with a overhaul of the garden, fixing all those little maintenance things that needed doing.
Ride the bike.... there was a frenzy of bike purchasing and riding when it was announced that you exercise as part of being allowed out of lockdown, and for about a week the news was showing flocks of bicycle riding and shows struggling to keep up with demand.
Instead, there was, and remains, increased load on mental health services, complaints about human rights infringement particularly mandatory mask wearing.
Lots of arse sitting and watching TV, and now observational humour about lock down weight gain.
• Working from home and schooling from home, lots of parents discover that teaching is a demanding job, and hard to do while teleconferencing. Plus their little angels can be little shits too.
There is a ghost generation seeded, that have fallen behind due lack of access to remote education. This will show up in about 10 - 15 years for a distinct minority who will barely be of more than statistical interest.
• Summary, for all the headlines of the death toll, medical people as heroes, work and school from home, the drive for a vaccine, it was handled with usual muddled efforts of everyone, and national character and political parties interests either being a big society vision or a more sectional, tribal flag waving exercise.
(Note, I worked on this entry over about 5 weeks, often leaving the draft unlooked at for 6 day stretches. It was to note my impressions and memories down, without comparing and revisiting notes. That way you can have a comparison point on notes of the day, versus a year later memories recall. Memories are malleable and elastic and blur easily. You've been advised, future historian)
27 February 2021
I know I don’t talk about it much on here but this past December, I finished my undergraduate studies. Recently, I got the word that I was accepted into graduate school. I’m going to be continuing my studies in history and can’t even begin to say how excited I am! When it comes to my master thesis, I hope to write something about our poor boys lost to the Arctic and hopefully then go onto to earn my PHD but until then here’s to the next couple of years!
(New Year post - take two 🎬 the first time I tried to upload there was a technical malfunction 🙄) >>Two weeks until Spring 2018 classes start! 😱 Getting a head start on an education class using note taking printables from @emmastudies and the Stabilo pastel highlighters that I finally ordered! I am determined to have a fabulous semester! It has taken a lot of work to pull myself back up, but I have realized that self care and mental health are seriously important factors in success. Depression and anxiety are not things to be messed with! No one should be ashamed to admit that they are struggling or afraid to ask for help. I have carried a lot of awkwardness from being a non-traditional student, but I have had to realize that that doesn’t make me any less than a typical college student. Sometimes detours happen in life, but we can still be ambitious, driven, successful, and happy. 💗 With that said, always chase your dreams, whether you are 8 or 80. Never sell yourself short or think that you aren’t capable. So here is to a new year and to new opportunities...🎊🍾🥂
07.13.2017|| 22:40 P.M Some bujo update ((things to do before college))
Hey guys, sorry but I've been so busy lately cleaning and organizing some things at home. I'll get my college results at Monday and anxiety is getting worst day by day ): wish me luck!
Hope you're enjoying your day (:
Notes for you, future historian....
As you document the notes about the uncertainty about COVID-19 pandemic, it's spread and the death toll, let's move past the dry numbers and government announcements and read what some of us saw, felt and experienced.
• Heroes who we feared. Doctors and nurses were touted as being heroes helping patients while a vaccine was researched.
Reality was that they had insufficient supplies, had to either borrow or raid other departments stocks. And nurses rapidly learned to wear civilian clothes else they be shunned when they went shopping for food on the way home. Things settled down after a while.
• Essential workers stepped up.
Well, we discovered that we needed a lot of ordinary people to keep society working. Truck drivers, banking staff, janitorial staff, people delivering take away food, kids in fast food places, teachers and kindergarten staff (because doctors and nurses kids need child care). One year on, we're forgetting that these people kept working with no fanfare. Often reluctantly, as they can be casual workers living from pay cheque to pay cheque.
• Work from home is the new normal
Well, a lot of telcos (telecommunications companies) made a killing on connecting people to home lines, for working at your home computer and dialling in.
Plus the online entertainment industry had a windfall....all that Netflix, Amazon prime etc had a shit load of bored people signing up.
• We're all in this together.
Bullshit.
It was a lot of loneliness, isolation and separation.
Digital interaction through video cameras or phone calls just added to the sense of isolation. Like being in a spacecraft or similar.
For those of us who had to go (nurse shift at hospital, garbage disposal, delivery driver) there was that slightly unnerving sensation of clear roads and shuttered shops. It was a lot of little tribes, not a civilisation together.
So at best, this'll be an obscure footnote in an equally obscure study, someday in the future.
10th February 2021
So, hi. For the purpose of this blog, I'm Squiggles. Actually, it's what I named one of my fidget critters (the one pictured in my avatar). I just think it's a cute nickname, and I'm not averse to collecting those. But I started out using that here because I'm a very awkward person when this sideblog was completely brand new. I didn't really have a social life growing up. I had books and, later, the internet.
I'm a white US American of mostly western European descent. I don't really have any personal cultural ties to ethnic minorities, especially people of color. However, I am dedicated to being an ally to people different from myself. I know I'll make mistakes, but I'll also do my best to learn from them and grow. Because honestly, that's the best way to handle making mistakes, and owning up to those mistakes is a sign of emotional maturity. Please just be patient with me if I'm struggling with something, because I'm (like everyone else) not perfect.
This blog is dedicated to sharing history. I'm literally a history student in college right now, finishing up my last several classes for my associate's degree. My primary subject of interest as a history student is the history of music within diaspora and ethnic minority communities, especially in the Americas. In particular, I want to focus on indigenous American music prior to colonization.
That said, there will be almost no limit to the subjects I choose. I partially chose history as my major because it gives me a good excuse to study whatever I want, in the name of studying the history of it. I'm eternally curious, so I've found myself regularly annoying people with constant questions. I'm also a voracious reader, which I come by honestly. For better or worse, just think of me as the human equivalent of Curious George.
I do pride myself on the accuracy of any information I provide. If I don't know something, I find literally no shame in admitting it. However, I'm certainly willing to look into something for the sake of accuracy, if nothing else.
Yooooo Future Historians '22 shirt came though
It's beautiful; the gold is shiny
