Just because there is a mass all- staff email does not mean your response needs to be mass and to all-staff as well.
We don't need 15 emails knowing that you said congrats to someone or 10 emails confirming that you signed whatever petition - just congratulate that person in a private email or sign the petition instead of letting us all know you signed it.
I bet more than 50% of emails are just unnecessary. Imagine if it was a paper letter, how may e-trees would we have wasted?
I'll just put this link here.
The most scientific assessment and clear explanation of vaccines that I heard about in a while.
Interesting how much shit is on FB but it labels this as false information stating that this video says that "vaccines do not work" and sending me an article on how vaccines work. Implying I am an anti-vaxxer when I just got my first dose of Pfizer a couple weeks ago?!
The video did not say vaccines do not work!
This video only puts valid questions in light in the quest to figure out whats happening with the virus, it does not say whether or not vaccines work, nor it is an anti-vaxxer video.
If anyone has any common sense and background in science they could understand this.
I'm pretty pissed that FB is blocking this information without even investigating what it is saying.
The facts:
- the vaccines that are out are prophylactic meaning they do not KILL the Coronavirus. They are used so we will not get too sick from getting the virus.
- once vaccinated, YOU can still get infected with the virus. You can still spread it to others. Repeat it does not kill the virus.
- we may all need to take this anyways since that is whats happening and we are afraid our loved ones will get very sick and pass away.
- we may need to keep taking booster vaccines to keep up with the mutations of this virus and the present one may not work on future mutations
- the question in the video is not whether vaccines work. Its about if this is the right one. Masking symptoms is a huge part of why big Pharma continues - while society stays very sick. Need to find the cause. I cannot understand why anyone that wants to understand more about how this virus works to see what can finally kill it would want to deem this as false information.
Things I come to believe.
Whether a person is rich or poor does not determine if they do or do not suffer from mental health issues.
Whether a person is born into a poor family or a rich family does not mean we know them or " their' kind"
We think we may know, but we cannot judge a person based on if they are poor or rich, and believe our judgments to be FACT.
Just because a person is white, does not mean that it is OK to judge them, similar to how people have judged people who are black (and other POC or other cultures). Unity does not judge, it is open to all, it does not divide. Unity does not mean erase differences but to be willing to understand them. No one will know your experience except yourself. Even if you came from the same family. Nothing wrong with celebrating a group, something wrong with putting another group down.
Its easy to say we should hear all sides but its hard to hear when you have strong opinions that you want to be heard.
Its ok to be ok with opposing opinions. It's the other ideas/ perceptions or assumptions that you make about someone that makes it difficult. Those ideas/perceptions/assumptions are not always true.
In certain instances when it is just an opinion and there is NO real threat to anyone, it is better to be kind, than to be right. (Fucken Celery is just celery, why fight over proving its nutritional benefit??! to the point you shut the other person down or make them feel like shit or have them walk out of the room or sink away defeated and feeling unheard or even unvalued, or brew anger and agitation, and even dislike. It's. just. celery. )
I enjoy hearing an individual's personal story, lived experience, rather than listening to a group narrative.
I put more value in an individual's responsibility to themselves and those around them, than asking others to be responsible for someone else.
In sociology class 101 at U of T, they talked about the social influence of a group. It is not always beneficial. I forgot the term used but the study includes a dynamic that if there is an individual in distress or in need of help, the likelihood of you helping that person decreases with the amount of people around you. The idea is that you end up just waiting for or expecting someone else to dare to help and it takes longer for the person to get help. Maybe the term is : Deindividuation. I think.
Wow, senior management needs to have a meeting with management to discuss how they can have a meeting with us, so we can meet.
yay.
Conversing with someone who believes that the purpose of School is to just pass (and get through it) and trying to explain the value of learning and understanding and the value it brings to a person is like beating a dead horse.
It seems that no one ever gets the Fishing phrase:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Yet time and time again society seems to focus on giving out fishes. Sooner or later it will only be a few people actually knowing how to fish while the rest just sit and wait for fish like a baby waits to be nursed, and then cries out of distress because it is not being fed. The idea going around is that, well what if he doesnt know how to learn to fish, what if he is depressed, what if this or that or another excuse as to why he cannot learn. I mean in rare circumstances is someone physically and mentally disabled that they cannot learn this. But society is treating everyone like they are too physically and mentally disabled to simply care for themselves. It is always someone elses problem. If you dare ask someone to assert themselves or even try to even find out their true potential - you are deemed too privileged! They assume handicapped and disadvantaged first than daring to allow a person to strive.
The question in this case was if it were ok if a A+ student were to "charitably" give some of their bonus points to the student with the lowest marks. The worst part of this analogy is that even if you were to do this - you arent even "feeding a man for a day". You are literally giving them nothing. They get to say they pass but do not qualify to pass at all. Is this incentive for them to learn more even? Failure should not be looked at as something bad. But a starting place to learn again and learn well and do better than before.
It's pretty much exhausting. As I said dead horse.
My mistake in engaging.
Here is how my specialist appointment went last Thursday.
The referral was made in November 2020 and the appointment was booked in February 2021.
3 Months wait.
The appointment is a phone call appointment since its Covid.
So not even a physical exam.
The day of the appointment it was booked for 3:15pm
By 4 pm I called the office to inquire about the phone call appointment I never received.
They said they alot a 3 hour window for the phone call. (!!?!)
I waited until 7 pm and still did not have a phone call.
I left a message with their office and also with my family doctor. Inquired about another appointment and if I would need to wait another 3 months for this phone call.
I got a phone call the next day from the receptionist to tell me that the doctor had an emergency surgery she had to do and could not get to her call and that her rescheduled apt time for me is on Monday when I work. I had to call back to tell them that the time was not good and to schedule during my lunch time. But again they have a 3 hour phone window for that - So I have my own pts booked then.
What a gong show. I was so livid about this whole ordeal and thought that this would not happen if it was an in person appointment. If this was not a government funded Health care system you would not see this much disregard for appointments and for patients. No where do I see this much disregard for health care booked appointments than in funded physician positions. If you have a physio appointment or a dental appointment or a podiatric appointment there is respect both ways for the times of the practitioner and the patient. And if any "emergency surgery" ever pops up, you will get a phone call to explain the change in appointment, rather than you left with no explanation why you waited 4 hours for nothing at the end of the day.
What bothers me most is that I have to keep my cool about this because its difficult to rebook or see another specialist and the fact that this specialist is most likely the one doing the surgery.
I get it, its covid times and things are all messed up. But really to think that there would have been more efficiency if I had an in person booked appointment rather than a phone call is beyond me. You would think that it saves time.
I appreciate that many people are hesitant with the new vaccine.
This is what a friend who has already gotten hers told me when I inquired about her decision to get it.
For many reasons, there is the fact that it is a new type of vaccine method that is linked to your mRNA and that it had to be "rushed" out due to the urgency of the pandemic we are in.
Regardless this is what I find interesting:
Most of the ads and support toward getting the vaccine centre toward that this is the way to prevent the spread so we can go back to normal.
I do not think we will go to a normal for a long time. Of course it would just simply become a new normal.
Getting the vaccine only protects the person getting it. It does not protect others from getting it from you, even though you may not get sick from it, you would be able to still spread it.
Thus, we should still continue going on with the same precautions as we are doing right now and as if we did not even get the vaccine, if we did.
The idea of Herd immunity does not really apply if those that had the vaccine shot can still spread it. The idea that if 9 out of 10 people in the room get the vaccine, this does not prevent the 1 person that did not get the vaccine immune to getting it because the people around them got the vaccine. It can still spread to that one person.
Anyways, even with the vaccine, we will not be going back to the old normal. This may even already be our new normal.
Check on those that are alone and isolated. Check on your loved ones. Really listen to them. Sometimes it is hard to tell they are having a rough time with this.
