D&D and the rising pandemic

A friend's father passed from it last night. The family had decided not to get vaccinated in spite of various medical conditions and they all caught it just before Christmas. The rest of the family recovered.

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The FLGS (mostly MtG) we liked most closed this weekend. Other things besides the COVID downturn contributed, but that was a big part. Took my son (masked) to get a few final products. I had restarted MtG there in 2014 after a 16 year break, and was introduced to the Ascension boardgame (and several others) . Before the pandemic me and my son would play those and Cribbage there. Lots of good friends made of a few decades different ages.

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The rotation of colleagues and students getting it at the University continues. Masking still required in the University building, but not in the K12 schools, and masking is way down everywhere else. Omicron apparently appears inevitable to most, and trying not to flood the hospitals isn't getting much play as a reason for precautions.

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12 yo has times once in a while of being pretty worried about it. We explain the risks to him (small) and he's glad he can get his booster next month. He's one of the few masking at his school, but hasn't been masking at karate (spaced out, high ceiling).

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The two online 5e games I'm running continue. Might not have considered it without COVID. Works great for my 12yo and friends, and allowed me to meet several out of state people for the other.
 
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A friend's father passed from it last night. The family had decided not to get vaccinated in spite of various medical conditions and they all caught it just before Christmas. The rest of the family recovered.
Assuming your friend was vaccinated, my condolences.

Must be awful to see people you actually know throw away their lives. As opposed to random strangers on the internet, I mean.

Having someone I actually cared about refuse to vaccinate would have been a nightmare.

More and more experts say that if you're boosted (three shots) there is no longer a need for concern, thanks to Omikron. Huge relief!
 


Been watching reports from the truck convoy anti-vax protest up in Ottawa. Even if they have more fans than I’d hope they would, I sincerely pray some of their actions will erode that support.

The upside down Canadian flag with added swastikas was bad. The protesters parking, dancing, and hanging their banners on parts of the memorial for unknown soldiers was worse.

But the reports of them threatening restauranteurs with vandalism if they weren’t fed free food and harassing homeless shelters for the same is so incredibly, deeply reprehensible.
 

Been watching reports from the truck convoy anti-vax protest up in Ottawa. Even if they have more fans than I’d hope they would, I sincerely pray some of their actions will erode that support.

The upside down Canadian flag with added swastikas was bad. The protesters parking, dancing, and hanging their banners on parts of the memorial for unknown soldiers was worse.

But the reports of them threatening restauranteurs with vandalism if they weren’t fed free food and harassing homeless shelters for the same is so incredibly, deeply reprehensible.
The overlap of covid antivaxxery with particular ideologies is no coincidence.
 

Assuming your friend was vaccinated,

Nope. The family "researched it" and decided not to. :-/ We weren't enough to out weigh all of the <expletives> they worked with and the like. They masked and distanced at least, which doesn't do much good over an extended period of time if your employer and co-workers don't too. Just glad they, their mom, and pre-teen all recovered fine.
 

Been watching reports from the truck convoy anti-vax protest up in Ottawa. Even if they have more fans than I’d hope they would, I sincerely pray some of their actions will erode that support.

The upside down Canadian flag with added swastikas was bad. The protesters parking, dancing, and hanging their banners on parts of the memorial for unknown soldiers was worse.

But the reports of them threatening restauranteurs with vandalism if they weren’t fed free food and harassing homeless shelters for the same is so incredibly, deeply reprehensible.
The supposed trucker protest was subsumed by others, who for reasons of the posting rules I cannot go into details about. They parked their vehicles on the steps of the cenotaph. The hung their banners from it and danced on it. They put their banners and flags on the memorial to Terry Fox - Wikipedia . They drove around downtown Ottawa with Confederate Flags on their vehicles (for said previous reasons I cannot post more about that).

I am nauseous at at many of my acquaintances are in support of this thing, It's notable that those in support are almost exclusively from more rural areas of Ontario.
 

A friend's father passed from it last night. The family had decided not to get vaccinated in spite of various medical conditions and they all caught it just before Christmas. The rest of the family recovered.

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The FLGS (mostly MtG) we liked most closed this weekend. Other things besides the COVID downturn contributed, but that was a big part. Took my son (masked) to get a few final products. I had restarted MtG there in 2014 after a 16 year break, and was introduced to the Ascension boardgame (and several others) . Before the pandemic me and my son would play those and Cribbage there. Lots of good friends made of a few decades different ages.

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The rotation of colleagues and students getting it at the University continues. Masking still required in the University building, but not in the K12 schools, and masking is way down everywhere else. Omicron apparently appears inevitable to most, and trying not to flood the hospitals isn't getting much play as a reason for precautions.

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12 yo has times once in a while of being pretty worried about it. We explain the risks to him (small) and he's glad he can get his booster next month. He's one of the few masking at his school, but hasn't been masking at karate (spaced out, high ceiling).

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The two online 5e games I'm running continue. Might not have considered it without COVID. Works great for my 12yo and friends, and allowed me to meet several out of state people for the other.

Not sure ours will make it.

Considering quiting D&D no point buying books to gather dust.
 
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The supposed trucker protest was subsumed by others, who for reasons of the posting rules I cannot go into details about. They parked their vehicles on the steps of the cenotaph. The hung their banners from it and danced on it. They put their banners and flags on the memorial to Terry Fox - Wikipedia . They drove around downtown Ottawa with Confederate Flags on their vehicles (for said previous reasons I cannot post more about that).

I am nauseous at at many of my acquaintances are in support of this thing, It's notable that those in support are almost exclusively from more rural areas of Ontario.

Similar things here in NZ. You see various American flags eg the don tread on me snake and various others jump on board.

Kinda funny when they copy and paste American stuff eg the constitution on placards etc.

Been kinda quiet lately think one of the main poo stirrers is a guest of her Majesty atm for breaking bail conditions multiple times.
 

Cleaning up and found this.

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Post vaccine advice. They've tried to idiot proof it as much as they can. World's full of idiots though so go figure.

My cats vaccinated.

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Not versus Covid though. She didn't get much choice either.
 

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