Sunday, February 20
Today I am grateful for:
Having the physical resources to go do chores and take care of our animals.
I went to see River, and in spite of it being pretty cold, it went well. He had completely destroyed the removable liner from his blanket, which can only mean I didn't have it done up properly to the outer shell. A stupid oversight on my part.
Our session was good. He was again distracted by the horses milling around outside, but by the time we did our groundwork he was relaxed and focused. He did really well with picking up his trot when asked in our groundwork, and in general he did well, in spite of being distracted. Imagine if we didn't have to always have distraction issues! He did well with the riding part, and was better at maintaining his head set during downward transitions. He has a thing with bringing his head up to speed up or slow down, especially slowing down. It's partly old habits from lack of body conditioning, and resistance created with heavy hands at some point early in his life.
I am grateful that the convoy blockages are clear. I sincerely hope that we can all move forward from this peacefully, but I am worried that too many people are angry, and there is no way to appease them because what they want is fundamentally at odds with democracy.
I watched more "Walking Dead", and while there are compelling elements that I am enjoying, I have to say, there are many issues I have with it. Mainly, those zombies are totally manageable, but the characters never take advantage of their predictable nature. If those zombies are attracted to sound, why do they never just create big diversions when they need to go into the city for supplies to draw them away from where they need to go? They make use of diversions, but only once they are in trouble. Why not divert the zombies FIRST so that your target is clear? In fact, why not lure them into an enclosed area and kill them off?
Why would anyone be dumb enough to live in a camp in the countryside in TENTS, and not even have anything like...a lookout tower? They don't even seem to have an organized system of surveillance like people on watch. A perimeter with even tin cans on a string to warn you, or at least a wide swath of open, clear land that would give you good visibility? Why not dogs? They are surrounded by thick trees, and they can't see anything around them. Why wouldn't you at least sleep in something like a sealed house basement or in a solid, enclosed building?
Today I learned about how author Roald Dahl wrote a letter to try to convince vaccine hesitant parents to please vaccinate their children against Measles, because of the death of his own daughter.
"Measles: A Dangerous Illness" is an open letter written by the children's writer Roald Dahl in 1986 in response to ongoing cases of measles in the United Kingdom at that time, despite the introduction of an effective measles vaccine in 1968.
Dahl, whose daughter Olivia had died in 1962 from measles, told his doctor Tom Solomon that the figures relating to continued cases of measles in the UK bothered him. After listening to a physician discuss vaccine hesitancy among parents on the radio in 1985, Dahl composed a letter to encourage parents to get their children vaccinated. It went through several drafts before it was issued in 1986. He addressed it to children and aimed it at their parents. The letter was distributed to Sandwell's family doctors, health visitors, school nurses, and parents of small children before being issued to other areas in the UK.
Two years later, the letter was republished and it has continued to be quoted after subsequent measles outbreaks. The narrative in his letter reminds of the power of storytelling in tackling vaccine refusal."
The letter: Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. (Dahl 1986)[2]
From this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness
Having the physical resources to go do chores and take care of our animals.
I went to see River, and in spite of it being pretty cold, it went well. He had completely destroyed the removable liner from his blanket, which can only mean I didn't have it done up properly to the outer shell. A stupid oversight on my part.
Our session was good. He was again distracted by the horses milling around outside, but by the time we did our groundwork he was relaxed and focused. He did really well with picking up his trot when asked in our groundwork, and in general he did well, in spite of being distracted. Imagine if we didn't have to always have distraction issues! He did well with the riding part, and was better at maintaining his head set during downward transitions. He has a thing with bringing his head up to speed up or slow down, especially slowing down. It's partly old habits from lack of body conditioning, and resistance created with heavy hands at some point early in his life.
I am grateful that the convoy blockages are clear. I sincerely hope that we can all move forward from this peacefully, but I am worried that too many people are angry, and there is no way to appease them because what they want is fundamentally at odds with democracy.
I watched more "Walking Dead", and while there are compelling elements that I am enjoying, I have to say, there are many issues I have with it. Mainly, those zombies are totally manageable, but the characters never take advantage of their predictable nature. If those zombies are attracted to sound, why do they never just create big diversions when they need to go into the city for supplies to draw them away from where they need to go? They make use of diversions, but only once they are in trouble. Why not divert the zombies FIRST so that your target is clear? In fact, why not lure them into an enclosed area and kill them off?
Why would anyone be dumb enough to live in a camp in the countryside in TENTS, and not even have anything like...a lookout tower? They don't even seem to have an organized system of surveillance like people on watch. A perimeter with even tin cans on a string to warn you, or at least a wide swath of open, clear land that would give you good visibility? Why not dogs? They are surrounded by thick trees, and they can't see anything around them. Why wouldn't you at least sleep in something like a sealed house basement or in a solid, enclosed building?
Today I learned about how author Roald Dahl wrote a letter to try to convince vaccine hesitant parents to please vaccinate their children against Measles, because of the death of his own daughter.
"Measles: A Dangerous Illness" is an open letter written by the children's writer Roald Dahl in 1986 in response to ongoing cases of measles in the United Kingdom at that time, despite the introduction of an effective measles vaccine in 1968.
Dahl, whose daughter Olivia had died in 1962 from measles, told his doctor Tom Solomon that the figures relating to continued cases of measles in the UK bothered him. After listening to a physician discuss vaccine hesitancy among parents on the radio in 1985, Dahl composed a letter to encourage parents to get their children vaccinated. It went through several drafts before it was issued in 1986. He addressed it to children and aimed it at their parents. The letter was distributed to Sandwell's family doctors, health visitors, school nurses, and parents of small children before being issued to other areas in the UK.
Two years later, the letter was republished and it has continued to be quoted after subsequent measles outbreaks. The narrative in his letter reminds of the power of storytelling in tackling vaccine refusal."
The letter: Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. (Dahl 1986)[2]
From this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness