letters from the hole

[amw]

I might not be an indigenous North American - or even born here on Turtle Island - but, friends, the past couple weeks has taken an emotional toll. It's heavy to see the town you live in at the top of the national headlines for day after day, becoming a symbol for generations of human rights violations

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[carriea31]

Sounds like so much turmoil...no wondering it is wearing on you. Maybe I missed it in a previous post, but why is the owner selling the place? Moving far away or just a house they like better nearby?

[amw]

The owner was always going to sell the place. It was actually her dad's place, i think, and he passed away about a month before i moved in - i moved into his upstairs suite. She's 70something herself so doesn't have the energy to keep maintaining the whole thing (including three roommates/tenants), and i'm gonna guess there is also some family pressure to sell so the inheritance can be paid out.

[carriea31]

I see. That makes sense. I'm glad it wasn't where she just abruptly pulled the rug out from under you and the other tenants with no kind of warning.

[daphnep]

I hear you. I’m sorry. I’m listening.

I went for a walk yesterday through my neighborhood’s “porch fest”-so many local bands and musicians playing from front porches and stoops, with people listening from the sidewalks. It was such a huge difference from one year ago at this time, when the police tear-gassed the BLM protestors and we had helicopters in the air and the cops were setting of flash bangs and stuff. It felt...weird. Hopeful but weird, that this is the same place as that, that the smoke and the noise is now music and murals and stuff. So anyway, I’m thinking about your town, and holding hope for a future in which you get the music side of things, whether it’s there or somewhere else.

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[coercedbynutmeg]

You could probably do a decent job of taking out the grease with white vinegar, if you don't want to get anything else.

Parts of the US seem to be hitting a vax wall. It'd be nice if they'd toss some of the extra supply up your way.

[amw]

We're in a weird place here in Canada at the moment. For the first few months we had vaccine shortages, so we trailed the US and other countries and everyone felt super jealous. Now we have plenty of doses, but the strategy is to put as many of those into first-dosing people.

I think we are around 70% of adults and 60% of all people first-dosed now, which is amongst the highest rates in the world. But we are only around 5% second-dosed. I think this is probably a smart move because having 70-80% of people one-dosed is better protection than 50-60% two-dosed, but because the vaccinations are being handled province-by-province and we still have inter-province travel bans in effect (and in BC we even have intra-province travel bans, between different health areas), it's really pushing people to stay put for longer than they might otherwise intend to. Although, i suppose encouraging people to stay in their province till they get the second dose also has a convenient side effect of reducing the spread anyway.

[wanderingmogwai]

I dont have any sage advice to chase your blues away but *hugs*