24 patients admitted yesterday, which brings us to a total of 88 covid patients, so far. They are ALL not vaccinated. Every last one of them. Yes, we are absolutely tracking vaccination status. I keep telling myself it's not their fault. They were force fed misinformation by a propaganda machine. But it doesn't change the fact that if someone I love gets into a serious car accident, we, the largest hospital in the northeast region of the state, can't accommodate them in the ICU. All because someone did their "research" on YouTube and Facebook.

Minor Gripe- I belong to a Buy Nothing group on Facebook and have offered up a couple of things lately, and responded to some requests for things people needed. A dog rescue person said she needed blankets and towels. I cleaned out my closet, put together two bags, and put them on the porch. I emailed her my address and she thanked me. Those bags have been out there for two days. I feel like that's enough time for someone to come by and get something that they asked for. After that much time, it seems like she would email to let me know. I'm remembering why I stopped doing stuff like this. It takes up too much time! I did give away a bunch of makeup brushes recently, mostly new and all just washed. The person was so happy. That was great. But really, I'm just going to end up taking all this stuff down to the Goodwill. I'm annoyed, lol!

I just started doing a few hours a week volunteering for a local dog shelter's social media...and oh. my. fucking. god. I did my time in customer service, somehow I thought replying to public queries on Facebook (mostly) for a dog shelter would be fine. So naive. First thing on each dog's descriptor is a request to DM if you are interested in the dog because comments on images are sometimes missed. Which everybody ignores, usually by asking questions about the dog that are answered in the descriptor. It's also mentioned that we're a big shelter and most people are just volunteering so please be patient. The amount of people I've had just sending the worst, most snotty, impatient responses ever is crazy. If you can't handle a few hour's response time with patience, how the fuck you going to handle a potentially traumatised dog that needs patience, time and space as well as love, care and training? People are so nuts and entitled.

I joined a mental health support Facebook group looking for therapist recommendations for my issues, and despite being a "safe space" it was about eight hours before there was a post bitching about how horrible women are and how hard men have it. Despite the fact that there's supposed to be no "triggering" content, this was straight up MGTOW shit. Honestly I am so sick of fucking men I would go and live on a desert island to get away from them but I'm sure there would be some cunt of a man there to ruin my day regardless. Women only groups from now on I guess.

I just saw some racist posts on the Facebook page of a supervisor at my job. Yikes!!!

You all can complain about men all you want, I personally find women to be worse. I was on a zoom call with DH, a female friend and a male friend. Female friend works for a company about to go public, and was asking how much company stock we thought she should buy at the opening price. I talked for 5 minutes about stock evaluations, market perceptions, overall tech stock performance, and cautioned her never to put in more money than she could afford to throw away. Male friend babbled for a few minutes about how rich she would be if the stock was like Apple or Facebook (which has nothing to do with her company). After we got off the call, DH said he would bet money that she would ignore my advice, even though I majored in Econ. I said no, she would listen to me even though I'm female. Nope! She just called us, depressed that that stock went down 20% in the first few days, and how much money she lost, and now how is going to afford the new(er) car she needs. <sigh>

A friend on Facebook that I went to school with adopted a kitten less than a year ago. He was literally one of the reasons I went on facebook, to see his little face and all his antics. Well, he got sick and died very suddenly. I'm disproportionately sad about this. He was such a good cute little nugget. I cried and it wasn't even my cat. I'd never even met him in person. I have been giving my cat a lot of extra hugs since then and dreading the day I lose her. Now every time she even sneezes, I'm like "Are you okay Kitty? Please be okay."

I was just checking in on a hiking group I watch on Facebook, and everyone is asking if they completed their 90 mile/month challenge for January. I hadn't heard about it, but thought it sounded cool. Google Fit is always trying to tell me how far I went, so I went into that and calculated miles for 2021 so far. 121! Not only am I really pleased with myself, I'm sure next month will be even better, since I couldn't go out for over a week on January.

It kind of freaks me out when I go on facebook and see that someone is 'online' when I know full well that they passed away some time ago. It's just odd.

My brother is suddenly all over facebook, posting conservative republican anti-democrat shit. Out of nowhere. I'm beginning to think he's back from parler. And it just bums me out so bad. My family dynamic sucks.