u/zuzuofthewolves

Everyone I know is either working or just relaxing because they are exhausted from working two or three jobs to pay rent. Food prices are insane. Gas prices are insane. The president himself is insane. The streets in my town are quiet and dead and there is a fireworks ban because we are at extreme risk of wildfire, but there are still jerkoffs blowing things up in various dark corners of town. It’s a really creepy energy overall.

I have the 4th off and I didn’t expect to! I don’t want to do pancakes on the plaza or the fireworks show, anything else going on in the area?

As somebody who has/ does/ will probably always bartend around town, I see the Las Campanas crowd getting loaded daily, spending the mornings going from bar to bar, getting in their luxury vehicles after lying about having a ride or an uber, then speeding away. Every mugshot I’ve seen from this operation seemingly a young person of color and the arrests are happening more toward the Southside. I really wonder why that is?

My partner and I just went to a big box store to buy a bunch of stuff for around the house, and while we were shopping around I put some smaller cosmetic and toiletry items in the cup holder of the cart. We had a lot of big items (cat litter, paper towels, etc) and when we went to check out I totally forgot about the little items in the cart and I guess the clerk didn’t notice either.

When we got out of the store and noticed what happened I panicked and put the items in the bag, but when we were home I started feeling pretty nervous about it because this store is notorious for throwing the book at shoplifters and is basically a facial recognition software panopticon hell, so I decided to drive back with the stuff I took and paid for it so I didn’t have to worry.

My partner thinks it would have been no big deal if I didn’t go back and pay (but obviously he was supportive of my choice either way), and it really was just a mistake, but I felt too squirmy about it. AIO?

Everything is expensive and expired. Most restaurants are going with the cheapest possible options and charging the max. I just got food poisoning from a food truck that sold me noticeably expired chicken and after the second bite I threw it away and was sick almost immediately after.

I’ve been sick from dining out more in the past six months than I have been in my whole life before this.

I’m sick of driving around and being bombarded by trash ads in otherwise beautiful landscapes.

Why in the dystopian Jeff Bezos Hell are we so chill with the wealthy prancing around in stupid Hunger Games outfits while we starve and are forced to send all our taxes to war and weapons?

Hantavirus is transmitted through dried rodent feces and urine that is then airborne (a good way to catch it is to sweep a floor that a mouse has been going to the bathroom on, and stirring up contaminated dust). It can also be transmitted if a rodent pees or poops into food you eat. Only certain types of rodents can carry the virus in the first place.

I worked in Yosemite in 2012 during a hantavirus outbreak in the Curry Village tents. I worked in Curry Village itself and lived only yards away from the tents where the infected mice lived. I saw mice all the time, and even swept plenty of tent cabin floors that summer before the outbreak happened.

The park service basically gave us all ziplock bag kits with masks, bleach spray, and gloves and told us to keep our living quarters clean and wished us luck. We kept working, we kept living there, if we saw mice we were asked to report them to housing or a boss, but that’s about all.

Now there are videos of panicked people on the cruise ship surfacing on major news channels and I don’t understand why they are fear mongering instead of explaining better how the virus actually works.

There is no known human to human transmission and unless the virus somehow mutates it will remain relatively rare.