A mechanical heartbeat in the snowy forest

[Maegaranthelas]

I want a covid booster again, but NL makes it so difficult to get them
I don't understand why I need to jump through hoops and pay money to prevent myself and others from getting sick

 

[PetiteSheWolf]

Interesting in the different publoc health approaches, @Maegaranthelas , I hope you find a way. How is it with the flu ? This year's seems quite nasty!

Friday and Saturday did my 5,000 steps, meditation, personal habit.
So, overall goals achieved for last week!

Sunday did not walk, but did meditation and personal habit.

Saturday, Sunday and today Monday DownDog yoga challenge, standing ABs D19 - 19 - 20 and Daily HIIT D18 - 19 - 20.

Still work to do Sunday, but Saturday I went to a museum with a very nice colleague, we had a great time. While ironing, I treated myself to an episode of the old (1972, yes!) TV show "les rois maudits", the accursed kings. It comes from a serie of books by the same name, and you may have heard of it as the "original Game of Throne". Indeed Of course, less descriptive sex and no incest, LOL, but murders most foul (including of poor little babies), plots and counterplots, greed, witchcraft, poisons, bloody executions and tortures... As it is an oldie, you gotta watch it as filmed theater, more than a movie, I warn you but it is just a delight. And the actors are absolutly super with a special nod for Jean Piat as Robert d'Artois, a cross between Tyrion (for carousing and sweet-talking), littlefinger (for plotting) - and Hélène Duc as the terribe Mahault, his aunt and nemesis - a cross between cersei and the Queen of thorns.

289 consecutive days of exercise (D270 on 01/01)

 

[Maegaranthelas]

The Flu shot is the same category as the covid booster.
They are provided for free to people who have a condition that's 'on the list,' and everyone else has to contact a different health service and pay.
And they recently restricted which conditions count to get the free shots because... too many people were getting their vaccines?
I don't for the life of me understand how this is considered a bad thing.

I initially asked my GP's assistant to order me a flu shot, I would pay for the vial and the injection appointment out of pocket.
The pharmacy informed her that there weren't any flu shots left. They couldn't get them.
So the assistant put me on the list in case they had more no-shows for their flu-shot than they had anticipated, and I was lucky enough to get one that way.

With all the housing stuff I've been having to deal with, I haven't yet had the energy to try and arrange for a covid booster, as I will have to go to the nearby city,
Which means I will need transport, and my partner would also like a booster but he lives in a different area so he probably can't get one here at the same time -_-

Stop making it so difficult for people to prevent infectious diseases from spreading!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Stop making it so difficult for people to prevent infectious diseases from spreading!

I'm so sorry they make it so difficult for you to get protected there, @Maegaranthelas . Those certainly do seem like bad public health policies from my perspective.

In Canada we have single-payer universal healthcare. Which does not cover everything. But certainly in Ontario all the standard childhood vaccines are covered, plus annual boosters for influenza and now Covid for everyone. (I'm not positive, but I think people considered vulnerable can still get six-month Covid boosters in Ontario.) For the most part, if it's a disease that you're not likely to encounter unless you travel to a tropical country, you need to pay out of pocket for the vaccine here. (If you can afford to travel, you can afford to pay for your own vaccine!) But stuff that circulates within Canada--or would circulate here if we weren't all so good about getting vaccinated against it--is covered by our public system. It's far, far less expensive to vaccinate everyone than to pay for the hospitalization of all the people who would require hospitalization without vaccines!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

"les rois maudits", the accursed kings. It comes from a serie of books by the same name,

Would the books be enjoyable read out of order? My public library has all seven books in the series in French, but only books 2, 3, and 5 in English translation.

I still miss a lot, trying to read French. But if I could read the same book in English and French simultaneously, that would probably be very helpful!