I think it depends upon what the rat, or you, are doing, Pedro.
Rats in dreams may be be a good omen portending wealth and relationship success. The origin of that is their prolific breeding patterns and wealth of offspring.
Surely that depends upon the nature of what was revealed?
If it was a confession to murdering someone, or the intent to commit a serious crime, then perhaps take it seriously enough not to sit on vital information.
If this person did the 'I really, reeeally love you' routine they probably do on some level, or another, but maybe wait for them to provide a version with a little more clarity. A little tactful prompting might oil those wheels once the alcohol lubricant has worn off.
When we accept, they may read it as a personal affirmation, but most deeply when people aren't emotionally independent, or confident in the idea of 'I'm okay, you're okay'.
Our government didn't require that of people travellng from India at the peak of of the Delta wave there.
They didn't require that of British people holidaying in Spain last summer. My area was the most bolluxed in the UK for a while, at least in part because a couple came home from a holiday in Spain infected and went on a pub crawl the moment they got back.
Maybe there are inconsistencies, maybe Brexit is stinging enough for spite, maybe the penny has finally dropped with our government that as an island we could have avoided being bolluxed all along.
I'm sorry you are missing out on seeing your family, Sel.
I would have liked to see some data relating to S.A. hospitalisations, vaccinated vs unvaccinated, mind.
If being vaccinated makes little difference in terms of severity where Omicron infections are concerned, then we perhaps have another layer of information with respect to making our own individual choices.
There are many factors which may affect this kind of decision.
I have read much about Omicron being a mild variant, but that's from populations with a high vaccination uptake. In South Africa it has been reported as mild in a local population with a high vaccination rate, but deadly from a different locale where vaccines were scarce. (I can't find the source where I read that, but I think it may have been from The Guardian.)
I'm happy to accept that Omicron is a mild variant in the UK where the majority of people have had at least one vaccine dose, but that may not be appropriate for all populations.
I'm skeptical about the vaccine strategy where high income countries are offering third boosters, rather than the global population being offered at least one dose. The variants were all first detected in countries with a high number of infections and no, or low vaccination rate.
We're perhaps risking current vaccine efficacy when low income countries are left out of vaccine strategy. Given there are risks associated with the vaccines, additives and/or poor protocol administering them, it would be a slap in the face for those who have accepted the risks and especially suffered the consequences if we found ourselves back at square one. That's without acknowledging the basic ethical issue of leaving people across the globe even more vulnerable than they already are from poverty.
In the UK where we have a high vaccination rate and we've been bolluxed enough for many to have some level of natural immunty, maybe we should be having a discussion about an acceptable death rate for an endemic disease. Our daily deaths have been very low for months despite a high incidence of infection and I'd be interested to see how that compares with our history of seasonal 'flu. 'Flu is an endemic disease following pandemic status, after all.
Running the NHS at full capacity with covid patients, as Chesney suggested, fails to take other issues into account: there is a huge backlog of serious and life threatening illnesses that are going untreated due to covid being proritised; 10-30% of people infected with covid experience 'long covid', including permanent disability; & how much can we realistically expect from our NHS staff before they can no longer stand?
It also depends upon which restrictions we're talking about as there are so many. Wearing masks, social distancing in public, ventilation, hand washing and other hygiene protocols are fairly effortless, so I see no reason why lifting those restrictions should be a priority. Perhaps addressing comfort issues might be a more prudent way forward to maximise well-being.
Inconsistency tends to cause dissatisfaction. Here in the UK masks are mandatory in shops, on public transport, etc., but we can sit in a pub all night without one. I get that reducing the opportunity for the spread of infection is a strategy, one that is balanced against the economy and other aspects of well-being like social contact. The problem is that curfews and the like are seen as bonkers if they are not explained. Confusion and resentment do not foster trust in leaders, nor personal responsibility.
We have 'circuit breaker' restrictions pending in the UK for January 2022, but once again that seems like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. I get ruining another Christmas wouldn't have gone down well with voters, nor the state of the economy, but I can't help thinking that we've suffered the consequences of Boris's delays (perhaps in his own interests) enough already.
Certainly, I think we should continue to explore options such as working from home for those who can and want to. The advantages of that are multi-faceted.
I'd like to see an open and honest discussion reviewing all sorts of options in the interests of well-being and environmental impact. We have an opprtunity here to create change and it would be a crying shame if that were missed that.
I don't have a diagnosis, I don't know if the disease, or jabs caused it, exacerbated a health issue I already had, or if covid/jabs were coincidental.
All I know is that I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy and until I know, I'm going to act with caution so as not to risk anyone else going through it.
Or the potential consequences of Omicron are being downplayed because governments are more concerned about money and votes than people.
I had mild covid symptoms early in 2020. Before covid I could run back up the mountain carryng my weekly grocery shop. Nearly two years of health deterioration later and getting toothpaste out of the tube is an sickenly painful ordeal that I dread.
It's easy to pick a narrative which suits our established beliefs, but that's not the same as coming to evidence based, objective conclusions.
Unfounded conspiracy theories and the egregious peddling of misinformation have had an impact on the open and honest dialogue that many of us would like to have.
I'm cagey about what I say about my own underlyng health issues because I don't want to feed the conspiracy theories. I don't want my curiosity and questioning to lead to others making misinformed life and death decisions.
The conspiracy theories and misinformation seem to have created the conspiritorial wall of silence. There's an irony in there somewhere, I just can't quite put my finger on it.
Whether we are vaccinated, or not doesn't happen in isolation unless we self-isolate.
Having large populations unvaccinated, whether that's through choice, or a lack of availablity impacts upon vaccine strategy and emerging variants. What each of us chooses for ourselves is everyone else's business because our choices may positively, or negatively impact others.
The AstraZeneca was nearly two decades in the making.
Adapting the vaccine model to covid 19 and clinical trials took the standard amount of time, minus queuing (idle, waiting periods) for review and funding applications. It was prioritised over all other research projects that it normally would have been in competition with.
This 'made quickly' thing is false, as is the idea that after a couple of billion doses that it's still 'experimental'. Ongoing research and monitoring is not the same as 'experimental'.
Yes, it is kind of trippy in as much as it's neurological.
Think of it like your senses being train stations and your neurones being the tracks.
As adults we expect the tracks to go from the train stations to the right areas of the brain. The eyes have a track, the ears have a track, etc. and the trains carry the messages the same way every time.
When we take hallucinogens it acts like a point switch, so the train coming from the ear station gets redirected to the part of the brain that accepts visual signals, hence seeing sounds.
Babies' brains are sometimes described as not being 'hard wired' which in this simplfied analogy would mean they have lots of point switches on their tracks, trains go here there and everywhere and they can hear smells, smell sounds, etc.
The lack of 'hard wiring' happens again in adolescence, but on a more cognitive level which is why teenagers a prone to doing stupid things. It's an argument for not trying/convicting children in adult courts and not writing them off for the rest of their lives without further assessment.
And then of course, there's neurodiversity where not everyone's brain works in the same way.
It's not trippy in the sense that there is no loss of normal function. I can be unaware of my tinnitus sounds and colours because I'm busy doing something else, it's too noisy, or bright; sometimes I'm vaguely aware of the sounds/colours in the background; & sometimes I mindfully pay attention to the cacophony of noises and the pretty light show going off in my head.
I'm a bit flummoxed by my own symptms and reactions to the disease and the AstraZeneca jabs, but it's complicated by an underlying health condition.
I'm a bit vague about it all in public because don't want my exploration to be used to bolster conspiracy theories given I don't know what's going on myself.
If I have any definte information, like the vaccines containing additives that are potential allergens, then I say.
Is it possible that you developed allergic rhinitis from the vaccine, but now your immune response has been focussed on the virus?
"Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia is a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape, and movement. ... Chromesthesia can be induced by different auditory experiences, such as music, phonemes, speech, and/or everyday sounds."
I think I've said to you before that I've put quercetin powder in my smoothies in the past and found it mildly effective, but not enough to justify the cost.
I've just looked at super/mega quercetin, but again, I struggle to find products without additives that are on my allergy/intolerance hit list.
I think I'm seeing some improvement with some symptoms from the Pau D'Arco infusion and I've been steeping that with fresh turmeric and peppercorns. I'll keep going with that for a bit.
Mostly I use raw ingredients and hippy toiletries/cleaning products in order to avoid allergens, but t's getting more and more difficult to get things between covid, Brexit and price increases if they are available.
Maybe I need a rethink. Maybe I need to double check everything I have that is processed - soaps, vinegars, olives in brine, whatever - to see if there are any suspect additives. Maybe taking the raw ingredents/homemade thing a step further might reduce, or eliminate triggers.
We're being offered the Moderna as a booster here in Wales as the first jabs were either the AstraZeneca, or Pfizer.
I didn't accept mine because I had an allergic reacton to a medication I was taking and two of the suspect ingredents are also additves in the mRNA vaccines.
I can only hope that having had covid symptoms back in the days before even Alpha, being double vaccinated with the AstraZeneca and being fairly isolated, that I can ride out Omicron, despite underlying health issues.
It was a tough decision and I would have preferred to have been better informed about my individual circumstances than I was.
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RE: What?
A purple cauliflower, but as I wasn't well enough to collect it, the kids had it for christmas dinner.I'm thinking about eating ther presents out of revenge.