SnapdragonQ
It's coffee o'clock!
Glad your mom is safe. Hopefully things will be safer for visiting by next year and we can all figure out a new normal.My Mom just had her birthday, too. She turned 84, and her friends at her assisted-living condo complex in Florida threw her a socially-distanced party. My sister and I feel terrible that we couldn't be there. It's been a year since we've been able to visit our Mom - at least her facility is keeping everybody as safe as possible, no visitors are allowed.
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At the risk of getting too political, this is just one example of why we need a new healthcare system in our country, one that is public-health driven instead of profit-driven. If we'd had adequate testing for everybody who wanted a test, well-organized contact-tracing, and enough PPE for every health-care worker back in March, our economy would be back on track by now, our grandkids would be back in school safely, and unemployed people getting back to work.
I got my ballot in the mail today, and I consider myself very fortunate to live in a state where all our voting has been mail-in for about the past decade, and we have it down to a science. We have a choice to either send our completed ballots back through the USPS or put them in a drop box. My local drop box at our town library is on my way to work, so I always drop it there and will do the same again tomorrow. I really feel for you folks in "voter-suppression states" where your drop boxes are so few and far between, that's so unfair.
I did notice on my way to work today, glancing over at the drop box, the old one has been replaced with a new one that's triple the size. A good sign.
That's so horrible! I hope the voters who used that box get the chance to redo their ballots, and that whoever did that is caught and prosecuted for election fraud and arson. When I drop my ballot, I'll be looking around to make sure there are security cameras in the vicinity, as well as going online to make sure my ballot has been received and counted.
Best wishes and prayers to everybody, that you get to vote and have your votes counted. And even more for those of you are dealing with yourselves or loved ones suffering from covid.
I know VA has drop boxes in larger locations, so while I don't consider us a suppression state, trying to go where one needs to in a safe manner on my side of VA is not easy. There are a lot of perks to living more rural during covid, but easy voting is certainly not one of them!