I'm in the ER right now after experiencing vertigo yesterday and again this morning. I literally diagnosed myself because I graduated from WebMD medical school, but I came to make sure there wasn't anything more serious.
They told me it's likely positional vertigo, and they drew a bunch of blood and gave me a banana bag for dehydration. So I'm sitting here waiting for the iv to finish and there is a man in the other room calling everyone "fucking niggers" and demanding a white nurse.
After ten minutes of listening to him repeatedly say nigger, I was ready to rip the iv out and just leave, cause seriously?
There are a lot of talks about the longterm impact of Covid on people who have contracted it, including long Covid etc, but when are we going to talk about the mental toll the pandemic has taken on the population as a whole?
Between the lockdowns, shutdowns, quarantining and people being inside their homes for months at a time with little to no contact with people outside, there has been a definite shift in people's mental state.
Something needs to be done, because people are really not OK, and you see evidence of it on a daily basis.
If nothing else, this midterm election and the Twitter discussions thereof have highlighted for me the number of adults who need to take a basic political science/American Government/Civics class because they don't even understand the basics of voting and how elections work.
Last night, I tweeted about Beto losing (again. Poor guy). I asked why this happened to him last night, and the number of people who replied "gerrymandering" was both astonishing and sad.
I want LA people to think about the fact that Rick Caruso spent $100 million of his own money for this mayoral election. $100 million! To run for MAYOR. Not President of the United States. MAYOR. He claims to care for the homeless. Guess what that $100 million could have done?
Rick Caruso is still a Republican. He is out for a power grab. He is helping further the agenda that is happening across this country. Please don't let him. Our city deserves better.
Imagine the type of power the GOP and the right could wield having an inside man like Rick Caruso as the mayor of the largest city in the state of California and the second largest city in the country after NYC.