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I wear sunscreen every day, sun or cloud. They say (whoever they are) that the best anti aging thing you can do for your skin is sunscreen. Who am I to argue. My sisters both sprayed oil all over themselves and fried in the sun for years. They used to laugh at me for not wanting to do that. But in the end I think I'm better off for it. It's nice and mild today so I got out for an outside walk (with my sunscreen on) :0

I think the Queen has gotten frailer since her dear husband died. I think they had a true love.
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They say you should wear sunscreen if you are spending a day out on the ski slopes so I guess it is possible. But when the only exposed skin is the part of your face from your eyebrows to your chin (and even less than that if you're skiing with goggles) it doesn't seem like a much of a concern.⛷️
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Can you get a tan from the sun's reflection on the snow? 🤔
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Nice🌞🍹🏖️
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Right now, 67 degrees F.

Sun 06
73°
/51°
Sunny/Wind

Mon 07
74°
/49°
Sunny

Tue 08
77°
/57°
Sunny

Wed 09
79°
/60°
Sunny

Thu 10
78°
/54°
Mostly Sunny

Fri 11
79°
/56°
Mostly Sunny

Sat 12
77°
/55°
Partly Cloudy

Sun 13
77°
/53°
Partly Cloudy

Mon 14
75°
/50°

Tue 15
71°
/49°
Mostly Sunny

Wed 16
72°
/48°
Partly Cloudy

Thu 17
71°
/47°
Sunny

Fri 18
71°
/48°
Partly Cloudy

Sat 19
70°
/46°

Have never been able to distinguish between partly cloudy and mostly sunny.
Lol.
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It was nice and sunny here today too, only snowier and colder.
BTW, what is the temperature there? (I could google but I'm lazy LOL)
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Wanting to share the nice sunny day here in Southern California with those in the snow and cold.

Search for Santa Monica, CA live webcams-there'll be sun!

Be encouraged.

(Thanks to CWillie for teaching me about the live webcams the world over.)
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She is without a doubt a remarkable woman. I've always thought of her as part of my parent's generation even though she is a little bit younger than that, it just hurts my heart to see them all aging then slipping away.
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The Queen looks great for her age, but yes, she looks a bit frail, Cwillie.
She is a remarkable Monarch! Saw her in her beautiful pale blue dress today, the anniversary of her ascension to the throne, but also the date of her father, the King's death. She was on her feet though! Carry on!

I am reminded of the photos of residents at the AL, all dressed up in Hawaiian shirts and Lei's for an event. My sister wrote, LO was more like 'propped up' in wheelchair, not doing as good as pictured.

BTW, it was a year later that he died. We never know.
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I've just watched the latest news clip of the Queen and her little dog - how small and frail looking she has become 😥
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dear geaton! :)

hug!!
i do realize that the laughing comes from the movies.
you had said you found many good movies for her.

but still -- it's you and your family, who organized/found the movies that work, to make her happy/smile/laugh :).

great about your son!!

laughing so hard that ones cries...great!
:)

i'm smiling as i type to you :).

bundle of joy :)
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bundleofjoy, thank you but you're giving me too much credit...my aunt laughs at the antics in the animated movie, nonetheless laughter is a potent medicine as long as we're laughing with someone, not at someone. I'm very fortunate that my family has a very healthy sense of humor. My eldest son (who gave us all sorts of headache and heartache in his youth) now can make me laugh so hard that I cry (and pee). Feels awesome! (well, not the peeing part)... Blessings to you -- keep on spreading ((((hugs)))) and smiles :) !
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what's on my mind?...

i wish us all well :).

i'm thinking about various attacks recently, on people's messages...
sometimes even intentionally "misunderstanding", so as to put someone on the defensive...
intentionally putting words into someone's mouth they never said...

example:
A: this is - sometimes - a good solution.
B: you just said it's always a good solution. it's not always a good solution!!!!!!

another example:
A: maybe you feel bad because...
B: you just said it's wrong for me to feel bad!!!!!

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i think unfortunately, also on this website, some people enjoy creating conflict, or antagonizing someone, or trying to provoke, etc...

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it's unfortunate (whenever/wherever this happens), but on this particular website, so many of us are already going through tough times (obviously). so that makes these attacks EVEN more unnecessary, unkind.

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it is ok for us all to have different opinions.
let's not attack someone, just because their opinion is different.
there are kind ways of stating one's opinion, and "attacking" ways.

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also, we can (me too), be humble to realize that even though we realllly believe something, that doesn't mean it's necessarily true. it might really turn out, someone else's opinion was 100% right.

(that goes for anything...views on vaccines, facilities...best dinner recipes!)
:)
(actually, regarding dinner recipes, as you all know...don't follow my example. i continue eating Twix).

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i wish us well!
i see so much love in so many people here.

:)

as i mentioned recently, some people i just want to hug :).
like geaton.
:)
geaton...you manage to make your aunt belly-laugh :).
amazing :).
it's not easy to make anyone belly-laugh...let alone an elderly, sick LO.

i'll find a way to make my parents belly-laugh too!! :) :) :)

have a great saturday, everyone!!! :) :) :) :)
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I can barely stand to have the radio on anymore. Call in shows (the few that remain) all have become an oral imitation of the online comments section😱, the increasingly few remaining local radio hosts are prattling on in endlessly repeated inane chatter, and the regional/national show hosts are so condescendingly pushing their biases and agendas that it is all hard to take except in tiny doses.
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Send, for many years Radio 4 on the BBC has run a Wednesday evening program called 'The Moral Maze.' It's had the same presenter/ringmaster forever, there is a regular panel (with occasional changes of personnel) of four, and then each week they invite spokespeople from a range of perspectives to present arguments for and against a given motion and subject themselves to cross-examination by the panel.

I have yet to hear a single person have his or her mind changed one whit by anything that is said by anyone else. It must be a sign of increasing age and shortening temper that I rarely get to the end of the program without switching off nowadays, but maybe "oh turn it off for heaven's sake" is as good a solution as any?

PS Ohdeargod I just checked and there are 285 episodes available to download. Maybe they could use them to supplement white noise in interrogation suites.
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A discussion does not need to negate what another person has stated is true in their opinion.

One of the rudest forms of argumentative comments are when one person says, for example, "I feel bullied", and the next person says "No one is being bullied".

It gets so very tiring, and is boring.

When my dH does this, I increase his dosages of Vit D 3; Sublingual B-12; and Magnesium. All good supplements for clearing up the mind and rude behaviors.
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Becky: That's good - just a sore arm. Hugs.💙
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Never mind, not going there.
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I think if the Canadian government was using Covid as a booster money grab they wouldn't have rolled out the Canadian Recovery Benefit and all the other recovery benefits that have been offered. While it's never enough for those who have lost wages due to covid it's an offering. Why would the government offer anything to anyone if covid was just a big money grab?

Tell all the thousands of people who have lost loved ones to covid before the vaccinations were even being offered that the covid vaccination is just a big money grab? I'm sure if a vaccination was still in the works some people who are anti vax would be criticizing the powers that be for not getting one out yet. Demanding there be one and would be the first in line waiting for one.

How hard is it to pull your vaccination papers out of your wallet? Big whoop!
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My 87 yr old aunt in OH is in the hospital in Columbus with Covid. She had both vaccinations and booster.

I've got a sore arm from my shingles and flu shots, but feel okay otherwise.

It's been a long boring day in the hospital.
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You might be surprised to know that I agree with many of your grievances sp19690, life is never as black and white as you seem to wish to paint it. But I'm tired of being argued with and berated every time I make a comment that you an others disagree with and in my mind that is bullying, in fact it's the very thing I was lamenting in the first place.
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I agree with you on the civil liberties points, SP. Not preening myself for libertarianism, you understand - it's more that I feel quite strongly that this is a trust issue, and you cannot coerce anyone into trusting you, and the harder you try, the more counterproductive it is.

Meanwhile, we've got four members of the team off work because they've tested positive. YD has only just got back to teaching school (tested + the week before, had to self-isolate until Monday); OD tested + yesterday, is feeling a bit rough, fortunately she's on maternity leave so no loss to the workforce, her husband is negative. We're all getting very very tired.
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apples, oranges

read my original comment
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No one is bullying anyone. If that were the case i could argue I feel bullied every time someone tells me this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated - which it's not. Or every time someone tells me that the vaccine will prevent hospitalization - which it doesn't.

I feel bullied when my job tells me if i dont get vaccinated by X date that i will be fired.

I feel bullied when I can't go into a restaurant or other place of business without showing my vaccination papers as is the case in some states and countries. I feel bullied when I question the official narrative and my posts are deleted or censored.

I feel bullied when the media keeps blaming and demonizing the unvaccinated as the reason this pandemic is still around. When the truth is that this virus spreads just as freely and easily among the vaccinated.

Should I go on?
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Geaton they will continue to keep pushing variants to keep the booster money train going. And if there is a more dangerous strain coming out it may very well affect the vaccinated more since each vaccine weakens the immune system because of the spike protein response.

As to CWillie getting tired if the minority shouting down the majority that made me LOL since the entire world has been shouting down reasonable holes in the entire covid, mask wearing and vaccine hysteria that us happening. One such instance is the fact that the CDC is now saying cloth masks do not offer protection from covid and tge reason the govt started giving free k95 masks. What have people been doing for 2 tears wearing those cloth masks? Why with the number of vaccinations increasing are hospitals still overwhelmed? Either the media is lying by omission of the truth - which is a strong possibility since they received govt money in 2021 or something else is going on.

When you have a country like canada that is 80% fully vaccinated and cases and hospitalzations keep going up a reasonable person might want to stop and question the official narrative. Yet they seem to be doubling down on the vaccination frenzy and fear. The real question is what is in those vaccines that they want to inject even 6 month old babies with them now.
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.... what part of sick and tired of the loud minority turning every comment into a debate are you not hearing? I'm also sick and tired of walking on eggshells afraid to raise my own voice, the more we've allowed our voices to be silenced by the bully mob the more emboldened they become...
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cw, is the press reporting that the surge in hospital admittances is due to covid-primary patients? Because if they're not saying this is the case, then it could be from non-covid sick people who are delaying going in because they fear getting covid while there � and then some are getting covid (Omicron) secondarily after being admitted into the hospital. When it comes to statistics, a lot of clarification has to happen. FYI my son who works in the Mayo lab says Omicron is blowing through the staff there now (no deaths, no hospitalizations) but he also said he's heard there may be another variant that is 50x more contagious than Omicron. And then there's this: "Johns Hopkins University study finds lockdowns only reduced COVID deaths by 0.2%" (source: abc news) The people who are shouting to "follow the science!" should stop suppressing the science and scientists who don't align with their political party's unscientific narrative.
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sp - apparently there are equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated people in hospital in Saskatchewan.

Doing the math, with about 80% vaccinated, the rate of hospitalization of the vaccinated is much lower than of the rate of hospitalization of the 20% unvaccinated.

Your chances of being hospitalized are much lower if you are vaccinated.
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You have made your opinion abundantly clear sp19690, that and a toonie will buy you a cup of coffee. There is only person arguing here, all I said was that I was sick and tired of hearing the minority shouting down the majority.
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So even though you know that they have an 81% vaccination rate you still believe vaccines keep people out of the hospital. Keep on believing that.
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