DramatistDreamer

Serena posted this on her IG account.

With or without pay?

Alan Locher claims that he was trying to get Lisa Brown on his reunion livestream he doesn't appear to mention trying when he had William Fichtner and Martha Byrne on and that would have been the ideal time. If he mentioned it, it must have gotten lost in one of the technical glitches. Does anyone remember whether getting her on that particular reunion was discussed?

Once the show shifted Ellen into grandma status, her character seems to have become very staid. By the time Steve and Betsey became a couple, it seemed as though the character of Ellen had pretty much faded into the background.

😂 she sure has! Did the show even let her sing or was that lip syncing? That kook Dr. Oz is running for political office in a state that he is not even known to live in?

I. Told. You. So.

Congratulations to Barbados in casting off the Queen as head of state and becoming a republic-- likely the first domino to fall, as far as the Caribbean in the Commonwealth is concerned.

Just saw my own typo and corrected it in my original post. I meant unvaccinated, not undiagnosed. My bad. 😔

Your welcome. 😃 At this point, I am hoping that these pharmaceutical companies that have already developed vaccine will update their mRNA technology so that they can catch this and future variants. According to what I have read, for Pfizer, that would be about 2 months away and Moderna about three months. They may not have had this in mind last year when they developed these vaccines but this virus is still here mutating. Fortunately, the mRNA technology can be adapted with a fairly efficient turnaround time, so I have read. Good to hear.

The fact that Cuomo still has a job really says a lot about the country and the world we all live in and it's not good.

Wealthy countries and citizens take it for granted that they can have mobile vaccination clinics and vaccination pop-ups, pharmacies and the like but for much of the world, this doesn't exist. Even if drones drop off vaccines to isolated areas (e.g. mountain villages, which South Africa has), you still need people who have the necessary training to administer them, and as I understand, South Africa doesn't have enough of those people and neither do many of their neighboring countries in Southern Africa. Hell Europe and North America, with their much higher vaccination rates still got cases, but didn't get banned. Also, a ban is unlikely to do much anyway.

That's part of it, but not the full story. South Africa, like quite a few countries that are so-called developing are having a hard time distributing the vaccine. You have to remember there are rural and economically depressed areas that are isolated, not in any close proximity to health centers where mass vaccinations are taking place and people don't have access to safe and reliable transportation and the roads are perilous. People may not have the opportunity to travel to these centers, those who can afford the journey. Americans take for granted that they can walk, bike, drive, take a bus to a neighborhood pharmacy to get vaccinated. I asked family overseas about this option and they practically laughed in my face. This is not the reality for everyone. Yes, there is a deficit of trust between many South Africans and their government, but this is also a country where many people stepped up to test a still new vaccine before Americans did. Because they knew that this was likely the only way to get ready access to the vaccine. South Africa is experiencing the logistic difficulty of getting shots in arms, even to those who desperately want them. The fact is, there are elderly, poor people in isolated, rural areas who cannot safely get to these mass vaccination clinics and these health authorities don't have the manpower to bring the vaccines to them. The concept of a visiting nurse does not exist for some populations. The fact remains that Southern Africa alone was put on the banned list, when their countries weren't the only ones that had cases. South Africa, in particular found this variant before any other country (and it's pretty easy to see why, given their history of having to tackle viruses with little to no help from Western countries in the past), when it is unlikely that the variant even originates there. I think people confuse Johannesburg for all of Southern Africa. There are cities and there are the rural areas and even in some cities, you have economically depressed areas that are cut off from the wealthy areas where the majority of the amenities happened to be located. I bet if you took a look at where vaccine uptake is lowest and where it is highest, it would be fairly simple to tell which areas are which and well as how this contributes to low vaccination rates.

Tiger Woods spoke often of Lee Elders as a big motivating influence, especially earlier in his career.

Pretty much what I suspected since I read about the emergence of Omicron, but since South Africa has only faced alienation for their efforts at early detection, I suspect other countries may not step up to warn the global community in the future.

Escobedo then? Can't blame the others for not doing DC. Closer to home, likely more money, while Davis Cup is not even offering ranking points anyway. It makes it all the more questionable that Frances only get a belated call to play once the tie had already started. Marty chose a dude-bro team on first call and got the results he deserved.

This DC format is a mess. I keep forgetting to tune in because it's on several different platforms. I read that Sock had to retire from his doubles match or something. Both he and Isner can go. Mardy hasn't been smart in his choices. In what world do you call up Sock and Isner but you leave Tiafoe off the list? Whatever happened to Tommy Paul, Taylor Fritz, Marcos Girón, Brandon Nakashima? Bueller? Bueller? Beuller? Also, I thought Serbia lost their tie today, but they still advance?🤔 I'm too bored with this format to figure it out right now.

Frances flew in from vacation, after being called in at the last minute, won his singles rubber, only for Isner to lose and, are folks still laboring under the illusion that Jack Sock is still fit for play? Who is the captain of this U.S. squad?

I think I am going to blame Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, at least where Ang Lee is concerned.

More and more, people are taking Dr. Eric Ding to task for his tweets, which many regard as spreading alarm needlessly. In any case, the doctor who saw and treated some of the first groups of patients diagnosed with the Omicron variant says that the patients have presented "unusual but mild" symptoms so far. Also, just about all were unvaccinated.

Very shocking and very sad to hear this. Young at 41. If all this suffering with the pandemic could lead to some advancements in cancer treatments, with better outcomes, longer life's with better quality of life for multitudes, then something good, at least, could come out of so much suffering. RIP, Mr. Abloh.

I am wondering when everyone will see that, in an interconnected, interdependent planet, we will never have any hope to diminish this pandemic, let alone get past it, when entire continents are still left unprotected. I have also been reading that it is unlikely that Omicron originated in South Africa, it was detected there due to advances in genomic sequencing that worked faster than European GC this time.

Man, does this ever conjure some crazy imagery, but with the length of some movies, I can sort of understand the desire to play with rates. Now I'm more curious to look into why Lee took that risk.

It's incredible how often this soap gets mentioned in pop culture over a decade after it left the air. Despite the fact that P&G acts as if they would rather the show vanish from the planet, the name is seemingly on the tip of many people's tongues. @Vee I thought you would appreciate this reference to FPS rates in this Vulture article regarding the ranking of movies starred by Will Smith.

May the odds ever be in your favor. Seriously, hope everything turns out alright.