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Visiting George A., also known as Stormy, in the hospital. Listless, wasting away, he lies in the bed all day. Does nothing. Looks out the window. He's glad of the visit, of gifts, of company but only briefly, after his cigarette he's done. The nurses say physically he's fine, but - no. No one is fine lying in bed 24 hours a day.
These are his latest scrolls.
"Cave home fur nurses..."
He's stopped calling himself Stormy, it's now "George", as if his life on was his stage and having left the stage he's free (or forced) to use his real name. But these are small, amusing, and producing 3 in 3 days where he used to produce dozens a day - while out and active, well, every sign is bad. The extended care home for him, I'm not betting he'll make it. He's not even trying.
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Found his name in the book of Tarot I'm reading and I was a little intrigued.
Of course, you remember him from "Live and Let Die" - probably the most remarkable thing about the film, but he's an interesting part of Haitian folklore/religion/culture.
He's death come calling in a top hat, tails, and sunglasses. He favors rum and cigars. I mean, how can he not be intriguing? And how is he not a spokeperson for Haitian Rum or Cigars?
Wiki on Baron Samedi:
"Baron Samedi is usually depicted with a top hat, black tail coat, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style. He is frequently depicted as a skeleton (but sometimes as a black man that merely has his face painted as a skull), and speaks in a nasal voice. The former President-for-Life of Haiti, François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, modeled his cult of personality on Baron Samedi; he was often seen speaking in a deep nasal tone and wearing dark glasses.[2]
He is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. Additionally, he is the loa of resurrection, and in the latter capacity he is often called upon for healing by those near or approaching death, as it is only the Baron that can accept an individual into the realm of the dead.[3][4]
Baron Samedi spends most of his time in the invisible realm of vodou spirits. He is notorious for his outrageous behavior, swearing continuously and making filthy jokes to the other spirits. He is married to another powerful spirit known as Maman Brigitte, but often chases after mortal women. He loves smoking and drinking and is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth or a glass of rum in his bony fingers. Baron Samedi can usually be found at the crossroads between the worlds of death and the living. When someone dies, he digs their grave and greets their soul after they have been buried, leading them to the underworld."
To read more on the old Baron: Wikipedia on Baron Samedi
TO read more on the LWA, or LOA: Wikipedia on LWA (more Haitian Vodou spirits)
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For such a small community it's spawned more than it's share. There's a portal there, for sure, that leads directly to the pits of hell.
"Bobbi" is one of their demons, a proper internet Karen, forever complaining - in the least pleasant terms imaginable, about any and everything. We've considered banning her, merely waiting the appropriate time.
She comes in with a couple of our regulars - an old waitress and her friend. Lovely people, good customers, tippers.
This isn't good. You can't bar her now - although they both know she can be a handful, still they've chosen to hang out with her.
So - not my table, not my problem, and she finds fault with something and goes off on the server. Properly off, although I'm not there to witness I can see by how flustered he is that things aren't going well, and by the end he's of my mind to bar her.
The next night the waitress she was out with is there with her family for dinner. Bobbi comes in, ignores her, picks up a to-go order. I point out that M***** is there, but she chooses not to acknowledge her.
The incident is forgotten, Bobbi comes in with other guests, forever we're forestalling barring her.
Then C**** - the other guest/friend from the night of her blow-up, comes in with an explanation.
This is good.
After Bobbi's little explosion on her server she went to the washroom. While in the washroom she left her phone on the table, set to record. And so she later listened how inexcusably ruder her behavior was, and then barred her friends.
When I say people are demons, and people choose to ignore me, they do so at their peril...
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Which was today, in Nelson, approximately 3 blocks from my house.
These signs are everywhere. Everywhere. Printed, drawn in crayon, pencil, spray painted....
And - being on Facebook - a lurker, not a contributor - I've seen all the posts. The asshole who's never tipped in his life reminding restaurants of his loyal patronage. And all the rest, all the rest.
Anyways, day off, my errands largely are done - time now to go down and check out all the hot fuss.
And what a fuss! Easily Five hundred people, all waving banners, placards, cars honking their support, the 4 corners and boulevards at Vernon and Ward are full, full full. Placards saying "No Mandatory Vaccine" and "Medical Freedom for all" and ten thousand other nonsensical slogans that make no sense whatsoever from a broader prospective. To put it in perspective - last week (the last week for which numbers were reported) over 150 people tested positive for COVID in Nelson.
That's 1.5% of the population of 10, 000.
But - actually - it's not. Combine it with the 2 weeks before and you get to about 3.5%.
But - actually - it's not. Consider that 62% of Nelson's eligible population has been vaccinated - and that this 3.5% is drawn from the unvaccinated pool.
So now we're at about 8% of the unvaccinated have tested positive in 3 weeks.
Now consider that they're only testing people who are reporting symptoms. Given that 50% are estimated to have no symptoms you could comfortably guess that that rate may be as high as 16%.
Oh, but that's not all. There's any number of people here that refuse to get tested - under any circumstances - for fear of getting into "The System" - the people without a BC Care card, the anti-taxxers, anti-vaxxers, the off-the grid, the all of the fucking wing-nut alternative "thinkers' and you're getting a much higher number.
And, 500+ people, still coming down the street, late, no readily available parking, it's all taken, to gather in close quarters without masks and protest an invisible, non existent entity like COVID, like protesting air or gravity or radio waves or 5G - oh, wait - we all know that's real, how else would Bill control the COVID Chip?
Anyways, I should have made up my own placard, "TITS OUT FOR FREEDOM" or some other such enticing offer, given the level of enlightenment there might have been a show. But - really, you have to keep your distance, there's no close quarters for these people, not until the virus has done it's thing and natural selection has culled the herd.