{"id":8186,"date":"2022-01-24T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2022-01-24T19:09:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:09:17","slug":"a-walk-in-the-swiss-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-walk-in-the-swiss-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk in The Swiss Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

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Yesterday I read that we will have sun for at least a few more weeks due to a high pressure system over this part of Europe and this afternoon I read that it is snowing in Greece. Normally, out of pandemic I would love sunny days because it would mean climbing, cycling, hiking and more. During a pandemic it means solitary mud while avoiding being run over by cars, walking through the mud to avoid couples, and wearing a mask when you have to be close to others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With a rainy day I could stay in, focus on studying, and rest for a day or two. I also love the sound of rain on the roof and the sense of intimacy, despite solitude, that a rainy day provides. Sunny days are quite lonely. We have nothing between us and the universe but a little air. No cloud vapour or anything else. I never thought I would like rain, but I never thought I would live through a 25 year pandemic, and that politicians would get away with letting people die, either through their own idiocy, or through idiotic government policy. To be clear, I mean by shortening lockdowns, speaking of discontinuing masks, or ending restrictions when it is the irrational thing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today 90,000 more people fell sick of Covid. If ten percent get Long Covid then that’s 9000 people. That’s a lot of people with Long Covid in a single day. This is life today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped being optimistic about this pandemic ending because it was too painful when optimism was misplaced, so now I am a realist, and I aim to stay busy, until real life resumes, in 20 or more years from now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in a pandemic, and it isn’t meant to be easy or pleasant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have found people who think like me on Twitter, so at least I can converse with people who would like more to be done. It reduces solitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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