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Nerd By Northwest #284 – “One More Reason to Clean Before Having Company…”
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Einar has many faults... but a lack of planning & protocols is not one of them! 😁
Drawing this has me missing Alaska quite a bit (halibut too!). Being stuck here in Mongolia with the pandemic border closures means I haven't been able to visit in two damn years! But the good news is that this week I managed to book tickets for our family to fly back to the US for the Christmas season. So that means I get to visit home again!
Sure, this is hardly the best time to visit the USA. You know, with so many of the people losing their marbles, the various governments becoming increasingly authoritarian & tyrannical, banana-republic levels of shortages in the stores, and prices going higher than one of Elon Musk's rockets.
But hey..... grilled halibut. 😋
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Hey, welcome back to the states! Hope you have a great trip. You probably won't make it down to Florida, will you? !BEER
Naw, Florida is just a wee bit too far away from the Pacific Northwest. Though I gotta say it's tempting, as Florida sounds like one of the places where I can go to a restaurant or show without a jab or health passport or the like! 😁
Hope you can get home soon. There are things more important than petty politics.
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The only downside to going home is the relatives & friends INSISTING on discussing politics. Given I'm not part of either US political "side" and have zero interest in either side, I prefer to talk about things that actually matter. 😉
Man you are seriously killing me because I can definitely see this being a situation in Alaska.
Let's just say I spent enough time in crappy apartments in Anchorage to see many of the most... interesting... relationship events amongst my neighbors... 😉
And I've actually been in the middle of a lot of this with Pacific Northwest people.
Alaska or the Pacific Northwest it kind of seems to blend together.
Are you seriously living in Mongolia?
What is the Covid tyranny situation there,
In terms of the Covid tyranny laws and gov't dictates in place, probably about average. Technically, you're supposed to scan a QR code before going into certain businesses, wear a mask, and so on.
But in practice, people here tend to do what they want with minimal or no interference. The gov't & police here don't have enough respect from the people or the power to push things very far before the average Mongolian just tells them to go screw... at least now after experiencing the economic disasters that were the lockdowns. Even at the height of the lockdowns when we were told only to stay in our immediate neighborhoods, hardly anyone listened. Last spring when my wife & I were walking, we saw a policeman up ahead getting chewed out by an old man after telling him "he has to take his walks only next to his home". After the old man walked around the policeman and went on his way, then the policeman (probably trying to flex and recover his ego) then tried questioning me, asking for my passport and where we live. So then my wife & I also proceeded to chew him out, telling him we're just buying groceries and he needs to leave us the hell alone. Then we pushed past him as he mumbled something like "well, just try to stay closer to home, okay?". So yeah, a weak state CAN be a good thing... 😁
Even so, there still were big impact examples of gov't authoritarian mandates here like the border closures they implemented (which admittedly DID work to keep Covid out until a quarantine screw-up last November) and the lockdowns restricting travel in & out of the capital and between provinces at various times. But the economic pain and hit to the government's reputation (from the lockdowns, the failed quarantine, and uncontrolled spread of Covid) has forced them to open up for the most part. So in the net perspective, Mongolia is probably better than average, with most of the rural areas MUCH better than average. The virus showed them how little power & control they REALLY have, so they've been forced to take more than a few steps back and find a way to live with it instead of attempting to control it all.
Thanks for the detailed response. I agree that weak government and enforcement is a good thing now that governments have gone crazy.
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You could always say that you're coming back to the US... wait for it... "for the halibut!" (bwaahahaha. I love that fish pun. It never gets old, to me)
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