Welcome to the CDC Dr. Schwartz

 #COVID #5thAmendment #Pandemic #MAHA 

"Pathogens do not have political parties."

measles prevention: VACCINE. 2 doses of MMR

23,000 Cyclospora cases

salmonella outbreak

#COVID in many states

Stephanie Miller: work together democrats, with a Malcolm Nance tongue lashing on the side.

 #NotDSA #AIPAC #DemocraticInfighting

Posts like this are one reason, despite RantWoman's general mindset that RantWoman is NOT giving money to any overtly partisan campaign. RantWoman is seeing LOTS of strands of Democratic party infighting. 

People need to keep trying to have dialogue with neighbors, people who disagree with them.

People need to find reasons to get out and vote.

And people need to watch the whole process like hawks to fight all the forms of vote suppression and election disruption coming down the line.

Andy Ogles fantasy bio and lost his primary including his own home county

 #GOP #TNpol #CultureWar #Islamophobia

Once again PResidnt #StableGenius helps tank someone he endorsed

Let's talk about Trump, dummymaders, Tennessee, and endorsements....

Very cool YouTube channel, and ...

 The First point: Check out the Living in Seattle with Sean McConnell YouTube channel. YouTube generously sent RantWoman this item about walkability. RantWoman is going to start here but YouTube promises other Seattle-themed videos that RantWoman will look at later.

A few fast points from RantWoman's entirely non-driver perspective:

Sean mentions WalkScore values for each neighborhood mentioned. RantWoman needs to check what exactly goes into WalkScore  because  in RantWoman's experience mileage will vary. 

Mileage will vary based on steepness of many walking routes, very uneven condition of sidewalks and level of traffic and road noise, as well as need for amenities like curb ramps and cycling infrastructure. 

RantWoman would find it interesting to think about these aspects of the built environment in relation to housing costs, but that analysis is not on the agenda tonight. 

Also, not on the agenda: the features of the exact routes a person will travel most often. This might be housing / work / school / shopping. Or, in the case of RantMom's last days, the RantSisters were glad to be able to place RantMom mid city at an Adult Family Home on Boyer Avenue in Montlake. The location was accessible both for RantWoman with white cane and Little Sister with her wheelchair. We also got intimately familiar with all sorts of sidewalk hiccups between the bus stop and the facility. At least RantMom was one bus away from the RantSisters instead of the much longer travel time to RantMom's previous retirement community almost to Renton.

RantWoman digresses but a big consideration in the RantFamily has been people who want to live close but not too close.

One interesting crowd source world for more information is a project through the UW Taskar center called AccessMap. More on AccessMap separately.

Last weekend RantWoman was invited to a potluck deep in residential Ballard, 10 blocks off 24th Ave NW. It was a bright sunny day. RantWoman figured in Ballard the odds of continuous if imperfect sidewalk routing to and from bus stops were decent. Google Maps was reasonably helpful. And that part of Ballard has glorious vegetation and magnificent views of Puget Sound.

RantWoman has a lot more to say about walkability for people of different abilities, but not tonight. 

One closing tip when making decisions about locations, go there on whatever mode(s) of transportation you are going to rely on. This may mean needing to tell a real estate agent "no thank you" about offers a ride, but it's going to be your housing.

And if transportation realities look less than optimal but you have energy for political engagement, a number of neighborhoods have very active community organizations working to upgrade problematic situations.

Another eldercare digression: the RantSisters rejected several adult family homes without even a visit because of travel time, iffy sidewalks, and steep grade between location and bus stop.

#JourneyMap

A story is real enough even if produced with AI

 #Deaf #ASL #Inclusion

definitely a feel-good story but not only.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge

 RantWoman posts this item in celebration particularly of the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure that are part of the newly opened Gordie Howe international bridge between MI and Ontario. 

It's a bridge!

RantWoman will try to resist the temptation to go off about all the political angles associated with the bridge opening. RantWoman is just glad it is open.

"We Didn't Start the Fire" gets a workout and other parodies

 RantWoman deeply appreciates The Dangerous Ones curation of the vast content on social media