When visitors can hug again
Published: 4/16/2021 7:41:13 PM
COVID’s lockdowns and health precautions sparked a revolution in social life – especially for nursing home residents.
Teleconferencing by laptop and tablet replaced in-person family visits, which have always been critical to emotional health. After COVID closed nursing homes to the outside world, the closest approximation to getting up close-and-personal with spouses, children and grandchildren was waving and smiling through window glass while chatting by cellphone.
“I felt kind of isolated, but at least we could see them,” said Pauline Bolduc, 93, of Laconia, who has lived at St. Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Laconia for two and a half years. “I missed being able to hug and touch them.”
NH Business Review
Single-family price jumps 16.5% to $362,900
April 15, 2021
It’s the 10
th straight month of double-digit increases in the median home price.
Home sales fell 3.5% from last year, likely a reflection of the shortage of homes for sale. In March, there were only 1,137 homes for sale in the Granite State, compared to 3,385 in March 2020. It took an average of 40 days to sell a home in March, compared to 66 days a year ago, and if no home were to come on the market, the current inventory of homes for sale would be gone in just over three weeks. Last March, there were over two months of inventory.
The Chosen Episode 5 2020
Two days ago at Instapundit I saw this via Althouse:
“Additionally, 60% of Republicans incorrectly agree that the election was stolen from Republican Donald Trump.”
CNN reports, aggressively inserting the view that the people who were polled are wrong. I believe that’s a very unusual way to report an opinion poll, with insistence that the opinion is wrong and apart from any factual reporting that makes it perfectly obvious that the opinion is mistaken.
Glenn says: “
THEY’RE VERY NERVOUS ABOUT THEIR ELECTION NARRATIVE, WHICH IS TOTALLY HOW PEOPLE WHO ARE CONFIDENT THEY WON FAIR AND SQUARE WOULD ACT:” but I think it’s a perfectly logical meme given how hard it is to keep a secret that so many people know: