Uneasy

That was not a great day.

My jab was uneventful, and as yet I have no real side effects apart from soreness in the arm. R had his, which was rather more eventful. Something went wrong, and the needle 'slipped' so half ended up in his arm, half ended up on his skin and he had to have the shot again. So he's received about one and a half loads of vaccine booster. He also had the flu jab. He came back feeling a bit lousy and last night, he asked me if he had a temperature. If he did I couldn't detect it by touching his forehead; in fact he felt cold and clammy.

I wish he had taken today off.

Meanwhile, my mother knows nothing of this. Her phone has been playing up, she took it back to the shop and now she has a new phone which she says is broken. She wants me to send her all the videos she has sent me from the old phone about family genealogy. So far I have only found one, which she denies sending. It would be great to ask if we can continue the conversation later because I'm feeling a bit whacked by the jab, but if she knew I had the booster things would just turn to hell.

I'm feeling distinctly uneasy with no real reason.

Not Joey Lucas

On the Campaign to Rejoin the EU page, I put up this post:

Here’s a question; it seems unlikely that any one opposition party has the strength /support to take us back into the EU, assuming that the EU would want us. Would you be ready to ally with erstwhile rival political groups/people in order to make it happen?

This got 302 likes and 170 comments.

So I then put up a poll:

Thanks for all your responses to my question about allying with rival political parties who have the same aim of rejoining. Trying to translate these opinions into numbers now, so same question stripped down, apologies if I leave out options, trying to keep it basic: Would you ally with political rival groups/parties/people to bring about Rejoin? I know, not exactly incisive, etc, but not hard.

The options were:

Yes
No
Yes excepting Conservative alliance
Yes excepting Labour alliance

And four days in, the numbers have gone

Yes 320
No 3
Yes excepting Conservative alliance 112
Yes excepting Labour alliance 3

I am not sure any meaningful conclusion can be reached from a FB poll. For all this seems like quite a healthy response, the group supposedly has over 33K members. How many are seeing the poll?

Also, interesting that, at the time of writing this, above a third of respondents would not contemplate a Conservative alliance to bring about rejoining the EU. If that was truly representative, it would cut any campaign away from business conservatives and might well kill it stone dead. But there's no reason to believe it is truly representative. It could just as easily be eager beavers for Labour, and/or some kind of Left Progressive Alliance pushing the narrative of Tories Out rather than Back To The EU.

Then there are those who want to talk about it, often agreeing with an option, but somehow not clicking on said option. Am I missing the obvious? Is the point an obscure one? Nuance for the first post, limited options for the second cos the latter is just a poll. Vote or don't. Unless explaining why one hasn't voted at all, putting opinion/preferred choice in the comments without adding to the poll is entirely irrelevant. Don't tell me about feelings and thoughts, there's another post for that. Jaysus, just tick a box.

What have I really learned from this?

I'm not Joey Lucas.
FB is a rubbish tool for this purpose.
We're all doomed.

This one's multiple choice. See, I'm learning.