I know. I have nieces.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Def not faulting you! Or anyone else, get it when you are eligible, absolutely! Just more bemoaning the stress of watching cases fly around schools (my son's grade had 3 cases last month) while we wait and wait for EUA.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
My kids' high school of 3500 has had about 1 or 2 reported cases a week.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Well my sons grade at his school is significantly less than 3500, probably closer to 90, also.. all of them unvaccinated. I will say they did a good job of clearing out the exposed "pods" in a timely fashion and credit them for doing what they could to limit the impacts. Still nerve wracking when it hits that close.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
my 12yo is getting vaccinated in a couple of weeks, finally. (this is in the UK.) i'm pretty sure he's already been exposed about a million times but it will be a relief.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
via justine, a thread about NZ’s response to their NSW-sourced outbreak:
In real terms, we have saved lives. We have sadly had 1 death in this delta outbreak, bringing our total to 27 deaths from covid. This means that currently, our hospitals are able to operate without overwhelm. We would like to prevent this /4— Jin Russell (@DrJinRussell) October 5, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
I've been wearing KN95s since I've had to go back into the office and I quite like them, for several reasons, but my latest package seems to be varying in size or something. Like every third mask I take out is uncomfortably tight, but it's not even consistent throughout the package. Just odd since I've been using the same kind/brand for several months now and hadn't run into any comfort issues just yet.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Mine fits fine and works really well with Ivermectinhttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F3IAAOSwqShexVeZ/s-l400.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
From the NY Times:
The agency has promised to move quickly on the request and has tentatively scheduled a meeting at the end of the month to consider it.
Maybe this is just bad reporting or summarizing, but it's things like this loaded with "tentatively scheduled" and "consider" that makes it feel to me like there is just no sense of urgency.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:38 (two years ago) link
It's a matter of time. We can expect the EUA by the holidays.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
Sure it's coming, but it keeps pushing back. I mean, as of mid-September it was still being said that shots would be going in arms by Halloween. Right.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Hang on, man.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
I like to wear the Kimberly-Clark N95 masks that make me look like a duck.
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Nothing else to be done at this point, it just feels so much less urgent when the 12-16 year old approval was going through. Maybe it's just the reporting that has changed, I don't know. I just know I'm not the only parent feeling frustrated that everything is blazing forward as if the world is wide open again while this process drags on.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
I think it's taking just as long as previous authorizations? The dosage will likely change, so there's that to study. Anyway, know it's coming.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
look jon you could just trying writing to Disney to get them to move up those streaming premieres
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
What the actual fuck is your problem with me?
Posting about my frustration with the process is exactly in line with the spirit and intention of this thread.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
I mean, look I get it, I'm probably one of the most despised ilxors on the entire board. I'm not dumb. But it's really weird that you seem to have some sort of obsession with bringing up old shit from completely unrelated threads to throw at me.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
lol sorry cheap shot.
which is what we don't have enough of amirite
i really do sincerely doubt that the FDA is like, folding paper airplanes in their offices right now tho? it's pretty easy to assume other people are incompetent idiots and maybe it feels good to think it but it comes across a little bit 'i want to speak to the manager of the FDA'
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
I have an 11-year-old, I get it. But honestly -- it's OK! She's going to school, she sees her friends, she's gonna go to Thanksgiving -- it is just not the same situation it was last year. The major material difference in her life is we get takeout instead of us eating at a restaurant and I think I mind that more than she does. We can wait a few more months.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
My six year has been back in school for four weeks and has caught two different colds--out 4 days so far. We've had to get two negative Covid tests for return to school.
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
I was kind of hoping that masking and distancing would prevent some of other kinds of illness, but no.
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
The quarantine on our daughter's group home was lifted late Tuesday. The outbreak topped out with two caregivers testing positive. Yesterday we visited her for the first time since Sept 12. It felt great!
Of the two caregivers, one had symptoms similar to a mild cold, but the other was "so weak I couldn't get out of bed" and her doctor advised her to go to the ER for more complete evaluation, though she chose not to go. She was vaccinated, too.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
Good news re visit
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
A local Catholic university, Dominican, required vaccines and has hit 100% vaccination among students. A neighboring Lutheran university, Concordia, did not, and is hovering around 42% student vaccination. Why the fuck people won't get vaccinated baffles me.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
Lol Concordia is Missouri Synod so they’re all anti-vax cultists.
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
In the past 18 months my wife's uncle died (lewy body dementia), her grandfather died (heart failure), a very close friend's wife - only married for two years - and a former colleague's husband both died of cancer, our dog had to be put to sleep, my wife had her cancerous thyroid removed, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, her mother's husband was diagnosed with one of the non-trivial skin cancers, and my father was diagnosed with alzheimers. Our kitchen is being remodeled but everything is backed up so we've been living in a weird hovel situation for two months, we had a terrifying covid exposure a week and a half ago, and I broke two ribs in a bike accident last Friday. All on top of the entirety of the pandemic.
Honestly the only thing I'm kind of feeling hopeful about is seeing my 6 year old starting first grade and getting to play with kids in person after being stuck at home with two introverted old people for 530 days. Last year we would have been absolutely horrified at the thought but this year, even though things are objectively worse, it's really the only real hope for the future I'm able to see on a regular basis. Once he gets vaccinated it's going to be a massive positive shift.
― joygoat, Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
jfc joygoat, that's a lot. sending you and yours some good juju.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
xxp They seem unpleasant. Everyone knows ELCA is where it's at.
xxxp Fucking hell, jg. Respectfully for the grief of everyone involved, that is an absolute meat-grinder of a time.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
joygoat, that's terrible. Wishing for some other bright spots you can latch on to.
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
joygoat my heart aches for you, that is brutal :(. well wishes to you
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Dittos, Joygoat
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
thanks all - two years ago any one of these things would have like a striking singular moment but they've all sort of blurred into one giant pile of things, you know?
I guess the gist of where I was going was inspired by eephus!:
I have an 11-year-old, I get it. But honestly -- it's OK! She's going to school, she sees her friends, she's gonna go to Thanksgiving -- it is just not the same situation it was last year.
Kid is in school, it's OK! That had a huge impact on us, so long as he doesn't get covid between now and whenever he can actually get vaccinated. But we live in a place where the precincts around his school went 80%+ for Biden last year and everyone seems quite eager for their kids to wear masks in schools. And there's a family from kenya living next door for a year and their son is my kid's class and they just want to play together all the time which is so good for him. Very different feeling from last year.
― joygoat, Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
really sorry to hear about all that joygoat, i can't imagine. take care
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
Unfortunately, I can imagine what all that feels like. It's kind of like those Ironman triathlons, except it's less physical, and more emotionally and psychically draining. Hang in there, joygoat. Better days will come.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
better days to you
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 October 2021 05:53 (two years ago) link
So...I waited a while to get vaccinated because I barely leave the house. I got my second shot on 9/10. And a week later, I started coughing up blood. Not a lot, but, like, threads of blood in my phlegm, especially first thing in the morning. Naturally, I was somewhat disturbed by this, so after about four days of it, I went to my doctor, who sent me to get a chest X-ray. That was on a Wednesday. The urgent care clinic I went to three days after that, on Saturday, took more than two weeks to get my results back from the lab, and finally faxed them to my doctor last night. But meanwhile, the blood stopped the day after I'd first gone to the doctor. I was in the shower and I coughed up a pretty good-sized red-brown lump, and there's been no problem since. And my X-rays were negative - no sign of lung cancer or anything else. But it sure feels like the blood clot - or whatever the hell it was - was a reaction to the COVID vaccine. And I had no other reaction: none of the fatigue, or sore arm, or swelling, or fever, or anything else anybody has reported.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Weird indeed. Maybe just a strange outlier?
Will be getting my booster shot tomorrow.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
Damn, unperson. Be well.
Ned, be prepared!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
xpost - Oh wow, that sounds stressful, but I'm glad you are doing better and that it doesn't seem to be anything severe.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
Huh, that's weird. Honestly, the one time I ever had anything like that happen was when I had pneumonia. After a night spent more or less banished to the basement, feeling like shit and coughing, waiting for my giant antibiotic to kick in, I finally coughed up this huge, gross ... well, basically what you described, unperson. And after that I was mostly all better.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
Some time around the start of the pandemic I began giving myself a haircut. I figured I had the clippers, I don't have too much hair and I keep it pretty short, anyway, so how hard can it be? It turns out (in my case) not that hard. A few youtube videos later I was off to the races and have been cutting my own hair ever since, with pretty consistent results. There's something satisfying about giving yourself a haircut every few weeks, or whenever you feel like it, really. Keeps you feeling nice and tidy in the face of so much out of your control. Well, today it finally happened. I spaced out and forgot which clipper attachment I had on the clippers, and before I knew it, the damage was done. For the first time since March 2020 it actually *looks* like I gave myself a haircut, in the worst possible way. Like, scissors and no mirror bad. Like someone pulled a prank bad. Like I just got out of the hospital for a procedure bad. OK, maybe not quite as bad as all that, but still not good. Though honestly, I find it pretty funny. It was perhaps inevitable, and I have no one to blame but myself. I wonder if my family will even notice? It's just about hat season, anyway.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
Go like Monster-era Stipe and let it all go!
Got my booster this morning, along with a flu shot. Amazing how simple an experience it is, didn’t even feel a jab.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
I'm going to start airbrushing a streak across my eyes and no one will even notice my hair.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
i started shaving my own head in apr 2020 and have just been a soccer hooligan looking ass dude ever since, honestly fine with it
― gbx, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
has definitely led to some confusion as my employee badge is like a cheery bearded guy with a full head of hair, not someone that'll glass you for chatting up his uhhh bird or w/e
― gbx, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Allowing foreign fingers to style my thinning hair remains one of life's lasting pleasures .
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
I cannot wait to get a professional beard trim again, sigh. Maybe in 2023.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
My wife shaves my head for me about once a month.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.remingtonproducts.com/products/mens/clippers-and-trimmers/hair-clippers/hc4250-shortcut-clipper-pro.aspx
i got this guy and honestly it rules
― gbx, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link