KIP covid thread

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is that dishwasher safe

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only the stainless steel part

also i m druink rin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIxdb4&feature=youtu.be

watching this is the best thing i've done since this pandemic started

hmm try this to the youtube page i guess link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIxdb4

oh man, that was beautiful.

I have quibbles, but that was fun to watch

ow my brane

yeah, those are great; instantly subscribing

fuuuuuuck

I don't normally do sudoku but yep that was great.

So my friend wrote this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/sports/iditarod-coronavirus-thomas-waerner.html

TJ Dawe, playwright famous in Canada and on Fringe circuits, encouraged me to start writing comedy scripts today cos he thinks I'm funny.

I am now motivated to finish one of 100 scripts i left on page 2.

Top of my christmas list
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well look at it this way. at least none of us stepped in a bear trap this year!

It is starting to look like there will be multiple vaccines approved for public distribution in the next three months. Assuming the approval processes are legit and the vaccines are safe and effective, the more that earn approval, the better!

In the process, proving out the mRNA vaccine platform, which is rapid to develop, easy to manufacture, and will probably be the first choice for finding future vaccines for newly emerging pathogens.

I thought the mRNA approach was very unlikely to work. I hope I'm wrong, but I definitely have doubts about durability of immunity.

The Pfizer vaccine which is applying for an EUA and the Moderna one which will be unblinding its preliminary data soon are both mRNA vaccines targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

And working with RNA is a real pain in the ass, so I would not describe it as easy to manufacture, not compared to flu or MMR or polio.

But anyway I am happy to be wrong about my scepticism.

Theoretically, mRNA isn't going to produce as robust an immune response as a live attenuated vaccine, is why I was/am sceptical. I was happily surprised the Pfizer data.

PIA or not, health care workers need to get vaccinated asap and now this is becoming a possibility, which surely is A Good Thing.

Ah yeah idk I skimmed a review (from pre-covid times) on mRNA vaccines and the authors cited manufacturing capacity as a potential advantage. I mean, synthesizing oligonucleotides is kind of a commodity service no? Been a year since I left my job working with microbiologists I can’t ask them anymore :(

I have not been a lab microbiologist for a long time now FWIW. But DNA is a very stable molecule and RNA is NOT. Manufacturing is not so bad, it is managing RNA-degrading enzymes (RNAses)--which are everywhere--that is tricky. Hence the very low temp storage requirements, another PIA.

assuming I did actually get the vaccine and not saline in the Moderna trial (which I don't know for sure, but I believe I did, cos my immune system never has reactions to flu shots or any immunization shots and certainly not placebo, and I had a 101 fever for 24 hours), the side effects were minimal - really just the fever.

many others that were in the trial reported the same symptoms as well, but I didn't hear much else, so assuming that's the worst side effect, that's not bad, but that does mean people would need to make sure they weren't working the next day or doing anything major, which is a bit harder if you're a parent or a caretaker. something people should be made aware of prior to getting it.

really hoping for multiple effective vaccines, because every day my mood oscillates from eerie calm to wanting to gnaw people's faces off.

have needed a haircut for like a month now and have been going back and forth about whether that's ok, but finally decided the other day that once I've reached the point in decision-making where I'm going on ethics subreddits, that's probably a sign I should just suck it up and cut it myself again

I got one done at a place where they were all masked and the seats were distanced well beyond 6 feet. I couldn't bear the rat tail that was growing

i am growing my hair until i can braid it like yulia tymoshenko

Going to get a hypodermic needle tattoo for every COVID vaccine I get as they're rolled out. Gotta catch 'em all.

I finally broke down and got mine cut about a month ago, at a pro place where everyone was masked and there were only about 5 people in the entire place, spaced well beyond 6 feet (closer to 15-18 feet from what it looked like). Everyone entering the door had to get a temp check. It was the riskiest thing I've done but my hair is super finicky and no one in my house felt confident or comfortable enough to even attempt a hair cut. So now I just have the super long quarantine beard to attempt myself at some point.

All that was above, plus restaurants look like opening again possibly and a chance to get home over Christmas if luck is in

Today I signed a legal permission for my daughter to receive the Pfizer two-dose vaccine when it becomes available. She's in an extremely high risk group and will have a fairly advanced place in line, but of course there's no firm date, yet. According to the RN who supervises her group home immunity becomes established about 4 weeks following the second dose. I don't expect any relaxation on the visitation regime for at least a couple of months, but... maybe... hopefully, by spring equinox?

i support grasping any hope where you can get it. this feels like a good development despite the unknowables <3 love to you & your family, aimless

really hoping there is a break in the clouds by then

let it be done

good luck aimless. i hope you can see her soonish.

fyi cad, we still do see her, but we must be outside, distanced by at least six feet and masked up. in rainy weather we can see her with her sitting in her wheelchair in the garage, so long as the garage door is fully open and we are only so far inside as to be under the shelter of the eaves. the falling temperature ensures these visits are not much more than an hour rn. as it gets colder, that duration will decrease, but we're damned if we won't see her even briefly, as long as we're permitted to see her at all.

glad to hear that. it's better than nothing.

wishing the best, Aimless. good that they take the disease and their visitation regime that seriously, but that's a tough arrangement.

Lads its gonna be a fuckin weird one

Anyone got kip-worthy covid christmas plans?

How are ye making the best of it?

Ive sent a ball of cards, first time in years

Dropped presents at doors and ran away (have been informed since that i got at least two wrong doors, ah well)

Travelling west to stay with her folks for a day on 23rd- both vulnerable so we've been fairly strictly isolating- then i will head to spend it with the brother, which will mean a lot of cleaning, repairs and cooking if history is any teller. But it will be good to get that done and see him.

Heading back up after a few days and have no idea what things will be like at that stage, had hoped to see a few more ppl but that looks less and less likely.

Not awful kip admittedly but it's something

I expect to zoom many present openings, godchildren and nephew are good ages for it

I've *had* more cards than recent years, one of which I found quite touching.

(Only 4 but that's 3 more than usual)

I'd've normally been traveling today and would've got there to find out that what I was doing was now illegal (mixing for more than the 1 day), except i cancelled plans last week, so am spending the first Christmas in 54 alone.

I bought a Christmas pudding today for the first time ever.

Oh, discovered that herself makes excellent mince pies, given sufficient motivation, have eaten two mince pies a day since tuesday

christmas baking has definitely helped my mood, practicing my pastry making, along with cookies, and mince pies & shortbread

the process, even the baking smells, just maintaining this small simple tradition has helped me kip

feeling a bit at sea without christmas eve mass this yr -not really religious at all but it’s how i have stayed “connected” w my departed family members, i think is another reason i have been leaning on baking. form of communion? idk

I get the mass thing, even if id skip it meself more often than not: the midnight mass is a lovely tradition