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On 1/27/2022 at 6:23 PM, Kreideprinz said:

It's supposed to snow again Sat. too. 😑

Hear the East Coast/New England could get hammered. Don’t know how much of an impact it will have on your area, but hope you & your family stay safe.

Currently 5F here. Had light snow all day yesterday. Actual accumulation is provably less than an inch. But in some ways it seemed worse because people thought they could still do the usual stupid stuff behind the wheel and get away with it. Think I’ll focus on at home projects today (plenty of them anyway :P ) and save the outside errands fur tomorrow when it’s a little warmer.

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3 hours ago, Kreideprinz said:

I like how collectively, everyone is just cold and tired. 

“Now is the winter of our discontent … “

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ba-dum ching :P 

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Didn’t sleep well last night due to abdominal pain that started last night around 9 pm. Picking up 3 prescriptions on my afternoon break, hopefully will offer some relief.

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1 hour ago, Ohayotaku said:

Didn’t sleep well last night due to abdominal pain that started last night around 9 pm. Picking up 3 prescriptions on my afternoon break, hopefully will offer some relief.

Hope you feel better soon homie. 🤘

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1 hour ago, Animedragon said:

Cautious, very cautious.

I've just heard that one of my friends has got covid, a timely reminder that even 2 years on we still have to be careful.

I hear you.  My 82yo mom tested positive a couple weeks ago.  Yikes!  Fortunately by then she'd been vaccinated (& boosted) so she never even had any symptoms.  The only way we even found out was because we were moving her from a SNF to an assisted-living arrangement and part of the admissions routine at the new place was having a test done & she tested positive for exposure.  5 days of observation & solitary confinement later she tested negative again & no harm done but I kind of feel we dodged a bullet there.

I have always felt that these end stages would still be pretty risky in terms of catching the virus.  I even said early on that the most danger of being infected would be after the initial paranoia wears off and people get used to the routine.  Humans have a bad habit of getting complacent and cutting corners, thinking they can get away with stuff.  That only works until it doesn't.  The virus doesn't care about your politics or feels.  It won't cut you some slack if you're having a bad day.  Give it a chance and it will do what it does.

I'm not a doomster though so having said that I'll also say that I've always felt the virus itself isn't that that bad for most people.  I mean, nobody wants to catch the flu.  For certain classes of people it can certainly be seriously life-threatening, just like the regular flu is.  However the empirical statistics say that 97%+ of humans who catch it will survive, especially if they have access to modern health care.  John Hopkins reports that the case fatality here in the US is 1.2%.  The worst so far has been Yemen at 18% for some reason but most countries are reporting in the 1-3% range.  It is actually probably less than that because there are likely a lot of cases that go untested and thus unreported.  Possibly even unnoticed.  My mom for instance probably would never have been tested if it weren't for her special circumstances.  OTOH, if you only test the corpses then the documented fatality rate is 100%, right?

The actual fatality rate will no doubt be the subject of numerous articles in medical journals for years to come, but it is pretty clear that this virus isn't all that dangerous compared to some.  The biggest danger of course was and is that there was no "herd immunity" so there was a real possibility that everyone might catch it at once and overwhelm the system.  That's still not out of the question but as more people develop resistance - either by vaccinations or by catching & recovering from the disease itself - the risk of huge spikes in cases that cripple the system is much less now than at the beginning and still falling.  In most places even if you're one of the unlucky ones who need hospitalization at least that option is available.  We were pretty stupid early on so we'll probably never be rid of covid-19 at this point but it'll eventually be no worse than "the common cold" that we've been dealing with since forever and people rarely give a second thought to.

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1 hour ago, efaardvark said:

I hear you.  My 82yo mom tested positive a couple weeks ago.  Yikes!  Fortunately by then she'd been vaccinated (& boosted) so she never even had any symptoms.  The only way we even found out was because we were moving her from a SNF to an assisted-living arrangement and part of the admissions routine at the new place was having a test done & she tested positive for exposure.  5 days of observation & solitary confinement later she tested negative again & no harm done but I kind of feel we dodged a bullet there.

I have always felt that these end stages would still be pretty risky in terms of catching the virus.  I even said early on that the most danger of being infected would be after the initial paranoia wears off and people get used to the routine.  Humans have a bad habit of getting complacent and cutting corners, thinking they can get away with stuff.  That only works until it doesn't.  The virus doesn't care about your politics or feels.  It won't cut you some slack if you're having a bad day.  Give it a chance and it will do what it does.

I'm not a doomster though so having said that I'll also say that I've always felt the virus itself isn't that that bad for most people.  I mean, nobody wants to catch the flu.  For certain classes of people it can certainly be seriously life-threatening, just like the regular flu is.  However the empirical statistics say that 97%+ of humans who catch it will survive, especially if they have access to modern health care.  John Hopkins reports that the case fatality here in the US is 1.2%.  The worst so far has been Yemen at 18% for some reason but most countries are reporting in the 1-3% range.  It is actually probably less than that because there are likely a lot of cases that go untested and thus unreported.  Possibly even unnoticed.  My mom for instance probably would never have been tested if it weren't for her special circumstances.  OTOH, if you only test the corpses then the documented fatality rate is 100%, right?

The actual fatality rate will no doubt be the subject of numerous articles in medical journals for years to come, but it is pretty clear that this virus isn't all that dangerous compared to some.  The biggest danger of course was and is that there was no "herd immunity" so there was a real possibility that everyone might catch it at once and overwhelm the system.  That's still not out of the question but as more people develop resistance - either by vaccinations or by catching & recovering from the disease itself - the risk of huge spikes in cases that cripple the system is much less now than at the beginning and still falling.  In most places even if you're one of the unlucky ones who need hospitalization at least that option is available.  We were pretty stupid early on so we'll probably never be rid of covid-19 at this point but it'll eventually be no worse than "the common cold" that we've been dealing with since forever and people rarely give a second thought to.

I think what you say is about right, we're never going to be rid of covid but it'll eventually just become another illness that we can catch like flu and we'll probably get yearly vaccinations for it like we do for the flu.

I think the infection rates are showing a slight rise in some areas here in the UK, but the figures aren't reported on the TV news much now because the terrible situation in Ukraine has just about wiped every other news story off the bulletins.

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6 hours ago, Animedragon said:

the terrible situation in Ukraine has just about wiped every other news story off the bulletins

A madman - don't know what else you can call someone who has an "escalate to win" strategy in his use of nuclear weapons - with his finger on the button threatening to launch his arsenal unless he gets his way does tend to distract one's attention from other matters.  😱 

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Today I am mildly annoyed!

Having spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks repairing the storm damage to the rose arch in my back garden. This morning I look out and see that the high winds are back and trying their best to wreck my rose arch again!!! 😡

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