My dentist scheduled a cleaning for me and I said no thanks.
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I went in a 7-Eleven and a Walmart market in Norman today. Only saw 1 person without a mask. Progress.
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Sydney is going the wrong way as well. I am supposed to meet 2 friends for dinner on Friday. Planned it 2 weeks ago and no local transmission at that time made it safe enough for me to do. Now I am not so sure anymore. It is indoor but lots of space between tables and the place is doing all the right things like no salt shakers, fixed dining times and clean between sessions etc.
Yeah I skip those regularly in normal times. Eff that until covid calms down in LA.
Amazing how much Trump’s one tweet is stymying the dumbest of the anti-masks morons in the Chiefsplanet DC forum.
Except one who says all tweets are dictated by the mass media. He has 88 in his username.
We’re getting to the portion of the program where some governors who did well at the beginning are now completely botching it here (refusing to shut down likely due to immense political pressure as cases mount and mount and mount), and the ones who did poorly are really in hold my beer territory like the idiot in Georgia.
This wasn’t really a hard thing to figure out from a governmental standpoint, in my opinion. If you start at the basic phase 1 of opening up curbside retail, you sit back and see what happens in 21 days with the expectation that case increase will be minor. Then the next phase would be opening up indoor restaurants only. There you should expect to see the first big rise in cases because of it being among the most risky. If it looks to be too much, roll back to phase 1. If not, add something else in of more impact and see where it goes. Instead, we did phase 1 and it mostly went okay, but then we opened up nearly every high risk place at the same time nearly everywhere too soon. How could that possibly have gone wrong? It’s infuriating because I have things I’m trying to move forward that are on a really serious clock. Even with that desire to move forward ASAP, I’m not going to risk people’s lives to do it.
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My 93 year old uncle tested positive. He’s asymptotic and in quarantine for 2 weeks. So even old people are asymptotic. Weird ass virus.
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Both parties are insanely corrupt and incompetent. Yes the Dems are slightly less horrific. But let’s not pretend that their donors aren’t ecstatic from phase 1-3 stimulus and are likely to make billions or maybe trillions more next. The working class is going to spend the rest of their lives “paying” for the trillions going to the rich free and clear and basically Chuck and Nancy have been there to rubber stamp it just like everything else.
There is no one actually fighting for the bottom 90%. Bernie, AOC and a handful more. But they are such a minority they might as well be the green party. That is our actual reality and until we honestly confront that there is less than no chance for change. The first step to change is to stop expecting the Chuck and Nancy class to do anything. It empowers and enables them. They need to be ousted for any chance decades from now. And the longer we wait the greater the damage.
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Wait til everyone is broke next January after receiving 8 months of unemployment and they find out it was taxable.
A 3 trillion relief package isn’t 3 trillion if the govt. gets any of it back via taxes.
There’s seems to be mounting evidence that initial load makes a huge difference. Does your uncle know how he caught it?
He was sick in the hospital with a staph infection.
That’s a bummer. Well at least if they were taking precautions he may have only gotten a small dose.
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And now my other cousin is bugging me about his wedding in September in St. Louis. Fucking wedding invitations man. I get why people freak out when you don’t return them right away. But these aren’t normal times. I don’t even know the plans as far as indoor/outdoor.
I really hope his wedding doesn’t become a covid party.
September in St. Louis is probably what 98% in that Covid calc to have at least one person pozzed if they have 100 guests? Maybe worse because there is almost no chance Sept. isn’t worse? I would send a nice gift and not go tbh.
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Well I found out it’s actually Oct 10th so covid should be over by then.
Also this:
Yeah the wedding will be outside but the reception will be inside as of right now. We completely understand either way. These are strange times.
Come on cuz. Indoor reception?
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My aunt and uncle live in Norman. He plays keyboard and keytar in local bands there; I think one is a Pink Floyd cover band.
I had an crown part of an implant replaced (yes I had a loose screw in my head) just before Covid hit. Glad I got it done as it kept coming loose and it has a meat storage area.
No cleanings until this over.
Just keep indoor dining and drinking closed, events cancelled and mask everyone the fuck up and see if that can be enough to get the R low enough to get through this thing. And of course no school until cases are basically gone.
Or we can keep opening up indoor places so people can get their free refills of sweet tea and people can rebel against masks and we can keep killing people by the 100s of thousands and keep closing things after opening them over and over again.
Nobody should be indoors together other than quick grocery runs with masks or essential workplaces.
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No idea what to make of this. I’m not unsure that some noticeable immune response like ache/fever isn’t a good sign. It’s not like these types of vaccines can cause the disease(?) I believe they are just displaying antigen sequences, no whole virus dead or attenuated.
Got my antibody results - from donating blood. Negative.
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