I used to play poker with this old dude with throat cancer and he couldn’t eat real food, think he had to have a feeding tube. Constantly talked about trying to get to WA or somewhere with legally assisted suicide but I guess there were roadblocks. He always talked about only having a month to live but was around for a good year at least until the Rona hit
Yeah same, but am I calculating it right? I’m sure my heart rate is elevated some on a regular basis and my brow often gets a bit damp, but there’s no way I’m huffing and sweating like if I was in a gym. How much does that even matter?
Walking is good for you. I’m sure whatever you do counts as exercise. I know installing solar does.
So my wife does these consumer surveys. We get shit for free, she does a little online review, she gets a few bucks.
Often it’s something like toilet paper. Well today we got frozen pizzas. But the packaging…
I told her that people arent able to get the Pfizer vaccine due to a lack of dry ice—that our little shipment probably cost 500 people from getting the shot in a timely fashion and said at the spread rate that might as well be a million cases overall. ;)
Gotta be 3 lbs of dry ice.
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I just got tested and expect to be positive. Been quarantaining at home with my wife and the kids since my wife’s positive result on Sunday. Her illness isn’t too serious yet, I hope mine will be mild as well.
She must have picked it up at work (primary school), even though she’s been pretty careful about maintaining distance from other adults, and keeping tight hygiene.
We maintained distance at home after her positive test, but you know it’s already a done deal by then.
The day after the test result, the Netherlands went into their second lockdown, so we probably got it right at the peak. Bad timing.
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That’s exactly it. Those fuckers are the second worse people right now. The worst are the people who oversell their symptoms so we have to work them up when they just want a test
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they also lived shockingly close to coal furnaces, asbestos, lead paint, mines, waste dumps, and other superfund sites.
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So like 30/120 people at my work have been positive at one point or another and over the past week I’ve had a slight cough, very mild headache, and fatigue. Over the weekend I took a 2 hour nap on Saturday and a 3.5 hour nap on Sunday (extremely unusual). I feel better now but still a bit off. But I’ve had worse colds many, many times and wouldn’t give any of this a second thought at any other time. Been taking my temperature a few times a day and never over 98.
I didn’t get tested. Should I have? Should I now?
Jeez the last place I want to go right now is anywhere near an ER in a hard hit area.
Hopefully you’re related to this guy.
https://v.redd.it/jgnp80j4qjm41
lolsumo
bouncing reps off the floor
90 years old!!!
Plus our boy Joe is using pure grip strength. No straps.
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lifting is the one thing that olds should do to increase their health and quality of life. I’m still on board with that Logan’s Run Biden appointee ending it for himself at 75.
Honestly the more I think about it the more it seems like he’s Kamala’s pick.
No downside. Just don’t tell the doc you have horrible chest pain so they have to rule out a heart attack instead of just swabbing you
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In somewhat hopeful news:
Front-line medical workers get first doses of coronavirus vaccine at UW in Seattle
Personally I’m stoked because my niece, a social worker at Harborview, is scheduled to get her first shot on 12/24.
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My vacation starts December 18 so I assume that’s when the actual symptoms will begin.
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I just ordered frozen pizzas this am lol.
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Yeah, is there actually a dry ice shortage? Can’t need all that much to ship a few million doses of vaccine a week. Couple of ten tons?
Pretty much my dad’s dad. Drove a bus in Queens until the day he died of a massive heart attack at 62. I never met him.
My Dad has outlived pretty much everyone in his family by decades. His younger brother of 14 years died almost a decade ago from hepatitis, alcoholism, staph infection and soul-crushing stress. Queens and NJ are just not healthy places to live.
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The Compressed Gas Association says carbon dioxide production capacity in the US and Canada is about 30,000 tons a day and is confident its members can meet demand for dry ice.
That’s a lot of dry ice!
I have a friend who calls those cheat and gos.
To be clear, I am giving the old dude a hard time out of pure jealousy. The dude is stronger than I am!
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