COVID-19

[K_Dubb]

OMG, class! How fortuitous. We’re witnessing two liberals virtue signalling to each other in the wild. Shh...don’t spook them or they’ll bolt for their safe spaces.

🙄 when have I ever needed a safe space, trollda?  I am impervious!

[Roswells, Art]

🙄 when have I ever needed a safe space, trollda?  I am impervious!

I ran for the safe space but someone had eaten most of the crayons so I left.

[K_Dubb]

Yes, I read your updates with interest.  I was/am worried I'd get really sick from the shot. I won't feel out of the woods for a few more days.

Also, Mr. Winkie?! You couldn't come up with a more impressive name for it? Thor, for example. Or if that sounds too self-aggrandizing maybe 'Bill from accounting'?

Haha no his name is mr winkie,
Has been since I was two,
Was shorter than my pinky
But then one day he grew 😳

[Roswells, Art]

I seen both things, walks posted that lady sticking keys to her arm. How do you guys have magnets laying around, anyway?  Your science set you never chucked, for sentimental reasons?  Do they sell magnets at the store, in the toys?  Or the hardware department for if you drop a nail behind something?   Is there some use around the house that has escaped me thus far?

Hey, I have one for picking up pins. It was also useful for finding an eyeglass screw that had fallen on a speckled carpet. Would recommend.

[Roswells, Art]

I'm glad that you don't.  Restores my faith in humanity. The thread over there has gone out of bounds lately.   

Out of bounds? I'm tempted to start a thread here.

[K_Dubb]

I ran for the safe space but someone had eaten most of the crayons so I left.

Haha I am sure they have little trollda teeth marks All over them, I think he goes in there whenever anyone brings up the out door 🤐

[K_Dubb]

Hey, I have one for picking up pins. It was also useful for finding an eyeglass screw that had fallen on a speckled carpet. Would recommend.

Ok that sounds sensible, and I can probably get it in the sewing and notions section instead of the hardware and tools which is a no go zone 😰

[Walks_At_Night]

Out of bounds? I'm tempted to start a thread here.

Yeah - some of the guys over there contacted the housing authority and are trying to get him bounced out. They are also trying to interfere with his scheme to rook 25 grand out of the bus service there for ruining his knee. While it is a good thing that he has to clean that fire trap up, I feel that developments should unfold on their own. He just had a maintenance guy in his pad - let that guy make a report to housing. I was pulling for the 25 grand windfall. It would have been interesting to see how fast it could be squandered.

[Tootsie]

[Asuka Langley]

>The variant has become the dominant strain in the U.K., accounting for an estimated 60% of new cases. It’s now more prevalent than the Alpha strain, formerly called the B.1.1.7 strain, which was first identified in the U.K., and transmission is peaking in people between the ages of 12 and 20, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a press briefing Tuesday.
>Fauci warned the Delta variant is “essentially taking over” the U.K. as its transmissibility “appears to be greater” than the Alpha strain
>In the U.S., the Delta variant accounts for more than 6% of cases scientists have been able to sequence, he said. The actual number is likely higher, as the U.S. is running the genetic sequence on a fraction of cases.
>The variant is believed to be more transmissible, associated with more severe disease and more likely to land those infected in the hospital
New Symptoms:
>Some atypical symptoms such as hearing impairment, severe gastric upsets and blood clots, leading to gangrene are being reported among Covid-19 patients infected by the Delta variant.

I better buy more horse paste

[pate]

Out of bounds? I'm tempted to start a thread here.

That is what my next question for you was going to be about:

Hey Roz, when (and if) you start a thread here what are you going to call it?

Now I have to think of something else.



/self-reported:  off-topic

[WORTHAUGERa]

some of the guys over there contacted the housing authority and are trying to get him bounced out.

How about a nice game of Chess?

Out of bounds? I'm tempted to start a thread here.

Don't move too quickly. Just let things play out. It's confusing behavior and you're giving it meaning.

That is certainly very generous of you. Kudos.

Ok that sounds sensible

What could it hurt? If it feels good to do, do it.

>The variant has become the dominant strain
[...]
I better buy more whore’s paste.

It would seem to me that this ought to be a simple transaction to arrange, at this point.

Shh...don’t spook them or they’ll bolt for their safe spaces.

The weak should exercise their right to flee before the footfalls of the mighty. Get those those lil’ legs movin’, come on, Kids, let's go! Allons-y!!

*Suddenly, the landscape explodes into cinders. A black and white bird is glimpsed flying away with a fish-shaped cookie. The faint smell of tears, both alligator & crocodile, flood the suddenly close air with a sharp twang, unmistakably that of honeysuckle, elderflower, and Pine-Sol.*


Look, look... some of them made it a whole couple of steps. They thought they were really gonna be somewhere in five minutes.

Heh, heh.

>The variant has become the dominant strain

It's nanotech, do you like it? Well, I bet you'd like it more if it performed __________ while humming a few bars of “Star-Spangled Stripes Forever” while my mother delivers freshly baked cookies, right? Great. Now, STEP OFF. Stop bothering Corey. The man has an actual life.

We’re on it. Get back to work on avoiding your penance, Punylings, We'll most likely harvest you all for your louche in the morning.

Thanks in advance. We are Your Friends. SIKE
#Officious

/self-reported:  off-topic

In my office. Now. Don't take a portal... fucking walk, you cocksucker.

[WOTR]

Yes my heart grew three sizes that day!

I admire the assumption of personal risk in this scenario -- everyone knows you're not afraid of no virus -- but unless you are prepared to isolate yourself and give up your essential job for a couple weeks after waltzing through the covid ward (bearing in mind that, even if you are infected, the likelihood that you notice at all is probably something less than half) the scenario is not at all analogous.  The shot creates a viral dead end, you are not infected and neither is anyone else, that is what is important to society.

Immunity acquired naturally is very likely superior despite how health officials are talking now (they are more interested in promoting vaccines and not dealing with people's stories about the bad sick they had a year and a half ago and was of course very likely covid    -- U remember last year how quickly those stories popped out, my little sis was telling everyone she was sure she had it in November '19 but then she got the coof for real from her husband who got it at work, hers was not too bad, maybe she did get something back then but who knows, how can you tell now?) but without a way to verify and quantify it, it will always get short shrift.  There should be antibody tests that tell if you've been exposed, but nobody's going to put that on a card for you, no standards to quantify and, more importantly, no money in it so why bother developing it?

I think there should be such a test and card available for people with moral qualms about the vaxx but most of you'd squawk at someone wanting to see your card anyway so what is the point?

I don't know if it's that I'm not afraid. Or that I'm sick of the bullshit and this seems like as good a way as any to make it stop. Sort of like your vax. You know there is a risk (no matter how small), but you do it to get on with life. If getting the stupid virus will get people to shut up and let me carry on- I'm happy to quarantine for two weeks and get it over with. Hell, I'm salary and could work from home (I just chose to go into work since the start of this. Yes, I'm "essential." But the other two in management "worked from home" for a couple months. I decided I would rather go in each day. What message does it send to the workers? You are disposable and I feel that it is worth the company risking your life- but all of management would rather stay home, thank you...)

I know what you are saying- but my mother keeps a diary. two weeks before it was officially in Canada, she wrote an week of entries about how sick she was. I remembered thinking that she might have to go to the hospital, and kept an eye on her. The only other time that I demanded she go to the hospital, her appendix had already burst and she was crawling up her stairs. This was not quite that bad- but it was getting close. I'm positive she had it- and I took a day off work at the same time. I think I can count on one hand how many days I have missed "sick" since I started working.

So, maybe I didn't have it- maybe I did. Maybe I will be shocked how bad it is. But I'm happy to (prance?) through the Covid ward at the local hospital and kiss their sickest patient. I have been done with the fear for a very long time. I just don't have the stamina to keep up any level of anxiety.

[WOTR]

OMG, class! How fortuitous. We’re witnessing two liberals virtue signalling to each other in the wild. Shh...don’t spook them or they’ll bolt for their safe spaces.

I read that in the "hinterland who's who" voice.

[WOTR]

>The variant has become the dominant strain in the U.K., accounting for an
>The variant is believed to be more transmissible, associated with more severe disease and more likely to land those infected in the hospital
New Symptoms:
>Some atypical symptoms such as hearing impairment, severe gastric upsets and blood clots, leading to gangrene are being reported among Covid-19 patients infected by the Delta variant.

I better buy more horse paste

Of course it is more transmissible. And of course the symptoms are worse and I'm more likely to die. And if not die, at least have a leg chopped off. Given everything that I know about the most recent round of "fear injection", is it also safe to assume that this new variant affects the young at a much higher rate than the old and that we should really vaccinate our toddlers to keep them alive? I would hate to have them forget to mention that "you are not safe not matter what your age".