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Icky Thump 05-11-2022 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532910)
Check your shoe. That's why it smells like dogshit everywhere you go.
No that is most definitely my pants. https://66.media.tumblr.com/16f5c86f...uopmo1_500.gif

On that note, I may have to attend an event that I can't miss the night before a scheduled colonoscopy. Do I wear a diaper to the event?

Replaced_Texan 05-11-2022 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532888)
I'm debating whether to a get a second booster. In addition to the vaccines, I've had it twice (Classic and Omicron 1). You getting a second boost?

I'm not adverse to the concept. I just don't know if I need it at this point. Omicron really didn't do much to me, and I think as research continues we might see improved boosts that will be better than what I can get today. Might want to go bareback through the Summer, when transmission tends to be lower.
I don't qualify, but my husband is waiting until fall to get his second booster unless the numbers start going up again.

Hopefully by the time Kanan is six months old there will be a vaccine for him.

Icky Thump 05-11-2022 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 532913)
The Texas Medical Center is decommissioning their Covid dashboard this week under the theory that with vaccinations and meds, transmission in the area is under control, at least as far as hospital capacity is concerned.

They made the announcement that Dr. Peter Hotez, our local Covid celebrity, tweeted he had Covid.
There is some chatter about Paxlovid relapse.

Icky Thump 05-11-2022 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 532915)
I don't qualify, but my husband is waiting until fall to get his second booster unless the numbers start going up again.

Hopefully by the time Kanan is six months old there will be a vaccine for him.
Nah, get it now https://i.redd.it/lyd5md4v3q351.jpg

and then another in the fall, likely.

Replaced_Texan 05-11-2022 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532895)
I am one of the few people I know who hasn't had it (or hasn't tested positive for it). Entire family had it and I didn't get it. Numerous tests. I assume it's because I am a superhuman.
There were two days in early January where I had a headache that wouldn't go away. I chalked up to new trimester in pregnancy, but maybe it was Omicron. I didn't have any other symptoms. My husband didn't have any symptoms either. Neither of us tested, so we'll never know. I don't THINK I had it, but I suppose it's possible. We were super careful for most of my pregnancy.

sebastian_dangerfield 05-11-2022 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 532897)
I talked about it with all my doctors before and after the vaccines, after I had had it in March of 2020. Immunity to coronaviruses, whether by infection or vaccine, is temporary. They seemed to be comfortable with saying 90 days. While I still had antibodies from natural infection 11 months later, no one knows whether this would have an effect on a potential infection.

I got the 2d booster the day it was available (April) and I am planning on having to get another in the Fall.
Fuck it. If you and Hank are doing it, that's good enough for me. I'm in.

sebastian_dangerfield 05-11-2022 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 532918)
There were two days in early January where I had a headache that wouldn't go away. I chalked up to new trimester in pregnancy, but maybe it was Omicron. I didn't have any other symptoms. My husband didn't have any symptoms either. Neither of us tested, so we'll never know. I don't THINK I had it, but I suppose it's possible. We were super careful for most of my pregnancy.
Likely it was Omicron. Omicron 1 was subtle. Felt like a sinus infection. No fever. Just this strange feeling like my head was swollen.

sebastian_dangerfield 05-11-2022 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532911)
This study says:

"People who build up high levels of immune cells from coronaviruses that cause the common cold could have some protection against COVID-19, according to a small study published Monday in Nature Communications." (emphasis added).

And:

"But more research is needed, the authors said, noting that the study had a small sample size and lacked ethnic diversity, which puts limits on the research."


It sounds like it actually IS that hard, since the researchers you referenced aren't even sure.

Thanks for playing.
I switched from Nexium to Pepcid after I saw this study. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2020...-19-symptoms#1

The initial observation appears to have been correct: https://www.cshl.edu/famotidine-clin...tom-reduction/

I wonder if this made my recovery easier. Classic Covid came in hard, but left damn quickly. Unfortunately, Pepcid sucks at acid reduction compared to proton pump inhibitors.

Adder 05-11-2022 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532877)
"The study found the risk of aerosol dispersion – transmission of the virus through the air – was reduced 99.7% thanks to high air exchange rates, HEPA-filtered recirculation and downward ventilation found on modern jets."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ms/3665469001/
Those things do not help in the airport or while the plane is at the gate with the engines off. I've also heard of captains that refuse to connect the ground air handling systems, even though they have that option.

That said, my brother has been flying commercial aircraft through the whole pandemic and hasn't gotten it (or got it completely asymptomatically).

Adder 05-11-2022 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 532887)
Crazy.

I was out to dinner last night with a bunch of pharma industry people, all but me with serious chem backgrounds. Full masking from the moment anyone got up, the place we chose had large tables where we could be 5-6 feet apart at all times. The person there who had to fly in complaining about his flight and indicating he needed to take extra care. Everyone tested before hand.

These folks understand the situation.
Counterpoint: my wife, who works for a big health care nonprofit, attended on behalf of her org a fairly big local health care trade group (medtech, pharma, providers, etc) and was disappointed with the level of mask and other care. It's all political, now, and execs at those big companies are pretty red.

Adder 05-11-2022 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532888)
I'm debating whether to a get a second booster. In addition to the vaccines, I've had it twice (Classic and Omicron 1). You getting a second boost?

I'm not adverse to the concept. I just don't know if I need it at this point. Omicron really didn't do much to me, and I think as research continues we might see improved boosts that will be better than what I can get today. Might want to go bareback through the Summer, when transmission tends to be lower.
What's the downside?

Adder 05-11-2022 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532889)
He was careful, as he has to assiduously use PPE and test constantly
Tested on his own? Because I don't think any carrier or the gov't ever required it for pilots flying domestically.

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If you're concerned about getting it, going to concerts or boxing matches, or anywhere people are yelling, probably isn't wise.
It's kind of wild we haven't made major investments in indoor air quality, especially at school. Instead, we've just denied that kids get it and spread it.

Adder 05-11-2022 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532890)
There's also a feeling, and you can ask anyone this question, that we're in some form of entropy that's going to resolve to the positive, with an emergence of better institutions, or to the negative, with a further degradation into a technically governed but not really governed form of plutocracy/fascist state controlled by monopolies, financiers, and professional politicians doing their bidding.
The whole Manchin/Sinema thing has me pretty pessimistic right now.

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If you think any of this is untrue, think back to Charlie Rangel's statement 20 years ago that the surest way to start a Civil War would be to attempt to have a draft. Imagine Putin nuked something in Europe. Imagine for some reason we had to fight a WWIII in some traditional fashion (yes, I know it wouldn't go that way, but don't fight the hypo). Would Americans allow their kids to be drafted?

I certainly wouldn't. There's no way in hell. And I think about 90% of the country is on the same page with me, for numerous and varied but all valid reasons.
She's 5, so for the moment she wouldn't be that useful. But if she was old enough, it would be up to her. I would support her if she decided either way in your scenario.

Adder 05-11-2022 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 532914)
No that is most definitely my pants. https://66.media.tumblr.com/16f5c86f...uopmo1_500.gif

On that note, I may have to attend an event that I can't miss the night before a scheduled colonoscopy. Do I wear a diaper to the event?
We had a closing dinner for the roughly $2 bil in deals we closed for a client in the last year the night before my first ever colonoscopy (they recommend at 45 now). Mighta gone otherwise. Probably not though.

Hank Chinaski 05-11-2022 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 532914)
No that is most definitely my pants. https://66.media.tumblr.com/16f5c86f...uopmo1_500.gif

On that note, I may have to attend an event that I can't miss the night before a scheduled colonoscopy. Do I wear a diaper to the event?
You'll have an easy excuse if you get trapped in a conversation you want out of.

Hank Chinaski 05-11-2022 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 532923)
Counterpoint: my wife, who works for a big health care nonprofit, attended on behalf of her org a fairly big local health care trade group (medtech, pharma, providers, etc) and was disappointed with the level of mask and other care. It's all political, now, and execs at those big companies are pretty red.
It's not "political" if 90% of the people aren't wearing one.

Icky Thump 05-11-2022 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 532929)
It's not "political" if 90% of the people aren't wearing one.
Icky doesn't succumb to peer pressure. Most people smoked in the 1950s.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-11-2022 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532921)
I switched from Nexium to Pepcid after I saw this study. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/2020...-19-symptoms#1

The initial observation appears to have been correct: https://www.cshl.edu/famotidine-clin...tom-reduction/

I wonder if this made my recovery easier. Classic Covid came in hard, but left damn quickly. Unfortunately, Pepcid sucks at acid reduction compared to proton pump inhibitors.
I'm 47 and may be getting heartburn for the first time. WTF is this shit?

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-11-2022 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 532891)
This just isn't true any more. Sure, there were a lot of open questions at the beginning, but now it's pretty well established and studied.

People just don't like the results of those studies, which say that masking and social distancing can be highly effectively. Staying home and reading Boccaccio works.
Generally agree, although I find it interesting that my kids' school had a mask mandate until a few months ago, and there doesn't seem to be any substantive difference in positive cases after it was lifted. Most kids aren't wearing masks now.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-11-2022 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 532914)
No that is most definitely my pants. https://66.media.tumblr.com/16f5c86f...uopmo1_500.gif

On that note, I may have to attend an event that I can't miss the night before a scheduled colonoscopy. Do I wear a diaper to the event?
I need to schedule mine - thanks for the reminder.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-11-2022 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 532922)
Those things do not help in the airport or while the plane is at the gate with the engines off.
No disagreement there. I think most educated/vaxxed people are aware of the risks and the efficacy of masks - and many of the healthy ones have simply decided not to wear one because the risk, for them, of ending up in the hospital is extremely low.

Asking humans to give a shit about other humans they don't know never works.

Icky Thump 05-11-2022 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532934)

Asking humans to give a shit about other humans they don't know never works.
Some do. Some people wipe their sweat off the machines at the gym when they're done. Some don't.https://gist.plex.tv/wp-content/uplo.../09/no-way.gif

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-11-2022 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 532935)
Some do. Some people wipe their sweat off the machines at the gym when they're done. Some don't.https://gist.plex.tv/wp-content/uplo.../09/no-way.gif
I do that.

LessinSF 05-11-2022 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532895)
I am one of the few people I know who hasn't had it (or hasn't tested positive for it). Entire family had it and I didn't get it. Numerous tests. I assume it's because I am a superhuman.
Same here, and I am the one who goes out to restaurants and bars the most. I also flew on planes at least 10 times in the last 2 years.

I also got the 4th shot.

I also am flying to the UK in three weeks - no masks required on the plane or the UK pubs (so I can see al the bad teeth).

Replaced_Texan 05-11-2022 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532920)
Likely it was Omicron. Omicron 1 was subtle. Felt like a sinus infection. No fever. Just this strange feeling like my head was swollen.
Mine was just the headache. We were super careful at that stage, to the point my husband took a two week sabbatical from work to stay away from the public right as Omicron was starting up. Given how contagious it was, we could have picked it up, but it would have been an extremely mild case.

My whole family was isolating in the country together for nearly two years when my brother brought it to them in mid-January. Everyone but one of my sisters tested positive.

For the bulk of them, it was a cold with fever. The two year old got cuddly and happy that she could eat as much ice cream as she wanted. The 82 year old--the one for whom everyone had been super careful--was the LAST to test positive, with almost no symptoms. Just allergies if he hadn't known better.

My parents came back to Houston to ride it out, just in case they needed hospital care, but they were fine.

I guess by now the 90 days of additional immunity from having had it are more or less expired. If I had it, baby Kanan would have gotten immunity from my booster in August and then maybe the disease in January.

Adder 05-12-2022 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532934)
No disagreement there. I think most educated/vaxxed people are aware of the risks and the efficacy of masks - and many of the healthy ones have simply decided not to wear one because the risk, for them, of ending up in the hospital is extremely low.

Asking humans to give a shit about other humans they don't know never works.
It doesn't help that we never really told people to switch to real masks either.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 05-12-2022 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532934)
No disagreement there. I think most educated/vaxxed people are aware of the risks and the efficacy of masks - and many of the healthy ones have simply decided not to wear one because the risk, for them, of ending up in the hospital is extremely low.

Asking humans to give a shit about other humans they don't know never works.
My county is now asking politely that people mask up indoors; work, school, shopping. Not a mandate, but they would sure like it if you complied.

And in other news, I have a cold for the first time in over two years.

sebastian_dangerfield 05-12-2022 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532931)
I'm 47 and may be getting heartburn for the first time. WTF is this shit?
I’ve genetic predisposition to it. When I was young it drove me nuts.

Best advice is stick with unprocessed protein, vegetables, and avoid sugar and complex carbs. That seems to limit it.

Silver lining: It’ll keep you skinny. You’ll never even attempt to put down a bowl of pasta.

Hank Chinaski 05-12-2022 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532941)
I’ve genetic predisposition to it. When I was young it drove me nuts.

Best advice is stick with unprocessed protein, vegetables, and avoid sugar and complex carbs. That seems to limit it.

Silver lining: It’ll keep you skinny. You’ll never even attempt to put down a bowl of pasta.
Buy some Tums. Pasta is life.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-13-2022 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 532939)
It doesn't help that we never really told people to switch to real masks either.
Right. Giving out free good masks would have helped.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-13-2022 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone (Post 532940)
My county is now asking politely that people mask up indoors; work, school, shopping. Not a mandate, but they would sure like it if you complied.

And in other news, I have a cold for the first time in over two years.
I've gotten colds the entire time? Less frequently though. Maybe I just have allergies.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-13-2022 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532941)
I’ve genetic predisposition to it. When I was young it drove me nuts.

Best advice is stick with unprocessed protein, vegetables, and avoid sugar and complex carbs. That seems to limit it.

Silver lining: It’ll keep you skinny. You’ll never even attempt to put down a bowl of pasta.
My mom is 100% Italian (descent - she's American). We have gnocchi and mostaccioli for Christmas dinner.

LessinSF 05-13-2022 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 532942)
Buy some Tums. Pasta is life.
Pasta is death in refashioned flavorless grass. The only thing worse is rice.

Icky Thump 05-13-2022 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532944)
I've gotten colds the entire time? Less frequently though. Maybe I just have allergies.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e6/88/31/e...9be6b3f0a5.jpg

Hank Chinaski 05-15-2022 11:23 AM
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I’m in DC. Yesterday I was running on the mall. The “Bans off” match was assembling at the Washington Monument as I passed on my way out. Coming back I get to 14th St and there is the start of a March, and it’s the DC firefighters in fill dress. How cool, but surprising, that an official group is in the “Vans Off” March!

Turns out it was a separate March to honor the 150th year of the DC firefighters.

sebastian_dangerfield 05-16-2022 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 532946)
Pasta is death in refashioned flavorless grass. The only thing worse is rice.
I like pizza. I'll occasionally have that despite paying for it with acid kick-up. But a bowl of spaghetti? It's just bulk carb consumption IMO.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 05-17-2022 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 532949)
I like pizza. I'll occasionally have that despite paying for it with acid kick-up. But a bowl of spaghetti? It's just bulk carb consumption IMO.
Put me on Team Hank. Pasta is life.

One thing I don't understand is why more people don't make their own pasta. If you haven't done it, watch a few episodes of pasta grannies and get out your eggs, water, and flour, because homemade pasta is much better than the dried stuff, which can be pretty good itself. And it's really easy.

I will say, though, pasta gets better the farther north you go in Italy. In the south, the fish is the main show, the pasta a (very good) side event. But one taste of pasta with walnut sauce in Northern Italy and every other dish plays second fiddle.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 05-17-2022 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 532950)
Put me on Team Hank. Pasta is life.

One thing I don't understand is why more people don't make their own pasta. If you haven't done it, watch a few episodes of pasta grannies and get out your eggs, water, and flour, because homemade pasta is much better than the dried stuff, which can be pretty good itself. And it's really easy.

I will say, though, pasta gets better the farther north you go in Italy. In the south, the fish is the main show, the pasta a (very good) side event. But one taste of pasta with walnut sauce in Northern Italy and every other dish plays second fiddle.
I had fisherman's risotto in Positano and it was the best dish I've ever had.

Icky Thump 05-17-2022 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 532950)
Put me on Team Hank. Pasta is life.

One thing I don't understand is why more people don't make their own pasta. If you haven't done it, watch a few episodes of pasta grannies and get out your eggs, water, and flour, because homemade pasta is much better than the dried stuff, which can be pretty good itself. And it's really easy.

I will say, though, pasta gets better the farther north you go in Italy. In the south, the fish is the main show, the pasta a (very good) side event. But one taste of pasta with walnut sauce in Northern Italy and every other dish plays second fiddle.
Team veggies and carbs here. I went meat free in December of 2020 and it was the best move ever. For me, bowing down to my craving for carbs -- as long as I am burning them off -- was like coming out of the closet. Once I went vegetarian, a lot of other health issues disappeared.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 05-17-2022 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 532951)
I had fisherman's risotto in Positano and it was the best dish I've ever had.
Once I'm back to traveling, I may need to know where.


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