
This is from the front page of the Post. The message here is simple, soothing and reassuring. We’re back as the arbiters of all that is good and right in DC, and what’s good and right is comment on personality and style. What kind of a bubble do you need to live in to witness yesterday’s press conference and file this horseshit?
Anyway, I know it gets tedious to keep talking about this stuff, so another topic. The headline is one of my favorite standards, a Rogers and Hart tune composed for Too Many Girls but also featured in Pal Joey. I like this cover by Cécile McLorin-Salvant. Second favorite is Sarah Vaughan’s version. Unfortunately, Ella’s cover is fully of 50’s syrupy strings. I like the more world-wise tone of the Salvant and Vaughan versions.
The other day, I was watching Ella at Montreaux ’69 and just marveling at her absolute mastery on stage. I wondered how old she was then, so I looked her up in Wikipedia (she was 52). I was struck by this sentence:
She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
That got me thinking about how rare it is for someone to have a sentence like that written about them, and for that sentence to be true.
Well, whether you like the high road or the low road free from grief and strife, here’s an open thread.
hells littlest angel
I fucking hate Ashley Parker. She’s the store-brand Megan McArdle.
Jerzy Russian
I keep coming back to this, but stupidity needs to become physically painful if we are to advance as a society. Ms. Parker seems to make the case for this pretty well.
JAFD
I am going to stick my goyische neck out here and recommend to everyone
The Red Sea Shanty: A Pirate Passover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQON0ipv6iI
Hope you like it.
Regardless, Happy Passover to all !
Shalom, Mazel Tov and Next Year, if not in Jerusalem, at least out of quarantine.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
RIP Larry McMurtry. Ever since Cloris Leachman died, I’ve been thinking I should rewatch The Last Picture Show. And it’s been at least ten years since I last re-read Lonesome Dove.
The Moar You Know
Ashley Parker – what a perfect name for a Karen of the first water, or a porn star (why can’t it be both?) – is a national treasure, our nation’s pre-eminent bootlicking robot.
Betty Cracker
I don’t comment on articles at The Post much; I prefer this wretched hive of scum and villainy. But I left the following under Parker’s dumbass article about Biden “returning to Trump:”
You know, there are serious insights one could glean from Biden’s references to the Predecessor. Ms. Parker did not find them.
LurkerNoLonger
Turnip was there for 4 years and messed up a lot of stuff. It’s only accurate to say he’s the cause of many of the troubles that Biden is attempting to fix. Is he supposed to ignore the last 4 years, like it seems Parker is doing?
VOR
@hells littlest angel: I wonder how long it will take for the conventional wisdom to conclude that yes, Trump was a historically bad president. I think actual historians have already come to that conclusion. Probably not until after 2024 elections, if ever. We’ll know once Fox starts talking about how Trump was really a liberal from New York City.
MisterForkbeard
@hells littlest angel: Parker’s take is just the worst. Seriously.
Trumped fucked up the pandemic. Trump fucked up the border. Both of these problems started a long time ago, and Biden telling reporters that the problems are big and not yet solved is not ‘scapegoating’, for crying out fucking loud.
Almost Retired
@Betty Cracker: That is an excellent metaphor. Although I think it actually happened.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I discovered Ella Fitzgerald late in life. I sing in a mostly-classical chorus, and the director is fond of lightening up the more serious concerts with arrangements of jazz literature. I’ll often go looking for other recordings after we perform one of those. Almost universally I’ve found that my favorite version of those songs is by Ella.
(The Ella Fitzerald – Memorex commercials were around when I was a kid, but all I knew from those was that she was obviously a singer.)
Speaking of choral music, I was hanging out virtually with The King’s Singers this week (I’m one of I think 900 people recording a virtual choral accompaniment for a song with them). OK yeah it was Zoom and we were mostly muted, but still I was surprised how cool it was to be interacting live with them, hearing them rehearse, and listening to them tell stories.
The Moar You Know
@Jerzy Russian: I think any device; desktop, laptop, cell phone, tablet, whatever – that has any kind of input method that can be converted to text – should be equipped with a hammer that smashes the fingers of the user that inputs anything stupid into it.
Some people would say that this will make portable devices very cumbersome to carry about, but I see that as an unmitigated plus.
Some people would say that this is inhumane, to which I would challenge them to read any Facebook or YouTube comments section, or the editorial section of the WSJ, or any portion of the NYT, and then come back and try to make that as a good faith argument.
indianbadger
@MisterForkbeard: Right? Laying out the problem, the length of time it has been one, and the time it is going to take to fix it is not blaming the predecessor.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s one of those movies that I saw once, like 30 years ago, and I still think about.
Albatrossity
@Betty Cracker: Excellent comment. Here’s what I said, not nearly as earthy!
—
It is simply a factual statement that Trump created lots of problems that Biden now has to focus on.
It is neither scapegoating nor an expression of personal animus for Biden to tell us that. Just about every time he is asked a question about a problem that this country faces, it will be a problem that The Former Guy either created or exacerbated.
Hopefully the press will figure that out someday, and focus more on the message than on the messengers.
Another Scott
@Betty Cracker: +1
“Biden talked repeatedly about X…” leaving out the context that he was asked by a reporter about X.
Recent example, “OMG!! Biden called Putin a Killer!!11”
They love putting words in people’s mouths. Especially when they demand a simple answer to a multi-faceted question.
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
horn-like
Ethel Merman’s voice was described as trumpet-like.
And as Robin Williams noted, ideal for singing ‘Silent Night’
Jerzy Russian
@The Moar You Know: I was thinking an army of junk-kicking robots, but your method has promise. Given that the scope of this problem is so large, a variety of pain-inducing methods will be probably be needed.
NotMax
@catclub
Imagine Ethel Merman, accompanied by bagpipes, belting out Ave Maria.
:)
NotMax
@JAFD
Cute. Thankee, matey.
hells littlest angel
@VOR: Probably not until he dies, which, because I fervently hope it will be soon, will probably not happen for decades.
Just Chuck
@The Moar You Know:
“The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol.”
— Larry Wall
West of the Rockies
Parker got dragged in the comments, except for some chump named Bladerunner. Weird how wingnut men are always using self-aggrandizing nyms. Pretty sure no one else calls this person Bladerunner.
mrmoshpotato
@hells littlest angel:
Ouch! Not even name-brand Megan McArglebargle!
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: hahahahaha
You are a genius! I wish that were on the front page of WaPo.
zhena gogolia
Rodgers and Hart, of course.
Peter Strzok
zhena gogolia
@Almost Retired:
Just ask Noel Casler.
Butch
I worked on Capitol Hill for a while and the idea that someone would describe the “rhythm of Washington” as if that’s a thing and didn’t burst into flames after writing it….I just have no words.
hueyplong
Not sure it’s a fact important enough to know, but if in Jojo Rabbit they’d stuck with the big band song Jojo’s mother dances to in the kitchen for a few more seconds, the vocalist would have been Ella Fitzgerald.
trollhattan
Welsh bunnies on Skokholm Island do a little pandemic archaeological digging and turn up Stone and Bronze age artifacts. A rare bit of Welsh history.
Roger Moore
@hells littlest angel:
I don’t think it will take Trump dying to get Republicans to turn on him. As soon as his people admit he’s suffering from severe dementia- which may come as soon as the first indictment- they’ll know they don’t have to fear him anymore.
UncleEbeneezer
Remember all those “GOP Obsessively Blames Obama/Hillary” headlines? Me neither…
Villago Delenda Est
My nym. Again and again until the vile disease of Broderism is eradicated.
Wipe them out. All of them.
(Yes, this post by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix is pure VDE bait. So sue me, and him.)
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: FWIW their editorial cartoonist Telanaes agrees with you.
Another Scott
@trollhattan: Speaking of rabbits – https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/rabbit-walks-its-hands-scientists-think-they-ve-found-genetic-reason-why
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike in NC
I honestly can’t recall reading anything by Ashley Parker in the Washington Post. On the other hand, Kathleen Parker is reliably cringe-inducing. I still suspect she held her nose and voted for the Orange Clown just because he had the “R” next to his name.
NotMax
Peggy Lee’s version works its way up to being pretty ring-a-ding-ding swingy.
BTW, first recording of “I Didn’t know What Time It Was,” with the Benny Goodman orchestra.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: Let’s not forget the McDowd bint at the Vichy Times.
NotMax
@trolhattan
I see what you done did there.
:)
jl
For a sundowning, senile, old fool, Biden sure showed a mastery of detail. The GOP and their lapdog corporate news media will claim that when Biden rounded 7.8 billion to 8 billion, that was either a depraved lie, or proof of dementia, or both.
Biden should have brought a chart showing the lie that there is any unusual surge of arrivals at the border at all, and then a lot of the obsession with dishonest GOP propaganda about that topic could have been answered by pointing at a poster board. Save a lot of time.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Knew I could count on you. :-)
trollhattan
@jl:
The Katie Porter treatment would have been epic.
“Uh oh, it’s the white board!”
Lyrebird
@JAFD: Thanks!
And Mistermix, did you take out part of your post?
I TOTALLY AGREE with what I think I saw as your suggestion that they have TONS of town halls and forget this ridiculous bs.
NotMax
@jl
G.O.P. will immediately scream the poster board is made in Iran, by child labor.
//
Villago Delenda Est
@trollhattan: Both of you deserve gold stars.
jl
My theory of Biden’s faltering start and inconsistent performance at the outset of the primary is that he had the yips. It was his last chance, and he realized that he had to change his initial pitch, which started to sound too much like an Obama nostalgia tour. I think he needed some of that, but it wasn’t enough and he relied too much on it. He needed to supplement his pitch on the fly. And he did, which showed he can adjust in real time.
So, I put it down to nerves, and that concern is obviously put to rest now: he won. Because Biden is relatively normal. If he were like Trump, those kind of doubts could never be put to rest, and there would still be severe disfunction.
laura
@Villago Delenda Est: you are someone who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I’ve noticed. ?
mrmoshpotato
WOO HOO! Finally scheduled for vaccination for next Wednesday!
NotMax
@NotMax
Neglected to include the Benny Goodman linky.
jl
@trollhattan: Yes! We need Katie seminars and the other Dems should be required to attend, followed by a practical exam.
Betty Cracker
@mrmoshpotato: Well, I’m getting mine Tuesday! Neener neener! ;-)
VeniceRiley
I think Biden should just have staff put slides on an overhead projector and just point. Heh.
The media that helped elect Trump is garbage that cost us over half a million lives. They want us to forget that in a hurry. Nope.
laura
A master at her craft
https://youtu.be/myRc-3oF1d0
Benw
Fucking jobs. They expect you to do all this work!
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: To quote Bruce from Finding Nemo, “Good on ya, mate!”
Benw
@mrmoshpotato:
@Betty Cracker:
Outta sight!
patrick II
@Betty Cracker:
There are a couple of things that are very irritating about that type of reporting.
West of the Rockies
@mrmoshpotato:
Congratulations!
Got mine yesterday. A sore injection site has been the worst of it.
Kelly
@Betty Cracker:
We get ours Monday!
Betty Cracker
@Kelly: Okay, you win unless someone is getting a weekend shot! :)
UncleEbeneezer
@patrick II: Also, Dem Presidents must GIVE CREDIT to their predecessor Republican Presidents (see the calls for Biden to praise Trump for vaccine) but never, ever, EVER the other way around. Did any press member ever ask Trump why he hadn’t thanked Obama for inheriting a robust economy?
L85NJGT
Oh.. it’s a crisis. The attempted beat seems to be a 1980 redux, with Tukker in the role of Ted Koppel, giving nightly updates on the ongoing crisis.
thruppence
@Betty Cracker: I’m getting my second Pfizer shot on Tuesday too. Woohoo! I’ve scheduled the next two days off for any reactions but the first shot had no reactions at all. Light at the end of the tunnel but we’re not out yet.
Villago Delenda Est
Look, these Villager idiots can’t think in anything but a binary mode. They’re just not wired to transcend their self-imposed narrative.
JMG
@thruppence: I had no reaction to my second Pfizer shot, but my wife did have a very sore arm and neck for two days after hers. Fine now.
Villago Delenda Est
@West of the Rockies: Mine was on Wednesday, and yes, shoulder is a bit sore, but not overly so. I have to press against the injection spot to actually feel it.
Fortunately, Her Serene Highness is unaware of this, or I’d complain more.
StringOnAStick
@JAFD: Many thanks for that. I can’t wait to show it my husband when he gets home today!
Betty Cracker
@thruppence: Yep. I’m strangely psyched about it even though I really really REALLY hate shots. (My parents claim I went on a rampage though a pediatrician’s office at 3-years-old while getting a shot. I have no memory of it.)
I don’t know what kind of vaccine I’m getting. The preregistration form allowed users to express a preference for Pfizer, Moderna, J&J or “first available.” I was tempted to say J&J so I wouldn’t have to go back, but I chose first available. My hubby got Moderna, and my MIL got Pfizer. Neither had a reaction at all.
Cameron
Larry McMurtry died yesterday. Here’s something his son wrote way back in Dubyuh days, and which I hope our President fixes (at least some of it, damn it).: https://youtu.be/jTW0y6kazWM
KrackenJack
Caught the very end of Psaki’s press conference. Seemed like an unforced error on the prioritization question when she responded (paraphrasing) that “like all admins we have to walk and chew gum at the same time when dealing with all these crises.” I thought she mentioned immigration when listing them. Did I mis-hear?
misterpuff
@Betty Cracker: My second Pfizer is Sunday ….
Anybody tomorrow?
JMG
Has anyone besides me noticed that more and more each day, Ted Cruz is coming to resemble Waylon Jennings in Waylon’s half-pound of cocaine a day period?
mrmoshpotato
@Kelly:
Taking the piss. :)
SWMBO
Mark Knopfler is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of his solo album Golden Heart. Here is the live concert version…It’s up for 48 hours.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-MANLtbQNik
Brachiator
It’s odd. These dopes are “reviewing” Biden’s press conference as though it was a performance. But since they are third rate hacks, they aren’t interested in what Biden has accomplished, or what he wants to do in the future, but only in whether he has made them happy.
It is all a stupid waste of time. The modern presidential press conference has degenerated into a farce in which the press asks dumb questions, followed by empty punditry and “analyses” in which idiots weigh in on whether Biden gave them their money’s worth.
Eric S.
@Almost Retired: Biden is cleaning up the metaphorical poop. Sadly, some WH staff member had to clean up the real stuff TFG left behind.
mrmoshpotato
@JMG: Did Waylon Jennings have a disgusting, punchable, smarmy face too?
Denali
I got mine yesterday! No side effects at all. Moderna – next shot in 4 weeks.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Sometimes literally. When I lived in the DC area, it used to piss me off no end that they would have their TV critic (at the time Tom Shales) review anything that appeared on TV, including political things.
That was back in the Clinton era but I doubt they’ve changed much since then.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
God, Waylon Jennings is an Adonis compared to Cruz.
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
RIP. I have never read his works, but I love the adaptations of his novels, especially Lonesome Dove.
debbie
@JAFD:
Wonderful! Good Yontov!
Brachiator
@catclub:
But the idea here is that Ella’s voicing made her sound like one of the instruments in the orchestra. With Merman, it’s more often about volume of sound.
Great jazz singers like Ella, Sara Vaughan, Sinatra, Carmen McCrae don’t just sing a pretty melody. It’s like they are are weaving the song into the orchestration, dancing with the lyrics. It’s magic.
CaseyL
@JAFD:
That was completely adorable, and I sent it to some friends and relatives.
SiubhanDuinne
@JAFD:
Love that! Chag Pesach Sameach!
Kent
And remember when Trump thanked the Obama Administration for leaving a detailed turn-key Pandemic Plan or “Playbook” for them to implement?
Jeffro
You’re kidding, right? President Obama utterly DESTROYED the American economy, and it was only by the goodness of our mighty orange emperor that we even had sparrows to put on our curtain rods.
Kent
I got my second Pfizer shot on Wednesday. Didn’t detect any side effects at all, other than a bit of soreness on the shoulder such as one gets from any shot.
BruceFromOhio
@trollhattan:
@Another Scott:
Bunnies in the news, what a relief.
I’m interpreting the paid drivel as “holy shit I gotta churn out 900 words before deadline” and it’s attendant freshman charm.
And I’m grateful to mistermix, Betty Cracker, Anne Laurie, et al, to read and offer interpretation this crap so I don’t get my feets dirty.
Another Scott
One for Uncle Cosmo – SciTechDaily:
With the caveat that all science is tentative and incremental, it doesn’t sound like a nose-only mask is a good idea.
Cheers,
Scott.
japa21
@Betty Cracker: My parents told the story of how, when I was around that age, I was all set to get a butt shot, pants down around my ankles, when I bolted out of the office and through the waiting room. I was almost out the front door when they caught up with me.
When I am asked about allergies my response is always, “Only to needles.” So when I got my first Moderna shot, I said that to the NG medic who was to administer it. He responded that he is the same way, which is why he turns his head away whenever he gives one.
Jeffro
All I know is, the man (and I use the term loosely) was complaining about “political theater” just two days ago…and then was creeping around the bushes on the banks of the Rio Grande at 1:00 a.m.*, claiming he and a bunch of other GQP senators were “there to investigate the CRISIS”. Uh-huh.
*Twitter is having a field day with this, noting that ol’ Insulting-My-Wife-Is-Fine was probably just reporting from the pool at the Cancun Hilton
Oh and this also from the guy who wrapped bacon around the barrel of a machine gun to ‘cook’ it for laffs. Complaining about “political theater” my ass.
Sure Lurkalot
@thruppence: I get my 2nd Moderna Tuesday with some apprehension and tremendous joy.
charluckles
I’d be more forgiving of this press framing if the Trump administration hadn’t so obviously sabotaged the transition. Treasonous bastards should be run out of this country on a rail, not treated with the respect afforded to previous administrations.
Lapassionara
@Brachiator: I saw Ella Fitzgerald live at the taping of a TV program, maybe the Ed Sullivan Show. This was in the 1960’s, and she was mesmerizing. She sang a song that had the following opening lines: “what a night, no moon at all. Even fireflies have dimmed their lights . . ..” I searched for a recording of her singing this song for years, but never found it, alas.
I am not musical, but I think she was the best in her field, by far.
Another Scott
Speaking of the dangers of talking to the press…
Points to a Sec. Buttigieg interview talking about ways to raise revenue, presumably for highways. Presumably in the context of electric vehicles (which obviously don’t pay gas taxes). In other words, a complex topic reduced to “OMG! Democrats are doing Teh Stupid To The Rural Areas Again!!11”
(sigh)
Our team has to be prepared for “hot takes” like this and to have sensible answers.
(via NotLarrySabato)
Cheers,
Scott.
japa21
@Lapassionara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dstPLFQkWY
Lapassionara
@japa21: Wow! Thank you.
japa21
@Lapassionara: She was spectacular.
Old School
@Lapassionara:
Here’s a studio version:
https://youtu.be/785sBbRwyRE
Steeplejack (phone)
@Lapassionara:
Here you go: “No Moon at All.”
Studio.
Live.
karen marie
@trollhattan:
Do all seabird colonies have a cottage or is that limited to Welsh seabird colonies?
Baud
@Another Scott:
Rural voters already pay by miles driven in the form of a gas tax. I thought it was actually conservatives who were pushing for this change in order to tax hybrid and electric cars more.
karen marie
@JMG: When I was getting instructions and waiting to be released after shot 1 (Pfizer), I was told to move the injected arm as much as possible. It’s intramuscular, so the movement helps the vaccine to disperse, resulting in less soreness. I rotated my arm on the 20 minute drive home, then forgot about it. The next day I noticed a mild soreness when moving my arm but nothing significant. Shot 2 is April 12. Yay!
SWMBO
@Betty Cracker:
My son-in-law is getting his tonight!
My son and I get the second shot a week from today!
My husband got his second shot last Friday.
My daughter got her first shot last Sunday!
These are all in Florida.
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-vaccine-eligibility-all-adults/35936042#
Anotherlurker
Speaking of Ella Fitzgerald, the 3 duet albums that she cut with Joe Pass are all complete and total masterpieces!
Joe and Ella, just the 2 of them, produce more music and artistry than most other ensembles that boast 3X, 4X, 5X , etc. musicians.
These albums illustrate, perfectly, what can be produced if the artists are not only the best in their craft, but also have an amazing chemistry.
SWMBO
@SWMBO:
Can’t seem to edit. The comment about my nephew is not part of the article on vaccine rollout in Florida.
Brachiator
@Lapassionara:
Ella Fitzgerald, Ed Sullivan show
“No Moon At All…”
https://youtu.be/_dstPLFQkWY
stinger
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Oh, so envious! I’ve been a King’s Singers fan for 30 years! Been to many concerts, in the US and Britain!
Ken
“Can you call me ‘Buck’? I’m trying to get a nickname to stick.”
“But you’ve got a nickname, everyone calls you — ”
“OK, OK, I’m trying to replace that one.”
Juju
@Kent: I got my second Monday and I started feeling it in my 15 minute wait time. It felt as if a warm marshmallow was moving through my arm and by the time I left I couldn’t close my right hand all the way. I took some ibuprofen for the aches that started to develop and completely lost my appetite and didn’t have anything but tea or water for two days. I got chills that made my teeth chatter and I aches in my muscles and to my bones. My nephew who has had Covid said except for not losing my sense of smell and taste that’s what his mild case of Covid was like for about two weeks. My sister also got hers Monday and had similar side effects plus diarrhea. She recovered a day before I did. I felt like myself yesterday, but a little tired. I feel fine today. My mother had no side effects the first shot and her arm hurt for a day the second shot. She’s 88. It was probably a whole lot better than getting Covid, so I’m not complaining. My brother, a physician said it seems to hit hard, second shot with Pfizer, or it doesn’t. Pfizer is what’s being used in my area. Ibuprofen helps. Take it after if you need it.
dmsilev
@Juju: I felt kind of dizzy and light-headed after my second shot, both immediately after the shot and the afternoon of the following day. One of my coworkers reported being basically bedridden for a day after his second, but the second day after he was fine. Another coworker was laid low for a day by the first shot and he is very much not looking forward to his second next week. My parents had absolutely nothing except some muscle soreness right around the injection area. Etc. It’s pretty random.
Jay C
Not that I’m a huge fan of Jennifer Rubin’s (WaPo) opinion pieces much, but she was spot-on with her précis of the “MSM” coverage of Pres. Biden’s press conference.
Short version: the press whined for two months about Joe not doing an in-person presser, and once he did, proved him right to have avoided it by their shallow and unserious questions.
And I just got my second (Pfizer) vaccine shot on Monday: reaction was basically the same as the first one (3/1): barely-perceptible soreness at the injection site, a bit of fatigue over the next couple of days. I consider myself quite lucky.
Another Scott
@Baud: Indeed. That’s what happened here in VA. Hybrid and electric cars got preferential treatment on carpool and toll lanes (didn’t need as many people to use the express lanes). So, Gov. Grifty Bob McDonnell and the Teabaggers imposed a $75 fee to register hybrid/electric cars because they don’t pay as much/any gas tax. (Then they also “eliminated” the gas tax by making wholesalers pay it instead of paying at the pump – unsurprisingly, the pump price didn’t change.)
It’s all about punching the hippies that want to prevent the world from turning into a hellscape. And making Democrats lose, somehow.
Transportation taxes could be bad or could be sensible depending on how they’re done. It would be easy to base it on miles driven, since the states can get that information during annual car/truck inspections. As more of the fleet is electrified, gas taxes are going to be even less effective at funding roads than they are now.
(I haven’t listened to the Sec. Mayor Pete interview.)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Uncle Cosmo
I wouldn’t argue with this report without having a chance to review it, but it does seem clear that infection of mouth cells is noted in addition to whatever’s in the nasal passages. In which case frequent use of a mouthwash with viricidal properties might be indicated (in addition to whatever goes in the nose). E.g., I have sitting beside me a bottle of Fixodent CPC Antigingivitis/Antiplaque Oral Rinse whose active ingredient (Cetylpyridinium chloride) in that concentration (0.07%) has been reported** to kill SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. I’ve been shpritzing this on my inner mask before donning, maybe I should be rinsing with it instead – or in addition.
(I know, I know, asking for discipline from our countrymen…)
I’m trying to envision a workable full mask designed for eating & drinking where the wearer could easily free the mouth during ingestion & have it snap back again while chewing, swallowing or speaking. Probably still too much to ask a large percentage of people to learn how to use them & remember to use them properly. OTOH something with an entry port for a straw shouldn’t be all that hard.
** And I regularly kick myself for not having bookmarked the link.
Villago Delenda Est
As one might imagine, the cretinous shitmuffin that is Rich Lowery is calling the Biden presser “a train wreck”.
WhatsMyNym
@Uncle Cosmo: Just search on “Cetylpyridinium sars-cov-2”.
Another Scott
@Uncle Cosmo: This might be the article you’re looking for – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-020-2476-8
Note it says “temporarily” without defining the duration. And that it’s under “product news”. And note the two corrections. ;-)
Still, it’s another good reason to take oral care seriously.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Uncle Cosmo
BTW I was in a supermarket Monday & saw a fellow who was a dead ringer for the college buddy I watch The Expanse with, but before I could say hi, his wife came up (my friend is a bachelor). Near-whoops.
I was reminded that there are two types of people in the world**: Those who recognize faces from the bottom of the nose up, and those who recognize faces from the bottom of the nose down – and the latter sort have been in agony for 15 months and counting.
About a half-hour later I was in another supermarket and a guy walked up to get in the queue behind me & I said to him, You know you look just like a cousin of mine, & he looked at me and replied That’s because I am, Cos!. (ETA: We spent the next 20 minutes catching up on fambly noose.)
Reminds me of running into H. sap antipodeus while vactioning in Yerp – I asked a middleaged couple if they were Australian and they looked sad and said Naow, we’re from New Zealand & so the next guy that sounded like them I asked if he was from New Zealand & he snarled
** We all know there are two kinds of people in the world – those who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and everyone else. But in fact there are 10 kinds of people in the world – those who grok binary and those who don’t. :^p)
prostratedragon
Soon as I saw the name, guessed the song in one — never really internalized where it came from. That will always be one of her best, and one of the best versions.
Uncle Cosmo
@Another Scott Thanks, but it doesn’t look familiar – don’t recall the toothpaste results. Same difference though.
Zinc (in tablet form) is well established as a topical treatment for sore throat. I wonder if zinc supplements inhibit viral invasion of mouth cells. I vaguely recall findings that they (along with vitamin D3) might be helpful, but Google disagrees. (Of course Google is routinely disagreeable…)
Ken
I thought we were agreed on that. Or do you mean he’s blaming Biden, not the press?
No name
@misterpuff: Moi ? first dose unless they have the J&J one…I’m quite excited!
Another Scott
An excellent long read from our friends at ProPublica – The coal plant next door:
A good, infuriating, read.
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
We got our second Moderna shot last Thursday. I slept all weekend, have had odd muscle spasms and cramps in places I don’t usually have cramps.
No complaint, better than the ICU~!!!~ Just describing my situation.
Brachiator
My brother-in-law recently got his second shot. Not sure which. He was okay early in the day, then got chills and a low grade fever. After covering up and resting, he was better the second day.
Lapassionara
@Brachiator: thank you. I need to get out more.
KrackenJack
@Lapassionara: Truly a full service blog, no?
Thanks to japa21, Old School, Steeplejack for saving me the googling.