Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Books are my comfort food!

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

When we show up, we win.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus (& H5N1) Updates: September 11, 2024

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I try not to be cynical, really I do, but it feels an awful lot like as a society we’re systematically unlearning the good lessons from the pandemic and by the time the next one comes we’ll only be left with generalized resistance to taking any safety measures at all.

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    1. 1.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      In Greece, I am now able to make an appointment for a free Pfizer JN.1 booster (my last booster shot was in early April). I have pending travel in late December, so I’m thinking I should get boosted in early November, and mask diligently until then.

      JN.1 is the latest vaccine, right?

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      Matt McIrvin

      I got my covid and seasonal flu shots on Sunday, had a sore arm for about a day after, no other side effects. Still masking on the bus to work.

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      Matt McIrvin

      @Bruce K in ATH-GR: That’s the strain targeted by the latest Novavax vaccine. The Pfizer and Moderna ones are for KP.2. None of these exact strains are circulating at high volume right now but the ones that are are closely related and the vaccines apparently provide decent protection.

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      Central Planning

      I got my booster on Saturday. I had a sore arm and felt slightly under the weather the next day, but nothing that stopped me from doing errands and chores.

      AAA+++ would boost again.

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      narya

      I’m trying to hold off a bit to get the latest so I am best protected for the holidays; got a booster in April, so, masking indoors and crossing my fingers.

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      TBone

      Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.

      He is scared shitless 😆

      Weirdness – wrong thread!  Ugh

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      Chris Johnson

      I went to a con a couple weeks ago. In Mississippi. The con was great, but I got hit with COVID on the way out… on the road, home, solo for three days. WOOF.

      Still have it last I checked (yesterday). Symptoms abating somewhat. I can’t go to my meetings in person and that’s messing with me. I hope I’ve shaken it by Sunday, it’s at least going in the direction of away?

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      hrprogressive

      The bird flu case is way more concerning to me than the COVID stuff at the moment, because as I recall hearing for…I don’t know, 25 years or so, if Bird Flu ever becomes able to spread people-to-people, the level of danger and high mortality makes it, you know. Apocalyptic?

      Given the way people’s brains were broken by COVID and the politicizing of basic health mitigations for a virus that as bad as it was, had a much lower mortality rate than H5N1, I’m worried all the estimates and doom-projections of how bad a Bird Flu Pandemic could be won’t even hit the tip of the iceberg if a bunch of morons start avoiding health protections for that one.

      Anyway.

      I think the COVID case in my house has resolved, just waiting for a 2nd negative test this evening.

      I took my first test last Friday and was negative. I’ve not felt any symptoms at all, so I believe I have dodged it, and still haven’t had an active infection in the almost 5 years (?!?!) it’s been with humanity.

      How did we do it?

      1) As soon as symptoms were suspected on Sunday, 9/1, a test was taken. Upon the faint positive observed, mitigation measures immediately commenced.

      2) Mitigation measures included isolation of the sick party, including keeping a Corsi-Rosenthal box I constructed last year in their room. I wholeheartedly believe this device did the bulk of the heavy lifting in appearing to prevent spread.

      3) Masking during the worst of symptoms and masking in common areas, combination of KN95 and N95, depending on the circumstances.

      4) Open windows, fresh air ventilation as often as the weather would allow.

      5) We both use a xylitol nasal spread called Xlear that claimed in a small study their product may have virucidal properties, and was helpful in preventing bacteria and such from even lodging in the nose. It might well be a placebo, but, I’d note I’ve used it with higher frequency than the infected person, and again, I appear to have not contracted an infection.

      6) I also used a mini HEPA near my person when I was eating and drinking and such.

      It honestly has been a very exhausting week keeping all these measures up, but again, it appears to have been successful. We’re only two adults and one cat (who’s a Harris fan, coincidentally) so we didn’t have to deal with kids or multigenerational housing, which could certainly complicate things.

      TLDR; Masks work, CR Boxes work, fresh air works, nasal spray couldn’t have hurt. Also, Paxlovid appeared to have knocked their infection down pretty quickly, and they don’t appear to have any lingering issues / probably won’t have Long Covid due to 5 prior shots.

      Since I didn’t get it, I am going to schedule my next booster soon. I’ve gotten them in September the last 2 years, I suppose it makes sense to keep doing them around that time.

      To the extent such info above can be helpful to anyone this late in the game, I hope it has been.

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      Geoduck

      Like others, I got my booster the other day, and had no reaction other than a sore injection site for a day. But I’ve never had any reaction to COVID shots, at all. No idea if that’s a good or bad thing. Still mostly wearing a mask indoors in public.

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      Matt McIrvin

      @hrprogressive: A big advantage with bird flu vs. the COVID pandemic in 2020-21 is that flu vaccines and their distribution are a really mature technology, and the US government has already ordered stockpiles of an H5N1 vaccine. The seasonal flu vaccine isn’t for it, but it sounds like they’re trying to be ahead of the curve.

      Now, if a pandemic happens and people don’t get the vaccine, that’s on them.

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      KrackenJack

      Thank you for continuing the updates AL!

      Got our vax last Thu. Wanted to do it Friday, but appointments were surprisingly hard to find. Sore arm and kinda off the following day.

      Have a trip coming up in a few weeks, so we got the shot earlier than we would otherwise. We’ll do the flu one when we get back.

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