The President delivers remarks laying out the next steps in our effort to get more Americans vaccinated and combat the spread of the Delta variant.
I’ve got 10 bucks that says this won’t start on time. Open thread!
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The President delivers remarks laying out the next steps in our effort to get more Americans vaccinated and combat the spread of the Delta variant.
I’ve got 10 bucks that says this won’t start on time. Open thread!
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WaterGirl
I did 5 normal things in the past week.
.
A couple hours ago I started to feel achy, flushed, then chilled. Fuck all these fucking people who won’t get vaccinated.
sab
The pitbull was spayed yesterday, came home last night and spent all day today curled into a little ball, pretending to sleep.
Demon cat was neutered today, spent all day at the vet and came home “Where is breakfast and lunch. I missed both!”
WaterGirl
@sab: I thought the demon cat was no longer a demon?
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@WaterGirl: That sucks but it could be something other than Covid. I’m expecting a lot of cold and flu as things return to more normal because those viruses have just been waiting to get their hooks in all of us for the first time in a year and a half. Still, the anti vaxxers are infuriating.
I did a bunch of normal stuff last week but it was in Vermont where just about everyone is vaccinated, and boy was it nice to be there. I was visiting two cousins on my mom’s side that live there – they were the last of the family I see regularly that I hadn’t seen since getting vaxxed. Maryland is not doing too bad with getting folks vaccinated, especially where I am (Montgomery County). Far West and parts of the Eastern Shore are TFG country and hence there’s more people that just won’t.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Feel better soon.
sab
@WaterGirl: He is still spraying, but otherwise he is a sweety. You are right. Henceforth Dobby
ETA : We call Ponyo the pitbull Goldfish because it fits her
She answers to Ponyo. Goldfish is our name when we don’t want her to know she is being discussed.
sab
@WaterGirl: I didn’t register your last line. Yikes. Feel better soon.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: I hate to sound woo, but take some zinc. I find taking some the instant I think I’m coming down with something can often keep it away.
Hope it’s nothing, and you feel better soon!
NotMax
Nolympic games.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: I actually have zinc in the house, but hadn’t thought to take it. I just took two.
As soon as I realized I didn’t feel good, I did take everything else I had sort of fallen off of taking regularly – vitamin D, probiotic, vitamin C.
Josie
@WaterGirl: It is so maddening that we still have to deal with this. I hope it is just a simple cold and goes away quickly. Keep us in the loop.
Albatrossity
@sab: Yikes! I hope you feel better soon. But yes, I’m tired of pretending that the parasites among us, who want all those normal things but are unwilling to help society get there, deserve respect. They just don’t
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
Oh no
did you get a test?
rikyrah
drop the hammer 46!
mandate vaccine
JPL
Gravenstone
@WaterGirl: Likely to become less so without the heuvos.
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
well shit, feel better.
If it’s any consolation, Liverpool, despite losing, looked very good against Herta Berlin in a preseason friendly. A couple of youngsters really shone and the return of VVD and Gomez was a wonderful sight to see. Now you have something to tell Tony J and Amir.
Fair Economist
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
Yep, New Zealand is having a bad RSV outbreak. We do what we can, but nothing is perfect.
@WaterGirl: Hope whatever you have is super mild!
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: No test yet. I’m gonna see how I feel tonight and decide tomorrow.
zhena gogolia
Well, it took five agonizing hours on phone and chat with Xfinity, but I HAVE REMOVED FOX NEWS from my cable package. I had to sacrifice TCM, but on the whole it feels really good.
I have HBO Max, which has a bunch of movies “curated by TCM,” so I’m hoping that will get me over my Stanwyck withdrawal symptoms.
Not another penny to those traitors. Carlson and Ingraham making fun of the heroic cops who defended the Capitol pushed me over the edge.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
I hope it’s nothing serious. It doesn’t sound as if you did anything terribly risky.
A colleague of my husband’s got pretty sick with Covid (no hospital, though), although vaccinated. But he implied that he had done a lot of traveling, so we’re trying to stay calm.
Old School
Starts at 4:24 blog time. I guess we all owe you $10.
WaterGirl
@Josie: It is maddening. I’m furious. I was already furious because a week or more ago I cancelled the trip to be with family because one sister and her grandchild won’t get vaccinated.
With delta going wild, i didn’t want to be in close quarters for a week with 2 people who just took two plane trips and refuse to be vaccinated.
So I don’t get to see the rest of my family – 7 other people who are vaccinated.
My sister is religious and she said she won’t get it. God loves her so much more than the million people around the world who have died from covid, I guess. I was furious before. Now that I’m worried, I’m even more furious.
I should have noted that the person I was around for a few minutes (outside) texted me 2 days later to say that she had just tested positive for covid. So I have been exposed, but I had really hoped the contact was so minimal that i didn’t need to worry. sigh
The exposure was Sunday morning, so this is right in the timeframe for me to not feel well. Hoping it’s not covid, obviously. I have been rikyrah level of careful since Feb 2020.
sab
@Albatrossity: You meant that for Watergirl? I agree with you both. Husband wants to take unvaccinated 7 yo granddaughter out for ice cream tomorrow, and my comment was “Is that safe?”
CaseyL
@zhena gogolia: Good for you!
I’m hoping to be able to pull the plug on Comcast/Xfinity altogether this fall. I’ve only kept the account for the ISP (I don’t even have a TV at this point) and have spent months looking for alternate internet providers. Internet only = no cable TV at all = no subsidy of Fox.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
Oh. That is worrisome. But let’s hope for the best!
CaseyL
@WaterGirl:
Well, shit.
Fingers crossed for you!
RaflW
@WaterGirl: Ahhh, crap.
I do wonder how I’m gonna react the first time I get a cold since beginning masking late winter of ’20 (zero colds since. Not my usual track record). I’ve been hanging out with other vax’d people of late, and chances are one of these days I’ll catch something not-SARS related. And may go mildly apeshit till I can be sure it’s just a cold (fingers crossed).
All that said, I hope you just have some kinda normal cold. Getting tested when appropriate is reasonable! But I also think going too soon could prove inconclusive?
Oh, and I’m going to go take my daily vit D right now!
Edit: @WaterGirl ahhh, extra-crap!
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Ack! Hang in there, and know that the statistics are on your side.
Keep us updated.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Betty
So Yamiche wants to know if Americans can trust Biden on Covid? These people!
Faithful Lurker
@WaterGirl: I’ve read that there are a lot of summer colds around and Drs won’t test for covid unless there’s trouble breathing and a high fever. Don’t know if that’s just anecdotal. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
Joy in FL
Watergirl, I hope you have a cold! I’m sending you zinc-filled good thoughts.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
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Keeping good thoughts for you.
zhena gogolia
JPL
Yesterday, grand imp coughed a few times after I put him down. It was a croupy cough, but still deep, and scary. That was the only time he coughed. Scary as hell, cuz a two year old can’t get vaccinated. Apparently, he has learned that caretakers will react with that sound
sab
@RaflW: My husband had to get up very very early to take Ponyo to be spayed, and that threw his system off. Spent whole day worrying about him not her. Love these Covid times,
Soprano2
We have 267 people in the hospital here in Springfield, MO right now. The 7-day average of daily cases is 192.86. One thing is better – 41.77% of eligible people are fully vaccinated, and 48.96% have had at least one shot. The number of one shot is growing faster than the total number vaccinated, which is good. I think a bunch of fence-sitters got off the fence.
I sat in my mother’s room at the hospital this morning waiting for her doctor, who never came around. I finally had to leave. The case worker brought a list of rehab facilities yesterday, and I’ve started to ask people about whether they’ve had experience with any of them. I figure that’s better than looking at their Web sites. Mom seemed better this morning. I’ve talked to a caseworker about what comes next. We have to pick a rehab facility for her to go to when she leaves the hospital. I don’t think she’ll be there more than a week or two.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty:
Would they rather he dump orange paint all over his face and call it a hoax?
VeniceRiley
@WaterGirl: I would be furious too. Supplementwise, I was also taking selenium and bromelain during the first two waves.
I buy at pipingrock.com their supplements are often on BOGO
zhena gogolia
Beautiful photo here.
Steeplejack (phone)
@sab:
?
prostratedragon
@WaterGirl: Could it be the bodywork, especially since you hadn’t had it in so long? When I used to have sessions, I’d occasionally feel like I was coming down with something for a day or so. Drink plenty of water.
dr. luba
@CaseyL: My 89 year old mother, bless her heart, loves to watch streaming content when I’m over, but can’t handle anything more than cable when she’s alone. (I installed an Apple TV at her house which we use.) We’ve streamed several series, watched Ukrainian movies and videos, and stream TCM.
I cut the cord a couple of years ago, but still access TCM and MSNBC via her account. If you know someone who still has TCM access, perhaps they’ll let you stream it?
zhena gogolia
This is well done.
WaterGirl
@prostratedragon: I wish! That was on Monday, I felt so great until all of a sudden today i felt achy and flushed and then chilled. Definitely drinking water.
Frank Wilhoit
@Soprano2: make the hospital discharge her on a Monday or else as near the start of the week as possible. If she goes to inpatient rehab on a Friday she will literally not be looked at for 72 hours.
sab
Ponyo starting to lick her incission. ” Don’t do that , or you will get an Elizabethan collar, and you don’t want that!
My first difficult spay was my beloved GSD. She would have strangled herself with an Elizabethan collar, so she had a two week series of baby nightgowns that she shredded like clockwork, three times a day.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
✊
If you decide to go all the way, I think we determined last night that whichever service has Orange and Blue packages—whatever it is that NotMax has—the Orange one does not have Fox News, the Blue one does.
prostratedragon
@sab: I’ve heard them called something like badge of shame, but I think I like Elizabethan collar better.
@WaterGirl: [Counts to Thursday] Hmmm. Anyway, …
Nelle
@WaterGirl: There is an increase of normal stuff. Both granddaughters had fevers last week ( we watch them part-time, ages 2 and 4). Then their vaccinated dad got a fever and sore throat. He tested negative for covid. So there is a more normal swirl of germs since so many unmasked and mingled
RaflW
@Frank Wilhoit: +1 this! We discovered this annoying truth with my partner’s dad. He was supposed to get PT 2x daily and OT 1x daily. Entered the rehab unit on a Friday, got one PT Saturday and none Sunday (and zero OT on the weekend).
The manager of the place got a right royal reaming on the phone from my partner, and I will say the following weekend was better.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone):
I can’t handle yet another service. For now we have Xfinity basic package so we can get networks and PBS, and on streaming we have Prime, Britbox, Disney+ (solely for Hamilton), and HBO Max, which has some kind of TCM-curated list of films.
sab
@Soprano2: Yikes. I have been there with my dad. Turned out okay, but I did not know what I was doing so no useful advice at all.
In our case, I was helping to transition him into assisted living, because he was falling down all the time, and I was too little to hoist him up again. I used to have to call my husband (I should have been at home) to come help me.
I don’t think I will ever forgive my two eldest siblings for not being there for ten years while this went down. Intervention would have been helpful. Even more, loud screaming that he needs to stay home was very much not useful. My baby sister was going through the same thing with her MIL, so we were on rhe same page.
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
I saw that. He was seconds away from “Homina, homina, homina.” ?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
And I was dying for the interviewer to say: “Well, they’ll be able to tell when they subpoena your phone records.”
sab
@WaterGirl: Thinking about you. Pointless comment, but do take care of yourself.
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
But, but—that’s unmanly!
sab
@prostratedragon: How can you shame a dog for medical stuff we do to i/him/her? Unfair!
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Which one is chosen (of course, can also subscribe to both) doesn’t really have a direct impact on any one channel’s coffers. It’s not like Sling Orange and Sling Blue keep separate bank accounts; it’s all one congregate pool of income from which Fox and others draw their fees.
For the record, Orange carries fewer number of channels overall, but more sports. Blue has a larger selection of channels, is geared to a general umbrella of entertainment (and news).
Sister Golden Bear
@CaseyL: Pro tip for cancelling cable or internet without spending hours arguing with them: Tell them you’re moving to somewhere outside their service area.
They will ask for a ZIP code (for your new supposed home) to verify this. However, I just picked a small town in a remote area of the Sierras, and then used Google to find out what cable/internet providers served the area.
Worked like a charm.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – we were talking about no-till farming recently.
ScienceMag:
There’s still a vast amount we don’t know about even “simple” things like dirt and how to plant stuff…
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Sister Golden Bear
When I went into the company’s office to cancel the cable TV (have to go in order to return the box) they asked me why. Told them truly that I was a senior on a tight income and they had raised their prices beyond my comfort level.
Kept them as both ISP and phone provider. Since canceling cable service not a week goes by without receiving an offer in the mail to rejoin at some stupendous discount or another. Small print is always “this price applies to first year of service only.”
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone):
I hope so!
CaseyL
@Sister Golden Bear: Wait: they have to consent to my ending their service? WTH? They’ll refuse to turn off the automatic bill payment?
PS – I’ve been with Comcast/Xfinity for ages, more than 10 years. It’s not like I’m in the first year of a 2-year contract.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: So sorry to hear that you aren’t feeling well and the exposure. Hope whatever it is you can knock it down with remedies on hand. So many of us have been uber careful and after a good start to the summer, it’s scary again.
Sorry too about missing your family and the stubborn non-vaxxed.
Guess I’ll bring a mask to my outdoor dinner tonight and not eat too much.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread –
I hope they did a sensible, unbiased, and thorough investigation this time before bringing charges. The Navy has a bad history of charging underlings when there were systemic problems that caused disasters.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread –
Thread
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
Busy day in DC apparently…
Thread.
Cawthorn is 25, R-NC. In a wheelchair.
McKinley is 74, R-WV.
Who has the best price on popcorn futures??
Cheers,
Scott.