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Old 01-25-2021, 01:44 PM   #4231
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Flying in Corona Isn't Wrong*

There's a surreal aspect to finding oneself in a massive East Coast airport most of which is closed. It's like you're in a post-apocalyptic comedy. On the restaurant (the tables of which are now in the walkway, indoor/outdoor style) screen are stories about the impeachment of a President already out of office, marchers on the streets in [Insert City], and the stock market zooming into the stratosphere.

And this photo is of Chapelle, Elon Musk, Grimes, Ron White, and Joe Rogan just a day before Dave tested positive with Covid-19...

...Next week's Davos will focus on the 'Great Reset.'

Biden insists $1.9 trillion is required...

When we're back, Kate Hudson, on having three children with three men, and Kylie Jenner's new product muse.


Strange days indeed. Most peculiar, but also kinda dull, momma?

Wear sneakers. You'll be able to jog at the airport. The closest human will be far away, and despite there being 65% fewer travelers, your flight will probably be delayed, your layover extended.

But as one heads West, the frontier we-couldn't-give-a-fuck attitude emerges. The sight of packed indoor restaurants is odd, off-putting. Temptation is only tempered by the recognition, it'd suck to be quarantined out here.

Or maybe not? The pervasive East Coast defeatism, the recognition the real economic shit hasn't even hit the fan yet in the big cities, isn't much fun to absorb.

I recommend traveling. I may regret it later, but the scenes, if nothing else than those 30 second iPhone movies, are alternatively fascinating and banal. Normalcy prevails, but it's the thinnest patina.



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Old 01-25-2021, 04:47 PM   #4232
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The trademarked "big game," I assume.
Ahhh, cool. Icky which team?
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Old 01-25-2021, 05:17 PM   #4233
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Ahhh, cool. Icky which team?
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Old 01-25-2021, 05:21 PM   #4234
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This guy went to Harvard, but I think he was a little after Hank.
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Old 01-25-2021, 06:26 PM   #4235
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Was he already huge in LL?
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Old 01-26-2021, 05:57 AM   #4236
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Was he already huge in LL?
Catcher-type big but not noticeably so.
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Old 01-26-2021, 12:16 PM   #4237
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Old 01-27-2021, 05:38 AM   #4238
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Well

The mask-free cough in your face rona-type atmosphere doesn't work, evidently as my office just announced a closure for a week for "deep cleaning".
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Old 01-27-2021, 12:49 PM   #4239
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The mask-free cough in your face rona-type atmosphere doesn't work, evidently as my office just announced a closure for a week for "deep cleaning".
140 people in our company, in three offices. Only cases I know of were in the office housing CS, where people kept coming to work. Don't know of anyone in the other two offices who has gotten sick, from work or otherwise.
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Old 01-27-2021, 03:35 PM   #4240
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140 people in our company, in three offices. Only cases I know of were in the office housing CS, where people kept coming to work. Don't know of anyone in the other two offices who has gotten sick, from work or otherwise.
We're a little different than most places. We're at 648 with a workforce of about 18,000 (including students in both numbers), no deaths. I got my second dose today, and a good hunk of our workforce has gotten at least one, so I suspect our numbers will start going down.

I've been told this dose hits pretty hard, and I'm definitely feeling a little tired, but this is so worth it.
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We're a little different than most places. We're at 648 with a workforce of about 18,000 (including students in both numbers), no deaths. I got my second dose today, and a good hunk of our workforce has gotten at least one, so I suspect our numbers will start going down.

I've been told this dose hits pretty hard, and I'm definitely feeling a little tired, but this is so worth it.
Ms. Slothrop felt like sh*t for two days after the second dose. Lots of chills. She went to work anyway, which was a huge mistake. Hope it doesn't hit you so hard.
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Re: Objectively intelligent.

For those keeping track of Moderna second dose side effects, I woke up with a slight fever this morning (99.24) and am feeling pretty tired. Slept about 8 and a half hours last night. Someone yesterday told me it's at about 30 hours when it really hits.

My cousin and her husband said they were taken out for about two days, my boss said she slept for 11 hours.

OTOH, my parents got their second dose yesterday around the same time I did and are feeling fine.
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48 hours later, no fever, feeling fine. Arm still a little sore, but nothing major.
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Old 01-30-2021, 02:04 PM   #4244
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For those keeping track of Moderna second dose side effects, I woke up with a slight fever this morning (99.24) and am feeling pretty tired. Slept about 8 and a half hours last night. Someone yesterday told me it's at about 30 hours when it really hits.

My cousin and her husband said they were taken out for about two days, my boss said she slept for 11 hours.

OTOH, my parents got their second dose yesterday around the same time I did and are feeling fine.
The few I know who have had the Pfizer 2d dose had no effects other than a sore arm. Wife and son get 2d this week.
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One of my Trump supporting friends fits this to a tee - https://theweek.com/articles/964006/...-conservatives
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