AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
25d ago
We had a moment where we suspended literal constitutional rights and a large chunk of the populace was pleading for the Government to take whatever action it could to save them including by confining people at home (great for coups!) while Trump was already president and he mostly tweeted.
AnonymousActuary
25d ago
Huh. That sounds...very promising. Definitely have post-nasal drip and headaches. I'll get an ENT appointment and report back.
AnonymousActuary
25d ago
It's broader than just bed - I have it right now to some extent (not fully plugged up like when I have a bad cold, but just feel resistance to nose breathing). Maybe need to get back on a daily allergy spray and see if that helps.
AnonymousActuary
25d ago
I'm a bad mouth-breather while sleeping, usually due to general nasal congestion (not specifically illness).
Is my best path those nasal strips that are supposed to help you breathe? Mouth tape? Afrin spray? ENT visit? Something else?
Last week I had one night where my nose felt clear and I woke up feeling way better in the morning.
AnonymousActuary
27d ago
I appreciate the optimism that Biden just got caught on a singular bad day
AnonymousActuary
27d ago
90% sure they use bows in the loot train attack
AnonymousActuary
30d ago
If your starting point in a negotiation is "let's defeat this army first and THEN we can rid the US of your chosen religion's oppression" it seems like you are not going to win a lot of new allies.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
the sensible reaction is Governments don't get to lockdown anymore.
You had the power, you abused it, you don't get the power anymore.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
We knew very early from cases like the Diamond Princess what we were likely looking at. Possibly you could argue it was until May 2020, when we had CFR data out of New York that showed kids how severe the age stratification of impact was.
In addition, there was functionally speaking zero support for the kind of lockdowns we saw in Medical Literature. The famous pandemic influenza response paper (written by Donald Henderson - who led parts of the smallpox eradication effort) mentioned how important it was to try to keep life functioning as normally as possible. I still don't understand where the policy came from - it seems like we saw China do it, saw a bunch of people die in NY due to doctors over-ventilating (I think that was a well-intentioned mistake) and Cuomo shoving people back into Nursing homes (honestly, might also have been a well-intentioned mistake), and everybody panicked.
Less charitably, bureaucrats got high on their own supply of people listening to them/convinced themselves they could stop all disease spread (Fauci quite obviously embraced his narcissistic side).
I personally remember my first visit to a new PCP post COVID. Within 10 minutes he was recommending I get a COVID booster, he did not ask if I'd had COVID recently, how my reaction to previous shots had been (heavy acute symptoms after my 2nd shot), or whether the elevated risk as a young male was worth it, it was just "here's the recommendation I will now parrot to you unthinkingly".
I have not been back.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Their isn't any credible debate
Again, the problem is we were also told this about many things during COVID that clearly had legitimate credible debate! You are arguing over benefits to the commons, while not realizing the commons was torched by public health on several different occasions during COVID because they got too caught up in #currentthing to think about what they were doing or approach things with any sort of introspection or understanding of past pandemic response policy.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
The masks were sold out everywhere around me by early February, not sure what supply he was trying to save.
If you need to save it for healthcare providers say you need to save it for healthcare providers.
TBH, I think the more likely scenario, is he, like most of the contemporary research, believed that masks were not that effective against COVID and COVID like illnesses.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
interesting, I would say our marriage improved across the board by about 2.5 times after having a kid (if not more).
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
how old is your daughter? Been wondering when it is time for the hobbit.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
^yep precisely
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
What do you consider like a donut shop where someone assembles your order?
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I think some of the late-war soviet losses vs. German losses are a bit overstated simply due to the Soviets generally being on the offensive - which is typically going to take more casualties than the defense
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
The malpractice was when she was sent home while septic and 6 months pregnant
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
At best, you are demonstrating a chilling effect may have happened at a point where significant malpractice had occurred perhaps twice, and the woman was already near death (IF everyone involved is telling the truth about their actions - what mom with a pregnant 18 year old leaves the hospital after they've been declared septic??!?). Let's start with the malpractice and then we can worry about these edge cases.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
The Right seems to have figured it out wrt SCOTUS
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
"Because EOs are just not that powerful of a tool. They don't override laws, and there are a lot of laws constraining agencies."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals
Agree to disagree I suppose.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
key thing is being involved other ways - church, neighborhood two huge ones that are admittedly probably harder than they used to be. Once you hit high school might be worth starting to get more involved - taking some AP classes, dual enrollment at local college, and highly highly recommend music and athletic extra curriculars.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Ender's Game and the following trilogy (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) I highly recommend. Speaker for the Dead especially.
I enjoyed the Ender's Shadow series as well (though I just read the finally released last book, and it was baddddd), so maybe just stick to the original 3 (Shadow Puppers/of the Hegemon/of the Giant). Not sure those still hold up though, it's been a while.
Hyperion and the sequel are my favorite SF I've read recently - very very good.
Timothy Zahn has a lot of fun stuff if you are into star wars, and some even if you aren't (the conqueror's trilogy, angelmass, icarus hunt)
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
I too am very smart and can't think of any difference between a drug that treats blood cancer and one that treats a lifestyle choice.
The comparison between the drugs that treat type 2 diabetes/cardiac issues and those in question is left for the reader.
yeah I've played a handful of games past Medieval TWII and decided that it was the best. Now I play Divide and Conquer, the LOTR mod for it
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