The rapid covid test I got on Friday was negative. Great. They sent a swab in for the test that takes longer, and this morning the lab said they couldn't get a result from the swab. Urgent care has no idea why.
So...back to get swabbed again.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Oct 05, 2020 9:12:49 am PDT #27203 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laura - Oct 05, 2020 9:16:04 am PDT #27204 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Ugh, Dana. The test process isn't pleasant, but the reassurance of the negative result is nice.
Scrappy - Oct 05, 2020 9:28:59 am PDT #27205 of 30019
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Calli, you have U.P. antecedents? My mom was born and raised in Escanaba. That makes us practically related, right?
Calli - Oct 05, 2020 9:48:51 am PDT #27206 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My mom was born and raised in Escanaba. That makes us practically related, right?
The Stormy Kromer Sisterhood! My dad was born in Wakefield and grew up in Skandia.
Toddson - Oct 05, 2020 10:21:54 am PDT #27207 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ooh ... Spinal Tap cast reunites to fundraise (next Wednesday)
Laura - Oct 05, 2020 10:45:47 am PDT #27208 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I need a really good leak from Walter Reed. There is no reliable narrator. I don't know if the scourge of the White House ever had the virus, if he did how sick was he, what treatment he had, if any. His spokespeople and WH medical team can't be believed. No idea what is true, of anything, of the statements from the official sources.
Theodosia - Oct 05, 2020 10:54:39 am PDT #27209 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've got to say, the Vector-in-Chief is behaving exactly as I guessed he would -- disregarding the best medical advice from some of the best doctors in the world. May his gut instincts reward him just as they have with all those bankruptcies.
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2020 10:56:00 am PDT #27210 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I believe that he actually has it, if only because I can't imagine the medical staff at Walter Reed being in on a huge scam. I think Trump's baseline grasp on reality was poor to begin with, and he has the steroid crazies now,* and he doesn't want to appear weak in the press (or possibly his adult children and other staff/enablers are super concerned about his image with less than a month until the election, and so *they* want him to appear hale and hearty).
*The particular steroid that Trump is on is known for really making people completely out of their minds -- like farmers going out and tilling their fields at 3 a.m., or people removing all the doors in their homes. A friend was on it after (successful) brain surgery, and as soon as she read that Trump was taking dexamethasone, she said "Oh nooooooo, he's gonna lose his entire mind!"
Theodosia - Oct 05, 2020 10:58:39 am PDT #27211 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That sounds seriously like he should be relieved of his presidential job for a week or more. But at this point he is only surrounded by enablers.
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2020 11:00:13 am PDT #27212 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That sounds seriously like he should be relieved of his presidential job for a week or more. But at this point he is only surrounded by enablers.
They are never going to bust out the 25th amendment on him, which is fucking ridiculous.