That is my kind of rebellion
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
-t - Sep 07, 2021 9:37:55 am PDT #8962 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Calli - Sep 07, 2021 9:43:20 am PDT #8963 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just tried a white pumpkin mocha. It was a lot. Tasty, but a lot.
While I was in Michigan, I wore my mask inside in public spaces and went maskless inside with vaccinated family. It’s the same protocol I’m following in NC, as infection rates are pretty similar.
Jessica - Sep 07, 2021 9:45:21 am PDT #8964 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I made my inaugural trip to Dunkin' Donuts this morning for Pumpkin Cold Brew and apple Cider Donut
FALL!!!
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2021 9:48:24 am PDT #8965 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
apple Cider Donut
You bet your ass I'm getting a cider donut from the One True Apple Cider Donut place in Vermont (Cold Hollow Cider Mill).
-t - Sep 07, 2021 9:48:57 am PDT #8966 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Exactly! BTW, I also got an Apple Cranberry Refreshed off the Flavors of Fall menu because I am extremely suggestible and also thirsty (in the literal sense) but it doesn't taste much like apple or cranberry to me, it mostly just tastes like sugar.Which I suppose I should have expected but did not.
ETA I have never gone to the place I am told is the One True Apple Cider Donut place in my area because it's too long a drive to wait in such a long line for me, so I can be catholic in my donut consumption
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 07, 2021 10:03:01 am PDT #8967 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy belated birthday, flea!
No-cancer-ma, Pix.
I overslept my alarm this morning, so today has been off-kilter despite not being particularly busy so far.
Jesse - Sep 07, 2021 10:08:56 am PDT #8968 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In short, if you're vaccinated and wearing a mask indoors a breakthrough is still very unlikely even with Delta (1 in 5,000). Also, the emphasis on the higher viral load in Delta was somewhat misleading in that while it does make it more transmissible to unvaccinated people, if you are vaccinated you are still very protected.
My anecdotal problem is I know as many people who have gotten breakthrough infections as who got covid pre-vax. None of them have been seriously ill, but it does make me want to retreat back into my house again. (Although I did go to the movies last weekend.)
dcp - Sep 07, 2021 10:21:33 am PDT #8969 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill
Sticker shock! Half gallon of sweet apple cider for $11.95? Wow. Locally pressed here [link] it is $7.95, and I thought *that* was high.
Dana - Sep 07, 2021 10:22:17 am PDT #8970 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
My other problem is that they're not counting (obviously) undiagnosed cases of covid, but you can still get long covid with an asymptomatic infection.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2021 10:32:54 am PDT #8971 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I edited an article last week that looked at Covid transmission in an elementary school in Belgium. (The usual disclaimers are as follows: you can't really extrapolate from one small study in Belgium to the rest of the world; the study had ~60 people, which is way too small to make any kind of conclusion; and, of course, we're still learning about Covid, so what this study showed might not mean a goddamn thing.)
Now that I have the disclaimers out of the way, what the study found was: (1) kids tested positive for Covid at more or less the same rate as adults (~23%); BUT (2) out of the group of adults and kids who were positive, 13% were asymptomatic but *46%* of kids were; and (3) they could pretty reliably trace transmission through asymptomatic kids back to their parents/other household members.
We need to get a vaccine for kids approved FUCKING NOW. Because we're going to hit a point (if we aren't there yet) where they're the biggest vector, and damn near half of them are asymptomatic.
(Reminder about the disclaimers above. Maybe this is all very specific to that one school in Belgium.) (But I honestly don't think it is.)