This looks promising: A saliva test for COVID-19 outperforms nasal and oral swab tests, according to a new study.
I prefer spitting to being jabbed inside my nose.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2021 8:57:26 am PDT #9276 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Laura - Sep 16, 2021 9:00:49 am PDT #9277 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
May the day continue to be headache and id-thief free!
A saliva test for COVID-19 outperforms nasal and oral swab tests
I'd be good with not doing the nasal swab anymore.
Looks like I'm going back to Puerto Rico at the end of October.
Safety~ma. I probably shouldn't jab the universe, but we are feeling pretty lucky that neither DH nor I have contracted this virus considering how many people we know who have been infected. Plus spending so much time in medical offices, plus the travel stuff. We are pretty darn cautious, but either we are doing something right or just are lucky.
EpicTangent - Sep 16, 2021 9:07:42 am PDT #9278 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
This looks promising: A saliva test for COVID-19 outperforms nasal and oral swab tests, according to a new study.
Darnell Rockefeller University Laboratory (DRUL) saliva test
How much do I love the synchronicity of the lab's acronym and the medium of the test? SO MUCH.
Trudy Booth - Sep 16, 2021 9:32:47 am PDT #9279 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Where is everyone? Was the east coast raptured?
Have you MET us?
Maaaybe Scola. That's about it.
meara - Sep 16, 2021 9:47:10 am PDT #9280 of 30000
Hahah DRUL is great!
See this is why you need a secret identity. And a sock puppet account. And a stage name.
I mean, I have a stage (drag) name! And meara is not my legal name! Maybe it should be.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2021 10:03:47 am PDT #9281 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I mean, I have a stage (drag) name!
What's your drag name?
I've done the running of the steps (no bulls involved), and procured and quaffed Second Coffee.
I'm now perusing the cake possibilities at Schubert's Bakery for Emmett & Matilda's bdays next week (they will be 25 and 15 respectively).
Please look at the Schubert's cakes and tell me what you would get that is not just a chocolate/chocolate cake. (It may have chocolate in combination with something else like the Fuerst Pueckler): [link]
Toddson - Sep 16, 2021 10:19:22 am PDT #9282 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OK, I checked those cakes and now I'm drooling (no test involved). I'd go for the Tiramisu, Chocolate Mousse or that other mousse cake (didn't write down the name). I'd go for the Opera Cake if I didn't hate hazelnut flavors.
In the drool/DRUL news, I saw they're also training dogs to sniff out COVID ... which would definitely be an improvement on any kind of jabbing.
Steph L. - Sep 16, 2021 10:20:58 am PDT #9283 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I mean, I have a stage (drag) name!
What's your drag name?
Is it Indy?
meara - Sep 16, 2021 10:44:30 am PDT #9284 of 30000
Yep, it's Indy!
I would probably get an opera cake, unless it was for one friend who I know would want the Swedish princess cake because marzipan.
I am on hold at the non-emergency police number. Which is fine--it's been 20 minutes--the annoying thing is it rings like, 5 times, and then there's a recorded message about visiting the website, and then it rings 5 more times....like, just give me some hold music so I don't keep thinking someone has picked up and I don't keep hearing the same recording over and over every 20 seconds??
Jesse - Sep 16, 2021 10:48:55 am PDT #9285 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I can't remember where, but I have heard of little kids having trouble getting enough spit for that test. Which might still be better than sticking something up their nose?
Please look at the Schubert's cakes and tell me what you would get that is not just a chocolate/chocolate cake. (It may have chocolate in combination with something else like the Fuerst Pueckler): [link]
It super depends on who's eating it. Like, for me I might do the black forest, but not if my aunt were coming because she's allergic to cherries. Fuerst Peuckler also looks delicious.