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11-30-2020, 12:44 PM #31151
Jeez Kevo, this is all so heartbreaking. My sincere wish for peace for you and your family.
That passage about how the extended family drifted apart is a real story for our times. My siblings have drifted apart, my daughter and her family live 1200 miles away, and that’s not unusual these days. I don’t know how or if it can change, but it sure is poignant.
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11-30-2020, 12:44 PM #31152
Dude! You need to catch a break. That shit is so fucked up. I had to quit the family zoom when my school teacher sister was starting to be all critical of others after she flew to LA from Houston with her 2 kids and her non live in boyfriend and his kids to stay at here sisters house etc. etc. I look at it as reality at this point but I still struggle with the hypocrisy .
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11-30-2020, 12:57 PM #31153Registered User
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Well, looks like UT was #1 in travel for T-day and confirms what I saw yesterday: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics...alth-warnings/
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11-30-2020, 01:03 PM #31154
SAN DIEGO—Lying on the couch in his cramped, poorly lit apartment, local man Mark Borkowski was reportedly having the best Thanksgiving of his life Thursday while getting high and eating Taco Bell thousands of miles away from his family. “Wow, I never knew this holiday could be so genuinely wonderful,” said Borkowski, sitting alone with a glass pipe in one hand and a chalupa in the other as he watched episodes of How I Met Your Mother on his laptop. “The Taco Bell guy got my order pretty much right, and I still have plenty of weed. Meanwhile, my parents are on the other side of the country and in a totally different timezone, so our entire interaction this year was a five-minute phone call while I packed this bowl. There truly is so much to be thankful for.” At press time, sources confirmed an elated Borkowski was reflecting on the likelihood that this year his Christmas wish would come true and he’d spend the holiday getting totally shitfaced on vodka.
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11-30-2020, 01:19 PM #31155Registered User
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In east Idaho Foggy. It’s really funny seeing the stark difference in precautions taken between somewhere like Pocatello/Idaho Falls/Rexburg vs Victor/Driggs/Jackson. For the most part businesses require masks here, but then again the bars are open with no precautions in place whatsoever.
Regarding Thanksgiving, Benny’s post was pretty accurate. So accustomed to the usual. Fly home, go to the bar with hometown friends, wake up hungover and sit and the car for 2 hours to bullshit with people I have absolutely nothing in common with. Drive home. Not that I don’t love my family, but we really just aren’t similar types of people.
Instead, solo skied until about 1pm, went home and made some stir fry and drank wine while watching Breaking Bad. Fucking marvelous day.
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11-30-2020, 01:30 PM #31156
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11-30-2020, 01:31 PM #31157
It is like 2 different worlds between Idaho Falls and Victor/Driggs. We have pretty much sworn off trips to Idaho Falls for any supplies, I would much rather pay the higher prices in Victor/Driggs and not expose myself to the oblivious non maskers in Idaho Falls if I need something.
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration?
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11-30-2020, 01:33 PM #31158Rope->Dope
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11-30-2020, 01:34 PM #31159
Not directly Covid related, but this is super cool.
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
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11-30-2020, 01:38 PM #31160
Come on man, you know the TGR rules are that the person complaining is 100% exempt from what they are complaining about.
While traveling you are free to complain about all the other people traveling because those people aren’t being as responsible as you. Fact.
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11-30-2020, 01:47 PM #31161Hucked to flat once
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Drove two hours to see my 93 year old grandpa who lives alone. We quarantined the 10 days prior. Couldn't get further out than that. He's 93 with a 95% blockage in the vessels around his heart. Doc said he's super high risk for Covid but probably going to die from his heart troubles in the next 3-6 months. Had a heart to heart phone call with him and he said he'd rather die from covid after seeing us (just me and Mrs. C for a total of 3 people) than die soon from his heart and not having seen us since last March. He still works in the office every day at the business he owns and eats out most days because he doesn't really cook for himself anymore. Twin Falls is very similar to Idaho Falls. Where he is eating is maskless by his admission. We stopped for a coffee before the drive home and looked through the window. At least 20 people in line no masks, another 20 sitting around drinking their coffee. We didn't go in. Left town and probably won't be back for a long time. Now we're four days in to not seeing other people again because of what we might have picked up from him.
I don't feel good about seeing people for the holidays even if it was just one person. That was a really tough one for me to navigate and still bugs me. Hoping it reduces any regrets when the old man goes soon. He was really happy on our weekend phone call after the visit though.
Other side's family did a six household Thanksgiving dinner complete with two morbidly obese diabetics (one on a 10 year old kidney transplant), two college kids home, three in high school, and three toddlers. Now they're planning Christmas to be similar to Thanksgiving because nothing happened. If my wife wasn't adopted, we wouldn't be married. Already gave them the no go on family visits for Christmas.
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11-30-2020, 01:47 PM #31162
Sorry for your loss, Kevo.
It’s weird how this seems to be a part of the American dream.
I also find it to be a struggle with disappointment and a general concern for those that I care about whether it’s extended family or friends.
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11-30-2020, 01:53 PM #31163Registered User
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Is this a trick question? yes. And also counted were all the people camping alone in the desert which skews the numbers a bit. Plenty of safe traveling going on but they counted all trips over 50 miles, and presumed it's all to visit families.
Traveling in itself is not the issue anyone of us are talking about, it's visiting families. Our governor didn't plead with all Utahns to stop camping this weekend.
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11-30-2020, 02:25 PM #31164
making the right choice hatch, hope the grom is keeping you up and filling dirty diapers for you.
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11-30-2020, 02:35 PM #31165click here
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The Oxford vaccine is vectored, meaning it uses another (harmless) virus to deliver the payload. Several folks have suggested the full shot gives some people immunity to the vector. So, the second (booster) shot gets eliminated before the immune system sees the covid proteins. The Russian Sputnik vaccine uses different vectors for the first and second dose to avoid this problem. So the thought is that the half dose may limit the response to the vector. OTOH it could be statistics.
Source: TWiV
TWiVers also complain that all data is via press release, no scientific reports yet. (Including the mRNA vaccines)
One time. Never again. Mild fever and cold symptoms for a couple days. (Those are listed side effects I learned later). Prefer a poke in the arm.
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11-30-2020, 02:45 PM #31166
Thanks for the condolences and kind words, everyone. It's very much appreciated.
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11-30-2020, 02:51 PM #31167
Sorry, Kevo. Awful situation. Vibes your way.
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11-30-2020, 03:40 PM #31168
I think you made the right call visiting grandpa. At that age and with those medical problems he deserves to take the risk. When his time does come I hope he's fortunate enough to pass at home.
Thanks for the info. I wouldn't expect to see peer reviewed published vaccine studies before there are EUA's and people start getting the shots. I think we'll have to depend on the FDA's panel of expert to review the raw data (which we wouldn't see in published reports anyway) to make the call. If the FDA gives the EUA I'll be very pissed if Newsom follows through on his plan for California to independently review the data before CA gets shots.
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11-30-2020, 04:10 PM #31169
Sorry Kevo. Stay strong. Vibes.
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11-30-2020, 04:16 PM #31170
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11-30-2020, 06:17 PM #31171
Sorry Kevo.
Sounds like a worthy gamble Conundrum.
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near
JMorrison
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11-30-2020, 07:37 PM #31172
I don't think I'd be taking life coaching from Jim Morrison.
Meanwhile--CA gov considering full stay at home. Of course the folks that have been gathering, cramming the airports for T'giving won't be following the order, just the folks who've been behaving themselves all along. Time to start confronting and ratting out the people fucking things up for the rest of us (and of course fucking things up for the nurses and doctors who have to take care of them.)
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11-30-2020, 08:05 PM #31173Banned
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11-30-2020, 08:11 PM #31174
It's satire, genius.
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11-30-2020, 08:13 PM #31175Banned
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