Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Cynthia12]

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It's a serious glow-up from LAST years gemstone soap model!

This is soap? Awesome.

 

[Cynthia12]

I did. I'm about 3 rows from the end of the line. My wife is about 8 people from the end. A friend in CA is third from the end. He is disappointed. He was planning on getting it as soon as available so he could fly back to MO in April to go turkey hunting. Looks like he won't be hunting here till 2022.
Most people won't have access to the vaccine till at least late spring. So keep wearing a mask.
We won't even have enough doses for all the health care workers for quite a while.
Keep in mind that countries all over the world are in line for shipments. In terms of doses per capita, the US ranks 32nd in the world. We just didn't order enough even though we were given multiple opportunities to order more.

Yep, didn't order..in time to best other countries. Anyway..you are supposed to wear a mask, even after getting the vaccine. Not sure for how long yet. Probably until next fall, at the earliest. Patience, we're getting there. Tricky bug to get rid of. Unreal..but real.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

This is soap? Awesome.

Yep! This was last years gemstone soap, but this years is MUCH prettier imo. Ima try to sell a few if I can and give the rest away. This years is much more realistic.

 

[MROO]

Here's a rundown on what to expect as side effects of the 2 most promising vaccine candidates.

Might as well be clear about them up front and make a commitment to deal with 'em as, unless you get both doses, you've wasted the first one.

I don't know, yet, whether I'll get the vaccine or not. Having already had a run-in with covid, I'm not sure I'm even a candidate, yet, but I HAVEto share a funny I saw, today:

Do you mean to tell me that you've been eating bologna all your life and you won't get the vaccine because you DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN IT?

 

[MROO]

James Reston, Jr. wrote a very interesting book called The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000AD. He wrote it in response to the hysteria surrounding the impending Y2K (if anyone remembers that complete non-event). It's very readable and very interesting and it's concerned with the closing of the first millennium of the modern era and the resulting fear that the world would come to an end that ushered in the spread of Christianity all over Europe stamping out age-old traditional religions -- often by force.

It's part of a trilogy of books which cover expelling Moors and Islam from Europe and how the 3rd crusade turned a prosperous and tolerant polyglot Mediterranian culture into the conflict-ridden Middle East v Western society we live with today.

I highly recommend them all.

Yup, Thankfully, Y2K was NOT the disaster that was wildly predicted. But I can tell you that, from behind the scenes, it was not the total non-event most people think it was. I worked for the State of Maryland in a highly computer-tech project. What was likely the most powerful PC in the entire (civilian) state system at the time sat on my desk. The reason Y2K was not the issue we expected was because we had so many top computer gurus losing sleep over it for nearly two years before the date hit. Without their work and foresight, the fill-in-the-blank "19__" dates would have been enough to sideline, or even crash some of the systems. Just in our Department, our IT group found lots of "little," potentially dangerous worms, as well. It was a nuisance shutting everything completely down before the New Year, then bringing each unit and sub-system back online one at a time, but it was worth it. Our IT people were AWESOME!

 

[MROO]

I read that as butt inhaler. I thought WHAT?

Albuterol! But come to think of it, it certainly can be a PIA!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Albuterol! But come to think of it, it certainly can be a PIA!

AlBUTTerol more like amirite folks?
(thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week... Because I'm still quarantined for a week.)

 

[MROO]

We are doing a drive through tomorrow night. Christmas lights through a park. 12 dollars a car. It's big. .

I'll bet it's beautiful. I LOVE the lights, especially in a year when we didn't have many fireworks! This video is from several years ago, but it shows what goes on at our Herr's campus. It gets bigger every year!
https://www.facebook.com/herrs/videos/herrs-christmas-light-display/10154891811740676/

 

[MROO]

Okay Folks ... It's almost 2:30 (am!) here and I have NO idea why this gal is still up. I must be channeling my inner @ChocolateMouse! (insert giggles here!) Still not tired, but I think I'll give it a try, anyway. Who knows ... I may be right back, but for now, G'Night All!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Okay Folks ... It's almost 2:30 (am!) here and I have NO idea why this gal is still up. I must be channeling my inner @ChocolateMouse! (insert giggles here!) Still not tired, but I think I'll give it a try, anyway. Who knows ... I may be right back, but for now, G'Night All!

I woke up an hour before you went to bed.