BradInATX

I think my brokerage account is broken all of the numbers are in this strange green font

Especially not when they plot armor the "protagonist" through everything he does to her.

This seems conservative to me. One of the experts says he's willing to have a maskless 4th of July party as long as it's outside and everyone is vaccinated. As if that's some sort of step forward. The data pretty much shows that said 4th of July party would be fairly safe even mid-pandemic. If summer passes with everyone having has an opportunity to get vaccinated and people can't go to a basketball game or to a show at Stubb's or fly overseas, there are going to be a lot of pissed off people. You're going to lose the sort of moderate contingent that understands the reason we've done what we did for the past year, but also expects "once the olds and beetuses are protected no more lockdowns" to be the endzone. If states or cities start moving the goalposts because of the nebulous lurking sceptre of "variants!" or because kids (a group with near zero risk from Covid) aren't vaccinated yet or because of "long Covid" (which smells like maybe 10% reality and 90% media hype and hypochondria), there are going to be a lot of pissed off people. I'll be one of them. Fortunately I don't think it's the goal of POTUS or most states outside of California to do that.

Lol at I Care a Lot. Walking Dead level writing. My gut told me to turn it off at the car/lake scene. I should have listened. What a terrible movie. Worst antihero ever put on a screen. Someone should have told the writers that antiheroes need redeeming qualities and depth. Also worst mafia ever.

If anyone lives in South Texas/RGV area or just wants to drive four hours to Falfurrias for a Moderna shot, there's an open signup here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPNpROtESb4decs7ThjpmGd-WgVEypWZvYApOi0Fc_-vvMQw/viewform No idea how long it will last or how they will handle second shots so caveat emptor.

I'm already really deep into AMYZF. I bought a few chunks of XMET and ALPP on the dip today.

Penelope have you considered letting your husband manage your stonks?

Right on. My dad was able to get a shot here in New Braunfels through HEB (I think). I believe it was Moderna. Might try that periodically if it's worth a 45 minute drive.

What flavor was her first shot?

Well Cuomo is a blowhard idiot and we've parsed Fauci pretty well here. But fair enough. I guess I should have said "who that actually sets policy are you yelling at?". Ya'll do a lot of getting upset at things that don't really matter. Covid policy happens on the state and local level and Fauci has no say in any of that. The only thing the feds control is basically air travel and that's going to change pretty rapidly once numbers go down and shots go up. Plus I was just at the Hyatt Hill Country in your neck of the woods and San Antonio is like "Covid? Que?" anyway. Ya'll already beat Covid out there - congrats!

Fuck, man. I pulled into the house after dropping my kid off and saw a bunch of water coming out of my little fenced in area off the garage that has one A/C unit and my trash bins and a water spigot. Immediately started freaking out only to open it up and realize that was just the drain that comes out of my utility room working as intended. Didn't need that heart attack this morning but I'm awake now at least.

Yep I looked at my real retirement account and saw SPY down almost 2% in the first 15 minutes and decided that I'm definitely not looking at my #stonks today. I'll do some real work instead.

More of this please @markstanco. Since @DenverHorn slinked away in shame when the pedophile Democrats weren't mass-incarcerated on inauguration day and @TtomTerrific hunkered down in his school bus bunker until 2025, we've really been missing the "batshit insane weirdo" voice in our conversations. Thanks for making us whole again. Tell us more.

If you took the opinions of all of the regular participants on this thread and threw out the extreme outliers on one side or another to come up with "surly consensus", it would have been far more accurate through this entire thing than the majority of the Twitter and media superstars out there fighting for attention and retweets.

Fauci doesn't really control anything. Bevo's acting like everyone in leadership is out there saying that we're going to be closed forever, because he really wants to be outraged and play victim. Nobody that matters is saying that. This is all on the state level anyway and Texas is going to fully reopen as soon as is reasonable and probably before that. POTUS has been consistent saying he expects to be normal by summer or fall, which is a reasonable, safe promise that he probably knows is a slight undersell. I don't love his strategy of underselling things re:Covid whether it's timelines or the 100 million vaccines in 100 days (which was table stakes). But I understand it in today's world of gotcha politics. But we talked about it earlier, I agree with you on Fauci. He's stepped all over his own dick numerous times on the time frame. If you're not comfortable talking about it in front of cameras and microphones, then stop going in front of them or say "we don't know, but I do know the faster we vaccinate people the faster we'll get back to normal" (which is what you're saying). I have some other issues with Fauci too. I think his obvious and public disdain for the prior administration is unprofessional and a little childish. Like I said, I'd like to see him in more of an operations role than a figurehead role. Fauci, like everything, has become politicized. For some, everything he says or does is an opportunity to feel victimized and outraged. For others, he walks on water because he stood up to Trump. The truth is somewhere in the middle. He's good at some things and bad at others. End of day though anyone who thinks that Fauci is going to keep schools and commerce closed for another year are being silly. Nothing has changed. This is America. Fauci doesn't set policy. Corporations do. We'll be 100% open by July except maybe international travel, and that won't be dictated by us.

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You're mad about something that hasn't even happened. We are five weeks removed from the absolute worst of the pandemic and have fully vaccinated less than 10% of the population, yet here you are crying that the government is going to keep you in your house forever even though 1) Texas is basically fully open already and 2) The "until 2022" lockdown that you're so terrified of is like a year away and isn't going to happen. Nut up and stop whining about shit that hasn't happened and isn't going to happen. It's going to be OK.

It's February. We have vaccinated like 15-20% of the population. Settle down Beavis. If It's July and that's still happening, I'll be triggered right next to you.

The only way we don't open basically fully by June/July at the very latest is if there's some random spike around that time. Which is almost certainly not going to happen. The virus is rapidly running out of hosts. A crazy variant is always a possibility I guess, but I'm not going to stress about outlier type threats.

Saw some stuff today that data shows that the mRNA vaccines do prevent spread at nearly the rate they prevent the virus (~90% I believe). Don't have a link anymore. But, I'm not sure what cloud GR is yelling at. Who is saying that you have to hide in your bunker after the vaccine? I have seen some "we have to wait until herd immunity" which is stupid, but I think there's a general consensus formed around "we are going to start getting back to normal once everyone who wants the vaccine can get it - or sooner". That tweet is more of the overly-sensitive victim complex that some seem to have.

Remember when that one dude on here asked us "if Amazon is so bad why haven't they unionized?!?!?!?" https://www.al.com/business/2021/02/amazon-union-organizers-at-odds-over-pay-to-quit-bonuses.html

What a family the Cruz' are. His wife was once found by APD by the train tracks pilled out and suicidal. His own daughter is repulsed by him and instinctually recoils in horror when he tries to show her affection. He ditched his entire family in Mexico with his college roommate after realizing he made a political mistake, then threw his daughters under the bus. He sat idly by while Trump called his dad a murderer and his wife ugly, and over time ended up becoming one of Trump's most loyal sycophants and pawns. Ted Cruz. Texan. Patriarch. Alpha Male.

It was to get the shit over with faster, through approval faster, etc. Boosters for every other vaccine in the world are longer than six weeks. There's a reason for that. You guys are mad that APH has chosen not to use a purely arbitrary 21/28 day timeframe developed because we wanted to get the vaccines through trials and EUA faster, and is instead using a strategy that the fifth wealthiest country on Earth has used with very strong success. It's not like they're just making shit up. Are they on the bleeding edge in terms of being an early adopter of the one-vaccine plan? Yes, they are. But they're not just flying by the seat of their pants. The one-shot strategy is something that's being pushed more and more in the scientific community. We've discussed it in this thread quite a bit. Mathematically it's easily the best option. I do fully admit that they might have made the switch to this plan because they fucked up the logistics. I know COA can be a mess. But none of us know why they did it, and arguing in bad faith that they did it for *reasons* (I think dcar thinks they literally have a grudge against his wife) is counterproductive. Everyone will have their second shot shortly, and more than likely the people going full Karen about not getting their shots at 12:01am on the 21st day are going to end up having better immunity that those who get the 2nd earlier. Assuming this vaccine behaves like the AstraZeneca vaccine or basically every vaccine ever, which I know is a big leap!

Yes, doing what the third largest country in the Western world has done the entire time, with more success than we've had with our two dose program, is following the theory of "your own boys in the lab". What a dishonest, shitty post. Trying to get more doses to more people in a way that's proven to bend the curve faster is "helping your supply chain issues". Following the plan the UK has been doing the whole time is flying by the seat of your pants with your "boys in the lab". Question for you. Do you know why the 21 and 28 day plans were implemented by Pfizer and Moderna?