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Eastwood

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  1. Not today, at least. Oof.
  2. Typical western democracy. Human rights and the sovereignty of countries are important until actual sacrifice is needed to preserve them. The gas problem is a big one, though. There were no easy solutions for Germany and Russia played dead just long enough to maintain Berlin's dependency on Russian supply. The only solution I can think of is an expansion of LNG in Germany, but that is time consuming, expensive, and still vulnerable to disruption during times of war, as the ships would require heavy naval escort across the Atlantic. But the US has the supply to keep all of Europe powered if the infrastructure is put in place.
  3. Yeah, Kotick probably eroded billions in value in the transaction with the last 12 months. Makes you wonder if the timing of all the allegations and airing of dirty laundry was deliberate.
  4. I wonder if they will throw any games onto Game pass like they did with Bethesda.
  5. Okay, great, now answer the rest of my question.
  6. Seed, NHS is literally the government. The service that it provides is a government service. Those who do not qualify for the government service can go pay for IVF on their own dime. Again, who sent you this article/where did you find this article, to what end was this article presented to you, and why do you think think this article is relevant to the US political system's response to COVID? You brought this to us to make some kind of point or to echo the point of whoever presented this article to you. Let's just get to that part of the exercise and save some time.
  7. That and... It's in fucking Scotland. Why should we give a shit how Scotland allocates its IVF treatments? Why does a 20 year old in Oregon care about how Scotland allocates its IVF treatments? But if we really want to open that door, lets open it. Imagine living in a country where one of the most expensive fertility treatments costs you zero out of pocket, outside of the taxes you pay overall towards NHS. All you have to do is vaccinate against COVID. I wonder how many infertile women in the US would take that deal today.
  8. I figured it was some Wendish folks from Lee County...
  9. Russia almost triggered NATO with their "plain cloths" invasion of the Donbas when an officer gave the order for their AA to mistakenly shoot down an airliner carrying citizens of NATO nations. Of course, Russia disclaims any involvement, but that mistake was made during a much smaller incursion than what is planned now. No telling on what/when/where/how they stumble into a NATO tripline, but rest assured that they will find it.
  10. We just witnessed one of the stupidest coaching decisions in NFL history. My lord...
  11. We had my grandparents (small town folk), a couple of in-laws (anti-vaxxers), and 1 friend who just happened to catch it over two years. Starting December, we've had almost our entire social circle, family and friends catch it. All vaxxed, even the anti-vaxxers. But they went with J&J, which I think is the universal "bare minimum" that anti-vaxxers like to do.
  12. Putin likely did it as a stall tactic because he wasn't firmly entrenched into a position of power until the very tail end of Clinton's presidency.
  13. I never even had a temp. Highest it ever got was 99. My body went into overdrive and had palpitations for 4 days, though.
  14. For me, I lost 95% of my taste and all I could really taste on the worst day was pepper and spicy food.
  15. Wife has her smell and taste back already. My smell is starting to trickle back and I tasted about 75% of my coffee this morning. Kids seem to have skated by and they are unvaxxed due to age. We got it from a small, less than 15 person, family event where everyone was vaxxed, a couple boosted, a couple prior infected. The boosted people never had any symptoms, the prior infected plus Vax have coughs, but they also have been smoking for 3 decades, and those who were symptomatic were just vaxxed, not boosted. I wanted to hold off on the booster until after the holidays because we had zero plans to be around random people and were only going to be around other vaxed people. I was going to get my booster literally this week, but Omicron didn't care. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that 1/4 of the entire nation is currently in some stage of COVID infection, be it incubation, active, or recovery in the final infectious hours/trace virus that would be detected. It is burning through every social circle in my family's life, right now.
  16. CDC updated guidelines this morning. If you have been exposed and are double vaxxed and boosted OR within 6 months of second dose, you do not have to isolate. It used to be that if you were double vaxxed and exposed, you do not have to isolate.
  17. I'm day 3 or 4 in and finally lost some taste and smell. The cumulative study I read stated that it appears that those who lose taste or smell later in the process gain it back quicker, so fingers crossed for that.
  18. Right, just meant serious cases or not. I'm already expecting to get it regardless. My own experience: I am about 2.5 days in from start of symptoms and I mostly feel 90-95%. I'm starting to lag here at the end of the day. I'm keeping an eye out for myocarditis or pericarditis because I'm having the occasional palpitations. I was running ~90 resting heart rate yesterday, 60 today with occasional jumps into the 80s. O2 sat never dipped below 96. No fever during the whole process, just fatigue and some body soreness. Also, sweat. Any time I sleep, I sweat like crazy and sometimes randomly sweat lightly while awake. This morning I felt like I could run 2 miles, right now I'm just trying to get the kids to bed so I can get some sleep. 2 doses Pfizer, I exercise about 4-5 times a week, eat pretty healthy. I'm glad I was vaxed because I can tell that this virus will put anyone through the works. I even got my yearly physical done just over 24 hours before the onset of symptoms. My physical was perfect, blood work perfect, didn't show any sign of anything going on. I wanted to get a test while I was there, but my doc's office said that with me being asymptomatic with full vaccination that they wanted to save the test for symptomatic people, as supplies are starting to get strained. I was good with that, but I'm glad my wife went symptomatic when she did because the grandparents would have been in town the next day.
  19. Will echo the sentiment of more in the past week than all of the prior 18 months combined. Just blazing through groups, regardless of vaccination status. All vaccinated, all mild cases.
  20. Best of luck, bud. Just take it easy and hydrate.
  21. Omicron is absolutely ripping through everyone. Thankfully it's mild, in my experience. I'm less than 24 hours in symptomatic territory and I'm already feeling about 80%.
  22. Me and my family have it, now. Holiday gathering with everyone vaxxed except for my two young kids. I was going to get boosted next week, too. Kids cleared it in less than a day and have been playing all day like nothing happened. Wife is having a tougher time, but no fever or loss of taste/smell. No fever for me or loss of taste or smell, I just feel really hungover. I had initially tested negative early in the week, zero symptoms yesterday, even had my yearly physical and blood draw that showed nothing out of the ordinary with white blood cell count. Nothing will stop omicron. It will sweep through everyone before it's done.
  23. Brand new F250 sales?
  24. We have to roll the dice on it, at this point. Other viruses in the wild (cold, flu, etc) don't seem to have taken a path that becomes overall worse. Some flu seasons are worse than others, but not to the point where they cripple society. The opportunity to stop COVID has long since passed. I don't even think we had a window of opportunity within our control to stop COVID. China has just too many people and I think the point of no return was probably before the virus even left their borders. Time to embrace the new normal and COVID outbreaks will be monitored like flu outbreaks.
  25. If we are all vaxxed, keeping hospitalization low, then we can all get it without overwhelming the Healthcare system and causing crises elsewhere in that system. We can then have running immunity. Fingers crossed that the approach doesn't create a more dangerous variant.
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