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Please feel free to shoot the breeze about anything and everything.  PLEASE refrain from using profanity, including as a quotation.

The cats: Ash is the gray guy and Shadow is the black with bow tie.  Ash is my mellow lounger while Shadow continues to be ten pounds of kitten energy in a five pound bag...  I'm just glad they get along!







Date: 2021-12-09 12:41 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] methylethyl
Aww, I had an all-gray cat like that when I was little. She used to enjoy ambushing us from around the bend in our hallway-- no ankles were safe!

Date: 2021-12-09 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
So one how is the library going?

Second. I kind of have the same idea about the fox outcomes that you have. I understand the idea that the foxed could/will have very high causaliies. That actually makes ‘ logical’ sense to me but for the life of me I can not see that as actually happening. It is just such a huge and frightening idea. What I want which is just pure fantasy is for people to come to there senses about the whole business.

Will O

Cute!

Date: 2021-12-09 07:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] prayergardens
My black cat is currently sitting in an open box of puzzle pieces on my table. Didn't choose the other half with nothing in it...went for the pieces. -kma

Date: 2021-12-09 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
So I'm recovering from the coof.

I posted about this on JMG's thread, how my husband and I both got the coof. He probably brought it home from his (masked, vaccinated) students, and gave it to me.

He got sick late last week, and developed a sinus infection that led him to go to the walk-in clinic for antibiotics. Of course they test everyone for you know what, and sure enough - positive. I started getting sick on Sunday, and did a home test Monday evening - positive.

We both felt crummy for a few days (hubby a bit worse than me), with fatigue, chills, muscle aches, low-grade fever, dry cough. About as bad as a mild flu, and we've definitely had significantly worse bouts of flu in the past. I started feeling better yesterday, and today (Thursday), I feel completely fine, save for a little lingering tiredness and a sense of smell and taste that isn't quite all the way back. Hubby is still coughing a bit, but also well on the mend. We both treated ourselves with herbal supplements, vitamins, and zinc, in addition to the antibiotics hubby needed for the sinus infection. We're both middle aged but healthy with no comorbidities, and not jabbed.

I'm sure that this virus can, like any cold or flue virus, be much worse for people who have underling age and health issues. But right now, I'm sitting here sort of dumbfounded....this is it? This was the plague that shut down the world? I had a mild flu for all of 3 days, my husband, eh, maybe you could call it a moderate flu, for a bit longer, but absolutely not even as bad as seasonal flu can be. I even attended a work meeting on Monday on Zoom and apologized for having "a bug" that caused me to blow my nose on camera and cough a bit when I talked. (I thought about telling them that I had coof, but that would have led to awkward questions and I didn't feel like discussing my medical history with a bunch of random people in a work meeting. And who knows, they might have all gotten really alarmed and tried to tell me to go to the hospital or something.)

I feel like I'm crazy. I mean, I knew intellectually that the official narrative didn't add up, but having just caught and kicked the coof with couch-rest and herbs in under four days (while still getting some work done from home), I'm kind of dumbfounded. Am I the only one who thinks the virus has no clothes? How did we get here?

Thanks for letting me vent. I'm surrounded by a lot of PMC true believers - and even my working-class associates seem spooked by the whole thing. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the crazy one.

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Date: 2021-12-10 02:58 pm (UTC)
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It can go up and down over the course of a week, so please keep us all updated about how you are feeling over the coming days. The weird part is that the long term symptoms people complain of aren't necessarily related to the severity of the initial infection (or related to much else).

But you're right, the vast majority of people recover. The "99.9% survival rate" makes a lot more sense to you now, doesn't it?

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Date: 2021-12-10 11:39 am (UTC)
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That's a happy cat there. Make him the happiest cat and take a picture of him in front of a warm fire. Nothing says happy like a napping cat in front of something warm.

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die hards

Date: 2021-12-10 02:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lp9
My boss (hopefully soon-to-be former boss; getting all my ducks in a row) is a hardcore believer. We have fox mandates at work and are required to wear an N95 mask at all work functions, both inside and out, with a cloth mask over the N95. Many of us still work remotely, but my boss happened to be in the office yesterday as were a number of other people. I had a Zoom meeting with her--she was in her office and I was at home. She closed the steel door to her private office and then got on the video call with me... wearing THIS the entire time we were on the video call: https://envomask.com/ !!! She is, of course, double foxxed and boosted. Does she think she is going to get covid from air particles floating around in her private office behind a steel door?!? It's total insanity.

I really appreciate the C.S. Lewis quote floating around about the tyranny of good intentions. She truly believes her actions are keeping her staff and everyone we serve safe.

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Date: 2021-12-10 10:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ari_ormstunga
It blows my mind that there are people like this walking around outside of asylums. We've more or less gone back to "normal" in my neck of the woods, although there is a lot of covid going around at the moment. Everyone seems to be coming to the realization that it's going to happen every year. Even the vaxxed in my life have acknowledged that the vaccines don't do anything to prevent the disease from spreading. It is a common opinion at my workplace that the vaccines are intended to kill people to "thin the herd". I'm not convinced of that but I don't argue with them about it; I want all the allies I can get, even if our opinions don't jive 100%.

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Date: 2021-12-11 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Whew, that envomask is for a zombie movie.

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Date: 2021-12-13 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I have a soon-to-be-former boss just like this!

She, too, thinks that the vax-or-test and masked-at-all-times policies for staff and the people we serve are absolutely critical to keeping everyone "safe". She and the board are all united in the same "we're in the middle of a deadly pandemic and have to strictly obey all the rules to keep everyone saaaafe - why doesn't absolutely everyone agree with us?!!" kind of thinking. They are loosing clients left right and sideways, but think it's because people don't feel sufficiently "safe" to come back, and not because, oh, I dunno, maybe people don't want to submit to medical tyranny to receive services. Go figure.

Given your "people we serve" language I'm guessing that you, too, work for either a nonprofit or a government entity?

Date: 2021-12-10 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Does anyone have any favourite tofu recipes? Always looking for new meal ideas.

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Date: 2021-12-13 09:35 pm (UTC)
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Hope I'm not too late with a recipe! This is Hot and Spicy Tofu. Press a block of extra-firm tofu, cut into squares or triangles and fry until golden. Remove from the wok or pan. Chop two bell peppers of any color, an onion, and a couple ribs of celery. Stir fry the vegetables until they are at your desired level of crispness. Throw in some frozen or canned pineapple chunks. Mix together a couple tablespoons of chili-garlic sauce, minced or grated fresh ginger and fresh garlic to taste, a tablespoon of low-sodium soy sauce and a tablespoon of rice wine vinegar, and some pineapple juice or other sweetener to taste (the original recipe called for a teaspoon of miso, but that's too much sodium for me). Return the tofu to the pan with the veggies, pour on the sauce, heat until sauce bubbles. Serve with rice or noodles. Feeds 2 people, or makes leftovers for the next day's lunch.

Date: 2021-12-11 09:37 am (UTC)
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Awwww.’

—Princess Cutekitten

advice from alben

Date: 2021-12-12 02:31 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Following up on the question of how to obtain low-cost generic antibiotics and other medicines such as IVM, they can be ordered from companies in India. IndiaMart.com is a site that connects to various distributors there who are quite eager to serve and will make follow-up contact after you browse their individual sites. Payment is done via a wire transfer that you can set up from your personal bank account, with a low fee. I have done this twice and my orders arrived undisrupted after passing through customs in NY, as I could watch via the tracking site from the India Post. I can recommend this, as long as you're not in a hurry (i.e. three to four weeks).

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https://mynorthwest.com/3269333/rantz-gov-inslee-stoops-to-new-low-says-covid-unvaccinated-are-domestic-terrorists/

Could Washington State be the first to follow the model of the worst of Europe and Australia? The governor just parroted the "Everyone will either have recovered from covid, be vaccniated, or be dead" threat that made the rounds earlier. Not aware of any other governor who has taken the rhetoric that far.

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family

Date: 2021-12-13 02:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lp9
Not sure if everyone is still chatting here, but if so I just need to vent.

My family is 100% supportive of my decision not to get vaccinated. There is no shunning, and they all came to our house for Thanksgiving and stayed here with us (including my brother and sister-in-law flying across the country). I am so grateful for that. My family, but especially my dad, lean libertarian, want the government to stay out of their business, etc., yet all have been vaccinated. Everyone except my mom has also been boosted, even though they are all healthy, relatively slim, and my siblings are only in their 30s. My parents and sister live in a red state. My brother and his wife are military. They are not Branch Covidians. I learned after Thanksgiving that my brother has had a hard time focusing recently (of course, he doesn't tie it to the booster). Then this weekend my mom told me that the reason she's hesitating about the booster--in addition to all the scary articles I send her--is that after her second shot she kept waking up at night with her heart racing. She goes on to tell me that my father's arthritis flared up immediately after his booster and that he's had a pain around his heart as well. He even tied it to the booster but so far has refused going to the doctor because he doesn't think the doctor will believe him if he says it's from the booster. I, of course, kind of freaked out and strongly, strongly encouraged my mom to take him and to request a d-dimer test. I think (hope?) he will go this week.

I know that I have to respect their choices, just as they have respected mine. I provided my rationale and they all know that I'm the "researcher" in the family. I can't, or shouldn't, harass them into taking or declining a medical procedure. But it's also hard not to feel guilty. Like, if I had sent them one more article, or argued more forcibly, maybe they would have refrained. It's such a tough situation. Ugh!

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Date: 2021-12-13 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Sorry to hear this. I sympathize, but remember that they made their own decisions on the matter and you are not responsible. I hope your parents recover and are well!

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