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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!







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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.

Date: 2021-12-10 11:36 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
>how little allopaths know about the human body

Ignorance is something that eventually can be fixed through experience. What I've seen of the average front line doctor though is a certain laziness and apathy about their jobs. If you have a problem that's easy to diagnose and can be fixed quickly with a drug, they're your guys. But give them a problem that actually takes work and time to diagnose, something that can't be fixed with a piece of paper to take to the pharmacy, and you may never get a fix for your problem before you die from it. Need to run more tests. More tests. More tests. Let's try this and see if you go away. Ok, let's try this. And that.

And in some cases, they don't want to fix your problem, they want you coming back, so they can keep dinging you. There was a certain amount of distrust people held against doctors in the old days, you'd hear the epithet "quack" and then at some point, people started trusting them. I think the old people were right and that it was foolhardy to trust them so much.

Date: 2021-12-10 11:39 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
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.

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.

Date: 2021-12-10 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
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?

Date: 2021-12-10 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Indeed, follow the money is almost always the truest compass. Hoping for the best for you and yours.

Date: 2021-12-10 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
A portable propane or kerosene heater does wonders for making cats the happiest.

Date: 2021-12-10 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Some people make expeditions to Mexico where la pharmacia doesn't care about a prescription. As long as you stay away from anything that might be perceived as a recreational drug, the border guards don't really care.

I think it reasonable that people be able to write their own prescriptions for themselves and only writing a prescription for others require a license.

Re: die hards

Date: 2021-12-10 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'd say something about maybe they're not true idiots but midwits - people who are smart enough to carry out orders but not smart enough to question those orders or be able to see a bigger picture of what's happening.

The system is set up to reward such behavior out of people. Sometimes reward them well. I'd say the uni system's real purpose is to make midwits out of people. How did that intro song to Weeds go? "And they all went to the universities / And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same"?

Little houses...

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

Re: die hards

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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