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jetz0r posted:WHY THE gently caress AM I GETTING JURY SUMMONS DURING A PANDEMIC jury trials should be abolished even before a pandemic but doubly so now
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:my in-laws (who are both over 70) were told by their primary doctor to just drive around and get on any wait lists they can. Of course, lmao. Guess I'll just stay in the immediate vicinity of my home for another six months. And correction, my in-laws do not have an appointment because they live in a different county than my mom and her husband. Serious shitshow.
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Speaking of legal systems, this came up in a news feed in Denmark:quote:Imprisonment in closed prisons are starting again, and rape convicts are in the front row
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jetz0r posted:WHY THE gently caress AM I GETTING JURY SUMMONS DURING A PANDEMIC lock er up
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jetz0r posted:WHY THE gently caress AM I GETTING JURY SUMMONS DURING A PANDEMIC you got hit too? lmao mine is for civil trials, so it isn't even about the public safety
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jetz0r posted:wasn't too bad to use the website to exempt myself out how did you exempt yourself out? i didn't qualify so i have to jump through some hoops
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jetz0r posted:covid is the sneak peak for global warming Not an original sentiment, but covid made it clear we're going to fail completely at addressing climate change. Our society wasn't able to deal with a much smaller and easier crisis, any hope that we might somehow collectively deal with a problem orders of magnitude harder just evaporated this past year. A real crack ping for me.
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Pingui posted:Speaking of legal systems, this came up in a news feed in Denmark: newly-convicted rapists roam free in denmark because prisons are so unsafe while people in the u.s. are getting locked up for not being able to afford rent lmao
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Judakel posted:how did you exempt yourself out? i didn't qualify so i have to jump through some hoops I have some unexpected unpaid childcare obligations coming up. No receipts required, duty was marked as ended immediately.
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https://twitter.com/ChannelNewsAsia/status/1348812213025349636?s=19 We now have an emergency in Malaysia  At least the angry coalition partner of the current gov won't force an election on us before vaccine distribution (targeted in February) but Jesus Christ Also the people who wanted an election made the incredibly weird statement that "lining up to vote is just like lining up to buy groceries" which got them so much scorn they stopped talking about it for 48 hours. Why are our officials so gd dumb
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Thoguh posted:Was it a fishtank or that guys coffee pot that was the first online Webcam? I remember both from the early 90s. They'd refresh a grainy rear end picture like once every five minutes. It was a coffee pot in the lounge of some university math building. Dude got tired of walking down three floors and the length of the building only to find some dipshit had taken the last cup without refilling the pot. Ah, academics. Never change!
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Judakel posted:you got hit too? lmao I got the standby summons thing for a week in October but was super lucky that they only called 3 jury groups a day. My number was high enough that I was like 2 groups away from the friday afternoon cutoff and didnt have to go in
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Antonymous posted:like a lot of American conceptions - the DMV is bad in LA, so writers for shows use that experience and assume it just applies broadly to wherever their show is set, and to whatever audience it is broadcast, and so then every American thinks the DMV sucks lol this is so true. I've lived in a bunch of states including broke rear end ones like Oklahoma and the only one with a lovely dmv is California. I have no idea how they work because you have these giant buildings full of people working but a slow trickle of customers being served. Which is especially weird since California is one of the few states I've lived where they don't just hand you the ID there. It's sent from Sacramento. I think also when people complain about government bureaucracy and inefficiency this is what they are thinking of despite it being some sorta bizarre CA thing
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Jan 12, 2021 03:41
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How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. How many trips to the grocery store in a month is too much? We go to Costco and buy things in bulk so that there's significantly less trips, we also have a huge chest freezer we fill with as much as we can to lengthen grocery store trips.
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. You're already doing better than 99.99% of people. As in, if you keep all of that up, your biggest concerns should be things like traffic accidents and heart disease. Covid is not that dangerous on an individual level, even in vulnerable groups. The danger has always been at the population level because it spreads so readily.
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. if you're already doing all of that and you don't miss, then you're doing well some things to think about : * don't pick up your deliveries with the delivery-person still there, to minimize contact * if you ever go on a grocery run and the grocery looks like there's too many people in it, either bail and go another time, or go somewhere else * in general, if you're anywhere and people aren't wearing masks, bail
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? i personally roll a six-sided die each morning. if it's a 1, i don't go out. if it's 2-5 i go out with a full respirator. if it's a 6 i'm immune for the day and i blow lines with the cooks at applebees
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. Isolation and coming out only to restock (with as long as possible in between) is the best measure you can take and you're already taking it, although it sounds like others in your household might not isolate as much, so you only have limited control. Washing everything that comes through your front door in soap and water is another measure that I personally take and might help remove that last 1% of risk. For us, of course, this has meant learning to cook nearly all of our own food. But there are additional measures that could compound your safety level profoundly: - Wearing a mask that is engineered to form a complete seal, unlike what almost everyone else is wearing. Think of a mask for keeping out gasses/solvents rather than merely for blocking "most" particulates. Even N95 masks leak around the sides quite a bit; you can see right down into them in the corners! You want to buy an elastomeric cartridge-based respirator, like what OSHA has been regulating in the workplace for decades rather than some home-spun solution (that the richest country in the world somehow expects of you rather than providing you anything better). Standard cartridge respirator kits cost as little as $40 on eBay, they press to your face quite firmly and form an unbroken seal using rubber or silicone. As a bonus, they have so much filter substrate that they will never clog or wear out in normal situations. You can re-use them indefinitely, which is much more economical than N95s in bulk. Strangers will occasionally react to someone wearing one of these in various ways, often to cover up their fear that they're under-protected themselves, but they're very standard industrial tools so don't worry about it. - Taking Vitamin D3 in high dosage every day with fatty meals so your body actually absorbs it (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25441954/) . Increasing numbers of independent studies are finding that vitamin D levels determine which type of COVID you wind up with if infected. For a list of those studies, follow the links in this post: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3926175&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=3433#post510732302 A publication in Nature says that COVID has 3% death rate without Vitamin D deficiency, 21% with: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z - Calling a pharmacy ASAP and requesting an MMR booster. Double check that they're using the MMR-II variety. Hopefully you're in a state where they don't ask for a reason so you don't have to know which ones are valid. You want this booster even if you already had MMR as a child. Certain immunizations change your immune system forever in a way that apparently makes all the difference, even without targeting COVID specifically. Increasing numbers of independent studies are finding that mumps vaccine blood titer levels determine precisely which type of COVID you wind up with if infected. Follow the below links for more: quote:https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/6/e02628-20 - Being foreign and having a childhood BCG vaccination. Follow the link to this recent post for some of the newest evidence that it helps: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3926175&pagenumber=3427&perpage=40#post510725241 Unlike the various new COVID vaccines, MMR/BCG are extremely well understood including in the long-term because they've been in use on nearly everyone for generations. They're also far more obtainable without running into the distribution fuckups of the new vaccines, which will not end anytime soon. - Other possible things that impact COVID prognosis that haven't been studied enough. People have brought up nicotine (which binds to ACE2 receptors) and all sorts of other potential prophylactics that don't involve a vaccine. These might exist, we just don't have the benefit of knowing yet. - Knowing what to do if you actually get infected so you can act right away and hopefully not need hospitalization (which you likely will die before receiving as hospitals get overwhelmed). Here's a post on care for early-COVID progression: facetoucher cat posted:Pulse odometer so you can monitor 02 levels, think sleeping on your stomach is still recommended, making sure you stay hydrated and are eating as well as you're able, if you have a doctor touch base with them of course, I've got a blood pressure cuff as heart issues are something else to monitor, if you've not started a health journal I'd recommend that so you have data on how your situation is progressing- sometimes remembering what happened when is difficult in the best of times. I hate saying what medication people should take but acetaminophen for the fever and famotidine for the reflux obvs not if you're sensitive to either. If your throat gets bad gargle with salt water and drink soothing stuff, cold/hot, whatever your preference is. There are breathing exercises to do that should help recovery: https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/wellness/breathing-exercises Happy Thread has issued a correction as of 04:48 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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jetz0r posted:WHY THE gently caress AM I GETTING JURY SUMMONS DURING A PANDEMIC I got out of mine in March or April or "back then" but all courts were closed due to the lockdown
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Pingui posted:Christmas mass? is that the one where everyone in the church shares a cup of lovely wine?
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Happy Thread posted:- Taking Vitamin D3 in high dosage every day with fatty meals so your body actually absorbs it. haha gently caress YES you're the man Happy Thread I'm only eating KFC for my own safety
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crepeface posted:is that the one where everyone in the church shares a cup of lovely wine? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GOLW0Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JFr.Fb9M0NPEK
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gradenko_2000 posted:haha gently caress YES you're the man Happy Thread Oh I forgot to include the link for that: Take Vitamin D with fatty meal to ensure absorption: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25441954/
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Huh, I thought the forums were dead but it is just the Awful App.
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gradenko_2000 posted:haha gently caress YES you're the man Happy Thread I'm set. Made homemade brownies with homemade special dark chocolate cream cheese frosting lightly sprinkled with kosher salt  Also my phone knows what's up 
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. i know im being safe eating at indoor restaurants because it wouldnt be open if it wasnt safe.
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Happy Thread posted:Oh I forgot to include the link for that: don't take so much Vitamin D that you give yourself kidney stones though
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bedpan posted:don't take so much Vitamin D that you give yourself kidney stones though How much is enough to give you kidney stones?
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Judakel posted:you got hit too? lmao Here in Minnesota, there is a significant backlog of civil jury trials, and, at least in the metro, good luck with a criminal jury trial. One of the biggest hurdles is getting the people in to courtrooms and dealing with social distancing. I'd give it another 3-6 months before the courts figure out a way to do make this process streamlined.
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it is also very helpful to time your shopping when the store is as empty as possible. the threat isn't places, it is the people in those places. doing grocery runs M-W-F at a time where the store is almost deserted like 8:30AM is likely safer than a single Saturday afternoon shopping trip. going to Costco is probably not the best idea, aren't those always insanely busy? if you must go grocery shopping on the weekend, I've always found Sunday morning to be the best time around here. probably because the stores can't sell any alcohol so anyone who wants to get beer or wine isn't going to be doing their shopping.
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bedpan posted:don't take so much Vitamin D that you give yourself kidney stones though Oh yeah, start drinking club soda to help you consume enough carbonates (?) to offset that (or just keep drinking soda if you still do, although now is a really lovely time to develop tooth disease)
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Boba Pearl posted:How do you know you're being safe enough? I never leave the house, and cook in 5 - 6 days of the week, but got shouted down to get delivery, take-away but I refuse to go. I always wear a mask, I wash my hands before and after touching anything from outside. I don't get groceries unless I'm already leaving the house to get my medication, basically tying the two trips together. Everyone in the house is WFH, and Mom is the one who wants take-out / delivery, so she's in charge of getting it. My wife is a Covid scientist, and gets checked every other day. Is there anything else I can do to minimize infection? Our Dad has really weak lungs, and I'm worried that the take-away / delivery food is going to kill him. We get food delivered 1-2 times a week without incident. No contact delivery, transfer food from containers to plates and liberal washing of hands. Don't do take away though, gently caress that. We've got a Chinese restaurant that gives a metric fuckton of food when you order, the value is amazing. And yeah absolutely plan ahead and minimize grocery store trips.
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Thoguh posted:How much is enough to give you kidney stones? RDA on vitamin D is 15mcg/600 IU. D is fat soluble so your body isn't as good at removing excess amounts of it. Try to avoid taking more than 200mcg of supplemental vitamin d a day. You do have to work at giving yourself kidney stones but people are doing it right now by eating handfuls of vitamin d capsules.
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Shifty Pony posted:it is also very helpful to time your shopping when the store is as empty as possible. the threat isn't places, it is the people in those places. doing grocery runs M-W-F at a time where the store is almost deserted like 8:30AM is likely safer than a single Saturday afternoon shopping trip. going to Costco is probably not the best idea, aren't those always insanely busy? if you're lucky enough to live near 24 hour groceries I've been doing my shopping during the 1am - 4am time slot and it's heavenly.
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