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  1. Not to derail the the thread, but is the leading line of thought that we will need a booster every year like the flu vaccine? Or is this a 4 shot deal like polio? Or no one really knows 
    I think no one really knows yet.

    My understanding is that boosters increase antibodies, which prevents illness from ever happening.

    Those wane over time, but your body still has immune memory should you get infected. When that occurs, it still takes a while (3-5 days) for your body to remember how to make the antibodies. You can still get sick, but your body will know how to fight it and prevent the serious hospitalizations.

    If you're somebody who can't ever even get sick, boosters are probably the correct course of action. But if you don't have any co-morbidities, you should be okay with the normal dosage. Of course, time will tell on that.

    I got a lot of that from the following Atlantic article, and it was retweeted from a lot of vaccine equity docs and scientists, so there's likely some of that slant to it.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/americans-are-losing-sight-endgame/619916/



  2. I bought stones tickets for the original COTA show last year. Got a refund, but the tickets are still in my digital wallet and look like every other digital ticket I've ever used.

    Any one else had this situation and tried to use the ticket? Did it work?

    I'm thinking of it's still in my wallet on Saturday, I'm going to try it. Worst case is I drive out to COTA with their shit traffic and parking and I get turned away when it scans.

    Best case is I see them for free.

  3. 2 minutes ago, NorLa Horns said:

    i gotta say, this is the most entertaining thread on surly since the urban meyer thread. but to bring things back to reality. i have a question for our legal eagles on here, i thought precedent was pretty clear about entering someones private property and being attacked by a residents animal. especially if you know its there? sounds like the kids knew it was there and sought it out. dumb dumb stripper aside, sounds cut and dried that its on the kid and not the money, et al

    This is Surly, do you think we're chock full of lawyers of neighborhood?

     

    Because we are.

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  4. 3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    We will see an upswing 2 weeks after Thanksgiving. Mark it down.

    That would be impressive.  Our (Austin) backslide from the peak of Wave 2 hospitalizations to the start of Wave 3 was 7 months long.    The downward trend for Wave 3 started around 8/25.

    If there's a wave 4, I doubt it'll start in 2021.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    I think you’d have to look up the guy’s ass, because that’s where he pulled it from. 

    We showed up to my 10 year olds well check last year and they said he needed to get his second MMR vaccine again.  Our kids get a flu shot or flu mist every year and apparently when he got his second MMR shot at age 4-ish, the flu mist he got a few weeks prior had "invalidated" the second MMR shot.

    They only recently caught it because they had changed over to online medical records and it got flagged in the system

    Your MIL's cardiologist might be wrong, but I had a somewhat similar situation that I also thought was stupid at the time, but there might be some validity to it.

  6. Here's the verbiage from the county judge that allowed the mask mandate to get reinstated in Travis county.




    NOW THEREFORE, I, COUNTY JUDGE OF TRAVIS COUNTY, PURSUANT
    TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED BY TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 418,
    HEREBY FIND AND ORDER THAT:

    Effective as of 12:01 a.m. on August 12, 2021, and continuing until modified or
    terminated by the Travis County Judge or as otherwise indicated below:

    1. Face Coverings Required. Students, staff, and visitors over the age of two (2) are
    REQUIRED to wear a face covering while on school property or school buses during Stages 3, 4, and 5 as set forth in Austin Public Health's Risk-Based Chart attached as Exhibit A. A face
    covering is a form of covering that fits snugly over their nose and mouth, such as a commercially
    made or homemade fabric mask, scarf, bandana.

    2. This Order shall cover all public schools, including public chatter schools in Travis Co

    ...


    I'm highly skeptical they will keep to the criteria they originally laid out because "what we're doing is working!"
  7. I took my 11 year old to his first OU game yesterday.  This was my 30th. 

    Concession lines were nuts, but I had my fill of 3 ticket beer earlier.  Would've loved a working water fountain to refill my 2 ticket water bottle.

    It was hot.

    Going to the dungeon restroom was probably our best chance at catching covid in the last 19 months. 

    ... but of course I'll be back next year, because it's fucking perfect.

    (unless I die of the covid I caught in the humid ass restroom)

     

     

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