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Bevo in VA

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  1. Beating Washington in the 4s is going to be tough tomorrow.  As long as we can hold on to second there and take the 2 - 8s, we'll be golden.

  2. 2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    FYI, the test is 24 hours before departure.

    I was recently doing similar math between testing when I land in the UK and having to test 48 hours before for France.  Fortunately, it is 48 hours before departure and not 48 hours before arrival, so I can thread that needle provided shit doesn't go sideways and everything shuts down in the interim.

     

    1 hour ago, lemonlime said:

    I thought it just had to be the day before departure, and not 24 hours?  Which, well just fuck.  Besides the ridiculousness of this when omnicron's been here for awhile, I have my first international trip in 2 years next week.  Between the restrictions going, and then coming back in, with a departure at 5 am and a connection, fingers crossed.

    It's day before - not 24 hours.

    From CDC:

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    All air passengers 2 years or older with a flight departing to the US from a foreign country at or after 12:01am EST (5:01am GMT) on December 6, 2021, are required show a negative COVID-19 viral test result taken no more than 1 day before travel, or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 in the past 90 days, before they board their flight.

     

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    The 1-day period is 1 day before the flight’s departure. The Order uses a 1-day time frame instead of 24 hours to provide more flexibility to the air passenger and aircraft operator. By using a 1-day window, test acceptability does not depend on the time of the flight or the time of day that the test sample was taken.

    For example, if your flight is at 1pm on a Friday, you could board with a negative test that was taken any time on the prior Thursday.

     

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  3. 20 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    If parents want to tell schools what to teach, they should just home school their kids then.  Schools can't cater to hundreds or thousands of parents and what they want their precious little snowflakes to be taught. 

     

    This right here.  But Cletus and Jimbo down on the Va-Ky border don't understand nuance.  Throw in a little racism fearmongering (CRT) and a large part of the state is a lost cause.

     

    6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I also don't think T-Mac wins by 9.  I'd say 4-5, maybe 6, points is more likely.

     

    I hope you're right but I'm thinking it's going to be within a point or two either way.

  4. It's going to be close and I'm not going to be surprised if Youngkin pulls it out.  There's just a different vibe out there this year.  Lots of people up here in the suburbs (where Dems have been dominant of late) are still pretty angry and fired up over how the school districts have handled Covid over the last couple of years. Add in some proposed  watering down of curriculums that was being pushed earlier this year, it's just not a good situation.  I think there are going to be a good number of voters in NoVa that are upset enough with the almost entirely Dem school boards that they will take it out on McAullife.

    Youngkin has run a pretty smart campaign - staying away form Trumpy issues and focusing mainly on schools.  Little bit of crime thrown in along with eliminating the grocery tax.  McAullife really fucked up at one of the debates where he said that parents shouldn't be allowed to tell schools what to teach.  This soundbite has been all over the airwaves since and is unfortunately very effective - voters just don't get the nuance of what he was trying to say.

     

     

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  5. So I've been following everyone getting tested at Texas cares on this thread and had my mom who lives in Arlington go get tested last week.

    Backstory - she got her second Pfizer back in Feb at the Convention Center.  At the time she was raving about how the local firefighters ran such an efficient operation, quick in and out etc...  A few days after her second shot her arm was still really sore, painful to move, loss of motion...  She also was telling me that the firefighter gave her the shot pretty high up in her arm.  Her arm never fully recovered.  Doctor's couldn't really figure anything out - still limited motion after PT.  She just attributed it to "frozen shoulder". At this point she's close to getting back to normal.

    Fast forward to the Texas Cares study.  She got her results and had an antibody level of 188.  I don't think I've seen a number that low on this thread.  She took her results to her doctor today and they now think her second shot didn't make it into her muscle and that could explain the low antibody level.  Getting her a booster ASAP.

    Anyways, up to now she wasn't in any hurry to get a third shot but the Texas Cares Results have made her change her thinking on that thankfully.

  6. So for all you guys getting tested for antibodies. Are there testing locations around Arlington/Ft Worth area? My mom would like to get tested but knows nothing about this sort of thing and I live up here in VA so no idea how to go about it.

  7. 2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

     

    It's confusing because in a related NPR written article discussing the interview, they seem to imply that he was specifically referring to full approval - not to emergency use authorization.

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    Parents and caregivers may have to wait until the end of 2021 before a COVID-19 vaccine is fully approved for young children ages 5 to 11. The news comes from Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.

    Collins said both Pfizer and Moderna are still collecting trial data, trying to understand — among other things — whether young children should receive a smaller vaccine dose than what has already been approved for adults.

    Pfizer could submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration for review by the end of September, Collins said. But he added, "I've got to be honest, I don't see the approval for kids — 5 to 11 — coming much before the end of 2021."

    While full FDA approval is likely several months away, Pfizer's vaccine could be cleared for emergency use earlier, possibly in October, after the submission of its trial data.

    . I'm still holding out hope for October.

     

     

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    “I’ve got to be honest, I don’t see the approval for kids 5 to 11 coming much before the end of 2021,” NIH Director Francis Collins said. The vaccine remains available to children 12 to 15 under an emergency use authorization, or EUA. The reason, Collins said, is a matter of data. “I know a lot of people are really anxious to see this move forward,” he said, especially as children return to classrooms for the new school year.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/24/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/#link-CFOWGQO7HJCP3CM4SOLOEUTT2Q

     

    This sucks.  They really need to speed up the process to get the younger school-age kids vaxed.  Anyone out there got a hook up with a doc that is willing to give my 11 and 7 year olds doses off-label?

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  9. Just a PSA for anyone planning on going to Morgantown this year.  The WVU ticket office just put individual game tickets on sale today.  there are still plenty of WVU-Texas tickets available.  I know in years past, the DC Texas Exes have had a block of tickets as well so that may also be an option.

     

    Also - Individual game parking passes are available.  The Green lot is the closest lot to the stadium that you can buy a single game pass for.  There will lots of tailgating in this lot and it will sell out well in advance of the game.

  10. Just renewed my son's passport.  He's 10 so had to renew in person at the post office.  Appointment at USPS on June 7th.  Paid for expedited processing and priority mail return.  Status updated on line that the application was received by the passport office on June 11th.  Received an email on July 2nd saying the application was approved.  Passport showed up later that afternoon.  So in total - took a little less than 4 weeks from mailing off to receiving.

  11. How come there’s no men’s NCAA rowing?
    Mens rowing has never been an ncaa sport. Due to title 9 they made the womens an official NCAA sanctioned sport. A lot of the smaller traditional mens rowing schools have dropped it over the past few years.
  12. Very nice.  My wife was a NCAA rower for Rutgers.  I know very little about rowing but she was reliving her glory days explaining everything that was going on in the races today.  That was a great last race.

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