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Here’s a representative comment from my hometown’s school district page after they announced masking. It’s not special— it’s average. What is striking to me is the complete absence of any sort of persuasion or argument; not even anything relevant to the school or town. It’s just a regurgitation of word and names that run across the Fox News chyron. This is where we are as a nation.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

That tweet from Eric Topol is interesting.  It looks like the vaccine in Israel was very effective for 4 months, and then their case count shot up.  I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the other countries follow suit, save maybe Iceland.  He points out waning immunity as a possible factor, but I imagine the delta surge came into play as well.

You have to read the charts carefully, because most of the trace colors change between the two.  For some reason, the UK doesn't appear on the second chart, either.  "Data presentation", how does it work?

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Also, why didn’t they keep the colors for each country the same between charts?

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35 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Fuck Eric Clapton.  Never did get him but that’s beside the point, why do we need his medical advice?

I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

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3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

Counter point, all those albums are boring as fuck

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2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

It was Enoch Powell first. Van Morrison also has questionable opinions about covid, but I don't think he's gotten on stage and drunkenly ranted about England for the English.

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Eric Clapton going to be the next one to FAFA?
 



 

 

this guy really hates regulations! fuck vaccines, fuck safety requirements for fall protection. freeeeeduuuummmmmbbbbbb!

also, other than Cream, his music sucks shit. end of story. almost as bad as The Eagles, but not quite. He could at least play the guitar

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41 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:


 

 


I sent this to my cousin who is a professor at UGA. She replied:
 

Perfect metaphor for COVID. Most of us learning to get along and figure shit out. The loudest voices who want to “get back to normal” refusing to do even the smallest thing that would allow that. 
 

Here’s what should have happened:

Prof: Hi, campus police? I have a student who’s refused twice to mask.

Police: Ma’am, I’ll need your student ID. My partner and I will escort you off campus. Stuff in your dorm? Movers will ship it. Car? Pick it up at the towing facility. No, you may not re-enroll. And I’m afraid the registrar will have a permanent hold on your transcript, so don’t call to have credits transferred. It seems we made a mistake in admitting you. 

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https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/08/26/ivermectin-flying-off-jacksonville-feed-stores-shelves/

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s not unusual for customers at Standard Seed & Feed to buy ivermectin, but the owner of the Jacksonville store said Thursday he’s never seen it fly off the shelves like it has lately.

Store owner Frank Wallmeyer said he usually stocks up on the livestock medicine by buying a dozen bottles at a time. Yet ever since people have been seeking it out as a form of self-medication against COVID-19, it has exploded in popularity.

“Now we’re buying it 100 at a time,” Wallmeyer told News4Jax. “They’re using it for COVID. And it’s a horrible, horrible disease and people are desperate and they’re willing to try anything they think will work.”

 

Here's a live look at the concerned feed store owner:

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Slightly dirty, but we've filled out the screener questions on ARC to say asymptomatic in order to skip the appointment requirement. Even then, first available appt for curbside was the following day (this was last week). Neg result by the way.

They do have a telemedicine option where you can speak to an on-call doc very quickly (in order to then do a drive-up test anytime), if you pay for some e-med account on there (think it's $40 for a one-off). 

At-home test if you want to know something immediately, obv. less accurate than the PCR test ARC does. 

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4 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

Fuck Eric Clapton.  Never did get him but that’s beside the point, why do we need his medical advice?

If I've got a cover band about to play "Layla," and Eric Clapton offers to sit in, well, that's great. Other than that, I wouldn't trust the man to change a light bulb.

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12 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Our 9yo started showing some symptoms this afternoon. Called Walgreens, CVS and a few others and nobody can get her in today. ARC said it could be days. Is at home our best bet?

I would absolutely start with an at-home test.  I don't know how accurate they are relative to what can be administered elsewhere, but it's something.

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Nothing much to report on the Juco front. Staff masked up pretty solid. One class where it trends older students, solid as well. I've got a half-dozen regulars out of 15 on the roll, we spread out in an auditorium properly masked, with more than 6' of space.

The ones I have to watch are the non-fully-developed frontal-lobe kids in an intro class who were in High School yesterday. They'll cheerfully do anything I ask them to. They also won't think about the virus 5 seconds before I show up or 5 seconds after I send them off. Because the virus only enters the room when the teacher does.

I must be a good actor because instead of channeling my true Streetcar Named Desire alcoholic rage when walking in on a bunch of them chin-strapping it and yacking away, I instead calmly explain what we are doing and why we are doing it, they mask up, and I add that if they want, when we aren't in the building, they can spread out and take them off. Then we go outside (where oddly, some of the inside-unmasked become outside-masked,) have class, then I turn them loose.

And watch them go sit together in a couple of cars, together, still unmasked.

At this point I figure the hour that I have them is the one hour they are getting less exposure.

I don't like masks either, so I chill between classes on a bench out front. You'll see every variant of behavior as people walk in. I mind my own classes, unless I see something spectacular like a chin-strapper about to enter the little elevator.

In any case, it's starting to get a little more normal, where I have things like students ask me multiple times via email when a 5-minute assignment watching two videos is due.

 

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29 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I like how when Mr. Jeepers finally throws an actual punch at Middle-Aged Gray-Jacket Guy, he manages to put his own ass down on the ground.

Pos rep for reminding me of a criminally underrated SNL recurring character. 
 

 

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38 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I like how when Mr. Jeepers finally throws an actual punch at Middle-Aged Gray-Jacket Guy, he manages to put his own ass down on the ground.

I like how he and his girl are wearing coordinated outfits.  That's how you know he's really tough.

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Just now, Beau Vine said:

I have all online classes again this semester, but one guy in my department said that basically none of the students in his classes were wearing masks in class this week.

I have the Alabama mask mandate on my side. You'd best believe that some of them would try me even with it, but I just hammer that "we follow the mandate" plus "I am wearing it, so you do the same as I do," which is how we got the new recruits to fasten their chin-straps back when the Scots-Irish were called "Roman soldiers" and we were guarding that damn wall for Hadrian.

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