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I’m glad I’m missing this disaster. 

2 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Looks good on mobile. Clean. 

Yea, I’m just on the phone. I didn’t bring my laptop on vacation. 

4 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

where do you see badges? It reminds me of Pokemon days. 

Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.

53 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Got my one-year badge about an hour ago (joined in 2010) and "Posting Machine" just now for 500+ posts (currently a bit over 11k).  Playing awards catch-up?

What’s scooter going to get with his bazillion posts?

22 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Yeah it's subjective, but the 4th is meant to be outside, beers, food, pool, lakes, ocean, river..whatever. All with friends or family. You lose a big part of the weekend to weather, and you have businesses in major areas like Boston having a financial impact. At least with ski areas, many times those plans are already made. Likewise on the 4th with lodging...those are already made. But those businesses that depend on people and nice weather lose out on days like Friday and Saturday. Hopefully not Sunday. 

Thank god I’m in ILM until Sunday and will miss this disaster. Spend the night in BAL and back in BOS on Monday when tolerable weather returns.

21 minutes ago, tamarack said:

It's bad, though my unfavorite place to drive is Manhattan, thanks mainly to the extra-aggressive cab drivers.  Our visit to our son's (then) home in Queens about 20 years ago was a relative walk in the park, once we discovered that the north end of 96th street was that no-sign "alley" under the El.

Oh I can navigate NYC no problem. 

1 minute ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Huh

Didn't see this coming

Bill Cosby's conviction was 'vacated' ?

... "His lawyer believes he will be released today" - CNN

I was under the impression that he was damned to eternal hell as a serial rapist by the liberal press over the last five years, but ..

vacated -

Almost seems Onionian comically non-sequitur considering that saga.  Wtf momen for today I guess.  - maybe there were revelations recently in all that i wasn't paying attention to. 

It's CNN tho. They have a couple other articles there about the "opinion of the court" and all this other stuff but I'm peevish to put in nicely, about any "informaiton" that stems from that f'ing adjective torpedo launcher news org and don't feel like having to roll eyes at the moment.

He’ll be peddling puddin pops before you know it 

4 minutes ago, tamarack said:

When our daughter - and then SIL + grandkids - lived in Greenville, SC, we quickly learned to take 84/81/77 to CLT thence 85 to G'ville.  One time about 15 years ago we needed to stop in Middletown NJ to visit my FIL, so went the hard way.  Lost 30 minutes in RIC thanks to an accident, then hit bumper-to-bumper 5 miles south of the Potomac bridge, 5 PM and 500 miles traveled.  Took a full hour to reach the bridge and no better north of the span.  Thought we'd be smart and take the alternate than goes by Ft. Meade but maybe not so smart - took 2+ hours to get past BWI.  We'd learned that morning that our chosen Super 8 (we had a discount card) just across the Delaware was still unfinished so we were lodgeless on Labor Day Sunday.  Found a place in Red Bank (changed the ethic mix there) after 760 miles and 14 hours.  Not our favorite trip.

I’m convinced the DC metro/northern Virginia has sone of the worst traffic in the US. I’ve driven around LA easier.

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

Must have been at 2:30 AM. Traffic is usually much slower on 495 between 4 AM and 9 PM (that's "rush hour").

I was on 495 west last Saturday afternoon. Was pretty bad.  Took the Easy pass express lanes just past Dumfries. That helped. Spent the night just past the end of the express lanes. 
I should have taken 495 East/95 south and gone over the WW. Every time I go 495 west through Tysons Corner and McLean, I regret it.

Pretty decent cell over Brimfield

15 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Speed limit is 70 in OH/IN too.

Speed limit on the mass pike is 80. At least on my speedometer at 6:30 am weekdays 

3 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Rotating ibuprofen and Tylenol. Don't want stomach ulcer so won't do for more than a day or two. This more painful then the hernias I've had.

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You won’t get an ulcer. And it takes months of over doses to do liver damage. Take the meds!

You can rotate every 3 hours, which I assume you’re doing. You can do up to 4000 mg of acetaminophen a day and 3200 mg per day of ibuprofen. Divide each dose by 4. 
Take the meds. They aren’t addictive. 

28 minutes ago, natedizel said:

How long are you willing to edure lockdowns? 

And no not really. You can be walking on the sidewalk and get hit by a car.

I’ve decided to stop arguing or trying to change the minds of leftist  millennials. It’s pointless and aggravating. Once you come to that realization, your blood pressure will be in a much better place. 

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I would never have thought of the Dakotas but I have been watching vids about them and seeing your posts makes me consider that area

I think we’re going to do an Amtrak trip in 2-3 years through the Tetons, Yellowstone, Northern California. There’s a 14 day trip you can do where you start in Chicago and do some national park excursions. You spend a 3 overnights on the train and the other nights in a hotel.
We took a train trip from Boston to San Antonio a couple summers ago to see some family, then flew back home. Pretty cool trip. 2 overnights on the train. We had a double sleep suite.

1 minute ago, natedizel said:

Covids here to stay.... Probably forever. The horses are out the barn. Australia doing lock downs for 10 cases. They gonna have 10 cases for the next 100 yeara. Dont wanna get sick then lock yourself in a closet

Australia basically has a zero Covid policy. That’s not realistic. 
India’s numbers are way down. You think thats because of vaccinations and “public health measures” like masking? No.  It’s what respiratory virus’ do. They burn for awhile, peak out, and fall.

13 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

The United States collective response to bringing back masks.

 

Seriously, is there a worse message than get the vaccine to get back to normal, and then saying, get the vaccine and continue to follow all the same precautions. Yikes 

Just noise to try and scare/motivate more to get vaccinated. The “delta variant” is the latest scare tactic to motivate more vaccination. I saw something a couple days ago about a delta plus variant. SMH

But I dont think even the most hard core blue state governors will put a mask mandate back on. 
People are going to have to get used to the fact that there will be hot spots around the country for the foreseeable future. Deaths are down and pretty flat. Hospitals are fine. Like I’ve said before, all this widespread testing needs to end. It’s just unnecessary  at this point, IMO. 

19 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Yikes…. There will be riots in the streets 

Ain’t happening James (RIP)

16 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Would you rather have pressed your luck with said diseases or have gotten vaccine induced immunity. 

I think I'd rather get the vaccine and not chance it. 

Humans, starting with homo habilis, have been on earth for about 2 million years. Modern humans for about 200,000. The human immune system has fought off all manner of virus’. Sometimes with success, sometimes not. I suspect this little respiratory virus in the grand scheme of all of natural history is a small blip on the radar. If human survival depended on a vaccine for every little virus that we encountered, we would have been extinct a few eons ago. I think 99.999% of the unvaccinated world population that come into contact with the Wuhan laboratory flu will fare ok.

43 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Ever heard of smallpox or measles. 

You think they just died out from natural immunity.

People who have had the measles don't really need to get vaccinated for it. I had chicken pox when I was 4. Never had a vaccine. When I worked at the Brigham a few years ago, I needed to get a chicken pox titer. Through the roof. 

3 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

Europe took it seriously for awhile then didn't. You want to see actual effort to stop the virus, look at Austraila 

Congrats on being smarter than all the scientists in the world

Australia is isolated with less people on an entire continent than New England  and New York. 
At any rate, masking is over. It ain’t coming back. At least here.

Smarter than all the other scientists ? Lol   Read Fauci’s emails.

Not really interested in continuing here. We’ll never agree. Let’s move on  

1 minute ago, DotRat_Wx said:

 

You know why you think masks don't work? Because no one actually stayed home and followed precautions like other countries. 

Like they worked so well in Europe too

6 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

They don't work?

Like gang busters!

34 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

I don't know where we get an idea masks didn't work

Lol 

7 minutes ago, fujiwara79 said:

 

israel just reinstituted their mask mandate 

Good. It worked so well everywhere the last time.

22 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Missouri is bucking the national trend with covid.  They had their highest daily case number today since early February.  They are behind the national average in vaccinations, but still almost 40% of the state is fully vaxxed (that is 40% of all Missouri residents, not 40% of vaccine eligible).  Combine that with prior infections and now being in summer, it's "impressive" to see rising numbers.  The deck is stacked against it in multiple ways and it still found a way to happen.  

I don’t think anybody really gives a shyte anymore about COVID. It is what it is. It’s endemic in the population. It’ll eb and rise like any other respiratory virus. Lockdowns and masking are over. If people want a vaccine, it’s there. If they don’t get one and get sick and or die it’s on them. Some will get sick and or die that are vaxed.  Life’s full of risks but life goes on. At this point all this testing is pretty useless.