TimB

364 already?! Good lord, I’m on here too much...

Hey now, don’t lump me in with the other low post count people. I only jumped in when someone called your views “extremist.”

I feel validated that: 1. Someone actually knows and remembers what I’m babbling about here. and 2. There seems to be an explanation for it and not just my own suspicions. Beyond that, one daily record high was tied and one daily record warm low was broken during that stretch, both of which were far short of records for the month of September. On that basis, I’d say the NWS wouldn’t really bother with a matter so trivial. BUT, that is the warmest September monthly average on record at KPIT (69.7), though there are 10 Septembers between 1881 and 1931 with higher averages. If our temperatures were reading 2-3 degrees higher than they should have for a week, that could shave up to 0.5-0.7 degrees off the monthly average and put it behind 2015 (69.6), 2016 (69.5) and maybe even 2019 (69.1). (Side note: Good lord, have our four warmest Septembers in the KPIT era really occurred in the past 6 years?) So on the basis of that being the warmest September on record at KPIT, it might be important that the data be accurate.

Completely off-topic, but I’ve thought about it ever since the event and it popped into my mind again this morning: is there a chance that the record high of 95 from 9/4/18 (and adjacent non-record days where we got to 93 and 94) is erroneous due to a bad temp sensor or something? My recollection is KPIT was consistently running several degrees higher than KAGC on every hourly observation that week, both in mornings and afternoons, etc. (we know it’s very often the other way around), both during the heat wave itself and during the rainstorm from the hurricane remnants the following weekend - it seemed to be corrected soon after that.

Said I’d be happy with 1” and I’m happy with the actual official total of 0.8”. Low of 20 this morning falls just shy of the daily record of 17, but tomorrow’s record of 21 might be within reach.

The way I understand it, that subset of the population views masks as being mandated for “compliance” rather than for public health, and so wearing a mask “takes away their freedom.” By no means do I agree with this, and I think it’s asinine, but that’s what it seems to boil down to. The compliance thing breaks down a little when they say “masks are about compliance, not health” one day and “if George Floyd would have done what those officers told him to do, he’d be alive today” the next, so it seems like they want to be able to pick and choose when you have to comply with the government. (For the record, I would say you should comply in both situations, though non-compliance in either situation shouldn’t be punishable by death.)

The estimate seems to be around 42k for traffic deaths.

I guess the upshot of that, to me, is that if we assume the vaccine did cause those deaths, your chances of dying from the vaccine are similar to your chances that the flight you booked will crash, and that doesn’t stop most people from flying.

I’m not entirely sure it has much to do with people misunderstanding the stay at home orders as much as it has to do with anxiety, depression, boredom, etc. that was compounded by everything pandemic-related. That said, I’m slightly overweight but by no means fat. I’ve stress eaten a lot during this pandemic, but I’ve managed not to gain or lose any weight because I’m not out of the house where fast food is readily available nearly as much. It’s no more unreasonable to believe the vaccine didn’t cause it than it is to believe the vaccine did cause it, until it’s proven to be one or the other.

Don’t see these too often in April. Radar looks like heavy snow went straight over the airport. Will be interesting to see what today’s final measurement is, if anything.

This is America. What percentage of people who choose not to get the vaccine do you think are in great shape? Lol.

I’m sure we can find plenty of examples long before COVID of healthy 39 year olds who got some sort of mystery illness, went downhill, and died. No, I can’t tell you it wasn’t the vaccine that killed her. But I certainly can’t tell you it definitively was the vaccine either. And I don’t think it’s any more likely to have been the vaccine than some other reason.

I’m too far gone to get into athlete level shape at this point in my life ... I’ll take the vaccine instead.

What percentage of our population consists of professional athletes? 0.01%, if that? You can’t compare the general population to a professional athlete who survived covid with no lasting effects.

I’ll try to spend my afternoon working and not sitting on Twitter making a montage of all of the people with views on your side of the political aisle being keyboard warriors themselves, but it’s going to be tough. Keyboard warriors are prevalent on both sides of the aisle, and in no greater numbers on one side than the other.

I read an editorial recently that mentioned it. While I don’t think it’s a good idea, comparing it to segregation is a false equivalency, unless you compare the smoking sections in restaurants in the 1990s to segregation as well. To me, smoking, like not getting vaccinated, is usually a conscious decision, but being black isn’t.

Think of it as a “high risk” like a “high risk” day from the NWS Storm Prediction Center issued within the past 5 years or so.

Considering 2018 featured a very snowy April and 2020 had snow in May, you’d think people’s memories should be long enough not to be surprised when a dusting of snow falls 9 hours into April.

Seconded. Moderate snow shower, picked up a quick coating. 9am observation at the airport was also mod snow.

44.8 average temp for March. +5.2 relative to average, tied for 21st warmest all time and 7th in the KPIT era. 4 of those 7 have occurred in the past 10 years.

Even if “people who aren’t vaccinated against COVID” isn’t a protected class? I don’t think this would be an easy type of discrimination case to win, mostly on those grounds. Edit: on second thought, I imagine “religion” would probably be used as the loophole to get around that. It always is. Edit 2: I’m not bashing religion at all, I have no issue with believers. I do, however, have an issue with people who use religion as a tool to manipulate people and get what they want. The line of reasoning here would be “I can’t get vaccinated because my religion doesn’t allow it” (blatantly false for most, at least for Christians, but not disputable). “This business won’t serve me because I’m not vaccinated, so they’re discriminating against me on the basis of religion.” So we’ll have a world where businesses can refuse to serve customers because of the owner’s religious beliefs, but other businesses have to serve other customers because of the customer’s “religious beliefs”.

Make no mistake about it, I’m perfectly okay with COVID being added to the list of things that certain schools, colleges, countries, military, etc. require you to be vaccinated against.

It depends on if such things are done by the government or if businesses or industries preemptively do these things (perhaps under pressure). There’s nothing saying that if I own a business, or a restaurant, or an airline, that I can’t refuse service to unvaccinated people or put them in their own special section of my business or restaurant or airplane. Problem is, it would be stupid from a business perspective given the percentage of the population we’re talking about.

Of course it’ll be politicized, everything is. But yes, there needs to be societal pressure. I don’t have a lot of issue with businesses, particularly in the travel and hospitality industry, imposing restrictions on people who choose not to get the vaccine. I do have some qualms about the idea of vaccinated/non-vaccinated sections of restaurants like we did with smokers back in the day, simply because it would probably allow the virus to spread faster among non-vaccinated people if we herd them all into one section like that. (See, I’m not a monster.)

I’ll start with this statement, and I guarantee that percentage is a lot higher than you think. Beyond that, it’s not about shaming at all.