Jonger

14 hours ago, Hoosier said:

By the way, here is the link for anyone who is interested.  I hear they are short on conservative posters.

http://www.americanpol.com

Seems to be a problem with moderation. I wonder if any of them are sensitive souls. Bad words make people sad.

3 hours ago, DotRat_Wx said:

It's a disease that killed half a million people.

Every variant will be concerning for the foreseeable future

And the vaccine won't change any of that. They're going to keep coming one after another. Remember the "flu" and "colds". How many of those colds were cornaviruses? Might as well try to lockup the boogeyman so small children can stop worrying about him too.

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

It's indoor cold/flu season in the south. They have a spike every summer. People from the south have chimed in on these threads to tell you chowderheads that but you don't listen.

It's amazing how badly some people want this to never end. 

Smoke? 

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

110 Grill makes good Moscow Mules

That's my girlfriend's favorite drink. She adds a splash of pineapple juice though. 

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

We need to put the vaccinated into camps so you guys don’t spread the virus or fall prey to ADE from a variant. It’s the only way out of this pandemic. 

Execute the unvaccinated and then burn their bodies to reduce exposure to everyone else. 

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

Hate to say I told you so:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/30/health/vaccination-alone-variants-study/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
 

Time to wake up and stop blaming the unvaccinated. Vaccinating everyone forever is not happening dummies. 

I take steps everyday to avoid risks too great to ignore. This...this one, just doesn't stack up. The virus kills obese, elderly and other folks with one foot in the grave. We're trying to chase a common cold. It never worked previously, it's not going to work this time either. 

3 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Unless Delta lacks this profound effect on taste/smell, that would be the telltale between covid and cold.  The latter affects those senses somewhat due to plugged nose/sinuses but no one I know has had one that came anywhere close to total taste/smell loss.  My "summer" cold undoubtedly came from an all-day indoor meeting, masks on except for meals, on June 8.  On 6/10 I had a wicked sore throat, next day a deep chest cough and congestion, and day 3 a loud hacking dry cough.  By day 4 I was feeling pretty good but started into the 4-5 weeks of more frequent than usual dry cough that follows all my colds.  That meeting was the first such even I'd attended since early March of 2020 - no coincidence.

I'm really hoping that more and more office work can shift to remote permanently. Between the advantages of reducing carbon emissions, less office buildings being needed and traffic.... these changes help out everyone. Let the people who have to drive to a physical location do so without being bogged down with traffic originating from people who don't need to be contributing to the congestion.

22 minutes ago, weathafella said:

BMI can be really flawed.  Many fit and low fat athletes would come in as obese.

Right. I have added substantial muscle mass to my body and find that BMI calculators are useless for me. 

I was 270 lbs. @ 6' 5" in 2015

I'm now 250 lbs. with about 25 lbs of more muscle.

Run this:

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

If you come in with a BMI over 30 your in danger

Anything under 25 and the chance of complications are probably close to winning the lottery.

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

So young and full of life, as he wheezed and coughed after climbing up three steps.

I was that guy once. If I got COVID in 2015 I bet it would be fatal.

I saw an article where a 39 year old died.

His nickname was "Big Mike"

Unbelievable how linked this is with obesity.

https://www.nbc12.com/2021/07/30/i-should-have-gotten-damn-vaccine-father-5-dies-covid-age-39/

40 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

A couple of my vaccinated friends are sick and they are all doing the same thing, making up other mysterious illnesses and ailments to explain away their COVID symptoms. Is this some vaxxed-person coping mechanism? It's a good thing if you get mild COVID and recover easily. Why be scared of that?

I felt like crap for a couple days last week and immediately assumed it was delta COVID since it seemed to fit the pattern. It's just not a big deal.

Virtually everyone I know who tested positive for COVID had a runny nose and a week of no taste or smell. They described it as a cold, but with a week long lack of those two senses. A big meh for the most part.

3 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/florida-leads-us-covid-19-cases-hospitalizations-surge

Florida is a mess with hospitilizations 

Makes sense given the demographics. 

49 minutes ago, Powerball said:

Oh boy...

CDC to reverse indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people should wear them indoors in Covid hot spots

A lot of people realizing that they're mortal and are struggling to accept it. You get sick anytime after 80...you might be a goner.

Covid101....along side every other infection 

California needs to perfect a carbon neutral desalination system before anymore growth is allowed. It's a dry climate today, it was a dry climate 200 years ago. 

25 minutes ago, UMB WX said:

It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle now. Hilarious watching them try though when its their voting base shrinking. maybe the lunatics can be led to believe that Trump has taken and created an entirely different vaccine for them to take.

Do you realize how few people die from this who don't have one foot in the grave already?

1 hour ago, TimB84 said:

We wouldn’t be as deep into the learn to live with it stage if people would have just gotten one or two little shots. Exactly what I said all along in the covid thread, and exactly why people like me are frustrated. Delete this post if you believe you must, but that’s how I feel and that’s how a lot of people I know feel.

There's zero risk to this demographic anyhow. Oh, before you mention kids spreading the virus to other more health sensitive populations, that's generally how all diseases spread. What's the threshold on how many deaths are too many? At some point we have get on with things.

13 hours ago, StormfanaticInd said:

We are indeed in a fourth wave folks. Even I didn't think this would happen again. Yikes

Let it rip!

9 hours ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said:

A well known anti vaxxer in my city died from it yesterday. Sad but easily preventable. 

Age, weight, lung condition prior?

Just now, Stebo said:

You act like his post was in a vacuum. I know its impossible, but try to not play dumb for once.

Bow out.

Just a suggestion 

37 minutes ago, Stebo said:

You are the most insecure man alive, even after getting into better shape you remain insecure as ****. Oh and before you go of spouting about me, I am working towards better health myself (lost 40lb since March of last year) but unlike you I don't go flaunting it around looking for pats on the head or any other gratitude.

Do you even read other people's posts or do you skip right to mine. Besides the sarcastic shirtless selfie comment, where did I lead with a discussion on my physique? Warywarren was the one who dropped the first bomb and I told him to put up or shut up.

The dude could have $100 sent to St. Jude with a simple pic and here we are 6 hours later with nothing.

How do you say your political forum died without saying your political forum died?

17 hours ago, WaryWarren said:

Like all gym rat shit-talkers, he skips leg day religiously. He also lives in the neo-Nazi capital of the Midwest. Sad!

I'll Venmo a charity of your choice $100 if you post a pic of yourself.

Full proof will be provided.

Must include face and a reference object for height/size comparison.

19 hours ago, H2O said:

Just wanted to drop by and let @Jonger know some good personal news.

This shitplant worker is retiring tomorrow.  No more scooping turds and having coworkers heckle me while at the water cooler.  I get to enjoy something you won't.  its called a pension.  And it will pay me more in retirement than if I kept working.  And it won't be going anywhere cause the pension lasts as long as the shitplant lasts.  And given the amount of poo people you support like to generate it will be around for forever.

Here's the other thing, Captain Gorton's beer battered fish sticks, I just turned 50.  So I get to enjoy many many years of retirement.  I'll be enjoying life and you will smell like squid bait and be slinging prawns for years to come.  Hell, I might even buy some of your sashimi grade cod with my pension money.  That glorious non taxpayer funded pension money.  And my retirement fund.  And my social security supplement.  That I get monthly.  All while living diabeetus free.

Some will read this and wonder why I'm coming in here to post this.  Its because for years on another board Jonger liked to joke and make fun of my job because he's:

A) jelly

b) Jelly and I'm better looking

C) hates the idea people can work hard and retire before him

D) also hate on people who work for a place that benefits society and be an essential industry.

E) sucks at snowmobiling 

 

So he's earned this post from me.  And I keep my pension regardless of marital status

All this post over a silly pension. My pension plan includes security monitors and an app where I peek at my employees whenever I'm curious how the place is running. Pays more and the legacy costs won't bankrupt the city.

Good for you little man.