TauntonBlizzard2013

Why are we halting shots over a handful of significant side effects?

That’s not what I was inferring, if it came off that way. Basically; are the powers that be going to use the continued rise or spikes here and there because there isn’t enough vaccination to continue wit go lockdowns and mask mandates. People who don’t want the vaccine obviously aren’t too concerned about all that stuff

I’ve grown pretty pessimistic on this in the last like 10-14 days. I’m concerned we aren’t going to get away from cases numbers and positives and mass testing. i mean we have school districts down here that return a few positives and they immediately transition to remote for a week or two. This is after prioritizing teachers and school staff for vaccines. So if you aren’t going to change how you operate after the vaccines, what are we really doing?

Everyone is going to have the chance to get the vaccine here in the coming months. My deal is... for those who don’t get it, should we be locking down again when cases rise or spike again because enough people didn’t get the vaccine? What kind of message does that send? The appetite of people who have received the vaccine to continue on the lockdown hamster wheel is going to be very low

I don’t think they did..... they are in the ground... they’ve been in for a week now. It was like upper 20s from what I have on my station. The tops are really black... the bottoms not as black... but I just watered them and they were dropping leaves like crazy

So I planted my soft touch holly and pencil holly last Saturday.... we had a couple of freezing nights this week and I checked them today and they are all black and losing their leaves. I’m stunned. Could a frost really have done that to them? They are hardy down to like -20. And will they come back or are they toast?

It’s a bit concerning we aren’t seeing the downward movement at a fast clip with vaccinations.

So here’s a question... when do you stop mass testing for this? Because you can still get it after vaccination. You could probably keep running on this hamster wheel indefinitely if you wanted too

Icon is a solid half in Plus for most of SNE for Sunday into Monday

Health care/ Heath insurance costs is another area that is going to burst in the near future I think. Untenable in the long term with the current price structure. My employer pays 75% and I pay 25%... between dental and health for just my wife and I... that’s costing me about $350 a pay period (bi weekly). That cost is rising literally every year without fail by 30 or 40 dollars on my end. A coworker of mine jumped ship to a job that paid about 10k less a year in November, but they paid 100% of the health insurance costs. The crazy thing is, is he made a good financial decision.

Rainy Sunday on the gfs and cmc

It’s everyone’s individual decision, but let’s not pretend vaccine is a lot more scary than having COVID. Having had covid and now the vaccine, I’m a lot more concerned with the long term effects covid could have on my heart and lungs than a vaccine.

Yeah, lol.... a huge part. Like the numbers wouldn’t be achievable for a long time if at all without it

It’s literally no different than the potential long term side effects of covid. I find it kind of bizarre that people are petrified of the potential long term effects of the vaccine, but not of actually having COVID.

I mean, it doesn’t get more millennial than me, I just turned 27. Ive ended up in blue collar work (nothing wrong with that), and acquired licenses and certifications that make me a decent wage. The problem is, is I’ve pretty much maxed out, and this isn’t whT I want to be doing long term. I have a bachelors degree in criminal justice. I’ve applied to hundreds of CJ type jobs since graduating in 2016... and received a handful of interviews. It is absolutely impossible to break into the field. I had to pivot to what I’m doing now. Im aware that my long term prospects in what I’m doing now probably aren’t great, but it’s been like banging my head against the wall even trying to get a foot in the door to what I really want to do.

Any employee should show zero long term loyalty to an employer in almost all cases. As soon as it becomes convenient, a company won’t hesitate to drop you like a rock, especially if it can save them a dime. Ask a lot of boomers how that whole loyalty thing has gone over the last 5 or 10 years. My neighbor worked for the same company for over 30 years. Couple years ago, end of the day on a Friday, they laid him off, that was it. 30 years... laid off on a Friday afternoon, no notice, nothing. The double standard of employer and employee loyalty in the American workforce is absolutely outrageous. The employee is supposed to give at least two weeks notice, preferably longer, while the employer can kick your ass out the door with not notice and that’s it. At the end of the day, I have to do what’s best for me. I know if my employer could find a way to axe everyone tomorrow, they would.

Work from home will stop the minute there is a whole scale reduction in productivity across the board. My buddy does accounting/tax work and he figured he’d be work from home pretty much from now on. The place he works for is bringing people back starting next month a few days a week, and plans to have everyone back full time by the summer. Most people just move their mouse every 15 minutes to remain “active” and I guess that wasn’t cutting it.

People don’t want to relinquish the work from home stuff, that’s at least part of it. Teachers unions, especially the larger ones, continue to spin the wheel of reasons why teachers can’t go back, citing variants and all that stuff. If you’re vaccinated and still don’t want to return to classrooms, why is that? Is it safety? Or is it teaching from home on zoom is a good gig, despite everyone trying to tell us it’s harder.

I still wouldn’t write off a pretty crappy day Sunday. Could be pretty wet

Yeah... I think an unfortunate outcome from what has transpired over the last 14 months is the hardest lockdowns and most strict guidelines didn’t have a tremendous positive affect at the end of the day. I mean, mass has been 10x more strict than a place like Florida, and it’s not like we’ve been doing worlds better.

When I booked for my wife and I at CVS... it told me during booking that we would be receiving the Moderna shot, so there were no surprises. I guess if you can find somewhere that tells up front what will be given, then you could theoretically choose. Mass is supposed to be getting 100k single dose Johnson and Johnson shots this week, so my guess is that one will start to become more available in the coming days.

Colleges starting to come out saying students will need to be vaccinated to return in the fall.

Looks like rain back in the forecast for Sunday now

Yeah... my parents had a hell of a time with a porch going through that process at the first house they owned. It was close to wetlands and they gave them hell about being able to build it.... I guess because a porch and deck etc etc is basically an addition to the actual house structure, not an accessory detached building. After that experience they never pulled another permit for anything they did. Sold two houses after they did a good amount of work without permits and it was never an issue.

Thanks, I have a couple months to sit on it. The only reason I’m hesitant is because I’d be asking for a variance to place the shed basically on my rear property line. As I believe it was mreaves who pointed out, my yard is in fact odd shaped, the rear line runs on an angle, so basically anywhere I put it out back, one corner of the shed is going to be close to the property line, unless I angle the shed to face in a totally different direction from my house, which would look kind of ridiculous. It won’t be permanent... 120 square feet and I believe it will sit on blocks... so yes, if it had to be, I think it could be dragged a few feet in some direction.