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cdestroyer
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Joined: 14 Sep 2015
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| Yes admin I know it is not a good topic and I am not going to post links. I have been reading about a covid variant that will soon overcome the US if we do not prepare now. You might all do the research on the net to learn more! Forget the naysayers, protect yourself! |
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Chief Joseph
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Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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Hopefully as more people become vaccinated we will slowly get it under control, that is if the vaccines actually work on the mutated strains. It has been about 1 year so far, if history repeats itself, then we probably have about another year to go, but hopefully with much less restrictions. Weird how this came about nearly exactly 100 years after the 1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic.
"The influenza pandemic of 1918–19, also called the Spanish flu, lasted between one and two years. The pandemic occurred in three waves, though not simultaneously around the globe. In the Northern Hemisphere, the first wave originated in the spring of 1918, during World War I.".
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Cyclopath
Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012
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Location: Seattle
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Everybody please use good judgement. We're going to start seeing the unit at the end of the tunnel soon.
Once we beat this every one of you is going to have to hug every person you see for the next year to make up for lost time. I hope hugs aren't controversial. |
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neek
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Joined: 12 Sep 2011
Posts: 1458 | TRs
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Cyclopath wrote: |
| I hope hugs aren't controversial. |
That's not what they told us in sensitivity training at work... |
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Backpacker Joe
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Joined: 16 Dec 2001
Posts: 23622 | TRs
Location: Cle Elum
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5000iu of D3 and zinc daily will give my a very good chance of avoiding it.
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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moonspots
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Joined: 03 Feb 2007
Posts: 2359 | TRs
Location: North Dakota
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| neek wrote: |
| Cyclopath wrote: |
| I hope hugs aren't controversial. |
That's not what they told us in sensitivity training at work... |
  Generally, I think those "sensitivity training" session organizers need to go pound sand!
Anyway, that's been my experience....
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moonspots
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Joined: 03 Feb 2007
Posts: 2359 | TRs
Location: North Dakota
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| Backpacker Joe wrote: |
| 5000iu of D3 and zinc daily will give my a very good chance of avoiding it. |
Yeah, that's what wife and I have been doing. That and we stay away from excessive people exposure.
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Chief Joseph
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Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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| moonspots wrote: |
| Backpacker Joe wrote: |
| 5000iu of D3 and zinc daily will give my a very good chance of avoiding it. |
Yeah, that's what wife and I have been doing. That and we stay away from excessive people exposure. |
I have been doing that my entire life, starting by growing up on a farm in North Dakota.
My life has barely changed because of the pandemic, the main thing I miss is playing poker, and even then have played about every other month with close friends.
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rocknclimb
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Joined: 10 Sep 2010
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Location: Wenatchee Valley
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1 year later.......
Nothing has really changed for me. Still working the same 50 hour a week job w/ the same people (nobody has worn a mask). Found a couple watering holes that secretly stayed open during the shutdown, and was able to continue having drinks and socialize at said locations. Enjoyed a nice gathering w/ my family for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. Even been traveling out of state frequently continuing to hike & climb as much as possible.
Still doing just fine.
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Randito
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Joined: 27 Jul 2008
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Location: Bellevue at the moment.
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A couple of friends whose parents were residents of assisted living facilities have had said parents become infected with COVID-19 and died. One in Rhode Island and the other in California.
My neighbors across the street were infected last February during a trip to Hawaii. The woman was asymptomatic, the man has a high fever and felt like crap for a week, but is OK now. When they recently got their 1st Moderna shot, she had little reaction, but he took two days lazing on the couch after before feeling normal. |
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moonspots
Happy Curmudgeon
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
Posts: 2359 | TRs
Location: North Dakota
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| rocknclimb wrote: |
1 year later.......
Nothing has really changed for me. Still working the same 50 hour a week job w/ the same people (nobody has worn a mask). Found a couple watering holes that secretly stayed open during the shutdown, and was able to continue having drinks and socialize at said locations Enjoyed a nice gathering w/ my family for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. Even been traveling out of state frequently continuing to hike & climb as much as possible.
Still doing just fine. |
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Anne Elk
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Joined: 07 Sep 2018
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Location: Seattle
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| neek wrote: |
| Cyclopath wrote: |
| I hope hugs aren't controversial. |
That's not what they told us in sensitivity training at work... |
A very well-behaved but cynical marine engineer I used to work with used to refer to those trainings as "charm school". 
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neek
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Joined: 12 Sep 2011
Posts: 1458 | TRs
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Backpacker Joe wrote: |
| 5000iu of D3 and zinc daily will give my a very good chance of avoiding it. |
Yep. We can't make D3 ourselves here in the northwest in winter, even when it's sunny. Also the good old health trifecta of diet, exercise, and sleep. Anyone who hasn't realized by now how harmful the "Standard American Diet" is... |
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Riverside Laker
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Joined: 12 Jan 2004
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| Two covid deaths in our family. One from a card game. |
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Cyclopath
Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012
Posts: 4810 | TRs
Location: Seattle
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 It's got what plants crave |
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