Wow, Japanese hippies. Wonders never cease.
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Yeah, worried about risk to kid, not my parents. They're adults who have clearly made that choice, noting that that choice is a bad one for my dad in particular (fat, type 2 diabetic albeit with decent control now that he's gone mostly keto).
My dad's white. They met at Berkeley in the 60s. He'd eat at International House because he was a chess fiend and the best players were the foreign students. She'd eat at International House because that's where her Japanese friends ate.
One day her Japanese table was full so she had to find somewhere else to sit. She asked if she could sit across from my dad, and he grunted affirmatively. By the end of dinner he asked her out and so it went.
Wow, how did her parents take marrying a round eye? Are they US Japanese, or Japanese Japanese?
Haha. Not sure if you are saying mr glueresidue is racist or the Japnese are. The Japanese are sure as shit still racist. Less so every day, but still very much a closed isolated culture which leads to xenophobia/ racism.
My grandfather was a Mitsubishi big wig. Had spent time in the US pre-war, even. So they were open minded.
Business People; Japan's New York 'Dean' (Published 1981)
thread above and below linked tweet for the deets
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"Round eyes" is a racial epithet for a honkey
Ah. Now I see the shape of the joke.
I don’t think I’ve ever been called “round eyes.” I actually view being called “America-jin” as a deeper cut…and in many/most cases it’s meant as an insult.
Going to continue avoiding people...
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'I've had long Covid for two years now'
Why are so many people still living with long Covid after two years and are there any hopes for treatment?
www.bbc.com
This has what has scared me the most during the pandemic. Having dealt with Gout and an unbelievable restricted diet for ten years has made me want to never have to experience a long term illness again. I couldn't even eat a slice of pizza or a piece of bacon for ten fucking years. Never again.Going to continue avoiding people...
'I've had long Covid for two years now'
Why are so many people still living with long Covid after two years and are there any hopes for treatment?
The girlfriend's workplace has been struggling with covid lately. They are a small veterinary clinic and a few people are out with it, stressful to say the least.
Doesn't help that one of the donkey vets has tested positive and has tried to come to work, on the basis of "but I feel fine, I just have a runny nose". I guess being a medical professional of some sort isn't good enough for him to realize how stupid that sounds. Covid or not, who wants to work with someone that is sick?
Doesn't help that one of the donkey vets has tested positive and has tried to come to work, on the basis of "but I feel fine, I just have a runny nose". I guess being a medical professional of some sort isn't good enough for him to realize how stupid that sounds. Covid or not, who wants to work with someone that is sick?
I felt pretty forgetful for about 6 weeks after my presumed Covid infection. Feel back to normal now.
We have witnessed your cognitive decline, but everyone has been tactful enough not to mention it.
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Man in Germany gets 90 COVID-19 shots to sell forged passes
A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
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I'm fiddling with the hypothesis that I had COVID sometime between the end of January in 2019 and the end of April 2020. Hypothesis is based on the fact that my sense of taste seems not to be working correctly since the latter date, food and drink generally taste metallic.
After maskless schmoozing, DC elite hit with COVID outbreak
Several events have been linked to the outbreak as people let their guard down.
arstechnica.com
Our mask mandates lived well over a month ago, but around here people started slowly transitioning to maskless until about 90% of people are work aren't wearing one and about 50% in places like the grocery store. Case levels continued to drop until recently. Seems like we reached the tipping point of mask participation and cases have gone up over 250% in the last week.
More D and less R than I’d have guessed.After maskless schmoozing, DC elite hit with COVID outbreak
Several events have been linked to the outbreak as people let their guard down.
I'm in the cautiously optimistic group of LA residents, and starting to go mask-less in a few places. Numbers are low here for now, so I'm factoring that in.
My coffee shop is small and the interactions are brief, so I feel like this isn't a high risk zone. The gym, on the other hand, is a calculated risk. In the cardio room at off-peak hours there aren't a ton of people, and the machines keep you at a distance from others. It is a lot of breathing, but you aren't crossing paths with too many people over a 20-40 min cardio session, so I decided to take the mask off so I can push harder. In the weight room, it is a bit busier, but easier to workout with a mask on.
At the grocery store or other shopping locations, it is still mask on for me.
So my still-unvaccinated parents self-invited themselves to a concert in May that both I and my wife are performing in. I told them that they should get a hotel room (vs staying in our extra bedroom). We'll have lunch with them at a local beer hall that has outside seating. Seemed a fair compromise to me.
“Dodged” another Covid exposure. Saw a friend Sunday who started feeling unwell and tested positive yesterday. My home test says negative. Fingers crossed.
Good luck. BA.2 is a fucking David Copperfield.
The UD kind?Good luck. BA.2 is a fucking David Copperfield.
Having avoided it so far, this next week will be a risk, wife's family gathering.
That’s not what her cryptic FB posts are all about, is it?
Good luck either way!
Good luck either way!
The painfully simple reason Hong Kong saw one of the highest COVID death rates
The most vulnerable weren't vaccinated.
arstechnica.com
So many threads this could go in like zero faith, Trump etc.
But I present to you a twitter thread best read while listening to say Childish Gambino's "This is America".
As COVID-19 shut down the world in April 2020, I decided to follow the money. I began with a call to a no-name federal contractor who’d somehow landed a $35M deal for masks. Hours later, I’m on a private jet …
But I present to you a twitter thread best read while listening to say Childish Gambino's "This is America".
As COVID-19 shut down the world in April 2020, I decided to follow the money. I began with a call to a no-name federal contractor who’d somehow landed a $35M deal for masks. Hours later, I’m on a private jet …
:/
Judge: "CDC can't implement mandates because they're only allowed to enforce sanitizing things..."
www.cnn.com
Judge: "CDC can't implement mandates because they're only allowed to enforce sanitizing things..."
CDC mask mandate for travelers no longer in effect following judge's ruling, official says
A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods, and a Biden administration official says the order is no longer in effect while the ruling is reviewed.
www.cnn.com
By that judges logic I should also be able to rub my sweaty balls on airplane tray tables because making me wear pants doesn't clean my balls.:/
Judge: "CDC can't implement mandates because they're only allowed to enforce sanitizing things..."
CDC mask mandate for travelers no longer in effect following judge's ruling, official says
A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods, and a Biden administration official says the order is no longer in effect while the ruling is reviewed.
With a battle cry go forth which is:/
Judge: "CDC can't implement mandates because they're only allowed to enforce sanitizing things..."
CDC mask mandate for travelers no longer in effect following judge's ruling, official says
A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods, and a Biden administration official says the order is no longer in effect while the ruling is reviewed.
"Give the people what they want."
And what the people want could only be the senseless slaughter
Of the gutter-slime that litters this nation for cash and prizes.
Yes, this is the show where people bet their lives to win something big.
'Cause when your life is shit, then you haven't got much to lose
:/
Judge: "CDC can't implement mandates because they're only allowed to enforce sanitizing things..."
CDC mask mandate for travelers no longer in effect following judge's ruling, official says
A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods, and a Biden administration official says the order is no longer in effect while the ruling is reviewed.
not surprised...
I assume this already happens