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Amy Pole Her posted:You’re the first person I’ve heard of who was knocked out from omicron. Tons of folks i know caught it but it was very very tame. All vaxxed tho I'd say it was about 60-40 knock out : nothing major. However, all the "nothing major" people caught it months ago. Basically just right after they got their booster. And who knows what's going to happen with long covid. I loving hate that the national narrative is "don't worry, it's mild".
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don't worry, this virus that has been constantly mutating and just became significantly more virulent is currently mild in a country where a huge percentage of people are refusing to get vaccinated
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Ornery and Hornery posted:
If this is in response to the people mentioned in the post you quoted, it’s inaccurate. But either way - seems like we’re getting tons of variants over time, so I agree with you the relaxed vibe toward Omicron is dangerous regardless of it being scientifically “weaker” (20% less hospitalizations IIRC) in terms of severe symptoms. Amy Pole Her fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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I got probably-omicron (not sequenced but during the wave) in early January, about three months after my Pfizer booster. I had minor body aches and sinus infection sx. My work partner, a healthy 29yo, caught it the next week and, having not gotten around to her booster, spent two weeks in bed with severe fatigue, shortness of breath, intractable headaches, low oxygen sats. All my boosted coworkers who caught it in this big wave had similarly minor symptoms. Anecdotal of course, but telling. Also wear a better mask than cloth, they loving do nothing. Literally. Nothing.
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Yeah, myself and the family are fortunate in that we haven't contracted it thanks to being extremely careful and continuous masking, but almost all of my friends who have recently had Covid (and probably omicron) are vaccinated and boosted, all ended up having minor symptoms and were mostly recovered within a couple of days.
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Feb 17, 2022 07:20
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my older son contracted it before the vaccine was available for his age group but fortunately was fine, now both kids are double vaxxed hasn't saved them from the stomach flu going around the school though
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Feb 17, 2022 07:26
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Amy Pole Her posted:If this is in response to the people mentioned in the post you quoted, it’s inaccurate. My language was unclear. I meant that all the people I know directly had that ratio and that timing. Yeah the variants are terrifying. Some of the medical goons were discussing how the mechanism of Omi is dangerously effective at spreading but we got lucky because the power it packed is relatively weaker. It could have easily been a super dangerous variant. I wanna move to a beach.
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Entire family got Covid 2 months before the vaccines became available, which was kind of annoying timing. Overall it was minor for everyone, kids got over it almost immediately, I had a headache and slight fever for a day or 2, then it went away and I felt fine for 5 or so days, then I lost my sense of taste and smell for maybe 3-4 days. Longest duration symptom was my wife losing her sense of taste/smell for maybe 4 weeks, and then for a month or so after it she said everything smelled like broccoli beef. An oddity is that each time she got vaccinated the broccoli beef smell came back for about a month.
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Have you caught Covid? I maybe caught COVID. I never tested positive, but a month ago I had a week where I had a ton of mucus and my throat was really scratchy. Apparently that has been a symptom for a bunch of people with Omicron. Almost everyone I know just wears a cloth mask or those thin paper mask. Very few people I know wear N95s or the equivalent. That is if they wear a mask at all.
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As someone who wore a mask for 8 to 12 hours a day every day for a decade before the pandemic, I honestly don't get the complaints against wearing them. It took like 3 minutes to go from "huh, this mask is on my face" to not noticing it at all.
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My complaint with (K)N95 masks is the bands have to really stretch out to fit around my fat head, so it doesn't take long before it's pretty uncomfortable. I wish they had more slack & had adjusters like my old cloth masks have. My favorite masks these days are my Outdoor Research face cover and my Oakley MSK3 since they can accommodate inserts.
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swickles posted:As someone who wore a mask for 8 to 12 hours a day every day for a decade before the pandemic, I honestly don't get the complaints against wearing them. It took like 3 minutes to go from "huh, this mask is on my face" to not noticing it at all. But it's slightly inconvenient kind of!
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I get the discomfort angle and I feel for people who don't like it and have to wear it all day for work. Nothing tries my patience more than some lug nut who can't be bothered to wear one for 20 loving minutes in a grocery store.
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We got KN95s a month-ish ago. The straps irritated my ears for the first week or so, but not anymore. Mine is on the entire day except when I'm eating or drinking something, and it's completely out of my mind unless it comes up in conversation. Company policy is we can have them off in our cubes, so other people have commented on me wearing mine all day as though it's some big hassle. To me if it fits well and you never have to think about it, remembering to put it on when you go do something is more of a hassle than just having it on all the time. e: Our manager was very excited to tell us we're going back to masks only required on the production floor at the end of March. We're right back to "numbers are going down, COVID's over!"
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I don't see masks at all in the wild anymore in West Texas, I basically only see them at the grocery store, and that's probably less than 15%.
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General Dog posted:I don't see masks at all in the wild anymore in West Texas, I basically only see them at the grocery store, and that's probably less than 15%. That's 14% higher than I expected for West True America
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Last episode of Peacemaker is so good holy poo poo those cameos
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Questions for the adults here that actually know about this stuff (because I don't) I reupped a pre-approval with my lender and this time she told me about an FHA loan I could get. Lower money down and I can get more money overall. She's pushing me towards the conventional loan though because there's "problems" with FHA. Is there a reason I should be scared of an FHA? Seems like a better deal. My guess is that she just gets a bigger cut from a conventional but idk. I was also talking to a realtor friend and he said the expectation is that the market soften some but if that does happen that interest rates will go up and...that seems better to me? Paying less "up front" on a 30yr mortgage that I know drat well I'm not going to live in for 30 years and pay more in interest year to year? I just feel like I'd wind up saving more in the long run by paying less on the house and more in interest for like 5-10 years or whatever. These are probably dumb questions and I'm totally ready to accept that but I'm a 38 year old child that's never owned anything before
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https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1494021798924623872 the let's go brandon sticker adds to it. someone looked it up and they have a bunch of tickets for speeding through school zones Joey Freshwater posted:Questions for the adults here that actually know about this stuff (because I don't) FHA tends to have a higher interest rate I think? Also since you're putting less down, you pay significantly more over the life of the loan I bought my house on an FHA and after nearly a decade had only paid off around $20K on my loan and that includes the periodic extra payment. A little over $100 a month was going to the principle until I refinanced, now it's way more Intruder fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Intruder posted:https://twitter.com/_elkue/status/1494021798924623872 I'm not really worried about the money down. I have the money to put down whether I do the conventional or the FHA, but for some reason the FHA gives me more of a ceiling to find something. She said I can put down 3.5% but I would likely put more like 10%-15% down. I don't know if that's a requirement for the FHA though that I put down a small amount.
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FHA doesn't require anything down IIRC, I don't think I put anything down. It's just smart to make a down payment if you can afford to do so because that's money you won't be paying interest on Of course, you could argue that you have the money invested elsewhere at a higher return than your mortgage rate  I don't know
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Intruder posted:FHA tends to have a higher interest rate I think? Also since you're putting less down, you pay significantly more over the life of the loan This is essentially accurate. Also, with an FHA you tend to wind up paying way more in mortgage insurance, and because the loan is secured by the Federal Housing Administration, you tend to make less in equity over the lifetime of the loan, which hinders future borrowing power. Intruder posted:FHA doesn't require anything down IIRC, I don't think I put anything down. At least as of 2014 / early 2015, when my ex-wife and I were looking at houses and examining our loan options, we were told for an FHA we'd need to put at least 3.5% down. Timby fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Joey Freshwater posted:Questions for the adults here that actually know about this stuff (because I don't) FHA has a lot of hoops for sellers and closing companies to jump through. No real issue with FHA outside of it not comparing well to a conventional loan. And pales compared to cash offers (in the eyes of sellers)
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Amy Pole Her posted:FHA has a lot of hoops for sellers and closing companies to jump through. No real issue with FHA outside of it not comparing well to a conventional loan. And pales compared to cash offers (in the eyes of sellers) I am talking to a guy this evening that's a friend of the family. His company does cash offers on behalf of people who have pre-approvals. They just take an interest rate of the total. So they front the money in cash and then the loan money goes to them. They don't own anything on the house, they just take a percentage that can either be paid through the mortgage or back to them direct. I think it's like .5%
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Timby posted:This is essentially accurate. Also, with an FHA you tend to wind up paying way more in mortgage insurance, and because the loan is secured by the Federal Housing Administration, you tend to make less in equity over the lifetime of the loan, which hinders future borrowing power. Are you sure it was a down payment and not closing cost?
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Intruder posted:Are you sure it was a down payment and not closing cost? Yes.
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the republican message distilled to its essence https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1494332545218928642
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I don't think Jesus should be gunning babies.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I'm not really worried about the money down. I have the money to put down whether I do the conventional or the FHA, but for some reason the FHA gives me more of a ceiling to find something. She said I can put down 3.5% but I would likely put more like 10%-15% down. I don't know if that's a requirement for the FHA though that I put down a small amount. Until your loan gets below 80% of the value of the property (i.e. 20% equity), you'll have to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI) which can be a decent chunk of change depending on the property value. If it's somewhere you plan to live for 8 to 10+ years I would recommend putting 20% down and avoiding that nonsense.
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With my last paycheck (contract ended early; the woman I was filling in for decided to come back early from her maternity leave) I dropped $45 on an electric toothbrush--nothing fancy, just a bog-standard Oral-B one at the grocery store--and holy moly, I feel like my life has changed.Tulalip Tulips posted:Today is my last day in office before I go on vacation all next week and it already feels like it's dragging. It could also be that I've got meetings all day too, only one of which is actually important. The only meetings worth going to are the ones that can't start without you. In a past life, I was the director of marketing for a marketing automation company, and one of the first rules I laid down to my staff when I started was to never schedule a meeting to discuss something that can be sussed out with a few emails or a five-minute phone call. Meetings about meetings are the goddamn worst.
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Timby posted:With my last paycheck (contract ended early; the woman I was filling in for decided to come back early from her maternity leave) I dropped $45 on an electric toothbrush--nothing fancy, just a bog-standard Oral-B one at the grocery store--and holy moly, I feel like my life has changed. Same when I switched from my old quip to a sonicare. Just night and day difference e: lol https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1494350695784407046 Intruder fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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saintonan posted:Until your loan gets below 80% of the value of the property (i.e. 20% equity), you'll have to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI) which can be a decent chunk of change depending on the property value. If it's somewhere you plan to live for 8 to 10+ years I would recommend putting 20% down and avoiding that nonsense. The default thought of "always put 20% down if you can" is usually a myth in the current market / rates. Talk to your broker, Joey, and see if they offer upfront payments for your PMI. You can also, depending on which market you're in, assume that you'll be refinancing in 3-5 years and with the rising cost of properties, likely fall under that 20% threshold. In a majority of my client's cases, it makes sense to throw down as little a down payment and use the equity elsewhere. YMMV, but it's absolutely worth running it by your broker and going through the numbers/options. Amy Pole Her fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Howdy thread just popping in to say I feel like a goddamn super soldier right now. Just had a review with my company. We just got acquired and our management team has been stripped of their managerial titles. In my first review with a new manager, I sent him fifteen Teams screenshots of the management before him actively insulting me and had said probably false things about me! Now I have a new manager a double digit percentage point raise a discretionary bonus and, most importantly, I have apparently caused the company to review the upcoming promotion my old manager was getting. Moral of the story? Don't pick a fight with a code jockey whose entire life is arguing on the internet.
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