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My opinion of many of my fellow Americans has not recovered. On the plus side, I love wearing masks. I'm gonna keep wearing it when I'm in certain public places.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm a little less consistent than I was, but I'm doing the same. Partly for protection, partly to show solidarity with other people wearing masks who might have more serious health concerns than me, and partly because, no poo poo, it gives me a chance to accessorize. I have 4 different colors of the same mask that use the same filter inserts and I change them up to match what I'm wearing. Nice. I should do that too, but then I remember I have no fashion sense whatsoever.
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Jul 15, 2023 22:48
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One of the odd things I've noticed is people drive faster now than pre-covid. I religiously use cruise control and I used to set it 7MPH above the posted speed limit, which back then would make me generally one of the fast vehicles. But now that's too slow and tons of people pass me. So I've upped it to 10 over.
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Jul 15, 2023 22:52
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Bad Purchase posted:low tire pressure My tire pressure is good, thank you.
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Jul 15, 2023 22:59
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Anne Whateley posted:Even in NYC, open hours have generally gotten a lot shorter, and it absolutely sucks. I want to be able to go run errands or get takeout at 9, 10, 11 if I want. That’s supposed to be one of the benefits of living in the city, you know, the one that never sleeps, instead of the suburbs. Now places close at 7 or 8 and it blows NYC sleeps now???
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Jul 16, 2023 00:35
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doctorfrog posted:I do 9 over. After the ten plusses roar by, I'm still faster than the slowpokes and usually have the road to myself for a good amount of time. Both fast drivers and slow drivers tend to drive in clumps. Indeed my friend. I have a saying about that very phenomena: Maximize the gaps, blast the packs (IE moderate your speed to increase those times you are in the void; when you come upon a pack try your best to get through it ASAP)
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Jul 16, 2023 04:01
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I didn't take Covid seriously at all until the NBA went and shut down. And I wasn't even a big NBA fan then, but that was the sign for me this poo poo was serious. I immediately drove to a big grocery store and bought so much.
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Jul 16, 2023 04:32
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I was incredibly blessed. All my jobs went remote, everyone was accommodating. I did so much drugs and alcohol and got paid the same, it was amazing, like I was for the first time freed from all that work.
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Jul 16, 2023 05:12
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I am/was incredibly blessed, I could drink/do drugs/my job too.
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Jul 16, 2023 05:21
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super sweet best pal posted:We really should've mass reported those idiots to the SEC back in the day. I blame Reagan.
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Jul 16, 2023 06:45
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Brother Tadger posted:Thank god for liquor stores during the early days of the pandemic; they were the only places I could find toilet paper for sale for at least a few weeks (and finally bought a bidet attachment as a result) Man it was so surreal walking the empty aisles of the grocery store, knowing you didn't need TP and yet.....
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Jul 16, 2023 12:57
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That first time I went to the supermarket after poo poo went down -- there was an occupancy limit, so even though I went at 9 AM on a Wednesday I had to wait in a line outside (6 foot apart). And then the grocery store had direction arrows in the aisles. Which I fully agreed with and got pissed any time anyone went against them. Then coming home and washing all my groceries, my clothes, me. Just hosing off everything.
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Jul 16, 2023 13:45
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Poohs Packin posted:I feel like covid happening in the trump era was a double whammy where nobody was able to think critically. It almost became uncouth to say "I don't know what this is or how to act" even though that's how the vast majority were likely feeling. I wonder what the actual number of people who died because he was President for Covid. It's significant, I assume.
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Jul 16, 2023 14:29
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Awkward Davies posted:My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb 2021. She got her vaccine before the general populace, shortly before she started chemo. Covid was heightened for us because she was immunocompromised. She had six rounds of chemo, and then a double mastectomy and reconstruction in September of 2021. Post surgery she’s had no evidence of cancer. Congrats to your family for making it through that.
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Jul 16, 2023 15:12
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Sound off if you are still in the No Covid Crew. I'm here.
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Jul 16, 2023 16:37
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I'm gonna keep wearing a mask at the grocery store and such because I choose to.
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Jul 16, 2023 23:17
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My PCP is a mildly attractive lady and I feel she's become way more sexualized since the Pandemic. I assume that's her, not me, but I could be wrong.
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Jul 17, 2023 02:04
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Violet_Sky posted:Covid made me realize society hated disabled/sick people. Being disabled from birth I always knew the world wasn't made for me but hearing CHUDs bang on about how the disabled should die for "hogging taxpayers dollars" kinda made me unable to trust ableds. Also, hey, CHUDs, if you want me to stop "being a drain on society" then hire me! I got skills and so do many other disabled people!
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Jul 17, 2023 03:24
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emSparkly posted:drat, I must be the smartest person in the world then. Looking forward to your contributions to Callisto....
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Jul 17, 2023 06:13
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I have got my triple vaccines. I've tried and gone beyond that
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Jul 17, 2023 06:16
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Dick Fontaine posted:what the hell is going on here? Attractive Lady Doctor has become strangely more forward since the Pandemic?
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Jul 17, 2023 07:24
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MEIN RAVEN posted:From page one, but can confirm that as a mental healthcare professional for 20 years, covid made me want to leave the field. I mean, that and some other poo poo, but covid is a big Ol part of that poo poo… Yet, you remain in the trenches?
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Jul 17, 2023 15:27
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MEIN RAVEN posted:I gave notice last week and will be done with all work-related things on August 4th. Leaving something that's been part of your identity for so long isn't easy to do, but I'm doing it, so......... No doubt. What are you moving on to?
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Jul 17, 2023 17:48
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DangerDongs posted:You didn't think the Anti-Vax crowd could get any dumber, and maybe they didn't. What they did do for sure was recruit a lot more people. Remember when the President of the USA was stealing medical supplies from liberal states, and they had to go surreptitiously to get masks?
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Jul 18, 2023 04:44
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My local convenience stored used the plastic barriers they had to install to share their political opinions, which I had not known beforehand.
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Jul 18, 2023 05:00
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Ars Arcanum posted:Honestly, I don’t know if I’m ever going to unmask. Many of my jobs have been hourly with few or no sick days, and I have an inexplicably lovely immune system. Lessening chances of getting sick rules, and for ages I wished masking would become as socially acceptable as it has been for decades in other places (I’m in the US). A close friend moved to Japan and it made so much sense that if you were sick but had to go out, you were expected to mask up so as not to make others sick or end up sicker yourself. NO ONE KNEW WHO I WAS BEFORE I PUT ON THE MASK
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Jul 18, 2023 19:03
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Sentient Data posted:We are all terminally ill in one way or another, and meritocracy is an impossible fantasy. The world is a gently caress and any chance to unfuck it has been torn away, so just do what you realistically can to bring joy to others in it before the end because any other motivation is just arrogance or pride talking I love everything about this post.
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Jul 19, 2023 06:58
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Platystemon posted:It would be cool if we had prophylactic antibodies that people who got heart surgeries could get infused for protection for six months. Feel free to quote me, I've never got Covid. Or sick at this point, for years!
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Jul 19, 2023 07:07
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Everyone (not everyone, but the fast drivers) is driving 80+ in a 70. I dig it, but it's fast.
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Jul 22, 2023 01:58
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Animal-Mother posted:I've become a worse driver, personally. So... sorry. I'm one of those people. Worse like slower, or faster?
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Jul 23, 2023 00:24
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STAY RIGHT UNLESS PASSING
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Jul 23, 2023 03:29
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I used to worry local cops would give me a ticket. But no longer....
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Jul 23, 2023 04:26
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Treecko posted:I'm talking residential streets, not highways. I love to speed, but also agree 100% with this. Speed smart.
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verbal enema posted:I'm immortal Do you go out in public?
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Animal-Mother posted:We're going to have the zombie apocalypse but instead of slow or fast zombies, they'll be rear end in a top hat zombies. I've been preparing. I have a "zombie wall" no zombie will be able to overcome at first. I want to redefine zombies in the forest....
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Cowslips Warren posted:zombie movies never got the people right who believed zombies were a government conspiracy. running full tilt at them screaming I KNOW MY RIGHTS. Now that I've seen a zombie baby birth, I feel complete.
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