Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[wes4dbt]

You lost me, so I'll bite - What's the relevance?

[dilettante]

Eating grease when enduring tough conditions?

[sapator]

Worst food I've ever eaten was in the army. I mean I like omelette, with sausage cheese bacon and ham (and my favorite, a little ketchup in the mix when frying) , I was eating one in the restaurant and I've noticed some white from the ceiling falling into the large omelette making pans...I continued eating seamlessly. Of course we where vaccinated for any possible health issue....What? .... Oh the same vaccines are commonly used for over 20-30 years in the army, sorry I just saw a glimpse there for a moment...
And to prevent any waste of clicking, army is not mandate to do the covid one at the moment. Back then you could refuse to vaccinate with your own responsibility but the sht we where eating, it would not be a wise choice, unless you phoned for orders from outside of the camp every day.

[Shaggy Hiker]

OMG! Bleahhhhh! Grose. The worst food I can eat an people around me complain is boiled cauliflower, vegetable fat in a spoon? I better vaccinate before that happens. But I haven't tasted it so the bleah is just for the thought, it may well taste like candy

It does not. In fact, it tastes about the way you are imagining it tastes. However, you probably have also heard that when you are starving, things that you wouldn't normally eat can taste great, and that is true of Crisco, as well.

To put it lightly, I was pretty much a physical wreck at that point. While I could put on a pack and walk all day up and down mountains (until I ran out of calories), I was otherwise a mess. I couldn't hold my arms over my head for more than a couple seconds before I got tired. I couldn't swim at all. If I squatted down, my legs weren't strong enough for me to stand back up without using my hands. And so on.

And I'd do it again, too. I'm even thinking about doing so. I'll be better prepared, though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Worst food I've ever eaten was in the army. I mean I like omelette, with sausage cheese bacon and ham (and my favorite, a little ketchup in the mix when frying) , I was eating one in the restaurant and I've noticed some white from the ceiling falling into the large omelette making pans...I continued eating seamlessly. Of course we where vaccinated for any possible health issue....What? .... Oh the same vaccines are commonly used for over 20-30 years in the army, sorry I just saw a glimpse there for a moment...
And to prevent any waste of clicking, army is not mandate to do the covid one at the moment. Back then you could refuse to vaccinate with your own responsibility but the sht we where eating, it would not be a wise choice, unless you phoned for orders from outside of the camp every day.

The US army is requiring the COVID vaccine along with the others that are probably similar to the ones you've had. If this new malaria vaccine works, you can expect that one to be added right away, too.

Still, anything that falls from the ceiling, depending on the age of the building, is not something you can vaccinate against. If the building was the right age, that white will be lead. You can tolerate a small amount of that, especially at army age. It might also have included asbestos, in which case you may still have it with you.

[sapator]

Well I did not say that I was eating asbestos every day as from a point forth we where either get food from delivery or I was away from the recruit center on remote outposts that the food was tolerable but yeah a little asbestos was eaten, yum yum! After a couple of month I was transferred from the recruit center so the food was tolerable either on the Island I where or after that back to the mainland that I was either getting home food or delivery.
When I first arrived at the recruit center there was an outburst of a flu that ripped the entire camp. I was in bed for 15 days as I was "lucky" enough to catch it first , the others that caught it returned to the chambers as there where not enough beds in the meds and infected everyone.I remember not been able to move for days had 40 degrees fever and pain all over my body n trouble breathing. When I finally returned to my chamber they told me that they though I was dead, been missing so long!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Did you hallucinate?

I caught something brief but intense while in college. At one point, I got into my sleeping bag in my bed, because I had such chills that being under the covers in a hot room just wasn't enough. Sometime after that, I discovered that the Transformers had a base in my sleeping bag, and were coming out to fight with the bad guys (I forget what they were called). I was hiding behind my pillow to avoid being shot by accident.

A few hours after that, once the fever had subsided, I decided that had probably not actually happened.

[sapator]

I don't think I did hallucinate but maybe it did not remember it.
It was the first days in the army so I really can't explain how bad of an experience it was been there and been sick. The first few weeks where probably the worst of my life, then everything settled. In general if you don't like the army and you are forced to go to the army, is a cruel adaptation.

[TysonLPrice]

Ted Cruz has a real issue with the Muppets "Big Bird" advocating vaccines:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...-covid-vaccine

Hi should stick with Dr. Suess...Big Bird has been advocating for vaccines since 1972.

[FunkyDexter]

I ate straight Crisco one time (vegetable shortening, if that brand doesn't mean anything to you). Drank a bottle of corn oil, too.

I once did the teabag challenge... which is nowhere near as dirty as it might sound.

Anyway, I've been ill for the last week with a really horrible cough. I tested for covid and it was clean so at least it's not that but I reckon a year of isolation has left my immune system as weak as a kitten. This has absolutely levelled me. I'm going to need you all to send me spiritual chicken soup.

Ted Cruz has a real issue with the Muppets "Big Bird" advocating vaccines

It get's better than that. Wendy Rogers has accused Big Bird of being a communist

[sapator]

Teabag challenge.... Yes it sounds dirty, so you better explain.

...So there is another type of flu other than covid running around?Amazing... All in all hope you get well, you seem to catch every type of flu that circulate as a flu magnet.

[FunkyDexter]

so you better explain

Simply to eat a teabag. Much harder than it sounds.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm going to need you all to send me spiritual chicken soup.

If it means getting rid of all these ghost chickens running around this place, I'm game. Had I known that they'd come back to haunt me....

However, if you kill a ghost chicken and make chicken soup out of it, do you get plagued by meta-ghosts, or do live chickens start haunting you?

[PlausiblyDamp]

Teabag challenge.... Yes it sounds dirty, so you better explain.

...So there is another type of flu other than covid running around?Amazing... All in all hope you get well, you seem to catch every type of flu that circulate as a flu magnet.

Just a friendly reminder, Covid is not another type of flu - it is completely different. I know you love to spread this kind of misinformation but it simply isn't true.

[sapator]

You are absolutely correct. Covid is a flue.

[Niya]

Just a friendly reminder, Covid is not another type of flu - it is completely different. I know you love to spread this kind of misinformation but it simply isn't true.

Isn't Covid a cousin to things like SARS, H1N1, bird flu etc? I though they were all coronaviruses.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Isn't Covid a cousin to things like SARS, H1N1, bird flu etc? I though they were all coronaviruses.

The virus that causes Covid is actually SARS-CoV-2 and is definitely a SARS virus, like bird flu etc. What we typically call flu however is not a SARS virus and is completely unrelated, apart from similar transmission vectors.

sapator however is deliberately and constantly trying to pass Covid off as just flu (however he seems to think calling it "flue" is somehow funny rather than a blatant attempt at misinformation) to justify his rampant anti-vax stance. Which seems reasonable, after all if a virus has caused (and is still causing) millions of deaths around the world then it is a matter to be joked about. Somehow he feels adding a single letter, and occasionally "forgetting" to even do that is humorous. Go figure.

[sapator]

It's also specified as a Fluecous, The big F and Fluexeteria.
It seems reasonable to be unreasonable rather than explaining again and again to stubborn minds. It's either that or presenting clues that you constantly disregard.
And if you want to present me as a source of misinformation , it's you personally that wrote a couple of pages ago that the vaccine immunity is much better than the natural immunity (Olaf participated at this if you recall) . I let that slide but if you gonna call me of about misinformation go to a mirror and make funny faces.
If you don't like what and how I write the flue, disregard, you attempted at least in 1 out of 2 answers to me to inform me of that , I get it, stop the stubbornness it ain't working on me.

[sapator]

I would also like to add something and I'll be off as I have to go out. We where talking about other things, army, food and instead of participating in the joy , you had to isolate one sentence out of 4 pages and provoke me (by safely add "friendly" as a safety feature) . So I don't get what you want to succeed. I mean you clearly are not biased against me as you helped me in some other topics but here you are ignoring every conversation than when I say the "F" word. Is there a point in this as I tend to just disregard that same all same all but I just thought I should answer on the last one just to help this settle down.

[PlausiblyDamp]

I would also like to add something and I'll be off as I have to go out. We where talking about other things, army, food and instead of participating in the joy , you had to isolate one sentence out of 4 pages and provoke me (by safely add "friendly" as a safety feature) . So I don't get what you want to succeed. I mean you clearly are not biased against me as you helped me in some other topics but here you are ignoring every conversation than when I say the "F" word. Is there a point in this as I tend to just disregard that same all same all but I just thought I should answer on the last one just to help this settle down.

If you can't even have the decency to refer to a virus that has killed millions and left millions more with long term health issues by the correct name then I am going to disregard your opinions on the matter as your utterly dismissive attitude and blatant attempt to confuse Covid with the flu virus speak volumes about how seriously you take the threat.

[wes4dbt]

If you can't even have the decency to refer to a virus that has killed millions and left millions more with long term health issues by the correct name then I am going to disregard your opinions on the matter as your utterly dismissive attitude and blatant attempt to confuse Covid with the flu virus speak volumes about how seriously you take the threat.

I think the death toll would have to reach the billions before the childish jokes and the constant whining about the inconvenience would stop.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, if the death toll reached a bit less than 8 billion, then the whining about the inconvenience would certainly stop. At some point lower than that it would only change.

[sapator]

So by calling it the flue I'm mocking the millions of deaths? Not gonna happen.
But giving jokes that has nothing to do with mocking the deaths is disregarding them? Not gonna happen.
You choose to believe I'm mocking the deaths and that is your problem not mine.
I will continue to do what I do as
1)I have no disrespect for the dead. I lost a close relative some years ago to the flu
2)It's not again the forum regulations. It probably be against the bad jokes regulation...
3)Your general ignorance of the opposite side is also amusing so a joke for a joke.
4)You are not my mother

[wes4dbt]

Well, if the death toll reached a bit less than 8 billion, then the whining about the inconvenience would certainly stop. At some point lower than that it would only change.

True

We had a governor recall election this year. A good friend was excited because he really dislikes the governor, the recall failed but my thought was if it had succeeded the only thing I would notice is their is a different group of people complaining. lol

[TysonLPrice]

True

We had a governor recall election this year. A good friend was excited because he really dislikes the governor, the recall failed but my thought was if it had succeeded the only thing I would notice is their is a different group of people complaining. lol

I like that...I'm going to use it

[Shaggy Hiker]

True

We had a governor recall election this year. A good friend was excited because he really dislikes the governor, the recall failed but my thought was if it had succeeded the only thing I would notice is their is a different group of people complaining. lol

That's a point that people tend to overlook. You only really notice changes when you get somebody so disasterous that things just fall apart suddenly. They never 'build up' suddenly, but falling apart is so much easier to do rapidly. As long as you get somebody committed to not taking the wheels off while in motion, the actual changes to direction they make is not going to be great.

[dilettante]

What was that song Spock sang back in that 1960s Star Trek episode?

Something about "Bitter Dregs?"

[Shaggy Hiker]

Got the booster, yesterday. I'll be visiting some folks over the next few weeks, and wanted to be as safe as I could be. The only impact was a slightly sore shoulder, but less so than the second dose. On the one hand, I do feel that a third dose in the developed world is not the right thing to do when so many don't have the vaccine at all, but on the other hand...it's already there. Once the decision was made to stock the doses, that ship has sailed.

[TysonLPrice]

Got the booster, yesterday. I'll be visiting some folks over the next few weeks, and wanted to be as safe as I could be. The only impact was a slightly sore shoulder, but less so than the second dose. On the one hand, I do feel that a third dose in the developed world is not the right thing to do when so many don't have the vaccine at all, but on the other hand...it's already there. Once the decision was made to stock the doses, that ship has sailed.

I'm a bit of a hypocrite because I didn't get a flu shot for years. Now I've had two Corvids and the booster. I got my flu shot about a week ago.

[dilettante]

I thought the view of employers relieved to be able to treat vaccination as a legal "sorting hat" for offloading problem employees was interesting. Not necessarily the right thing or the best thing, but a real thing.

People worry about personal privacy without any idea how closely Ferenginoid "Hoo-Mann Resources" organizations track them over very long periods of time and mark down judgements. These "permanent records" transcend changes in bureaucratic administration and company ownership. They are all about fealty, no matter the master.

[sapator]

https://www.zougla.gr/assets/images/3141015.jpg

[Shaggy Hiker]

I thought the view of employers relieved to be able to treat vaccination as a legal "sorting hat" for offloading problem employees was interesting. Not necessarily the right thing or the best thing, but a real thing.

People worry about personal privacy without any idea how closely Ferenginoid "Hoo-Mann Resources" organizations track them over very long periods of time and mark down judgements. These "permanent records" transcend changes in bureaucratic administration and company ownership. They are all about fealty, no matter the master.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty fascinating. I don't think it applies to ALL industries. I would guess that some service industries take anybody who is breathing, these days, but for any other job, the really ideal point is that the company isn't doing the sorting, the employee is. That's a win-win for the employer.

[TysonLPrice]

I thought the view of employers relieved to be able to treat vaccination as a legal "sorting hat" for offloading problem employees was interesting. Not necessarily the right thing or the best thing, but a real thing.

People worry about personal privacy without any idea how closely Ferenginoid "Hoo-Mann Resources" organizations track them over very long periods of time and mark down judgements. These "permanent records" transcend changes in bureaucratic administration and company ownership. They are all about fealty, no matter the master.

Is that like things going on your "permanent record" in high school

[TysonLPrice]

It speaks for itself and his followers

Trump Says Virus Was Part of Plan to Rig Election

Former President Donald Trump did a truly crazy interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in which he rolled out a new — and false — explanation for why he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Said Trump: “We know what happened… they basically used COVID-19 or the China virus to rig the election, and it’s a shame.”

:https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/17...-rig-election/

[sapator]

From my understanding what he implies is that since people was locked at home they could not have a psychical presence to the elections so the electronic votes were easier to be "manipulated" .
If it's true or not I don't know but I think that is what he said, he just did not elaborate so it gave justice to other conclusions.

[dilettante]

When you keep your hair soaked in gasoline it doesn't take much of a spark.

[TysonLPrice]

From my understanding what he implies is that since people was locked at home they could not have a psychical presence to the elections so the electronic votes were easier to be "manipulated" .
If it's true or not I don't know but I think that is what he said, he just did not elaborate so it gave justice to other conclusions.

If it's true or not I don't know

Awww come on

He also said it was a democratic hoax...
The pandemic would be over April of 2020...
The pandemic would be over on election day Nov. 2020...

[wes4dbt]

As long as there's enough people that want to believe the election fraud lie, Trump will continue to spread it. That's no surprise.
And Lindell has been a slime ball for years. https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2...est-my-pillow/

Just a couple of rich con men doing what they do best. It's amazing how much money you can make if you are morally bankrupt. lol

[sapator]

I did not say I believe or not believe, I just said what I think he meant. No need to get jumpy.
I'm out of the dance in US so if you ask me my opinion and only my opinion I would say that Sleepy is just a pawn and Orange, although with some ridiculous decisions was at least trying to bypass the deep US decision making centers. As I've said that is just my opinion and if you want another one, Trump was pro Turkey so it was against our best interests in the region but he was protecting US interests a lot more than Biden. So that's my... 16 cents :P , from an outside observer and to be clear I could not care less about the politics in US so I'm not pro or cons biased against one or another.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Trump was pro Turkey because he never met an autocrat he didn't like. That's nothing new, of course. If you follow his whole life, it's been about appearing to be, and also therefore worshipping, strong men. They didn't have to be nice. In fact, it was a bit better if they weren't. It's also why he eventually shafted anybody who did anything for him.

I was a bit sorry about that pillow guy. Pillows are interesting. Such a simple thing, but so terribly complicated at the same time. Everybody appears to have a preference, some more strongly held than others. I don't have much of a preference, so I've looked around at a variety of different pillows over the years to try to figure out what works best for me. What I'm currently using would likely be classified as, "really weird". Not exactly soft or hard, somewhat flat, and totally lumpy. For that reason, I feel that I could do better, but since I don't really know what I like, it's hard to evaluate pillows. I didn't know anything about that guy's politics, but I found plenty to dislike about the pillows.