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  1. I would have liked this too; liked seeing how many had stopped by, but was not able to get on much in the last week. However - I did love this year's event. I didn't go collecting, but I did enjoy spending a couple of evenings sitting at my video store chatting with those who popped by hunting.
  2. Big thanks to the two that reached out to me and helped me snag a houseboat!
  3. Whens the last time anyone's seen a houseboat available? Let go of my Trad looking for a change.
  4. I guess it turns out that gachas were holding everything together all of these years /s
  5. If seatbelts were just now being invented they would 100% quickly become a partisan political issue.
  6. Health officials in Los Angeles County now strongly recommend that people wear masks indoors in public places — regardless of their vaccination status — to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus. The move comes two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom reopened California and lifted the statewide mask mandate. The LA County recommendation — which is not a mandate — in the nation’s most populous county does not match what the state government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say, which is that vaccinated people in certain public indoor settings do not need to be masked. Unvaccinated people are supposed to wear masks in public. The World Health Organization, however, is urging vaccinated people to wear masks as cases of the delta variant spike worldwide, which was first identified in India. Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday. More than 95% of COVID-19 cases in the U.K. are of the delta variant. The LA County public health department suggested that people wear masks when inside grocery or retail stores, as well as theaters and family entertainment centers and workplaces when people’s vaccination statuses are not known. https://apnews.com/article/ca-state-wire-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-health-a31f86698c338572cf0cff81c843293a
  7. David Foster Wallace said "There's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred."
  8. Re: the bolded part- I'd like to quote the news article I posted the other day about what's been going on in my state lately: These patients are also younger than earlier in the pandemic — 60% to 65% of those in the ICU over the weekend at Mercy [Hospital] were under 40, according to Frederick, who noted that younger adults are much less likely to be vaccinated — and some are pregnant. So it's definitely not just "the older and the vulnerable" who need to be getting vaccinated, it's everyone that can... especially when, ut-oh, people not getting vaccinated are also causing these new Covid variants to spread: Lagging rates — especially among young adults — are becoming an increasing source of concern elsewhere around the country, as is the delta variant. The mutant version now accounts more than 20% of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S., doubling in just two weeks, the CDC said Tuesday. It is responsible for half of new cases across a swath that includes Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. “The delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. He said there is a “real danger” of local surges like the one in Missouri in places with deep vaccine resistance. To help counter the threat, administration officials are stepping up efforts to vaccinate Americans ages 18 to 26, who have proved least likely to get the shot when it’s available to them. and later in the article: As immunizations slow, the delta variant has become the predominant form of the virus in the region. Aaron Schekorra, a spokesman for the Springfield-Greene County Health Department, said it makes up 93% of the random sample of cases that the county is sending for analysis, up from 70% three weeks ago. He said that unvaccinated people gathering for graduation celebrations and Memorial Day festivities also fueled the spread of the virus. The events came just as the community lifted its mask mandate. “My concern,” he said, “would be that this is a preview of what is to come in other parts of the country that don’t have higher vaccination rates.” https://apnews.com/article/mo-state-wire-michael-brown-coronavirus-pandemic-health-89fa995c59397228d8d56e1ab45890ab
  9. Would hate to be an immunocompromised person who is unable to get the vaccine having to go to the hospital for an unrelated reason and then get Covid from a nurse of all people who refused to get vaccinated.
  10. Not great news out of my state the other day. https://apnews.com/article/mo-state-wire-michael-brown-coronavirus-pandemic-health-89fa995c59397228d8d56e1ab45890ab
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