I like to make it by going to an Irish pub and ordering it along with a beer (and maybe a whiskey). I suggest you try it.

In the beginning, I think everybody was legitimately scared. Scared of the images and reports from China. Scared of the unknown. We were dealing with a cousin of SARS and MERS. Public Health was ramped up and a vaccine moonshot was launched on an ocean of money. We made mistakes. People died. But some sectors of government became too concerned with "keepin' up the skeer". Absolute power does corrupt. And depending on where it was at, some facilities became very fond of the COVID diagnosis on the chart and the extra $$ that brought. Hospitals that were struggling from procedure cancellations were depending on COVID funds for their existence. The vaccines, most of them, anyway, did work. At least partially. But by the time we got to the Delta variant, governments and public health couldn't pivot fast enough and they were incapable of transmitting more than one coherent message to the public. And then the lies, clinical malpractice and pressure to conform began. Early in the numbers coming in from Delta, they knew vaccine efficacy was going down. They also knew natural immunity was a factor in the severity of Delta, yet that data was not given to the public and was downplayed. Treatments took a backseat to vaccines, even after it became evident the vaccines would not protect against the ever-increasing number of variants. Speaking of treatments...Whether they worked or not, it's the first time I've seen physician's licenses officially threatened because of off-label use of drugs with relatively few and mild side effects. In America, we still have CDC recommending vaccination of groups with extremely low mortality rates, where it has been shown the vaccine does more harm than good. Vaccine reccomendations that Europeans have akready abandoned.I The American public was flat lied to about the origins of COVID. Anybody with a college biology class or two and a bit of common sense, knew the wet market theory was bullshit. There are other points which can be made, but the biggest take away from our mistakes is the lack of trust the people have in their health agencies right now. Trust is a precious commodity and it was foolishly wasted.

@Renauda said in New Awards Show: @George-K Saw that clip yesterday on another site. Hilarious and razor like accurate. Good for Maher. Agree

@LuFins-Dad said in How is it: A toddler can’t focus on a single project for more than 10 minutes, but we can spend 50 minutes pretending to be firemen putting out a fire and rescuing a cat over and over and over and over? We learn a lot through unregulated play. It helps us more than rotework at early ages. (Any age, really.)

Amazing how realistic that is!!

@taiwan_girl said in The Forger's Masterclass: I have no painting talent I can't draw a straight line, let alone a stick figure. I enjoy watching people who do. Bob Ross made a career out of this. Check out this guy's other videos in which he had his "students" imitate Van Gogh and other masters.

My sister-in-law sets up events for the local Legion. This sort of thing is a lot more common than it used to be.

You guys are just teasing me.

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke: Goldberg, the Never-Trumper who used to be at National Review? Who since co-founded Dispatch Media which seems to be doing quite well. But it’s just a jocular take on the magnitude of the settlement. It’s not serious, besides, Dominion will own MyPillow soon anyway.

@Axtremus said in Meanwhile, Chinese giggle-switches flow across the border...: @Jolly said in Meanwhile, Chinese giggle-switches flow across the border...: The things don't work. Even the gunsmiths at the ATF had a hard time making them work. Is incompetence a valid defense? Ok...You decide you're going into the LSD business. It's not hard to make and with the cyclical nature of illicit drugs, ought to be back in favor pretty soon. You set your lab up at home, turn out your product and someway you screwed up getting that O2 molecule attached. It ain't LSD, but it's pretty close. You sell it on the street as LSD, but the only way your customer is getting a trip, is to call Uber. Did you commit a crime?

weirdos

I just got an email from them, pretty much stating the same around the Chapter 11. Strange since I was just in the store yesterday, looking for some white washcloths, they had none. Went next door to Target and picked some up. I hadn't heard anything prior and was wondering why the store had limited selections out but I guess this explains it.

The species has lost its way.

One of my favorite word trivia: boondocks (n.) "remote and wild place," 1910s, from Tagalog bundok "mountain." A word adopted by occupying American soldiers in the Philippines for "remote and wild place." It was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II. Hence, also boondockers "shoes suited for rough terrain," originally (1944) U.S. services slang word for field boots. Another explanation I've heard is that bundok meant, basically "over there," or "yonder."