Presumably, she's already had the virus - anosmia and all that....

AZ is 100% effective against serious illness, hospitalization and death. That’s some definition of suck based on what has happened over the last year to our people and our economy.

But yeah people think it sucks. Weird.

@lufins-dad Yes and yes. Especially to point #1.

The last 8 months or so, I've essentially gone from being a piano restoration guy that also does some piano moving, to a being piano mover that visits his shop just long enough to grab another dolly.

Real estate prices locally have gone through the roof as tons of people from New York and Boston have moved into CT suburbs.

Pierre Salinger gave up most if not all of his reputation on TWA flight 800. That’s what I remember most.

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The dude from Iceland probably didn't gave a nuclear football in the truck seat...

I've read the books several times. I wish the film would have stuck to one or the other.

My district isn’t (yet) insane with woke neoracism (though there’s a contingent trying hard to get us there), so I think the boy will be okay.

Also he’s already a bit cynical about it, and it didn’t really come from me.

Well, I’m planning on having the tests in April. Mostly I’m just curious to see if I had it at some point without knowing it. I doubt it will effect whenI get the vaccine since I will be so late in the game.

The limits are pretty ridiculous. You can't get evicted if you expect to make six figures?

Well now they have people quarantine who were potentially exposed to the positive case. Sometimes that’s a whole classroom. So I imagine they’ll do more of the same.

Best Buy is the Amazon showroom.

@Sidney and @Boris, your review, please.

@jon-nyc said in Kasich on the $1.9T relief bill:

I would have loved to have seen something much more targeted.

Like federal employees?

While millions of parents struggle to work from home with kids who are enrolled in shuttered or partially shuttered schools, and millions more left the workforce or lost jobs to care for their at-home children, evidently parents in the federal bureaucracy need their own, personal Covid-19 bailout.

Buried on page 305 of the House bill released late last Friday night (included after the bailout details for states and localities), is a new Treasury Department fund called the “Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund.”

$570 million in the new fund is available through September 30. Federal employees caring for others due to Covid-19 are eligible for paid leave. Among those eligible are those who are “unable to work” because they are caring for school-aged children not physically in school full time “due to Covid-19 precautions[.]”

The new Fund allows a federal employee “caring for a son or daughter” to qualify for the paid leave, specifically:

“if the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to Covid-19 precautions;”

Under the bill as currently drafted, full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week. That’s 15 weeks for a 40-hour employee. Part-time and “seasonal” employees are eligible, too, with equivalent hours established by their agency.

Gummint gotta care for its own, I guess.

@axtremus said in Murderous Dognapping:

“Two days after thieves shot the singer's dogwalker and abducted Lady Gaga's beloved dogs Koji and Gustav, the animals were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police confirmed to the Associated Press.”

Oh, good. Just as good: the dog walker is expected to make a full recovery. Happy happy joy joy all around.

Amazon Prime has it.

Isn’t she wonderful?

@taiwan_girl said in So much for “Coattails without a coat”:

@horace said in So much for “Coattails without a coat”:

@taiwan_girl said in So much for “Coattails without a coat”:

I guess I was more surprised at how much split there was a while ago.

I think today, most people are going to say, "I am going to vote for a (Republic/Democrat) all the way. Does not matter who is on the ballot!"

Are they wrong to think that way? Or are they just coming to terms with the huge differences in the platforms?

I think that it shows generally that people will vote for a party name rather than what the person says.

Depends on the voter - if they think party is more important than what the person stands for.

When the party platforms diverge to a certain extent, it makes total sense to vote party lines in national elections. Local elections can definitely get more granular. This is an idea I've been attempting to teach TNCR for a very long time.