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  • A gem of bizarre from NextDoor

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    @Boris What level of coverage did your daddy buy for you? Did he get the BestWellness or EssentialWelness option?

    I am thinking about Elite coverage plan but not the optional plans. They add a lot to the premium.

  • Ted vs Diane

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    HoraceH

    Yes but glass can be dangerous too. You can cut your hand on it.

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    MikM

    @taiwan_girl said in How well is your community doing on social distancing?:

    @Mik

    I have talked to some friends who will go for a drive (never leaving the car) just to get out and get away from being in the house.

    I would think that something like that would make it seem like social distancing is not going well, but it really is in fact going well.

    I would agree with that, but I have pretty extensive experience with small town cops. Technically we'd be violating the order. I'd not wish to have done all this perfect isolation then end up in some petri dish of a jail cell.

    This is not a time to be taking chances. As I told, well, pretty much everybody, it's a time to think with your head, not your heart.

  • Shaking Hands

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    Aqua LetiferA

    Wuzannenin'.

  • Prepare for the Ultimate Gasbagging

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    George KG

    @Doctor-Phibes said in Prepare for the Ultimate Gasbagging:

    I'll give you critical thinking, you knobheads!

    Now look here....

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    @mark

    LOLOL

  • Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting

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    brendaB

    @Mik said in Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting:

    Lufin and Loki - y'all need new avatars. This L shit is confusing me. šŸ˜†

    Mik's right.

    If I can do it, so can anybody here. LOL

  • 100 Banned License Plates

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    George KG

    @Aqua-Letifer said in 100 Banned License Plates:

    Eat me. šŸ˜†

    I'm surprised you weren't aware of that.

  • Going back to the old ways....

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    AxtremusA

    @Doctor-Phibes said in Going back to the old ways....:

    ... accompanied by no small amount of rather unladylike language, even if it was delivered in a lovely accent.

    Upgrade your headphones, consider one with active noise-canceling technology.

  • About those bodies

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    MikM

    @Aqua-Letifer said in About those bodies:

    It takes a very special kind of stupid to actually have to see a body count before you can wrap your head around the relative severity of a health crisis everyone is telling you is going to happen.

    Not to mention that you have seen happen other places.

  • Cincinnati - a Beam of Hope

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  • A Paramedic's Day in NYC

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    LuFins DadL

    We just got word that one of our delivery drivers lost their mother to a heart attack last night. No word about whether she was symptomatic, but I canā€™t help billy wonder if asymptomatic cases can still result in cardiac arrest for those at risk? She had HBP and Diabetes.

  • Good TV...

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    Aqua LetiferA

    @89th said in Good TV...:

    I chuckled at the ā€œthis is my metricā€ part.

    Yeah that was gold. I'm stealing that for a blanket argument stopper for all Zoom meetings.

  • Helmet-based ventilator alternative

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    brendaB

    From 2004:

    https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1943689

  • Happy Peak Day!

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    brendaB

    @LuFins-Dad

    Hubby and I are staying home. We'll talk with daughter via Google hangouts, which we do most days already.

    And we'll watch the snow fall. Supposed to get 6 to 10 inches of very dense and heavy snow. It'll melt quickly, so no big deal, especially since we're not going out.

  • Krakatoa

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    LuFins DadL

    @brenda Thanks! I had never noticed that before.

    Think about the force involved...

  • God Bless the Queen

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    CopperC

    It didn't work out.

  • "Cuff 'em!"

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    Aqua LetiferA

    @taiwan_girl said in "Cuff 'em!":

    @Doctor-Phibes said in "Cuff 'em!":

    Yes, it was over-reach, but refusing to give your identity to police is not the smartest move either.

    I agree, and that is the problem. Even in regular times, if you are an adult at a park with lots of kids, I think even then someone would ask you what you are doing there. Not giving identification is not the best answer.

    I understand people who say "that they do not have to, my rights say that I don't have to etc. etc"

    But, sometimes common sense is more important.

    I was stopped by a couple of jackasses outside Federal Center a couple of months ago. I was taking pictures, and they thought that since I was near a federal building (FEMA), that was illegal, and they had a right to confiscate my camera. (These were dweebs who worked there, not security.) Security guy shows up, tells me not to go anywhere, gets a LEO. Fine by me. I explain to the officer that I don't have to state my business, or give ID, or really anything at this point because I'm not breaking any laws. But I did show him everything I was taking pictures of and explained exactly what I was doing. I also showed him my ID without handing it to him.

    I didn't have to do any of that, but it did go a long way towards him getting bored with me. That was enough and he let me go. Also told the assholes who stopped me I was right.

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    markM

    šŸ‘™ šŸ¤™ šŸ‘€ šŸ˜†

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    markM

    I hope this is a wake up call to provide better infection control at these facilities for patients with such requirements.

    From the article,

    The dialysis industry has historically had a poor record when it comes to infection control so the current infectious climate is fraught with worry.