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  1. It is where I live and nearly all of my friends own, but housing is way less expensive. $100k-$200k can buy a very nice 3 bed 2 bath with a garage and yard in a good school district. $200-$300k can get you something fancier or bigger. There’s really no reason not to own with prices like that.
  2. IKEA has couches with really nice slip covers. Tons of bloggers swear by the white slip cover being super washable because you can bleach them. They are relatively inexpensive to replace too. If you can deal with washing everything every so often you can probably make white furniture work.
  3. If anyone is interested in really thought provoking analysis from a historical perspective the podcast History Hit is looking at the war and withdraw this week. It’s been really balanced, certainly non partisan.
  4. I kind of think that by the time someone is sick enough to lay on the floor in public that more medical care is needed. That’s a very ill person.
  5. Am I thinking right here? Would the kids who are medically contraindicated from getting the shot be protected under the different disability acts?
  6. I know. I keep getting mad, then reminding myself of the kids and the immune suppressed. It’s just frustrating to always be in the group that needs to be extra good because so dang many people can’t be bothered.
  7. I keep looking at that picture and thinking…this is DeSantis’s grand plan? Hospitals over run and sick people laying on the floor of public spaces trying to get treatment? He’s been toting this as some sort of brilliant plan but it feels dystopian. And people in Florida are happy with this because….freedom?
  8. And “run it’s course” and “you do you, I’ll do me” is what most of the unvaccinated folks have been asking for since the beginning. My vaccine drops my risk of severe illness to a level I’m comfortable with. Haven’t they been crying about everyone doing their own risk analysis? Giving what they have been crying for does not make me a bad person.
  9. Not who you asked, but I have unvaccinated/anti vax people in my life blaming vaccinated people for spreading the delta variant. Shaming them for acting as though the vaccine is 100% and not taking enough precautions to prevent spreading. The unvaccinated are apparently just blameless victims of the vaccinated meanies.
  10. I wonder if it’s indirectly related to the pandemic. Maybe with parents at home more the kids are finding less available, ahem, unsupervised alone time and are feeling “pushed” into marriage because of it.
  11. Arkansas is the same way. 3 hour wait times at the only place within an hours drive to get tested, so most people aren’t bothering unless they have to. Lots of stories of people being refused tests even if they have symptoms. And 0 masking. Seriously I didn’t see 1 person masking the whole time I was there. The whole state has their head so far in the sand… Where as in VA I have multiple ways to get tested within 10 minutes of my house, most would take less time than a doctors appointment, none require symptoms.
  12. I wonder why they don’t have a big gathering once every year or so for different communities to mingle, just for this genetic reason. Surely that would help.
  13. Just *once* I’d like to hear a rational, thoughtful contrasting of “God designed my beautiful immune system so I don’t need a vaccine” with the concept of the Black Death, smallpox, Ebola, people in iron lungs from Polio, etc. I just want to hear it attempted so I can watch the cognitive dissonance in action.
  14. Reports are saying that 83% of new cases are Delta, so odds are that’s what it is. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/07/20/delta-variant-now-accounts-for-83percent-of-all-sequenced-covid-cases-in-the-us-cdc-director-walensky-says.html https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/07/delta-covid-19-variant-now-83-us-cases
  15. I think it’s because it’s not that lethal to begin with. Killing around 1% of those it infects isn’t going to risk burning through the hosts. If it mutates to killing 1.5 or 2% of its hosts, it’s fine, from the perspective of the virus. I think we are also looking at it over too short of a time period. Over time viruses tend to mutate to be less lethal, but we’ve only been at this for 18 months. In a decade we’ll probably be looking at less lethal Covid, with some more lethal variants popping up here and there as it moves in cycles.
  16. Most people are unaware of just how much of that type of stuff online is from bots. Foreign countries put a lot of effort into sewing discord in our country, Russia and China especially, North Korea to a greater extent than you might other wise guess. How sure are you that this is coming from real, live Americans?
  17. I think I could use some improved discernment over when to speak less and when to speak more. I have a hard time talking about the important stuff, but no problem with nit picking.
  18. Could you follow me around and remind me of that every 2 seconds or so? Maybe I’ll tattoo it somewhere prominent. I really need to follow this way more often.
  19. Is that million deaths figure just your feeling or something you got from somewhere? I’m curious, I haven’t seen any future death estimates since we hit 500k. My gut feeling/guess is that we’ll hit a million total, but that’s based on nothing really.
  20. My podcast listening habit really took off after we moved and I was lonely. It helped keep me company while I was doing pretty much anything and kept my thoughts busy so I didn’t ruminate too much.
  21. Betterhelp online counseling has been beneficial for my family. It’s cheaper, easier to schedule and you can change counselors any time. Being easier to schedule made it easier to actually keep doing it.
  22. A few here have expressed the “concern” thst the vaccinated are now a danger to the unvaccinated due to “shedding” harming the fertility of young ladies around them.
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