HeartString
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39 minutes ago, Syllieann said:
We are already a few weeks late for the second shot. After seeing these numbers, I think we will wait until close to the 12 week mark to reevaluate. I'm hopeful that there will be relevant info out of the UK on a delayed schedule by then.
That’s my plan.
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1 hour ago, Syllieann said:
I was really hoping they'd run the numbers on one dose vs two doses for 12-17 males. I'm so disappointed.
Me too. I’m seriously considering only 1 shot for my young teen.
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25 minutes ago, marbel said:
I'm curious about this. How do you know people are not following the masking rule?
Where I am no one is shy about it. I had a meet up with several other people inside a restaurant with a “please mask” sign. Only 1 person masked and I was the only vaccinated person. I know a couple have had COVID so have natural immunity. When the topic of vaccines came up they all acted like it would be crazy to get it. They aren’t going to get the vaccine and aren’t going to mask either.
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I had figured that I would still mask after the mandate was lifted, but I really haven’t. I’m fully vaccinated, I’m in and out of shops pretty quick and I’m out when things aren’t busy. My 5 year old is the only unvaccinated one as I was only 50/50 on making her mask, the mandate in my state was for over 5. I’m worried about the new Delta variant but not enough to mask fully again at this point. Subject to change as new data emerges, of course.
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3 hours ago, pinball said:
Elizabeth Warren has entered the chat...
It’s a common story told in southern families, we covered it a bit in my sociology classes.
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3 hours ago, Katy said:
The irony is most of those “Indian Princess” ancestors, the ones you can trace on a family tree, were black or mixed. The 5 Southern Tribes took in runaway slaves and intermarried them. They were mixing for hundreds of years before the trail of tears. Most white Southern families have very little Native American (Asian) DNA, and 2% or more African DNA. People said Indian because that was more socially acceptable than black. I have ancestors on the Dawes rolls but I still have twice as much African DNA as Asian.
That’s interesting. I didn’t know about that part. Thanks for sharing!
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1 hour ago, TravelingChris said:
I don't believe that most of the people are really descendants of slave owning people since I know that most of the Confederate soldiers were not slave owning/ And the part of Al where I see the flags the most probably is the area where there was limited slave owning-I mean I see a lot of it in the mountainous parts and that was not an area where slave owning was happening since it has been a poorer area both then and now.
Most of them just assume their ancestors did. Just like they all have an Indian “princess” ancestor. Actual, factual history or genealogy isn’t really the point. It’s all fantasy. They also think the slave owners were seeethearts and the slaves were thankful for being enslaved. Fantasy Land.
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I voted racist but it’s more like a$..h..e.
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8 hours ago, SKL said:
My 14yo says she is having pain at the site of her first vax, which was done in mid-May. Anyone else have this happen over a month later?
I had a bit of pain in my injection site for a couple of months, mostly while driving.
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I didn’t care for CLE algebra after using 1-7. My oldest went from CLE grade 7 to Foerester’s Alg 1 very smoothly. I bought the Math Without Borders companion and really liked it as well.
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9 minutes ago, Tap said:
I don't know the answer to the question......but have to say....I hate the tipping expectation/culture. It never would have occurred to me to tip the amount that is being mentioned in this thread. $50-100-250 for a tip? For someone to drive a moving truck and monitor staff? I only bring home $150 from my job in a day. 😵 It wouldn't be that I appreciate the work more or less than others do, but I just couldn't afford that on top of paying for a move, and thus may innocently offend someone.
Second this. I hate tipping. It’s not the money, it’s the weird expectations around it. I can’t take the pressure!
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The Virgin River series isn’t too bad. There are a few scenes per book but they don’t go on for pages. I enjoyed the series and I don’t like the explicit romance books at all.
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Aslobcomesclean.com blog and podcast. I ❤️ her books too. Dana K. White is her name, I consider her my cleaning guru. Her tag line of “cleaning and organizing for real people, people that don’t necessarily love cleaning and organizing” is very accurate to what she does. Her blog is her walking through and learning how to get her own hone under control and figuring it out as she goes. So much helpful advice!
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3 minutes ago, Joker2 said:
I have a cousin who had Covid early on, got the vaccine as soon as he was eligible, and just recovered from Covid a second time. 😳 The second time was way worse and the family was worried he wouldn’t make it. I’m guessing he is just unlucky and that he doesn’t seem to be developing an immunity to the virus at all?
There are some people who are like that with different viruses. Some people got chicken pox multiple times even though that’s usually a virus with life long immunity. It’s just one of those things. Human bodies do weird things sometimes.
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1 hour ago, bookbard said:
Yeah, I know a lot of Germans (not East Germans specifically!) They're not all punctual.
I still don't know if I agree that if a minority group is small, it makes the society a monoculture. There are other cultures; they may be suppressed or ignored or devalued, but they are there. I am not saying that the society has embraced multiculturalism or diversity. But I do think that people often ignore the fact that a society which may seem to have one culture actually does have diversity. It may be religion, language, historical. But it is there.
I think the experience might be a difference of degree. A German who speaks a slightly different dialect isn’t likely to find seeing Angela Markel on tv jarring the same way some in the US found seeing a black man named Barrack Hussein in the White House.
There might technically be different sub-cultures in Germany but it’s not experienced the same way as in America with a soul food restaurant next to Korean grocery across from a Mexican restaurant with a fusion food truck in the parking lot.
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7 hours ago, Michelle My Bell said:
The cousins live about 30 min. away so it isn't easy to just go for the day.
I don’t understand this part. I frequently drive 30 minutes to do things for a few hours and drive home. That’s a pretty quick trip to hang out with cousins.
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1 hour ago, Terabith said:They plan to have top surgery next summer, when they are 18. I wish they would wait longer, but I understand the reasoning, and being under our insurance, which does cover it, is a good reason to do it, I think.
Just a quick question because you’re the 2nd one to mention parental insurance. Is that as big of a factor now that they can stay on until they are 26? It would seem like that would buy them more time.
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1 hour ago, Melissa Louise said:
Some of think we shouldn't be sending them off to war either, given what we now know about brain maturation.
Or that’s exactly why we send them at that age, before they know better.
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50 minutes ago, alisoncooks said:
DD wants to start growing loofah! I didn't realize that they were like a squash (honestly, and this may sound stupid, lol, I thought they were an ocean thing-y). 😄
Wait…they aren’t? 🤯 Off to google!
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13 hours ago, forty-two said:
(I found the entire infographic here; it's from Mar 4, so advice may have changed in the interim.)
I think the advice has indeed changed since March. In March they were still not ready to say that vaccinated people really do not transmit it on the off chance that a vaccinated person catches it. They were being very cautious early on. I don't think the official advice on that changed until May.
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On 6/15/2021 at 9:08 PM, HeartString said:
Got my 13 year old his first shot today. We went to CVS. I did notice that I signed an electronic consent form when I was making his appointment. I didn’t sign anything or full anything out once we got there. They did not ask him for consent once we were there though.
He’s fine. No complaints yet, 7 hours after.
No complaints after 30 hours. A bit of a sore arm but that’s it.
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31 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
Another thing that’s rattling around in my head is the extent to which wealthy mainland Chinese parents are working to help their kids become more familiar with other people groups, their stories and triggers and their social expectations, while Americans are working hard to bury these things. They really want to know that it’s not a good idea to call someone fat. I see a big group of little sponges everyday. It colors my view of how the US is responding to globalization and multiculturalism.
It’s another way the “anti-China” side of things is actually doing exactly what China would want us to do.
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9 minutes ago, LucyStoner said:
That was quite the moral panic. I remember there were kids in our homeschooling orbit who weren’t allowed to play D&D or Magic the Gathering, though that was decades after the height of that moral panic.
This is still a thing. A non-DND themed role playing game was being discussed as a fun co-op class. The mere discussion led to accusations of sexual content and demon summoning. So much outrage over a pretend game with dice.
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Got my 13 year old his first shot today. We went to CVS. I did notice that I signed an electronic consent form when I was making his appointment. I didn’t sign anything or full anything out once we got there. They did not ask him for consent once we were there though.
He’s fine. No complaints yet, 7 hours after.
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News: 97 fatalities after a building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida (Update on settlement)
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I don’t understand how a building just….falls down.