So sorry, flowers. Hope your recover continues without incident!
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So sorry, flowers. Hope your recover continues without incident!
The health department called today. All pharmacies, doctors, urgent cares, hospitals are required to report positives to them. They were very nice and asked about symptoms and told me to go straight to an ER with breathing problems, very high fever etc.
I'm getting lots of sleep and fluids. I also remembered why I don't watch TV. Also, ebooks are easy to get at my library so I'm getting quality reading time in.
Thanks for the good wishes.
oh my! Sounds like you are on the mend tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere
Glad to hear your recovery is going well. Continued healing energies to you!Quote:
Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere
So sorry to hear--I hope your journey back to health continues!
A lawsuit in my county against mask mandates has made it to the courts. Fierce women are driving this, mainly mothers advocating for their children, and fighting to be allowed to speak in municipal meetings.
https://www.millburysutton.com/story...es/7333086001/
While I am not part of this suit, I am happy. We will not give up. We will not go away.
And as with me in my various complaints filed, we are seeking not money but injunctive relief so that we never have to go through this again, and so that we be allowed to participate fully in our government which should be of the people, by the people and for the people.
I got my second booster last saturday. I've now had all three flavors of shot. J&J last April, Moderna in August, and now Pfizer. Given the nonsensical ruling by the unqualified judge in Florida the other day (scalia must be smiling in his grave at her level of jiggery pokery) I'm glad I got it since I have to go to NYC for work next week and undoubtedly half the people on the plane will be making it clear that they don't give a crap about other people's safety and health.
Have you found a legal or procedural flaw in the ruling?Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I just flew from one Texas airport to the other after the recent ruling and 90% of people on the plane and in the airport we’re not wearing mask. No Southwest airlines employees were wearing masks.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
So it’s going to be worse than I expected. Yay!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Other than her stupid **** definition of quarantine?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Already people took their masks off to eat or drink, and in typical covid privilege the mask mandate was not enforced in first class. But quake in your boots if you think random pieces of cloth or surgical masks with big gaps on the sides do anything. Be afraid, be very afraid - then the government can control you.
Source?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Passengers.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
In my scanning of the 59 page decision I didn't notice the judge's definition of quarantine, although she did reference the term as it has previously been applied in other court and legislative renderings. As an example, several courts last year ruled that the mandatory wearing of a mask was a form of personal quarantine and without a lawful quarantine order, forcing people to wear masks exceeded government authority.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Is the use of that standing legal principle the one you find stupid?
Edited to add: The ruling can be found here for anyone interested.
That seems very reasonable to me. Frankly, I feel that government exceeded its authority extensively over the past two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I wish I had a republican dictionary so I could better keep up with all the changes to our language. Like how groomer now means any LGBT person who is out as an LGBT person. And how, apparently since the pandemic began, wearing a mask is a form of isolation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Are burkhas isolating?
https://doglab.com/wp-content/upload...ite-poodle.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Oh, I thought you had a definable problem with the content of the ruling you mentioned earlier rather than just a rant about all things Republican. Sorry about that!Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
As an aside, and not to further hijack an already rambling thread, do you think your generalized rants are examples of the disinformation on social media that several prominent Democrats such as Obama and Clinton have recently called 'a threat to Democracy'?
What the h*ll has happened to this thread?
I set up a whiney whine thread for JP and myself but we have not been confining our comments to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lmerullo
Actually, I'm not calling anyone out - I guess I'm surprised by how it goes on topic, off topic, and back on...in so many strange ways! Nothing personal to any posters!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I do have a definable problem. Republicans are making up new definitions for words. Apparently it would now be appropriate for me to say "I went to the store yesterday. Because case counts are climbing in my area I decided to quarantine while in the store. About 50% of the other patrons were also quarantining."
Can you back that accusation up with anything other than hyperbole?Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
As I understand it various courts, including ones in Illinois and California, have ruled that based upon various states as well as federal legal definitions of quarantine, they have been forced to declare that masks are a form of quarantine. I believe it's due to various legal definitions which refer to any device that's intended to limit the spread of a disease.
It seems to me that any claim of "Republicans making up new definitions for words" is rather specious. I think that if we don't want our courts to adhere to the letter of the law we should petition our legislatures (state & federal) to actually create a law dealing with quarantine enforcement that would then give teeth to governmental agencies pronouncements.
I was thinking things like people who rioted on January 6 calling themselves "patriots" as they attempted to undo democracy. How lies are "alternative facts" per Kellyann Conway. How "stop the steal" was an effort to indeed steal a fair election. How "fake news" means something unflattering to the person calling it fake news.Quote:
Can you back that accusation up with anything other than hyperbole?
LOL, I was speaking of a specific word, but yeah, all Republicans suck. Damn Republicans!!Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
I didn't say that. I was specifically talking about words that have been redefined by certain Republicans. Like Mark Meadows working for an institute that focuses on election integrity, and talking about how important election integrity is, while at the same time being registereed to vote in 3 different states. I think examples like this are what JP might be referring to.
I used to be a registered Republican. I used to consider myself slightly right of center. But now wanting things like treating people with equal respect now marks me as a liberal. Another redefinition.
Unless they don't want to follow your covid restrictions. Then they are subhuman disease vectors and they don't deserve equal respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
Finally you admit what has been obvious to those of us in the reality based world for some time now!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
But seriously, I will never expect you to ever once admit that a republican ever did anything wrong or even suboptimal. You're simply not capable of that.
Give me a specific and I'll probably surprise you, well if it's not a figment of your imagination. You usually just complain about Republicans, as if whatever word, deed or action has gotten your goat is part of a group action supported by all Republicans. You also misrepresent many of your complaints, I'm guessing as a result of a headline you're read somewhere designed to do just that, get your goat. I'll always point out that error, mainly as a public service, and you can continue to blame me for not going along with your misrepresentation or your grouping of myself and all the other fine Republicans I know as people who want others to die, as racists and homophobes or whatever other baseless accusation you love to make. If you don't do those things, I won't challenge you. It's simple as that.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
But back to the topic at hand, SO has tested positive for the covids this afternoon after waking up with a sore throat this morning. Two self tests and one state testing site test, all positive. Given his multiple underlying conditions I'm concerned, but not panicked since he's vaxxed with three rounds of Pfizer. (He had an appointment to get the second booster next week, but I guess he won't be doing that now...)
Since I got my second booster last saturday, and have no other comorbidities other than being over 50, I am about as well protected as can be.
I was supposed to go to NYC next week for my work team's Away Day. Boss has left it to me to decide what to do. Since I can't effectively mask and still participate (there's a whole office happy hour and a team dinner at a fancy restaurant) I don't think I can go in good conscience, even if I were to test negative Tuesday morning before I head to the airport. I will have been spending the whole weekend at home with an infected person so a positive test might not happen until after I get there. And one of our team members is 8 months pregnant. I wouldn't be able to live with the result if she went home from the week's events with covid and then had an adverse situation involving her first child.
Hard to deny... today with the lying republicans all in the news... McCarthy and Taylor Green. There are only a few good actual republicans left. The others are sheep. Sickening to say the least. Patriots, my a$$. Herbgeek was spot on.
Actually you ignore ever serious point anyone makes about a republican and then poo poo the ones that have at least vaguely plausible deniability. And anyone that honestly thinks that the republicans aren't engaged in pretty significant homophobia currently is laughable. Sad, but laughable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Maybe you picked up covid when you got your latest booster and gave it to him. You should have stayed home under the covers until, you know, the sCiEnCe says it's safe to live life.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
My recently second-boosted brother and his wife (both in their 70s) got on a plane for a weekend trip last week and came home with Covid. Both started with sore throats. They were able to get the anti-viral pills but said the side effects of those (six pills a day) were worse than the Covid symptoms. Ugh!
There you go again with your typically flawed Republican logic. I haven’t been out in public since Saturday. SO has been going to his office in a busy hotel every day this week. I’m negative for covid. Smart people would not come to the conclusion that I gave it to him. But I get it. With stupid ****ing Republican logic what you suggested might make sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Seriously you aren’t this stupid are you?
Edited to add. Sorry. I thought it was Alan making this absurd post. You need to up your troll game. I’m well aware that you really are this stupid.
And thank you for your concern about SO. Even though I’m sure you think his potential death would be deserved since he has comorbidities like diabetes and being a cancer survivor I imagine you will deem his hopefully likely survival as somehow justified. Your concern is touching. So has your son started talking to you again or does he still realize that you’re a bitch and he’s better off avoiding you at all costs?
Good grief, JP1--I don't blame you for choosing to stay home under the circumstances. From what I've seen, anyone who dares stick their noses out of the bunker is bound to get infected. Best wishes to your SO for a smooth recovery!
Thank you. From the time that vaccines became available I’ve not been worried about myself. I’m healthy and should be fine if I get infected. SO is a different story. Yes, he’s fully vaxxed and boosted. But given his issues I’m still worried. His test results today have not been a happy circumstance. Hopefully this will all turn out well. He’s been working with his doc and will hopefully be getting a prescription for paxlovid tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0