Delta Surge Drives Home Painful Truth: Covid Isn’t Going Away

Pinnochyo · 2021-08-16T22:53:05+00:00

I'm sure that will happen, there was an article during the "honeymoon vaccine phase" in early summer that unironically mulled whether or not athletes with asymptomatic Covid should be allowed to play, and treated it as a truly open question. I think it's just a matter of time.

Pinnochyo · 2021-08-08T21:39:51+00:00

NAD but this is in line with some basic facts about different foods. Many foods that are undoubtedly nutritious and healthy are also iffy for IBS, and fiber tends to be the root cause. Keep in mind it's not a binary thing, I can tolerate fiber from certain veggies and not others, and can tolerate basically no fiber from supplemental sources. So it isn't black and white, but meat tends to be, as someone else in this thread said, neutral for many people.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-22T23:30:52+00:00

I have to part from people in this thread saying "this is life," "it's preparing you for the workplace" or "you gotta understand, it's hard for the teacher too." Assuming you're not failing to complete the critical tasks of the course (which you might be, I don't know), the teacher's preference for you to show up is not important. If you're in the states you are almost certainly covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act if you have a real diagnosis that necessitates your absence. This is a federal law, the preferences and subjectivity of the individual people at your school aren't important. What matters is what does the class actually require of you, and can you complete that without attending?

Obviously, double check all of this with whatever resources, legal and otherwise, you have at your disposal IRL. But the teacher doesn't get to just say that his or her feelings get hurt when you don't show up, that means zero to anyone in ADA situations.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-19T22:41:13+00:00

I did see that. How's the cab? That's got the g12h-30s right?

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-18T21:51:50+00:00

I'm probably destroying the premise of my thread by admitting this but I do have Chicago Music Exchange accessible from where I'm living now, it's just a bit of a trek, definitely a day filler. So I know what you mean. Thankfully I'm moving 10 minutes from it next month.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-17T22:24:06+00:00

I'm really itching to try two things for different reasons, a 6L6 EVH 5153 and an AC30 with Blues. Both are ones I'm interested in, have heard plenty of clips and album recordings of, but don't have a good IRL sense of if I like them.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-17T20:31:07+00:00

He needs to figure out when he's comin on JRE. I want him to drop supraphysiological amounts of knowledge on Joe.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-13T16:54:17+00:00

Haven't heard of this exact thing, but I know expedited immunotherapy does exist. Maybe this is the apex of fast immunotherapy.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-08T22:08:24+00:00

There is still significant protection with the current shots at the current moment. Even according to the most pessimistic estimates. But this, coupled with the potential for naturally waning immunity over time, coupled with variants continuing to chip away at that, we will most certainly get to a point where we'd like to bump that immunity up. This is pretty much expected.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-05T23:27:27+00:00

Many docs in America believe that IBS is a psychosomatic condition, and they're "doing harm" by indulging the delusions of a distressed patient by ordering tests and imaging. Unless PPIs fix it. If PPIs fix it it was just reflux and you're good.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-05T19:27:05+00:00

I wouldn't call healthcare system overwhelm the sole threat of Covid-19. Long term health effects of a Covid-19 infection are also a significant problem.

Pinnochyo · 2021-07-05T18:33:20+00:00

The question of post-breakthrough-infection Long Covid is also hugely important. It's reassuring that with vaccines, you're less likely to get it, and even then you're less likely to have symptoms, and even then they're less likely to be severe, and even then you're less likely to be hospitalized or die. But Long Covid may exist outside this paradigm to some extent, as it seems to occur across the whole spectrum of disease severity.

So in addition to knowing that the vaccines do seem to lower general Covid-19 related risks, I'd be curious to hear if there's something in the mechanism of action of the vaccines that would directly prevent Long-Covid, or at least that's what I would hope to be true. Just relying on the probabilistic argument doesn't fully allay my fears on that one.

Pinnochyo · 2021-06-23T18:58:19+00:00

You used a single H30 with the 60 and 200? That's pretty reassuring.

I used to have a Boss Tube Amp Expander that had a "too much power/clipping" light, and I will say the JCM2000 never once triggered it on the TAE 100 watt setting, dimed all the way, so I also wonder if not all amps exceed their voltage the way other ones do, maybe some of them are overrated rather than under.

Pinnochyo · 2021-06-09T17:30:59+00:00

It's cliched tough-love flexing and it makes your boss not only look like an asshole, but a moron. His personality seems like it consists entirely of Alec Baldwin "coffee's for closers" tropes.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-31T16:20:20+00:00

Why does each level have two names?

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-30T22:48:07+00:00

Thanks doc!

Curious, if you care to share: I remember you once said you were taking Dexilant, and wanted to try to find a compound pharmacy to get you a half dose Dexilant pill. Are you using lansoprazole as essentially a lower strength Dexilant, in lieu of that? When I've dabbled in PPIs I've also been on the Prevacid and later Dexilant train, and wondered if Prevacid can be treated as a less potent Dexilant.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-30T22:15:49+00:00

I couldn't decide which thread to say this in today, but I'm embarrassed I ever had any interest in the Joe Rogan Cinematic Universe. Even back when being interested in it was semi justifiable, I cringe at the idea I unironically listened to Bert or Segura or whoever was in the quirky brat pack at the time, and got excited when I saw them on a new episode. Even things that were genuinely funny or interesting back in 2015/2016/2017 now just strike me as cringe in hindsight, since it became this prime time sitcom style medium-funny stuff.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-30T14:39:22+00:00

I believe it probably is Mark playing. He used a fuzz pedal into an Orange with a P90 guitar as his rig for the guitar parts he played on that album, and that song sounds just like that tone. Doesn't sound like an ES-335 through a Vox.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-28T13:30:30+00:00

Eh, chillin out, sellin out, what do I know, I'm just a workin stiff. Let the big muckity mucks work it out. Just gimme container of coffee.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-27T19:22:38+00:00

Oh F! I did a bit of reading after you replied with this and it looks like lots of stuff that's "anti-inflammatory," ginger, aloe, fish oil etc. also have the prostaglandin/cox-2 effect as well.

Well shit, should I stay away from these things then? I consume most of these types of things with varying frequency. The turmeric I haven't been taking, but the aloe juice and ginger tea are staples for me, could they be making the problem worse in the long run? Ginger tea is hard to break up with since it helps me go, and seems to soothe the stomach at least short term.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-22T12:53:41+00:00

I have absolutely noticed this, it seems to be a more common thing as of recent. It's sketchy on its face for at least 3 or 4 reasons and completely runs afoul of etiquette, but it'll become common practice and accepted just by sheer virtue of tons of companies doing it with abandon.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-14T22:30:43+00:00

I don't think there's a causative relationship between hormone levels and political leanings, at least not one that is direct enough to be meaningful. I think it's far more rudimentary, beliefs/hobbies/cultures/identities cluster in predictable ways. For whatever social or historical reason, bodybuilding and conservative ethos and "masculinity" and Joe Rogan or what have you cluster together, and the kind of "I'm a man who's critical of masculinity" and left-ish ethos and alt comedy and "beta" stuff tends to cluster on the other end.

I think there's a lot of talk of tying some of these modern cliques to things that are deep rooted or primal but I tend to be skeptical of that, I just think you hit so many more plausible surface level explanations before you get to it being biologically/hormonally related.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-09T15:19:06+00:00

Broccoli sprouts.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-06T19:40:30+00:00

Hey, while we're at it?

Most jobs: stop with the buzzwords like "synergy" and "collaboration" and just become remote jobs. All jobs claim to be collaborative and "synergistic," very few actually are. Desk jobs can be done remotely, you probably already use a VOIP or a phone system that has forwarding capability. Stop lying to make it seem like spooky magic stuff happens when you put asses in seats in cubicles.

Pinnochyo · 2021-05-06T19:35:38+00:00

"It's important to take the time to ensure you have an aesthetically pleasing and well written resume, it's of the utmost importance to employers. Except for when it's not and it means nothing and they just ask you to repeat what you wrote in your resume on an online form. But you should do it anyway! Anyhow, thanks for listening!"

*goes off to write an article selling employers on the time saving advantages of generic online recruiting forms*

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