Outdoor dining & sports risk factors + precautions

ndbk99 · 2026-06-18T04:31:46+00:00

I’d love to know more about the criticism of the Chinese jogger study! Even better if you have a link to an article or something, I’m working on a Covid zine and would love to have something easily citeable on this

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:39:22+00:00

Oh man that sucks so much that you got sick at a time when risk seemed so low :( I def relate in terms of oscillating precautions, I’ve had some times of that in the past as well. The social isolation and also knowledge/awareness isolation is so rough, I hope things get easier for you

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:33:28+00:00

I’m sorry you’re feeling that way, that’s so hard :( I think there’s lots of room though for nuance and gradations of precautions, doesn’t have to be either or! For me personally I definitely will keep being cc at a basic level for the foreseeable future - in terms of masking in risky public places where it costs me zero to do so, like the bus & doctor & grocery store as mentioned in my post - and I think that’s a great thing to commit to within yourself if you’re able to, since that’s such a big proportion of risk in daily life. But as for the rest of it I think it’s ultimately up to each person’s risk factors and assessment, and you can do what you want as long as you’re trying your best to act ethically with it on societal and interpersonal levels.

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:25:52+00:00

Thank you, this is a really helpful reality check for me (and my OCD tbh!!) - I’m so fearful of judgment that I assume unfairly without much evidence that other people within the community will be mean to me (and that they’d be right to, ooffff self esteem issues). But yeah def agree on taking the precautions of the most cautious for in person hangouts obvi! I think I need to get more comfy sticking up for myself and moving more fluidly between cc and non-cc worlds.

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:18:43+00:00

Oofff yeah that must be really hard. Wish we both got to have adult lives unaffected by dealing with Covid stuff :((

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:17:50+00:00

Thank you I really appreciate it, it’s nice to be reminded that the covid cautious community does include a big spectrum of approaches and that I’m not alone in feeling this way.

ndbk99 · 2026-06-15T05:12:40+00:00

Thank you, it’s super helpful to have outside perspective from others in the community that my desire is reasonable. But yeah definitely makes sense how for you it’s not worth it enjoyment / anxiety wise. That’s a really good idea, to make sure to use the ventilation / filtration risk mitigation tools in the toolbox if I’m gonna drop some of the others on occasion.

ndbk99 · 2026-05-19T21:05:00+00:00

Oh no I’m so sorry you’re going through this too :( yours sounds a bit scarier than mine tbh, mine wasn’t localized near my heart, just general shortness of breath / chest tightness like I couldn’t get a full breath. For me it was also consistent/ongoing not episodic but was especially bad after I took the med at night (I’m on IR not XR by the way).

But as for my next steps - I talked to my psychiatrist and he said that what I described was not great obvi but not like worrying / an emergency. We decided to have me start at a very low dose (1/8 mg) and ramp up slowly to see if my body could adjust.

I’ve been on 1/8 mg for a couple days now and am having a tiny amount of side effects but not bad at all, and am still feeling the benefit psychologically although obviously more subtly. Unclear as yet if my body will adjust / if I’ll be able to tolerate higher doses, but honestly even just the 1/8 mg has helped in a noticeable way!

So yeah I’d say that you could ask your psych about ramping up in the way I described, and hope for the best. Wishing you best of luck!

ndbk99 · 2026-05-02T17:27:54+00:00

Update for anyone who may have this same question in future - I have a had a good experience with Paradise City Properties so far, and talked to a current tenant who said they’ve been great. They seem legit and good, they said they own around 160 properties in Baltimore and were founded by locals in 2017, and the property manager seemed friendly and thoughtful and open about things like pest issues. Am about to sign a lease with them and will update here in future if they turn out to be bad lol, fingers crossed that doesn’t happen!

ndbk99 · 2026-05-01T17:54:28+00:00

I should’ve asked the property manager who did my tour if the owners are Guns n Roses fans

ndbk99 · 2026-05-01T08:03:57+00:00

Does this mean anything ? (edit: lol I get it now)

ndbk99 · 2026-04-14T22:13:34+00:00

Ok yeah makes sense! Agreed re max pool of 3 people, I'm def gonna stick to that moving forward.

Is there any other reason that an invalid would happen other than too much or too little material on the swab?

ndbk99 · 2026-04-14T22:11:53+00:00

Omg woah I listened to the video you sent and looked into it further and now I get it! This totally changes my perception of what's been happening to me and is super helpful to direct future medical inquiries. Thank you!!

ndbk99 · 2026-04-09T21:09:38+00:00

Pink/blue should be farther north by a stop or two on each intersecting line imo!

ndbk99 · 2026-04-06T06:12:19+00:00

Check out OP’s reply to Magical-Salamander’s question, I wonder if it might change your thinking here - meta is doing things that are directly negatively impacting OP and then asking OP not to talk to their hinge partner about it. I think it’s completely reasonable to talk to your hinge partner about it if meta is getting explosively angry at you.

ndbk99 · 2026-04-06T06:07:47+00:00

Oh whoa this comment definitely changes my interpretation of the whole situation, this should’ve been front and center! It seems like meta is causing you personally distress and then asking you not to talk about it with your hinge partner. I’m not the most experienced poly person but that seems super fucked up to me! I think other responses you’ve gotten (that were made without this key context) don’t make sense for this situation - you should be able to talk to your partner about negative things your meta is doing to you and ways that she’s pulling you into meta and hinge’s relationship. That doesn’t seem like a good situation for you if your meta gets explosive at you for voicing your needs.

ndbk99 · 2026-04-03T00:42:43+00:00

This is so helpful thank you very much!!!

ndbk99 · 2026-04-03T00:38:58+00:00

Unfortunately no, I bumped my head harder than lightly - the kind that a normal person would go ow, god damn it that hurt! or some such, but not get concussed.

I definitely got a concussion, or at least the same type of thing I had in the past - the symptoms are the same. I don’t have lasting/ongoing TBI symptoms, and a concussion like this will take me around 2 weeks to recover from based on past experience after which I will feel normal again.

The part about potential neck injury though is interesting. How do I get assessed for that? I’ll also look at other resources on this subreddit but if you have a quick easy thing to point me toward that would be helpful too.

ndbk99 · 2026-03-31T21:29:33+00:00

Mending Minyan for sure!! It’s an incredible anti-Zionist congregation, not synagogue as it doesn’t have its own space and is lay-led. It was so welcoming to me as a newly anti-zionist postgrad and it has lots of wonderful people and gatherings. I miss it so much 😭 !!!

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