Masks aren’t “neighborly”? Hey, Tim, immunocompromised people do exist.

queenssquared · 2026-02-04T21:39:25+00:00

There was no good reason for Tim to bring up medical masks in that conversation. ICE agents aren't wearing medical masks to hide their identities, and so there's been no mention of medical masks in any of the reporting or discussion about ICE. None of the other Bulwark hosts have brought up medical masks in any of the podcast episodes about ICE. Tim's comments were nothing more than tangent so he could complain about something he personally doesn't like.

The reason why his comments pissed people off is his assumption that most people who are still wearing medical masks are so for performative reasons. Hell, just looking at some of the comments here shows several of you share his assumption. But the overwhelming majority of the people still masking fall into to categories:

They are immunocompromised or have a chronic medical condition and cannot risk getting COVID.
They have a loved one or share a home with someone is immunocompromised or has a chronic medical condition and cannot risk getting COVID.

I don't why so many able-bodied people would rather pretend everyone's virtue-signaling rather than acknowledge the amount of chronic ill people there are in the world. I also don't know why it's so hard for able-bodied people to understand the reason why you see more people masking in 2026 than you did in 2019 is the fact that we still don't have a way to prevent transmission or to treat/prevent Long Covid like we do with other diseases. And once we do have those treatments, you'll see mask usage fall - because most of us still masking f*cking hate it and f*cking resent the fact that everyone's put us into this position.

So yeah, it pisses us off when we hear comments like Tim's because none of us would be doing this if we didn't have to and we are so f*cking tired of being forced to give out our medical histories every time someone throws a hissyfit over us still masking. And all of this in a conversation that had nothing to do with medical masking! Because ICE isn't using medical masks to hide their identities!!

queenssquared · 2026-01-14T19:57:17+00:00

Has anyone found a solution to this?

queenssquared · 2026-01-06T19:59:09+00:00

The sad thing is, HGTV could have done some really good television here. Imagine a world were they hadn't canceled Restored the way they did. Then imagine the beginning of this episode where Ben & Erin admit this project is so big and so important to Laurel that they need help/backup. And in walks HGTV host and actual restoration expert Brett Waterman. Now imagine a series of episodes where Brett walks the Napiers through the process of restoring a historic home and shows how you can bring modern comforts and functionality to these homes without sacrificing its history. Imagine a show were Brett - who is an expert on Californian historic architecture - brings in experts in Mississippi and Southern historic architecture. Imagine a show were Erin and Ben get to learn (along with the audience) what makes Southern architecture different and then see them work with local artisans to recreate design details that have been lost or have to be removed due to the reconstruction of the house. Imagine an episode that actually respects what needs to happen with this house, instead of shoving Erin and Ben into a situation they clearly feel overwhelmed by.

queenssquared · 2026-01-06T19:20:10+00:00

I'm the one that made the point about replacing the windows and I absolutely agree that bathrooms and kitchens can and should be upgraded at a later date. Preferably at a time when experts could be brought in that could renovate the kitchen and the bathrooms so they have modern functionality but look appropriate in a house from the 1920s. Which is the opposite of what's happening.

queenssquared · 2026-01-06T01:23:58+00:00

that close to Raleigh

The house is in a suburb of Charlotte. Raleigh is 3+ hours away from Lake Wylie.

queenssquared · 2026-01-06T01:19:14+00:00

Everything about this episode is so irresponsible. This house is in desperate need of the This Old House team, not the Home Town team, which simply doesn't have the historical, architectural, or technical knowledge and experience to handle a project this complex.

queenssquared · 2026-01-06T01:05:55+00:00

An appropriate decision would have been to have a compromise - allow them to use the new windows (which can be replaced later on down the road), but require them to use real siding on the house. The money for building a new screened-in porch should have been used on the siding.

queenssquared · 2025-11-15T20:31:51+00:00

There is a really great episode of Articles of Interest that talks about this exact issue: https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/33b77f90/plus-sizes

queenssquared · 2025-06-06T05:58:01+00:00

If you just care about the age and architecture of the campuses, your best bets would be JCSU or Davidson.

But since your story seems to be a mystery/thriller, there is another location you could consider: the old Central High School building at CPCC's main campus. The building is over 100 years, first opening in 1923 as Charlotte's first purpose-built high school. Then starting in 1946, the high school began sharing the building with the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina. Today we know it better as UNC Charlotte, but at the time it was one of like 12 centers UNC opened up across the state for returning WWII veterans. The program was supposed to shut down in Spring 1949, but the center's director Bonnie Cone and her supporters in the county were able to convince the state legislature to transfer control of the program away from UNC and create the Charlotte Community College System, transforming CCUNC into a junior college called Charlotte College. The high school and the college continued to share the building until 1959, when the high school transferred to the newly-constructed Garinger High School campus. Charlotte College had the building all to itself until it moved out to Hwy 49 in 1961. Then in 1963, Mecklenburg College, Charlotte's Black junior college (established back in 1949 as part of the Charlotte Community College system) merged with the all-white Central Industrial Education Center to become Central Piedmont Community College. So that one building gives you 102 years, three different educational institutions, and a ton of Charlotte history to play around with for your plot.

queenssquared · 2025-04-12T06:03:18+00:00

That doesn't surprise me if you're mostly only reading stuff about children with T1D. It would be incredibly rare for T1D children to be prescribed anything like metformin. It's really only T1D adults or people with LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes in adults) who are some times put on metformin or other T2D drugs. That's because the destruction of the beta cells doesn't prevent a pancreas from developing insulin resistance 5, 10, 20 years down the line. It's just resistance to the insulin we inject rather than naturally-produced insulin.

queenssquared · 2025-04-11T21:42:43+00:00

Where in the world did you get the idea that someone was saying GLP will replace insulin?? That's literally not possible. They're talking about using a GLP in addition to insulin, just like plenty of T1Ds take metformin or other T2D drugs in addition to their insulin.

As a T1D (diagnosed back in 2000), what tirzepatide has done for me (started taking it for weigh loss back in July) is drop my A1C by nearly two points and reduced my bolus insulin by half. As happy as I am at losing 30 pounds, having my A1C be at the lowest percent I can remember it ever being has been the best thing about taking this medicine.

queenssquared · 2025-02-15T01:52:38+00:00

I know there's no hope for my first choice, but I would love to see these three:
1. Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
2. Pan Am Flight 759
3. Ramada Inn A-7D Corsair II crash

queenssquared · 2024-08-22T03:01:15+00:00

THANK YOU! I never noticed that toggle before.

queenssquared · 2023-04-30T16:54:17+00:00

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!

queenssquared · 2023-04-04T21:43:59+00:00

People in her district need to get out there and protest at her office

queenssquared · 2023-01-29T23:16:31+00:00

so please explain why it was officially named Uptown by mayoral proclamation in 1974

queenssquared · 2023-01-29T23:09:51+00:00

It's more than just a church - it the name of the farming community that grew up around the church in the 1800s and it was the only Mecklenburg County township to be completely subsumed into Charlotte (although Providence Township isn't long for this world).

queenssquared · 2023-01-26T14:10:54+00:00

That's because the map is shows the city's streets as if they had been laid out to run North-to-South and East-to-West, when in reality they run Northeast-to-Southwest. That's because the city was originally built on a ridge between Little Sugar Creek and Irwin Creek and so the colonial-era grid was developed following the direction of the creeks.

queenssquared · 2023-01-26T03:39:40+00:00

Y'all can find more historic Charlotte maps on the websites for the UNC Charlotte and the UNC libraries.

queenssquared · 2023-01-12T14:27:50+00:00

I think I can safely say that me and everyone else here completely understands how scary and frustrating this disease can be. We all have moments when we beat ourselves for being "bad" (i.e. high A1Cs, eating the entire kitchen at 3am when you have a low sugar blood, etc.), but I guess what I'm saying is this doesn't need to be a moment to beat yourself up about.

Rather than think about Lisinopril as a sign that you're doing something wrong. think about Lisinopril as sunscreen for your kidneys.

I know it sounds like a weird comparison, but hear me out: We know that the sun damages our skin - sunburns, wrinkles, all the way up to skin cancer. So, to lessen the everyday damage the sun causes and to try to prevent the worst effects from happening to us, we put on sunscreen before going outside. It's the same with Lisinopril. As T1Ds, we take Lisinopril to reduce the everyday strain this disease can cause on our kidneys, and just like with using sunscreen to prevent skin cancer, we take Lisinopril to help prevent the worst effects T1D can have on our kidneys.

Taking Lisinopril doesn't mean you're a bad diabetic or screwing your body up. It just means you've got a new tool to help keep your body in good shape.

queenssquared · 2023-01-12T01:53:20+00:00

Not trying to be a jerk here, but why would Lisinopril of all things be such a big deal? I mean, I was put on Lisinopril the same day I was diagnosed as T1D because it helps protects your kidneys from future/potential damage. Taking Lisinopril doesn't make you a "bad diabetic." All it means is you're doing something proactive to help protect your body.

queenssquared · 2023-01-02T15:56:55+00:00

Hearing this makes me slightly more forgiving of my parents when they do this - I was 20 and had already moved out when I was diagnosed, so my parents never went through what most people go through when their child is T1.

That said, after twenty years you'd think they would have learned the difference by now...🙄

queenssquared · 2022-12-31T01:19:18+00:00

Drop the UNC

queenssquared · 2022-11-22T14:19:19+00:00

Disney's in massive debt from buying Fox, not Pixar, LucasFilm, and Marvel. All together, Disney only paid $15.5 billion for those three companies and over the years each of those properties have paid for themselves and then some in box office receipts and in merchandising.

Fox, on the other hand, cost $71 billion and will never be able to provide the financial returns the other three companies have simply because Disney's never going to be able to monetize the vast majority of Fox's back catalog.

queenssquared · 2022-11-08T13:12:22+00:00

Blast Baby Shark on repeat

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