Today in “these dumbasses bragged online about doing something that will get them fired” news
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All joking aside, I hope this wasn’t a recent news report. This study confirms that the recommendations made last summer about eye protection were valid. It’s frustrating that so much of the news is focused on people who are anti-mask and anti-vax. I recently reminded family members about the double mask recommendations, because they were so caught up in complaining about kids on Spring Break that they weren’t focused on following the latest guidelines to protect themselves.
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Companies who insure casinos don’t consider Covid being under “acts of God” coverage and Caesars Entertainment is now trying to sue them for at least 2 billion dollars USD
This Vegas vlogger had a pretty good breakdown about the suit
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I don’t know what their source is, but in the old testament, killing or making people miserable with disease is pretty much the only thing god does.
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Via the Toronto Star this morning… (personally I would have put Boris Johson’s face on that first one… 
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The second one is a reasonable likeness.
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I haven’t checked the PPE shops to see what’s available, and N95-class masks are said to be harder to wear, but with cases/day zooming in Ontario, still fuzzy when my age group can get a shot, and only needing to wear a mask for the duration of grocery shopping, it might be time to upgrade.
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You answered your own question. What I see increasingly expressed among evangelicals is a focus on nothing except a few books in the New Testament and selected verses. What jumped out at me in the story below was that they don’t seem to know anything about Exodus, and I have to wonder if they’ve ever really watched the film The Ten Commandments.* Didn’t that group used to be huge fans of Charlton Heston?
*If they won’t read the book, maybe they’ll watch the movie and learn why Passover is trending in the news. 
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So they predicted that cases would go up, even with a slower re-opening, and they did it anyway? I mean, good that they didn’t do a Texas, but this is what I mean about the difference between looking at something as an epidemiologist and looking at it as a human being. Because an epidemiologist will try to solve for the problem of “how do we reopen everything with the minimum increase in cases” vs. “how about we stop fucking killing people?”
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Even glass lenses these days have polymer coatings. Even the anti-scratch coatings scratch more easily than glass. And I can’t find a toothpaste that doesn’t have abrasives on the shelf anymore. Even baking soda is an abrasive in the context of putting it on lenses.
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So they predicted that cases would go up, even with a slower re-opening, and they did it anyway?
Short answer? Yes… 
My general low opinion, or outright contempt, for our Ontario 
provincial leadership puts me in company I generally respect. The leader of our vaccine distribution committee (former General Hillier) walked away, and our Chief Medical Officer, if he was ever a competent doctor, is now acting at best like a beaten lap dog. (edit: He was due to retire… COVID delayed that.)
Contradictory evidence presented by experts appears to elicit “homey” and “relatable” ad-hominem disparagement of that work by our leaders, happy to treat it as readily dismissible pessimism generated by cloistered, egghead academics.
I’m sure they are wondering which incompetent minion it was failed to inform the COVID virus population that time was up… /s
After all this is over, buy me a 
and I’ll tell you what I really think… 
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Back when there were fewer liquid soaps available, the usual choice was Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo, which helpfully can be bought in a tiny enough container that it can even go through TSA.
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this. and the other aspect is, with some groups, is that the end of the world is a good thing, and that if god’s plan involves dying in a pandemic, so be it
pretty sure i just got disowned by my own mother yesterday after asking if she’d been tested. she a) wasn’t feeling well, b) said another person at her work wasn’t feeling well, and c) said it was just something going around the office
if there’s one thing this agnostic knows for sure, it’s that god’s will really can destroy both the world and people’s families
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That sucks. I’m sorry.
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I have found what works best for me is wearing the disposable mask a little higher so it’s above the glasses frame, and pressing the nose wire tight not just along my nose, but flat against the eye-socket bones as well.
Then the cloth mask over top (sits below the glasses) to help close the gaps in the disposable.
Works pretty well. Minimal fogging in PNW climate outdoors and none inside. YMMV.
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Fourth wave?
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Don’t know if that’s the case yet, but cases not dropping is definitely not a good thing. But an absolutely predictable thing now that people think it’s all over. The next couple weeks will tell if we are just another plateau or headed back up again.
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thanks!
sometimes after talking with my family i start to question my own reality. im lucky to have a few close friends, and a partner helping to keep me sane. plus some fairly reasonable co-workers and all of y’all awesome and lovely people.
and, it looks like now my partner and i may be able to get vaccinated this week or next. fingers crossed
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