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[Speedy]

rjmacs wrote:
As of last Thursday, I am fully immunized (Pfizer). Still wearing masks indoors outside the home, but feel much more comfortable in public spaces these days.

Congrats. Enjoy your new found freedumb. Seriously, I don’t wear a mask now anywhere it isn’t required.

[Lemon Drop]

rjmacs wrote:
As of last Thursday, I am fully immunized (Pfizer). Still wearing masks indoors outside the home, but feel much more comfortable in public spaces these days.

Congrats!!

[TheCaber]

Received Moderna#2 on 1 May, stayed housebound until 15 May, and will be masking when out and about (especially in public accessible buildings, stores, crowds, etc.).

Time to go discipline the lawn. I asked nicely, but the dandelions refused to trim themselves.

[deckeda]

So right now we’re navigating the local Burger King’s dining room, at my son’s request. It’s like 90% of the tables are verboten with a red placard denoting the table will wiped down “soon.” And 4-5 of those additionally have yellow “police tape” across them, like maybe someone died at each one.

We picked green placards denoting a clean table, but um, they all look alike from the soda stains.

[deckeda]

And it’s like 50 degrees in here. I realized the placards only indicate a “clean” or “dirty” table of the last patron turned over the card.

[Speedy]

Touch is a rare method of transmission.

[Anthony]

Jansen one shot 2 days ago. Fever, chills, etc. overnight. Morning of second day, feeling great.

[deckeda]

^^ good on ya

[Speedy]

An interesting read; a bit of a detective story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/20...to-humans/

In late 1998, it got it. The virus arrived in central Malaysia by air, inside furry bats that alighted on the boughs of fruit trees swaying over pig farms. The bats, messy eaters, dropped their half-consumed meals. The swine, undiscerning eaters, gobbled up the leftovers. The virus, ready to move, hopped into the pigs and passed through their coughs to the humans who worked with them.

And within eight months, 105 Malaysians — about 40 percent of those infected — had died of this novel virus, dubbed Nipah, after suffering through fevers, brain inflammation and comas.

Scientists would piece together this chain of events, identify the virus and trace it to its origins in fruit bats over the years that followed — quickly for this sort of disease investigation. It took solid hunches, luck and painstaking detective work. That work is ongoing: Nipah erupts annually in Bangladesh, where it kills people at an even greater rate. It also occasionally infects people in India, where a 12-year-old boy died of the virus in September. There is no vaccine or cure.

[deckeda]

^^

I’m rethinking the need for bacon and ham. And bats. Mostly bats.