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Speaking of search engines, I popped AccuWeather up earlier to check the humidity and rain for a run I was going to do, and low and behold there was a Covid tab at the top, next to radar/daily/hourly, etc. I just want to look at something without hearing about it lol

Wait, Bing is still a thing.... I thought it went the way of Ask Jeeves

Hell yeah, we use Google.... And pornhub.... ?

Can I print this one out and use in my home office? Pretty please

I'm trying to find a way to assimilate a bit back into it, but also don't want a repeat of a few months ago. At least I'm glad to see that no one here seems to have gotten the worst of anything.

It's all good, I was saying it in a joking manner... I'm at the point where I just want it all to be done. Sadly the sheer amount of disrespect I've had to endure over the last few months has taken its toll on me.... And that was AFTER I cleaned up my original stance from this thread in the beginning. I'm no epidemiologist, but I have significant involvement with disease, in the first and third world, I still went to school for a decade+ and have a feel for things in a different sense. But Joe Schmoe that uses Google clearly is allowed to be an ass hat. Sorry for the vent. Ah, I am on mobile so I have to add it different, sometimes the link inserts and sometimes I get a hyperlink.

https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.7e8d154eee7c96eef5eee5f0b75dc411&pid=Api&rurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia.giphy.com%2fmedia%2ff8tG4GbqU0NlEp5WWB%2fgiphy.gif&ehk=nU0XZYxeyhk%2f5J13DxUi%2bi5BYuYC0wWfhOK1swt43Zg%3d

I've come around to basically agreeing to some of the measures, granted I'm still not 100% bought in, and I certainly won't be all in, mentally; but I can respect both sides and as a health care professional I have an obligation to health. I just get very off kilter each week something new like this happens and just seems to go without any stir. Meanwhile people are getting much more upset over much more minor things.

I suppose this makes more sense, I only talked with her briefly so maybe there was more to it than was revealed to me.

Just to show how absolutley irrational everyone is in the decision making process in this.... One of my nurses went on a trip last week, her friend has Covid and they shared straws, drinks etc. When she came home the DOH had her quarantine for the 14 days with in home checks, ok, whatever.... The kicker, even though she had it and was asymptomatic, she was allowed to come to work as a nurse during her "quarantine" I think what bothers me the most of all of this is the complete and utter lack of common sense in it all, from the top down to the local hospital policies. We also have the ability to test IGg and IGm antibodies in the blood which in theory should be more slam dunk than the nasal swabs, they come back quicker, but yet other facilities won't accept transfers without the nasal swabs which take 3-5 days still, so now we have patients sitting in a hospital getting worse because of absolutley silly rules. My good teacher friend said when they start school, 2 days a week will be in class but the other 3 online.... Why?! Wtf?? That makes less than zero sense.... Freaking pick a path and take it, keep it online or let them go to school, why are we complicating everything? Misanthropy would be a positive step up for me at this point.

Hey now, you burn calories while drinking and sleeping, so you're fine ?

I rode up Cadillac Mountain, it was intense, if it wasn't for the wind I would've probably gone 50+ but every time I picked up speed it blew me into the other lane, so I had to keep feathering the brakes. I think the fastest I've hit on the road bike is 58mph and that was not something I wanna do again. The open water swim is def helped with a triathlon wetsuit, helps with buyoncy a bunch. I'm still amazed at the people who fly by me like the rookie I am, especially when the 70 year old Grey haired guy on a bike gives me a helmet tip with no effort as I'm dying up a hill ?? Sex life?

@ubkevawesome sprint! I was frolicking around last week as I always do, This is ride was insane, I think the elevation was around 4800ft for the ride. It was absolutley beautiful though. Also I did a 1.3 mile swim in Echo Lake in Acadia In about 55 minutes, certainly not earth shattering, but for open water, ill take it.

https://news.rpi.edu/content/2020/07/15/common-fda-approved-drug-may-effectively-neutralize-virus-causes-covid-19 I'm not sure why I'm adding to this thread, it's been nothing short of a crap show for the most part, I've also taken some months off and just mainly lurked, which has been, refreshing. But this is some info, regarding the virus and treatment that was sent to me by a college, read into it what you may.

Make sure your bike fit is alright, a seat too low will hurt the knees and lower back, and too high, will rotate the pelvis and cause a strain as well. Make sure the seat is forward enough so you're not reaching and I like to keep mine tilted down a hair as I use aero bars when I can ?

The swim is the hardest part, I was training well up until Covid hit and then the Ymca's all closed, I was able to do 1.2 miles in like 50 minutes, that's still super slow, but now, it's very tough getting back into swim shape. My last real long swim before this week was March 6th ? I have a sprint Tri on August 5th,a half marathon August 16th and then a Half Iron man September 5th. Assuming I don't die, the real. Training starts mid September for Ironman Lake Placid in July. I've already hired a coach and he's brutal lol. Care to join?

The last 3 days I crushed a 1 mile open water swim on Wednesday, a 55 mile bike ride yesterday and just finished a 10mile run today.... It was the hottest I can remember in a loooong time, my body is all but dead, and I was stupid for even doing these things.... That is all ??

Happy 4th, away from everyone, away from home and happy. I'll be back once the world calms down.

That's fine, I'm outta this place for a while... A ***** sociopath, go F*ck yourself

This is the funniest thing I've read on here, y'all people have lost your damn minds. Seek help? That's rich Medicine is about collecting money and prolonging lives far past a time they should be. Ever visit a nursing home?! Instead of quality of life we are focusing on quantity. It's not really that hard to see. Right now quality is in the basement. Also, I never said I would be "satisfyed" dying tomorrow, I simply said that I could live with it as it's out of my hands, don't change up my words.

I just don't understand the big deal with death, we are put here for a finite amount of time for whatever reason. I firmly believe when it's my time, it's my time. If an avalanche takes me out, a virus, a bee sting, car accident, it doesn't matter, it's over, and I don't get to decide when my time is done. Sure there is grieving and some pain with death, but that's part of this life, and so is living and enjoying it. Everyone here that knows me at all, knows that I'm trying to get every last bit of enjoyment out of my time here; I refuse to let a virus change that mentality. It honestly breaks my heart going out in public and seeing people scurrying around like scared little insects, what kind of life is that.

Good for them, I love hearing about people not living in fear! Life is for the living, go parents!

We do our best every day to prevent deaths from heart disease, suicide, etc. This is not different, we will continue to do our best to prevent Corona deaths, but not at the expense of closing off the world. In the end the disease is going to bear out similar numbers irregardless of what we do, we'll just be prolonging it further while causing other negative effects this way.

I'd be very skeptical of a vaccine saving the day, I do not trust the efficacy of a vaccine that is most likely going to be rushed, especially for a virus in the Corona family. I fear that the vaccine will be about as effective as the seasonal influenza vaccine (which isn't that great). Right now, the best science we actually can 100% confirm is that once you have the virus and recover you do have a certain amount of immunity. Now we don't know if the immunity lasts 2 weeks or 2 years; and we have no idea if this thing is going to be a seasonal thing. But having immune protections trumps a vaccination at this point in time.

That was terrible.