on coping with C19 lockdown

[J Rorick]

USA bad bad BAD!!!!!

Your shit is tiring.

Yes. it's really draining to get a taste of our own medicine.

[bad hammy]

USA bad bad BAD!!!!!

A country with a large percentage of covidiots. Maybe other countries do too but ours are encouraged from on high and the results are obvious & devastating . . .

[18.99s]

It is the attitudes of these deluded selfish entitled nut jobs which will see that Dr. Fauci's prediction of 400,000 deaths will be massively under stated.

Already reached 346,000. At this point it would be a miracle if the total doesn't hit 500,000 by the end of 2021.

[gh]

meanwhile, in Britain....

Covid fact-check: Is the UK mixing vaccines?
Second jab from different supplier may be considered in exceptional cases

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-vaccine-uk-mixing-b1781707.html

[bhall]

Ahhhh Georgia is DFL among states...

Percent of Distributed Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Administered

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BzQ2d/1/

[jazzcyclist]

My father got his 1st vaccine shot at the VA hospital yesterday and he said there was no wait at all.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile.....


BREAKING: British Prime Minister @BorisJohnson
orders new national lockdown in England, for 6 weeks until mid-February. Schools to shut, exams cancelled. Another very grim moment in this pandemic, but one that is clearly essential to combat fast-spreading new covid variant.

[Atticus]

My father got his 1st vaccine shot at the VA hospital yesterday and he said there was no wait at all.

My county, in its continuing infinite wisdom, decided to give shots to the elderly at a downtown convention center, so you could stand in lines to get it.
I qualify, but I'll wait.

[Trickstat]

Meanwhile.....


BREAKING: British Prime Minister @BorisJohnson
orders new national lockdown in England, for 6 weeks until mid-February. Schools to shut, exams cancelled. Another very grim moment in this pandemic, but one that is clearly essential to combat fast-spreading new covid variant.

Today was the day most schools in England re-opened after the Christmas break.

[jeremyp]

My county, in its continuing infinite wisdom, decided to give shots to the elderly at a downtown convention center, so you could stand in lines to get it.
I qualify, but I'll wait.

In ours they had you call a number to set up an appointment. My wife gave up after 15 minutes. A local Journalist called 64 times before he got through, then was disconnected. Think I'll mix up my own.

[Atticus]

In ours they had you call a number to set up an appointment. My wife gave up after 15 minutes. A local Journalist called 64 times before he got through, then was disconnected. Think I'll mix up my own.

I figure the right opportunity will arise in the next 2 months for us fogeys. We've waited this long . . .

[J Rorick]

I figure the right opportunity will arise in the next 2 months for us fogeys. We've waited this long . . .

It looks to me as if my age group (also Garry's) of 65-74 without any comorbidities will be quite a bit down the California vaccination priority line, unlike in some other states. I suspect I'll catch the new variant of COVID and die before then.

[polevaultpower]

Hah we are driving our island car to the mainland right now, both for an oil change and so we can take more provisions home. Put less than 1,000 miles on it this year, but it has been a year since the last oil change. The folks at Jiffy Lube are always so confused...

Update: Went to Jiffy Lube and the (synthetic) oil looked perfect and they assured me the car did not need an oil change, despite it having been a year. I am glad I had it checked.

The car is a 2001 Camry with 155,000 miles, and we only drive ~2,000 miles/year or less on it. Hoping to get another 12 or so years out of it so my kids can drive it around the island when they are old enough to drive (oldest turns 10 soon). That seems cheaper than buying a newer car for them down the road.

[Atticus]

they assured me the car did not need an oil change, despite it having been a year.

Our JLube is just up the road, but you just 'enabled' my laziness to put it off 6 more months. It's been 2K easy miles, since the last (a year ago).

[Conor Dary]

For $29 it wasn't worth not to change it...

Anyways here is AAA...


Note that if you do not put many miles on your car, most automakers recommend an oil change every 12 months, even if the maintenance reminder has not come on.


https://www.aaa.com/autorepair/artic...nge-engine-oil