Timmah!

We could start a Gofundme to send them to India so they can test the validity of their assertions at a nice E.R.

I'm talking about the Postmaster, the person that runs the post office; they're full-time. And yes, even though you missed the context, the snide fucktard behind the counter is full time also, he's been there for several years.

I'm not mad at you in the game or here. Talking shit is a fun thing for me to do. If you were on TS while I'm talking shit, you'd actually REALLY like it! These other people I honestly can't name, because I didn't pay attention to the names popping-up as it does. As for myself, I willingly venture into enemy territory to catch some hidin' li'l bitches unawares & get me a nice package; with that comes the risk of losing it. Sometimes I almost feel badly talking trash to you because I'm worried you might stroke out. Also, it's really buggin' me trying to figure out what tv-show character Yaccster sounds like; might be a cartoon; someone help me out here. Stay thirsty, my friends.

All I can add is when one person mentioned it yesterday, no less than 4 other people commented that they had the same experience of you leaving just as they were stealing your package. Quite a coincidence of timing, if not purposefully.

The p0int to more so consider would be how it unfairly impacts the player (& their team) who might have stolen it; changing a zer0-Sum to a Non-Zero-Sum game. Good to know it's cool when I start doing this, as there's more than a few packages liberated from me during a gaming session.

The attitude I'm sensing when I visit the local post office is one of misanthropic fuck you; You can calmly begin to explain an issue, prefacing it with complete equanimity, & you can immediately see- even before you have yet to finish your first statement- a comportment of increasingly resentful agitation which quickly leads to them interrupting you in a defensive tone. So I stand there silently until they make eye contact & then ask if it's ok for me to finish saying what I had begun before they interrupted me. Ended up being my asking to speak with the post master/manger. 'They're not here right now.' When are they gonna be back? 'Don't know, they come & go; we don't keep track of them.' I didn't ask you to keep track of them, do they not have a set schedule of hours during which they're here? 'Yeah, but they come & go, & we don't know when they will return.' Can you contact them? 'No.' So, someone's scheduled to be here, but they're not here, nobody knows where they went, when they're gonna return & nobody has a way to contact them; but they're supposed to be running this place? Then some dude in his early 60s rounds the corner & asks why the packages aren't being left in the package locker newly-bolted to the lobby floor? Well, if I knew the answer to that, I wouldn't be here, would I? I think some of these passive-aggressive c0cksuckers are just waaay too complacent with their what I consider relatively cake job. I've stacked bourbon barrels at a Jim Beam facility, done landscaping, to include climbing trees, laying sod, clearing brush. I've done roofing on sweltering summer days where the prospect of falling off the roof & going to an air-conditioned ER didn't seem like an entirely bad idea at that moment. I've worked in nursing & have had every bodily fluid a human can produce splashed upon my corporeal being. I've wiped asses, cleaned trach tubes, given showers, sponge baths (the answer's 'no', Rob), been cursed & struck by demented patients, worked at a White Castle flipping endless burgers, worked at a pizza joint slapping-out an endless procession of pies & worked a stacked oven in a cramped hot-ass kitchen in the middle of summer; enclosed & climbed 3-story distillation towers to remove asbestos on frigid winter days & these fools have a fuck you attitude doing an easy job that pays & has benefits. Some of these motherfuckers need a good country ass whoopin', need to get tuned-up.

I live in an apartment building.. It's all indoors, including the hallways. A few of our residents like delivering the packages to our doors because they're nice people & it gives some of them something to do. When the building manager decided that the package delivery companies needed to deliver the packages to the residents' doors themselves, the USPS carrier refused & would leave them in the mailroom & mark them as delivered. Mail 'delivered' on a Saturday would sit in the mailroom until Monday, when the manager returned. A solution was reached by a package locker being bolted to the floor by the mailboxes in the lobby. So what happens the very next Saturday? Fuckbag leaves them in the mailroom anyway, marking them delivered. I went down to the post office & complained, stating that I don't live in the fucking mail room & it'd be really great if the carrier would do their job & deliver them to the recipients' doors, where they live. They started dissembling, throwing out bullshit excuses of how they don't have time to do that. I reiterated that it's their fucking job; they get paid for it, the hallways are all inside a climate-contolled building, that if they were all separate houses on a street, they would have to drive to each, get out of their mail cart & walk it to the front door, taking much longer than how they are currently all conveniently housed in one building. Time to talk to the postmaster again, so these shitbags do the job for which they're paid.

Lol, I was bored & high; & he gave me some motivation. Fortunately, my asthma went away by the time I was 12 or so. Do you ever take Guaifenesin to help make the c0ugh more productive? If you do, it's a good idea to make sure you stay hydrated for it to be maximally effective. Also: run-on. =P

Looks like a giant liverwurst pot pie!

My situation & experiences were similar. Caught what I believe was teh Covid ~14 months ago. Got double pneumonia. 3 weeks of coughing-up shit, 3 weeks of convalescence, being weak af. Flu never did that to me, nor any secondary bacterial infection. Wasn't bacterial as I was on a course of Clindamycin at the time. Stayed hydrated, took some Guaifenesin, methylprednisolone, cough suppressant as needed & had an Albuterol inhaler I never, thankfully, needed. Kept the room humid, stuck my face over a pot of hot water upon waking to inhale steam to help loosen the g00. Felt out of sorts for a while if for no other reason than my body's systems being taxed as they were. The first shot made me sleep a little more than usual. The second shot made me sleep considerably more than I usually did. Would get 8 hours, wake up for 4, and go back to sleep for another 7. This was to be expected as the inflammatory response & T cells do their thing. Interestingly, the 2nd shot elicits more of an immediate defense reaction than an additional amplification of memory B cells for people that have previously recovered from COVID. Data is indicating that the second shot -for those having recovered- offers no more increase in memory B cell serum concentration over the first. Those people also have a considerably more robust protective immune response as contrasted with those who take both shots but never have had COVID. A good piece of information is the similarity among mutations originating on different continents: It indicates that this virus likely will mutate less than others have in the past, making the vaccines more effective. If someone hasn't yet been vaccinated & is considering, I would suggest the Pfizer over the other 2, as it doesn't contain an Adenovirus as a delivery vehicle.

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Seemingly, the J&J & Astra Zeneca delivery vehicle (an Adenovirus) is the likely culprit & would explain why Pfizer's vaccine doesn't, as it doesn't (use a virus).

Oh, & I'm here to help. (50 years of grammar, diction & punctuation experience; I actually paid attention)

Ahh, you attribute to others your own behavior. Never answered a single, baseless assertion. And won't. Because you can't. Your 'hit a nerve' is, interestingly, your original motivation for interjecting your useless commentary. Still won't defend any of your baseless comments. Because you can't. I tell people to have people wash their hands & you come running in to claim I shit on you. And you really don't know the 5th-grade difference between pier & peer? Or your & you're? But you ostensibly practice medicine? Can't make this shit up. Except the parts you did.

So, no facts? More ad hominem? I mean, I'm having a conversation with someone who doesn't know the difference between peer & pier. If your ability to practice medicine is anywhere on par with your ability to practice basic grammar & spelling, I wouldn't want you coming anywhere near me. There. Take that! Dumbass. (please feel free to get back on-topic).

You: Facts = Drama Queen I bet your [sic] fun at parties! (two ad hominem in one response) *you're Me: Wash your hands. Take some remedial grammar.

Ok, so 'no' from you on all counts. Me: Wash your hands (have others do so before they touch you [it could save your life]). You: That's harsh. You're shitting on us! Me: People die. Wash your hands. You: That's flippant! You're discouraging people. It's the worse [sic] thing you can do. *worst Me: Blah blah, wash your hands. You: I'm all for it. They cut people's legs off in the Civil War. You're a Monday Morning Quarterback. Every opinion is of value and I appreciate yours. Sorry I helped hijack this. Me: You're avoiding the facts. Wash your hands You: You're being inflammatory. I'm here to help. P.m. me if you want to make a difference. Me: Nobody addressed you before you interjected your feelings. Wash your hands You: I've called you out multiple times. You're stuck on my Civil War comment. You wanna be part of the problem or solution? Stop throwing rocks. Me: You don't' know me. Wash your hands. You: I don't know you. Ok, wash your hands. You made a blanket statement. Me: Please explain. Wash your hands. You: I sense your ego involved. I know you are, but what am I? I'm willing to discuss making a difference on this issue. I'm here to help. Me: Wash your hands That was the point I was making before you jumped in with your hurt feelings. And helped the conversation's productivity with your ad hominems, assumptions, deflections, & bizarre, irrelevant Civil War anecdote. Wash your hands. Every time. I'm here to help.

Please, now that you've walked all that blathering back... except for the new 'blanket statement' assertion; since you felt it worthy to take the time to make the claim, explain in as granular of detail as possible what the statement was & in what ways it was a 'blanket' statement. My commentary was to the effect (that) I'm hesitant to go to a hospital unless absolutely necessary because 100,000 people get killed from something that happens to them there. Would you like to know, do you think the average joe would like to know that tidbit of information as it would relate to any activity? And that a very simple thing you learn when you're 5 years old could save your life?: Asking someone to wash their hands before they touch you or any of the shit in the room? Good idea? Yet you called it flippant? Why? Please explain how that threw anybody under the bus? Facts are facts. Those are some, as I see it, VERY IMPORTANT facts... and a VERY good, simple, actionable prophylactic measure to protect one's life. But, apparently, what we learn when we're 5 somehow now requires a Doctorate in Medicine to put into practice; otherwise, even the mere suggestion hazards one to be relegated to the status of an armchair quarterback. Unless, of course, one's ego is more-important than someone else's life. So don't even discuss it.

You know exactly nothing about my community contribution to situation. And I stand by my statement of not going to a hospital unless absolutely required. Don't forget to wash your hands. https://youtu.be/HKybDdGHZHE

As part of a conversation of which you originally were not, I was commenting on my hesitancy to visit a hospital unless I needed to. Didn't tell anyone to not go. You decided to chime in with your feelings & how you were thrown under the bus because I quoted statistics of 10's of thousands of people dying due to poor hygiene. That's a heads-up for anybody that does visit a hospital to be sure to ask anyone that's going to touch them to firstly wash their hands. That's called potentially life-saving, useful information. Your useless interlocution was to express how it hurt your feelings & was kinda harsh & that people got their legs cut off during the Civil War. Have a great day. Also: You're.

I was a registered nurse, not that it would be necessary to understand information readily available. I like how you avoid the facts & throw out deflections, straw men & ad hominems instead of giving the subject due acknowledgement. 'Flippant, monday morning quarterback, soldiers getting their legs cut-off in the Civil War, been happening for years.' Hey, some soldier contracted an infection in 1863 due to a gunshot wound & they had to cut-off their leg, so that's one of your apparent apologies for a NOSOCOMIAL (hospital-acquired) infection in 2021. You using your prefrontal cortex or amygdala for this conversation? (that's a rhetorical question).

Hey, I appreciate it. We're talking past-tense, as I exited the health care field some years ago. Just bringing my experiences & knowledge to bear on what I think is a criminally pervasive problem that has been needlessly occurring for years. Wonder how many family members know that their loved one didn't get to come back home because someone didn't feel like washing their hands.

That was a weak apology; this shit's been going on for years. I can't count the times a nurse or a doctor took offense when I diplomatically reminded them they needed to wash their hands before touching the next patient. You know as well as I that this intransigence has been occurring for decades. DECADES. This shit isn't new. When I began working in healthcare in the '90s.... almost a quarter century- 25 years ago I began- this was an issue. When I exited the healthcare field not so long ago, it was still a major issue. Since then, even up to today, it still is an issue. We're talking 10 people an hour that will die today because of this. So, where are these amazing strides? Some of this is because of a hectic pace & being overworked. A major portion however is because people don't like getting cracked hands or continuously taking the time to wash or sanitize their hands during a heavy caseload of rounds. But when the consequence is that you're likely going to kill someone, that's just not good enough. You do realize that at least 25% of ICU blood infections are caused by this lack of hygiene alone? It would seem to me, that if these deaths were so very worrisome to you, your initial response would have at least made mention of this. But it didn't. You just complained about how 'harsh' pointing-out this fact was. Ever heard that part about first do no harm? Unless you just can't be arsed to wash yer fucking hands.... then it's ok to kill someone. FOH.

Gonna have to pick some up today; never tried it.

@tsw 8.5 Ever us Weber Chicago Steak Seasoning or McCormick's Montreal Steak Seasoning?