Yes and no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawkeye15
We all spoke about the litany of issues we went thru in December which included a month delay in getting decorations up and we all praise the Lord for this being the best Christmas thru our 20 years of marriage.
Yep. Negative tests.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncos78087
I was told that I couldn't get it again (I asked if I should get a booster after this). Then I read that if you take Paxlovid you are susceptible to COVID rebound. Had to google that and sure enough.
I also thank the walk in clinic nurse that said what I had was most likely COVID rebound and that she'd still treat me for a sinus infection just in case. Based on the 24 hour symptom recovery, I think that nurse hit a home run by treating me for both (no Paxlovid the second time around).
I despise Christmas honestly. Spend, spend, spend, my family is dead or moved away so I get reminded daily, and my wife has expectations that Clark Griswald couldn't fulfill.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett05
I think I may have preferred to get covid too...
I am surprised they would definitively say that you couldn't get it again. But it seems like you got the unlucky end based on what I read here:Quote:
Originally Posted by brett05
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258292/
My dad got COVID along with my grandmother back in October and they advised waiting 90 days before getting the booster.
What politician or any actual leaders are saying this? That’s more important than some redneck on social media pushing itQuote:
Originally Posted by Hawkeye15
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First time I've heard someone describe Charlie Kirk as a "redneck."Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewersfan255
He’s not a serious person. So this isn’t surprising.Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
This may or may not shock you, but I get where you are and lean heavily in that direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawkeye15
Christmas has lost way too much of it's meaning and purpose. It seems for the most part it's commercial and greed. I even struggle at times spiritually with it as Christ was most likely born in early fall.
I think that may have been what made this year so special for us. We weren't able to do the commercial much at all and really focused on things important for us year round, not just Christmas.
Here's where I am at with COVID (January 5, 2023). Unless it comes from my doctors that I go to or have in the past, I am shutting out all other avenues. Too many this is fact, this is not, this is misinformation, this is not. If one trusts any side outside of their own care, that is fine, but don't make anyone else do so. Rely completely on your doctor(s). It is their jobs to be current with this stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncos78087
He got influence, so he has some relevance even if it is bad. Same with Candace Owens.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncos78087
look, we don't agree on virtually anything politics, but I am not going to be a dick in general to someone on a chat board.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett05
I don't believe in god, and we don't have religion inside our household. So there is no relation between religion and christmas. Raised catholic, but by age 14 was done. Family never pushed it. That being said, the commercial side is why Dads hate christmas. Even the bus driver needs a gift. Why????
I love the last sentence. Once our youngest doesn't believe in Santa anymore, we are done with presents, and are going to take a 7-8 day trip over Christmas. I can't ****ing wait man..if I am going to spend $3k on christmas, I would rather it be traveling to somewhere much cooler than Minnesota in late December :)
Well if you're asking what politician is saying this exact statement, probably none but I haven't checked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewersfan255
However, it really isn't that hard to see the connection between politicians (including the former president) who downplayed the virus (eg. it'll be gone soon, it's not that bad, its like a cold, we can go about our days normally, etc.), spread misinformation (eg. ingest bleach, ingest horse medicine, its the china virus, masks don't really do much and its all theater, etc.), and discredited experts (eg. all the Fauci hate and attempts to disprove science in general) and where we are now.
Politicians (mostly those on the republican side) have failed to lead us through this health crisis. They have also failed in discrediting people on social media like Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, etc. So now we're existing in society where those idiots freely spread misinformation. If we had a unified response from leaders from the beginning then we could have prevented a lot of deaths, strains on the healthcare system, and damage to the economy.
Christmas has been completely commercialized to the point we find it is our ritualistic duty to go into debt by Jan. first. We place more alms at the altar of Capitalism than Christ at Christmastime. All those Spend-spend to-you drop Christmas commercials after Halloween gets us primed for black Friday after Christmas sales contributions. It completely ruins Christmas with the unrealistic spending it encourages. Payment plans, payment plans!!!
yep, it's messed up. My buddy's kid had a hockey tournament up near Canada, 5 days after christmas. It costed my friend $1200. Like, don't you a-holes know nobody has any money in late December, because their womb raiders are complaining about all the toys they don't want to play with now?Quote:
Originally Posted by WES445
And the teacher, bus driver, mailman, all need gifts? What ****ing world is this were adults get presents at xmas?
My brother and his wife (athiest/jewish, no kids), just leave the country and visit somewhere from December 20-Jan 1. Sounds like an amazing idea to me...
We just make Christmas a family thing. Eating, sports watching, card dealing, lying and farting, and more eating. We do the same thing on Thanksgiving, July the 4th, and labor day. Working poor families don't inspire the expectation of holiday gifts from mailmen and such. I think the location is the giveaway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawkeye15
There was a time when they did get a holiday token, a five or ten on a holiday card. The old man was a mail carrier in a very good neighborhood, and every Christmas when he was home, we spend a good chunk of the night opening up Christmas cards with five and tens in them. A few hundred dollars
Best not to depend on tipping in today's economy.