It was two years ago today...

[LEAKYSEALS951]

"It was 2 years ago today...Sargent pepper taught the band to play"

I was burnt out on covid before it even got to the Murica'.

So burnt out I was, I packed up my bike, rode across the state in the dead of 20 degree winter, hoping it would go away by next work week. Froze my arse off.



The covid disease, phenomena, frenzy, political polarization, and everything else- didn't go away the next Monday.

In march, my profession was shut down.

Today, two years later, my entire morning was interrupted by covid. Our local hospital covid wards are full, the people in the 7-11 checkout line couldn't shut up about it, the office spent 15 minutes discussing it today (all before 6:45 a.m), and as a final end to the day-

33% of tomorrow's schedule has cancelled due to having the covid.

At least everyone on ppot is in agreement on it

I need another bike ride.

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye's-911T

A forum which should have or could have been a place for some civilized discussion & opinion exchanges, unfortunately devolved into one laced with too much vitriol, some "notso" veiled personal attacks &/or schoolyard name calling. After a brief & ill-advised foray into 'parf', I've since bailed & thus in agreement with LWJ's thought.

Cheers
JB

There is no problem at all in PARF, and plenty of engaging conversation, if one doesn't take himself, or m/boards in general, too seriously and simply doesn't read posts from members that he or she thinks are headcases, overly negative and opinionated, full of excrement, etc. (very easy to do and does not even require use of the forum's ignore function if one has a functioning mental filter . . . or read them anyway and have a good laugh, like I often do).

[upsscott]

I haven’t been around parf in the Covid era. I can only imagine the garbage that gets spread there.

[svandamme]

Unfortunately I did not make a killing on Tin Foil , should have bought TP in stead of TF

[sc_rufctr]

Only two years? It seems much longer.

[aap1966]

My post from 14 March 2020 'My COVID-19 $0.02' thread:

"Graduated Med School 1990.

Few years of residency crap, then the last 26 years Intensive Care; cardiothoracic, general, cardiac.
Seen lots of stuff, lived and worked through lots of hype.

I thought COVID-19 was going to be just another bug accompanied by hysteria.
Until last week, really last 72 hours.
This is already ugly in places, it has a very high chance to get real ugly in lots of places.

I hope we dodge a bullet with this, but I'm worried we won't.
What's being happening the last few days is genuinely scary.

Take care guys."

[hbueno]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

There is no problem at all in PARF, and plenty of engaging conversation, if one doesn't take himself, or m/boards in general, too seriously and simply doesn't read posts from members that he or she thinks are headcases, overly negative and opinionated, full of excrement, etc. (very easy to do and does not even require use of the forum's ignore function if one has a functioning mental filter . . . or read them anyway and have a good laugh, like I often do).

If one does what you recommend, there's about one post (not thread) per week worth reading. But yes, it's more of a lets be entertained and appalled by "WTF more can these zany old men come up with today" situation.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by svandamme

Unfortunately I did not make a killing on Tin Foil , should have bought TP in stead of TF

I did suggest buying masks. I should also have suggested hand sanitizer. And Alcohol, the drinking kind. Investing in those you would have made a killing.

EDIT: As I sit here in quarantine....

[svandamme]

yeah, I know. But I still think Tin Foil biz is under performing , there is a clear gap.
The customer base is there, but they aren't buying enough of it.

the TF biz is just not doing enough and the right kind of marketing.
So I think it's still a strong buy and then a cash in when the gap eventually closes and they go up in price.

[Mahler9th]

I remember a neighbor telling me about this in April 2020:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/23/she-held-the-family-together-san-jose-woman-is-first-known-u-s-covid-19-death/

She was a colleague of his at a Fremont company located right near Tesla.

Likely got sick around late January 2020.

Pretty sure she worked out at the same gym I attended which is also right near Tesla.

Not sure if they have confirmed earlier deaths.

So much has been learned, so much is still unknown.

So much loss, so much cost.

So many lives changed...

Global. Pandemic.