PASabreFan

Are you saying there are few Wawrows left covering the Sabres? Or few writers of Wawrow's quality left in journalism? Because I'm pretty sure AP employs many Wawrows to cover sports.

It's been unsettled (the weather). It's hump day in a pandemic, so there's no way the good ole National Weather Service would be trying to pump up the masses with a glorious weekend forecast. Nah, that never happens. My Saturday forecast: Sunny. Let's see what happens.

Hoo boy, a little dated there.

Maybe I'm growing soft, but it's hard not to feel a little sorry for them. You won the lottery, now you're back in your Camry vigorously scratching off tickets outside the mini mart.

The articles themselves address the issue directly. There are only theories as to why Sweden bent the curve so dramatically after their spike. Trust in their health experts, higher level of societal responsibility (flying in the face of the theory that Sweden bent the curve by telling everyone to go crazy, folks, go crazy), measures the government took, their health care system etc. But it doesn't appear to be that enough people got infected to close down the virus.

Enjoy it while it lasts. nfreeman threw some change on the lawn and told me to stay outside for awhile.

Here are some snippets I found interesting. Honestly I don't care that much about Sweden. I don't want to move there and frolick in an untied bathrobe not worrying about infecting others or getting infected. I was just pointing out Sweden didn't achieve herd immunity and it wasn't really their goal in the first place, as is suggested below. https://www.healtheuropa.eu/swedens-response-to-covid-19-life-is-not-carrying-on-as-normal/101515/ https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/87812 And why we can't be Sweden: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-what-happened-in-sweden-and-you-cant-compare-it-to-u-s (Sorry that my url's don't turn into links. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. It ain't me.)

They have penicillin now, too. It's been in all the placards posted down by the canal. Does anyone care what the FDA says about hydroxyorangequine?

Sweden hasn't gotten close to herd immunity levels. Antibody testing shows about 10% of the population got infected. I'd still like to know how we get to herd immunity when the immune response doesn't seem to be a lasting one. They're talking about a vaccine that will be similar to the flu shot. Effective in as little as half the people who get it with the idea those who get sick anyway won't get as sick as they would have.

You're kidding.

I can get a bag of frozen brussels sprouts for .79 at Aldi. FWIW there have been studies that vegetables frozen soon after picking are more nutritious than vegetables that make their way to your produce section, destined to be misted every 20 minutes to make them look fresh.

I just ate an Impossible Whopper. The one I had when they first came out was meh. This one, maybe because I heated it up when I got home — I wouldn't have known it wasn't beef. That's probably as much of a statement about BK's beef as the Impossible burger.

So now the Sabres are using DATA and VIDEO?! What's next, the hockey department getting their own email addresses?

The first month is free. Their credit cards aren't charged.

That's awesome. You're going to be around here for a long time. Are you winning more on the food side or the exercise side?

The CDC put out a great chart detailing which underlying conditions are the worst to have re: Covid. Google is your friend! Enough time has now passed that a lot of data is available for analysis. One of the main reasons I returned to work is that my conditions seem to be less of a concern. Well controlled asthma, chronic lung disease other than COPD, low dose Methotrexate. It feels like we're figuring this thing out, but 25(?)% of the population won't do three or four basic things to really get cases under control.

Cases at a high plateau in the U.S. Deaths yesterday highest in two months and on a bad trendline.

That's what I wanna know. I keep hearing about it. I've heard they're incredible.

If anyone has the one ingredient biscuit recipe could you post it here? Thanks in advance.

Do not kill. All creatures great and small and all that jazz. I'm still not over running over a squirrel a few years ago. I know @New Scotland (NS) is with me. We embrace Brad Park, we do not shiv him. @Wilbur

Brought to you by the AMA and physicians union (guessing there is one). Doctors are often as ignorant as the public. Educated patients is a net plus (note the word net). I diagnosed a magnesium deficiency in my mom that her doctor couldn't figure out/wasn't interested in figuring out. Of course, she was old and yucky and have you ever been to a long term care facility? I had blood work yesterday. I am now dealing with my doctor trying to tell me a lymphocyte level of .3 is normal (when the lab report clearly states 1.0 is the low end of normal). Deal with=probably looking for a new doctor.

Covid 19 — still not the flu. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-acknowledgment-cdc-reports-long-term-covid-19-patients-n1234814

I'm gonna have to say good night.

I'll forgive yours if you forgive mine.