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Just rode 30 miles, the first half was nice, but the way home there were terrible crosswinds. 2000ft of elevation change. Also, I had a brain fart, at a red light I didn't unlock my feet from my pedals quick enough and slammed down hard on my left side, of course in front of all the traffic from the people that should be home. Very embarrassing indeed ?

It's all good, we could use a little fun these days ? Also a pillar of Buddhism is understanding suffering, so I'm already prepped from being a sabres fan ? Now back to your regularly scheduled Covid....

It doesn't really jive, but then again i said I'm studying it, not devout ? I also know a lot of other religions that don't practice what they preach, another topic for another discussion.

Well as for the last part, I've been studying Buddhism ever since I spent time with the monks in Thailand. I do believe in a higher power, just not quite there yet to a personal answer on this journey. I do appreciate the words of encouragement from everyone, and I wish all the best through this.

Ii appreciate reading this thread, honestly I know that the world is losing it, and we, by no means, have the answers. With that being said, I have conversed with many here, met many and we all sort of "get" each other to a certain point. This Covid thing came out of the blue for all intents and purposes, and it's weighed on me more than I would like it to. When I say this, I don't mean the actual virus itself, but the reaction in the world to it. The hoarding, greed, lack of thinking and foresight, the selfishness, finger pointing, racism, social media attention seeking, etc. I can handle the medical side of it, that's what I was born and trained to do, it's why I put myself into the 3rd world without a second though, and conversing with my 2md family and kiddos from Uganda today, it made my heart very heavy. Were sitting here in the 1st world acting like asshats and they are in just as much trouble there with almost zero chance to fight back and I can't get down there to help. I go to the hospital run by business people, ill prepared, and people are still showing up entitled and ignoring guidelines. Meanwhile my heart breaks for a culture that does whatever it can to survive. Sure, it's nice all these gestures around NYC and etc, but the negatives I've witnessed from this pandemic have far outweighed the good. I've been trying to avoid most media, social media, news, etc but it's literally impossible, especially since I work in this field. This last couple of weeks has been tough on everyone, apologies for the venting, but I feel this is a place that I can and others may understand a bit. I'm close to the edge of resigning and starting a new career, financially it may not work, but it's more on the forefront of my mind than ever before and Covid has really pushed that lingering thought to the foreground. I'm just tired.

This job sucks on normal days, it's basically unbearable now, I feel ya @North Buffalostay strong!

With the amount of narcotics I had in me, I was, mentally.

I'll take max domi please

I was hoping to get out there and show my real skillllz but I was in the back getting shot up with morphine for my very nicely faked injury.

So you won't come to the hospital and flirt with me..... And here I thought we had something special?

I find him to be insufferable as a person. I know many people with mental health issues, I also know alcoholics. They aren't all *****, he is. Still, I'm glad he got help.

Oh boys, I now use proper riding gear (now that I'm an adult ??) also, I'm an octopus not a squid, duh

Honestly I am just hoping for a quick conclusion, we have world renound virologists and people of science on this. On a side note health care workers are being attacked in public, people coming up to them in gas stations and spraying them with lysol, and other ridiculous things. I had to stop at Wal mart (shiver) this morning, after I left an overnight shift, I changed into clean scrubs and showered before leaving, but I was still out and about in scrubs... The evil eyes and stares I was getting was out of hand, all the hoarders were looking at me like an alien with death stares. Kinda eerie, and firmly keeping me in mind mind of belief that we need natural selection ?

I pulled the trigger ? y'all can help spread my ashses soon ?

Yes, I am mixing up my years and my diseases, my apologies. The sheer amount of crap we're being put through in the Healthcare field is causing some flip flopping for all of us, mentally speaking. Every day, new guidelines, new procedures, new stories, wading through the muck, etc. I'll put it as plainly as I can from a personal perspective. I was trained in the military to prepare for stuff like this, quarantine, etc. I dont personally belive this is as bad as we are making it out to be; I don't think it's just the flu, but I don't think it warrants national and international shutdown. With that being said, if we are going to declare a national emergency and a pandemic I do have an expectation that those in charge (leaders of health organizations, hospitals, etc) will have their crap together, and we simply do not. I may not agree with everything that is going on, but in my job, I can take orders well. Someone level headed needs to take charge and it's simply not happening (especially in my current local situation). The lack of preparedness and the lack of following through on this social distancing thing makes this feel like a joke.

I believe I was

It's not the flu as in influenza, but it's grossly similar, it's a virus, a novel virus similar to the flu, a novel virus (swine). I'm indurated with information about all of this stuff, but I also have real life experience working through H1N1, we easily could have had this level of involvement with H1N1 but we didn't, even with many more deaths than what the predictions are here with this virus. The Info I'm seeing and hearing from colleagues and news media are varying from day to day and site to site. It's hard to grasp exactly.

I think that is part of it, not all of it, but it's not helping.

I Was at Millard suburban that year I believe, we were using thr GI endoscopy suite as overflow from the ER due to the bad flu, the same precautions held, if you're young and healthy, stay home drink soup. Older people and those who are immuncompromised need us more. This is very similar and the ER's are getting overrun across the globe, I just have seen so much worse in other countries before, including ebola, and some time in Iraq, so it's hard for me to have the same level of panic and fear personally that many others have in society.

Most of the misinformation is social media. But I'm leary of the death numbers.... Let's say patient A has pancreatic cancer, end stage.... Patient gets Covid and dies from pancreatic CA, they still count in the death toll towards Covid. Last week a patient in my hospital (a separate one I work per diem) died, she had Covid, she also had end stage emphysema, so the it's attributed to Covid, not the fact that she smoked 3 packs per day since age 15. Im just frustrated and ranting a bit, but there are certainly some issues at hand in terms of delivery on this matter. H1N1 killed 40 million people, and we didn't do anything. This has killed 20k and we're losing our minds. So, I think it's an overreaction, personally

I'm just gonna buy a boat, paddle out to the Indian Ocean, rent an over water cabana and enjoy the Maldives or some other island in the sun, until the world stops losing its damn marbles. That way the melanoma and liver disease can claim me instead of me losing my damn mind in 1st world media blubber. The amount of sheer incorrect information (many from medical professionals) is staggering and I think that's more stressful than the actual virus. People just need their damn 15 minutes of fame in social media and nothing will stop them from trying to take glory for misinformation. My cousin currently has positive Corona in Albany, but every 10 minutes he's on social media with some political post nonsense, doesn't seem like he's that sick to me. I know when I have the flu, the last thing I care about is the internet. I wish airplanes would start spraying aeresolized Ativan into the general population to calm everyone the hell down.

I'm just not too familiar with these Italian bikes so much, I'm also a fan of the full fairing look overall. He's looking for 4k and he's taken amazing care of this bike, the upgrades alone make this a steal. Looking at the reviews the concensus is that it's basically a race bike with street comfort. I don't hate the "naked" part of it, just not sure if I should pass this up for a more aggressive look, and sacrifice performance.

I bet it's terrible right now, stay strong and away from those droplets my friend

Idk man, this is just getting out of hand, complete lack of preparedness

Unfortunatley, I fear that this may be the case, they have already prepped beds at facility B and the US has lifted many medical guidelines temporarily for this pandemic, a lot of what was previously not allowed is graced until this is over. Crazy times.