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My boss, who had had the coronavirus for the past 4 weeks, came back into the office today. He's still coughing and weak, but somehow the doctors told him he was safe to come back to work today... yet he's also going to the doctors today to take another coronavirus test? His fever went down just last week and I just don't see any way how he should have been given the green light to come back.

**** has me stressed out. He could be contagious right now and spreading stuff all over the place. So I'm working at my desk with my N95 mask on. He's since left the office thank god, but I am not using the bathroom for nothing now and washing my clothes as soon as I get home.

7 hours ago, Malapropismic Depository said:

Juggling ability is probably a great quality for a receiver to have.

If he has the concentration to juggle 4 balls, and says in this interview that "it's not that difficult", then "juggling" just one football in the air, probably seems super easy.

 

 

He was one of my favorites of the receivers when it came to ability to retain fine motor control in surprise, quick twitch situations. I think I had him in a lower but close tier to Ceedee Lamb in that specific category. 

Most guys get spasmodic to some degree in those situations. They get too tight and can’t muster the precision and smoothness on a consistent basis to adjust and corral the ball like AGG has shown. 

Thanks y'all I appreciate it. We are all in this together and it's important we keep that feeling of connection alive and realize we need to share in our care and responsibility for each other. There are so many others like me and many more who are in even worse situations and it breaks my soul to think of the agony and fear they're dealing with. Then I think about the people who take their health for granted, blindly kicking down the sandcastles of frail health these others are trying to protect and I am filled with so much rage. 

I've worked so ****ing hard trying to climb out of the hell my body has become only to find a new hell to deal with in the threat of this virus. But, at the same time I feel blessed, because there are people dealing with both hells and many other different flavors as well, who don't have the shelter and support I do. 

I can't wait to be healthy enough to help those people and to make sure no one ever again feels the types of things I've had to feel.

A lot of people don't realize how dangerous this virus is yet, it is NOT just a respiratory virus. It may start as one, but then it becomes a cardiovascular virus via it's direct attack of the endothelial cells that line the blood vessels throughout our body. This **** scares the **** out of me, because I already have stage 3 chronic kidney disease from a berger's immune inflammation response and this virus can end up doing the same type of damage. My boss has already tested positive for COVID and I'm just counting down the days to see if my contact with him from the week before last was enough to get me infected.

Plus, I have seizures from severe spinal stenosis and the last thing I need is anything else ****ing with my brain and central nervous system. I just regained my sense of smell on the left side of my face from months of work and I not gonna lose that progress to this virus.

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But many scientists have come to believe that much of the disease’s devastation comes from two intertwined causes.

The first is the harm the virus wreaks on blood vessels, leading to clots that can range from microscopic to sizable. Patients have suffered strokes and pulmonary emboli as clots break loose and travel to the brain and lungs. A study in the Lancet, a British medical journal, showed this may be because the virus directly targets the endothelial cells that line blood vessels.

 

 

The second is an exaggerated response from the body’s own immune system, a storm of killer “cytokines” that attack the body’s own cells along with the virus as it seeks to defend the body from an invader.

 

Research and therapies are focused on these phenomena. Blood thinners are being more widely used in some hospitals. A review of records for 2,733 patients, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, indicates they may help the most seriously ill.

 

“Things change in science all the time. Theories are made and thrown out. Hypotheses are tweaked. It doesn’t mean we don’t know what we are doing. It means we are learning,” said Deepak Bhatt, executive director of interventional cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

 

Inflammation of those endothelial cells lining blood vessels may help explain why the virus harms so many parts of the body, said Mandeep Mehra, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the Lancet study on how covid-19 attacks blood vessels.

That means defeating covid-19 will require more than antiviral therapy, he said.

 

“What this virus does is it starts as a viral infection and becomes a more global disturbance to the immune system and blood vessels — and what kills is exactly that,” Mehra said. “Our hypothesis is that covid-19 begins as a respiratory virus and kills as a cardiovascular virus.”

 

The thinking of kidney specialists has evolved along similar lines. Initially, they attributed widespread and severe kidney disease to the damage caused by ventilators and certain medications given to intensive-care patients, said Daniel Batlle, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

32 minutes ago, zskins said:

 

Except Ozark is not about selling drugs or drugs being the objective to make money. You are highly misinformed about the show then. 

 

 

Didn't you just get into a back and forth a couple posts ago with someone about how it's just like or similar to breaking bad?

They are laundering money for a Drug Cartel and then have run-ins with heroin dealers in the first season. I really don't give a **** if it's the centerpiece of the show or tangential to it. It's still ****ty people doing ****ty things. Which is still a waste of my time.

7 minutes ago, purbeast said:

So YOU are the people who likes Young Sheldon.  I was wondering where those people were.

Meh.

Man like Mobeen is more my speed or the 1st season of All American. If you have no character, I'm not ****ing with you.  Selling drugs and all that **** is boring and the same holds true for mafia movies. All the mobsters I knew in prison were whiny as **** and the MS-13 shot-caller I knew was sick from drugs, stuck doing life+90 and probably on his last legs already.

Gangsters are weak. **** them.

4 minutes ago, zskins said:

 

I would say you really need to watch 2 more episodes to see if this is for you. I was hooked after 3. Looking forward for season 4.

Nah, I'm good. I don't like shows like Breaking Bad, Narcos, and this one. A bunch of weak ass people doing ****ty things to other ****ty people.

I've watched the first episode of Ozark so far, but I'm glad I read this thread so I don't waste my time with it. I hate watching shows where the characters are all ****ty people.

A show I was surprised at how much I liked is Man from Mobeen on netflix. It's a British show that's surprisingly hilarious and about a Muslim dude trying to get his life back together and look after his little sister and friends while getting away from his criminal past.

One of my bosses is sick with a high fever and waiting on the results of his covid test. One of our other office people is feeling a little weird too and she had to work closeish around him late last week. I'm high risk as ****, so I've wiped down all my computer and phone stuff and I'm trying to stay as safe as possible during the times I have to work in the office. I was also around the guy myself last Monday, but so far I feel fine, outside of my usual seizures, chronic pain, and CKD.

Dude's wife works for a hospital. It was just a matter of time really that he would get this thing and I'm kind of low-key pissed that he didn't take more precautions not just for himself but the other people around him. Way too many people still are not taking this seriously enough.

2 hours ago, Hersh said:

 

It's not different than buying food anywhere else or going to any other store. Unless you have self check out at a grocery store, cashiers are doing the exact same thing. 

My wife and I are high risk for different reasons so we have someone do our shopping for us and they use self checkout. 

21 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Do people not wash their hands before eating (right now)? 😕

I don't trust people to maintain good hygiene, especially at a fast paced job like working a drive-thru at lunch time. That person is exchanging germs with so many different types of people and then handing your bags to you. Personally I try to carefully remove food from the outside bag without touching them, discard the bag, wash my hands and then deal with the food. But, I doubt most people do that. They're digging into their waffle fries as soon as they get them.

Doesn't seem worth the risk to be ordering fast food from these places. Those tellers are touching so many people's cards and cash. Better to get carry out from higher end restaurants that switch out gloves with every carry out meal and have less traffic coming through during the day.

@stevemcqueen1 if you don't mind me asking, do you have any opinion on his hand placement/technique? I haven't looked deep into Charles' cut-ups myself, but I read Bullock's take and his main issue with him was missing often with his outside hand placement in particular, but also having both hands high and wide and leaving his chest open to edge rushers.

For those wondering if we picked him too high...

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While some scouts view the 66th pick for Gibson as “rich,” one team considered grabbing the versatile back in the second round. At least four teams, including an NFC East rival, were targeting Gibson later in the third. Washington disappointed them with the selection, a choice that now allows it to plot out Gibson’s future usage.

 

https://theathletic.com/1785373/2020/04/30/redskins-four-downs-trent-williamss-true-deadline-value-kyle-smith-stays-cool/

Man, I can definitely tell the difference between indica and Sativa. Different strains will give me different mixtures of head and body highs and then different shades of each or different hybrids will give me different mixtures of feelings in my body. But, I only vape at lowish temperatures to preserve the terp profile and I try to only mess with connoisseur grade, organically grown, and highly developed strains that have multidimensional personality. I don’t get straight smoking anymore. I want to taste my green and I’m not into taking all that tar and stuff into my body. 

I had this really cool strain called Magnum Terps from the Turtle Pie Company which actually has layers of terps that change as you get closer to the stem. It has a sweet almost gelato smell to the middle, that then changes to straight gas once you get to the stem. That one has a really distinct high that hits you full blown in body and mind. MAC-1 from Capulator has a really distinct body high all to its own. I had some Pop Rocks the other day from a Las Vegas company that tastes a bit like actual pop rocks and it gives you this super clear head high that hits you in the back of the head and lower neck and is really great for creative work. 

I mostly mess with indica or indica leaning hybrids but i bet if you tried something like Durban poison which is straight Sativa and then something like Violator Kush you’d be able to tell the difference between highs.

1 hour ago, Mr. Sinister said:

Every man/woman for themselves.

Nah, we can do better.

Every man/woman for those who are worth a damn and trying to protect people precious to them. Like our doctors and nurses and grocery store people and those who gave the GOP the middle finger in Wisconsin. 

There are people worth protecting and fighting for. Let’s not throw the baby out with the **** water.  

This country is filled with adult age children.

4 minutes ago, Die Hard said:

Where is critical thinking taught? 🙂

 

Where should it be taught?

Who/what is responsible for teaching it?

Is there a larger point to you asking me these questions?

Unofficially the opportunity to learn and model critical thinking skills can occur all throughout life, from parents to peers, to self-teaching through taking on a "pathless road" of figuring things out for yourself and testing your results and analysis in a systematic and progressive way, which would also involve critical peer review. 

Officially, I'd have to dive deeper into what schools and colleges are currently teaching people and then differentiate them based on whatever streams of data I find and their co-determinant variables.

The teaching and application of critical thinking should be pervasive in all walks of life.

We have a shared responsibility as a human race to teach ourselves and each other how to develop, exercise, and maintain the capabilities needed for critical thinking. We can talk about degrees of responsibility commensurate to degrees of capability with critical thinking, but no single person or group is either 0% responsible or 100% responsible. Again, we all share responsibility, because we are all effected by the decisions made by humanity to a greater or lesser degree.

What we have now is what happens when a society teaches memorization and regurgitation over critical thinking. Many people can get diplomas from college just doing the former and then go out into the world never doing the latter.

24 minutes ago, Kosher Ham said:

Perhaps you don't. 

How about we both take a second and compare/contrast the following variables between the flu and covid-19 ?

What is the R0 value for each so far or estimated R0 range in Covid-19’s case?

What is the estimated fatality rate for Covid versus the flu?

What is the timeline for the flu deaths vs the timeline so far for Covid? Hint, One is a much longer time frame than the other because one is still in progress. 

Then what are the differences in fatality rates per capita in those countries implementing social distancing versus those who are not?

Now im not going to make the mistake of doing the work for you. Compare those variable and maybe then you’ll get it.