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There’s a Hastens store in our local mall, and those beds are comfortable as fuck, and I left thinking, well if I start saving now... The one I want is the $40k one. I don’t need the $150k in the back of the store. They treated me like a real customer and their catalog (which I read ALL of) is the nicest thing I own

Maybe the artists and publicists work this out in a Track Changes format, and then they just accept changes, cut/paste, post.... without actually looking at the clean version? Those spaces stuck out to me as well.

DJT is a shitshow, and our preparedness issues were abysmal (thanks to DJT, the WHO and good ol’ “we never got SARS, MERS, Ebola or bird flu here!” magical American thinking) but let’s not pretend this is a problem borne out of a perfect system that went bad in the last 3 years. That’s disingenuous. DJT walked into a

I’m the sole shopper. I wear clothes that can be washed easily and aren’t fuzzy and won’t shrink in a warm cycle - no purse - just pockets for phone, keys, 4 cards/license. List is on paper, not phone, so I don’t keep touching phone. Shop pretty off hours, put on mask, glasses (I don’t need them, but it’s extra

1. I am happy with a microwaved scrambled egg, but wanted a hardboiled egg and believed the internet’s instructions on how to microwave a hardboiled egg. But my microwave is wonky and overpowered, and not long after a couple minutes, boiling egg water came flowing out of the microwave onto the range top, and one of

You goosed the pictures! In the outdoors one, your glasses are on your mask, and indoors, the mask is outside your glasses. This makes a difference!

Yes - the White House and many cities/states are asking for people to wear masks when they are outside. Not only where 6' is not possible. All of Los Angeles, for example. And in parts of the DC area, you cannot enter a grocery store now without a mask. Think it is this way in many other places, too. 

YES. Marshmallow eggs are the best Easter candy, above Peeps (fun to squish but bitter somehow??) and chocolate bunnies (which are always shit chocolate). The little solid chocolate bunnies are passable, but Easter-wrapped regular candy is far better, though not particularly special. Easter is the only time of year I

Came here to talk about the febrile response as our evolutionary protection. Understand that it’s hard to talk someone through toughing out a 103+ fever, but the same people who would tout immune supplements are also likely turning to an Advil to fever reduce instantly, and if you can tolerate a non-massive fever, and

I own two N95s. I wear the fabric ones. In most of the US and all of Asia, officials are on board the incremental benefit to others from you wearing a mask train (and a small chance of protecting you from others). Not so much the UK or the WHO.

What?? My professional hourly billing rate is astronomical. I can make a mask in about 2 hours. If I were selling them, $20 would be insultingly cheap. I’m giving away my crooked-seamed beauties for free to friends without sewing skills, but someone balking at a $20 mask should pick up a scarf and shut up.

Your friends want them - ask them. Unless your local healthcare providers ask, then probably not. I haven’t sewed with a machine in 20 years, and I’ve made a few, and I owe neighbors and friends some. And it isn’t about my ego, it’s because we all live places where we are asked to wear them - and some of them in

Off the topic of wh/not masks are good, please update your intel about spread. High shedding individuals (whether pre-symptoms, asymptomatic, mildly ill, or post-symptoms) shed without coughing. Breathing and talking are sufficient. Don’t let a cough be the litmus test, that’s how the spread got so big everywhere -

You’re taking a little fire here. The right answer is cloth mask for everyday life, but the reality is that the government wasn’t talking about people donating their last 2 masks, and the government lied about masks being helpful because it didn’t want Americans to panic that we looked like Asian countries and because

Good job and super satisfying!

We have been looking to buy or build for a decade (we are in starter home). My prequisite is that I don’t want a living room entirely open to the kitchen, because I want to be able to cook and not make such a racket that my husband retreats somewhere else to watch TV until dinner’s ready. I’m not the help.  It was the

Absolutely true. And a lot of people will die because of COVID-19, not because they contract the disease, but because their other diseases will not be detected or managed in time while we are all postponing essentially all other “well,” screening and other non-urgent things. And the mental health fallout. Lots of

C’mon - not all of your pregnancies are guaranteed to go the same. People have complications with certain pregnancies in the middle of a series of other viable births. Compare the trauma of women mid-fertility treatment with the terror of pregnant women scared shitless to face the risks of catching C19 or to deliver

They aren’t as un-analogous as you’d think. You have a population of latent, undetectable or predetectable COVID-19 cases in the population, such that even with containment, the numbers will go up for a while. Similarly, even with new gun control, there are more guns in this country than people. Unless your solution

Exactly. Anyone thinking of a vacation outside their local area, esp. any travel overseas, is living in an optimistic fantasy. Forget bouncing around the USA, it will bounce around the globe for an extended period, and unless you have testing before boarding planes, and quarantines and repeated tests upon arrival,