Yeah, the way he’s abandoned the states, the various governors are just going to tell him to fuck off.

No, he’s done the shopping - he’s not that dense. That was something that had puzzled me about the whole thing - normally he’s so careful of her issues. I think he just hadn’t realized how bad it could be, since I don’t think Fox News was covering the severity of responses for people with immune issues.  There’s also…

My father - a retired physician who I like to note has his head so far up the MAGA apparatus he can taste Trump’s Diet Cokes - finally started to take this shit seriously. He is home and distancing and finally recognizing he and his deeply immune-compromised wife have a fuckton of food in the house so they don’t have…

I’m a high-risk person because of medical history, and I took advantage of my local chain’s early-morning hours.

Someone was trying to tell me on FB the other day that HRC probably would have handled this equally badly. (They didn’t even appear to be pro-Trump...they just hate her passionately.)

I know I’ve said this before but I think of Michelle Obama’s comment that she has sat at tables of “high-powered mediocrity” every day.

I’m not sure if they still use these - I haven’t eaten there in ages - but over a decade ago, Fujiya Sushi in Minneapolis had this image on the back of the wrappers for their chopsticks.

Yeah, I was seriously pissed. But the reality is they could hide behind “Oh, she had the Tdap and studies showed it worked” at that point. I did tell my doctor that if he ever came up in cross-coverage again, I was going to insist on someone else. She had no problem with that - she seemed seriously pissed off about…

He’s taking it more seriously now - I think he finally spoke to some of his former colleagues who have been treating it, as opposed to just watching Fox News. Also, he trained in NYC, so I think seeing the hospitals there have stunned him - he knows what they’re capable of doing and seeing them that way hit in a way…

The adult Tdap booster has been reformulated since the 2012 outbreaks. Basically, since we had strong herd immunity, it’s weaknesses/flaws hadn’t been pushed or exposed. The 80%-85% effectiveness was enough to protect people, because pertussis wasn’t floating around. (So I always have a hearty “fuck off and die” for…

I still feel kinda bad - I know so many people can’t afford to do pre-plan like this - but online donations to food pantries are helping.

Hope you and yours stay healthy as well. Right now I’m feeling lucky I live in Minnesota - for all the current metrics of major metros, we appear to be doing better than average as far as testing numbers and lower number of confirmed cases. The state would love to be testing more, but we’re around 3% of positives for…

Sending healthy thoughts your way.  And it’s depressing how people do not know how groceries freaking work.

Why on earth would they leave all their groceries behind? I mean, I can see leaving the refrigerated stuff if they had a ways to go and no cooler. But how much room do some groceries take up in a car?

6 days in a row, I get, though - that does get old.

Oh, there are plenty worse than mine. I’m just the black sheep that calls my Dad on his shit.  My other siblings also possess certain levels of narcissism, so they put up with his bullshit a lot more readily than I do.

My father - a retired physician with his head so far up the ass of IQ45 he can taste his Diet Coke - has only JUST started taking this shit seriously in the last 10 days or so. He and his wife (not my late mother) were scheduled to come visit in May - I’ve been bugging him since mid-February to cancel because she is…

I actually did a lot of freezer prep in late February. I had pertussis back in 2012, and I was working under the assumption that I would probably catch this. Except in 2012, my husband wasn’t quarantined while I was, so we had a lot of takeout, but if I catch this, he’ll be quarantined, too. So I have all sorts of…

I was laughing hysterically at Broxton’s video, but more in recognition than anything else.

My late mother had a very succinct phrase to sum this up:

My local grocery store has set aside the first hour of the morning for high-risk folk. (I am high risk, because fuck my genetics.)