Better safe than sorry. The best course of action is to be fully vaccinated and boostered and to never leave your home under any circumstances. Since that’s not always possible, you want to try to layer on as many levels of protection as you can while still limiting your contact with the outside world to the maximum…

My then-3 year old got it at preschool last December. In May I got it at a work event, only time I’ve been indoors work unmasked people since March 2020. Gave it to them again. I haven't gone to work or stores or family or friends houses or parks or anything since then in May. 

Seems like a great car and all but at a $55k starting price you can just get a lot more from other EV’s than from this. This seems like it should be the Ford Maverick of EV’s -- simple, functional, clever little nooks and crannies, and cheap. And it seems like VW just whiffed on that last part.

I have definitely thought this through. COVID is all I think about from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed. I dream about watching my kids slowly die of congestive heart failure as a long term result of COVID. I’ve spent thousands of hours over the last 2 1/2 years reading every single study I could…

I’ve had it twice. My kids have had it twice. My wife has had it three times. I do not expect any of us to survive very long. COVID isn’t a cold; it’s not something you get over. It stays with you for the rest of your life, and eventually it’s going to kill you, whether that’s today or a month from now or a year from…

We’re all vaccinated. I drove 1,400 miles to get my first two shots the moment they became available, and got my first booster and my covalent booster the very first day I was eligible for them. And I got my kids their first vaccine shots the very first day they were approved for under-5-year-olds. It’s still not safe…

My 4 year old (then 3) picked up Omicron at her pre-school last December and gave it to all of us. That was really the end of our complete quaranting, when she had to start pre-school a year ago September. Before that we would only see friends and family via Zoom and never went to any stores. Then I picked it up and…

It hardly matters. We’ve all had COVID multiple times; we’re all going to be dead soon. I’d just like to stick around as long as I can to enjoy however many years (months?) we do have together before the long term damage from COVID inevitably takes us all.

I believe that COVID is going to lead to total human extinction. I do not believe that anyone who has contracted COVID is going to be alive 10 years from now. In the first 2 years of its existence, COVID-19 killed more Americans than HIV did in the first 40 years of the AIDS crisis. Like AIDS, but 20 times deadlier.…

I mean, yeah, obviously the cops are the bad guys here, I can’t imagine that anyone would dispute that. But in a world where I don’t feel safe taking my 2 year old and 4 year old to the playground because even if they’re masked there might be other people around, or could have been other people around a few minutes…

I drove 1,400 miles to get my initial two doses of the vaccine. I got the first booster and the covalent booster on the first day I was eligible to get them. I still wear a P100 mask and gloves to take out the garbage and collect the mail and package deliveries, and the only change in my behavior since March 2020 is…

The only thing about my behavior that’s changed since June 2020 is that I stopped bleaching my deliveries when it was determined that surface transmission wasn’t really a thing. Otherwise, I’m still sheltering in place, still avoiding going outdoors unless it’s absolutely necessary, still wearing a P100 mask and…

Electric SUV at least minimally capable of driving offroad. Not Bronco level, but, like, Maverick Tremor level.

Absolutely insane to me that people are getting on mass transit in the middle of a pandemic. I don’t even feel safe walking down my own street with a mask on for fear that somebody might drive by unmasked with their window open. I just don’t get why everybody collectively decided to pretend COVID was over.

It literally said there were two adults in the car with the children. One of them could have easily stayed home -- presumably the one who just had a baby a few days ago. Bringing children outside the home and making unnecessary trips outside is just going to prolong the pandemic and ensure that tens or hundreds of…

You’re right that acute deaths in children from COVID are rare, but that says nothing about deaths from long term chronic effects of COVID. My 2 and 4 year olds had COVID twice each before vaccines were available for them; I doubt either one of them will survive to puberty as a result of the cardiac and respiratory…

It specifically said that she was going with two young children and an adult friend. One or the other of them could have stayed home; my wife and I have two young children and so we have not gone out together to a store in almost 3 years; one stays home, the other goes out. Usually her going out, because I’m really…

I’ve been staring at those photos for like 10 straight minutes and still cannot figure out the anchoring mechanism for the front shoulder belts. Certainly seems, uh, unsafe. Anyway, ND for me; there are better ways to die.

Here is a 2015 Mustang GT that looks almost identical to the one I’ve daily driven for the last 8 years (mine isn’t a 50th Anniversary Limited Edition, but instead has the 50th Anniversary Appearance Package, which in practice just means mine doesn’t have the chrome window surround):

100% besides the point, but who’s bringing children grocery shopping in the middle of a pandemic? My son was born in February 2020 and he’s never been inside a store in his life to avoid COVID exposure.