No because hospitalizations are the metric I focus on, as well as ICU and vent patients. Hospitals require a COVID test for all patients, even if they are there for an outpatient procedure. Certainly any inpatient procedures will as well. We aren’t in the clear or anything but it has been a steady and sustained…

Because the number of COVID hospitalizations continues to drop and is less than half of the high we hit previously. ICU and vent use continues to drop as well. My county has a dashboard showing all this daily, I look at it every day and my girlfriend works in the hospital as a doctor who has had to cover COVID so I…

Maybe I am being optimistic here, unusual for me, but I don’t see it being THAT bad. It’s certainly not going to be fun and like normal but where I am we saw a pretty big spike when things opened up but then they have been on a constant decline as masks have been made mandatory in more situations and people are just…

As long as you have enough weight to lift heavy enough and enough imagination to come up with alternatives it should work fine but that’s the case for any program. It’s very customizable so you could make it work if you think of alternative lifts or you don’t mind doing a lot of repetition exercise wise. I would not…

Tell that to my deadlifts to failure workout I did earlier. Even though I do go to failure on a regular basis it’s actually not that bad because it’s an autoregulating, weekly undulating wave loading approach. I just happened to be doing well and my weights went up and this was a higher rep day for working sets. It’s…

Hired a sitter to handle remote school since I have a kid in kinder and getting her to stay still is impossible without someone there. It’s not an expense I want to incur and it’s a risk of inviting someone else into my “bubble” but it would be impossible for me to handle while working from home.

No because we have standards in the US that wouldn’t allow it to be administered. Just because Trump is president doesn’t mean he can do anything he wants.

End of last year. I was told by my doc and everything I read mentioned them. They were HUGE in terms of recovery IMO. One day, about a week in, I went without at work (office job) and I regretted it.

It was likely a benzo like Xanax or the like

Mine cost me $100 in the good old US of A. Best $100 I have spent.

I had the no scalpel procedure done on the same day as my consult (it was near the end of the year and I had hit my deductible so I was trying to squeeze it in). The doc said there wasn’t really that much of a difference recovery wise but he preferred the no scalpel method.

This is silly. We send kids to school every normal year knowing that there will be more than one death from the flu, more than one death from a car wreck on the way to school, etc.

While I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t know everything about how this virus reacts in our bodies it seems to be pretty clear that it’s not much of a gamble with our children’s lives. The real risk is that they pass it on to older folks who the disease is a real risk for. 

You’re making the same mistake that countless others do, he does not make $78.5B a year, his net worth might have increased by that but his compensation was $1.6M in 2019. Net worth =/= Income. 

Don’t be disingenuous.

I didn’t know Bezos used slave labor

lol, k

I see you also lack the understanding of how his compensation works. He does not make $2,400 per second working for Amazon, if that number is accurate it is a reflection of his net worth going up which is directly tied to the fact that he owns lots of stock in Amazon and the company is doing extremely well. His actual…

You could easily replace an average employee at Amazon, you could not easily replace Jeff Bezos. He also created the company and his wealth is a product of having lots of Amazon stock. I know it’s shocking to find out that someone who started a company and still runs it has lots of their net worth tied up in its stock.

He is essentially paid nothing relative to his net worth. He was paid $1.6M last year. Sure that’s a lot to you or me but that’s incredibly low for major CEOs.