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Covid, oh the memories. I was a pharmacist until 2025 (licensed). I gave probably 1000’s of vaccine injections. I mean a whole lot. When everyone was at home, I was still going to work with a mask you couldn’t breathe through. Filling Rx’s for BP, cholesterol, BC’s, anxiety and depression. Don’t forget all those pain meds. Benzodiazepines went way up, I can tell you that. Haha. I even had covid twice. It was great.
 
JosephFreeman said:
Covid, oh the memories. I was a pharmacist until 2025 (licensed). I gave probably 1000’s of vaccine injections. I mean a whole lot. When everyone was at home, I was still going to work with a mask you couldn’t breathe through. Filling Rx’s for BP, cholesterol, BC’s, anxiety and depression. Don’t forget all those pain meds. Benzodiazepines went way up, I can tell you that. Haha. I even had covid twice. It was great.
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Yeah.

This is the right-wing douche who gets banned with great frequency.
 
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Believe it or not, my family moved to NYC during Covid-- making the trek in late July of 2020. We spent a lot of time in lockdown and avoided people with great care. I was going back and forth between North Carolina and NYC at the time (as I still do) and was subject to self-enforced two-week quarantines (I did very carefully exit our building and walk the dogs ini Riverside Park three times a day). When we had our furniture moved up it was quite a process with a lot of hoops jumped but we did it. Those were the proverbial "interesting times" to be living no doubt. My own existence back and forth between the Upper West Side and Ox Creek (near the Parkway) was frankly, freaky. One of the weirdest parts of life in those times was driving the Interstate, 26, 81, and 78 -- it was often me and the big trucks...food from windows if at all. It stayed weird...and deadly. Thankfully I did not catch Covid until after I was vaccinated. The way it treated me even then makes me quite sure that it would have very likely killed me if I had gotten it earlier.
 
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Five Years Ago Today. 7/18/20 “Were You Better Off?”
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I can imagine Trump installing such cheap and crappy showerheads that the water flow is poor. He’s confessing to buying shitty things for his “resorts.”

Only once in decades have I been in a shower with crappy water pressure - this May in Pennsylvania……probably a fifteen year-old Hampton Inn in suburban Wilkes-Barre.

I doubt Trump has loaded a dishwasher. EVER. My two year-old dishwasher cleans everything.

The only modern appliance I hate is the dryer. It’s too smart for its own good. It often turns itself off before the stuff in it is dry. I want the Kenmore my parents had in the late, late ‘60’s - set the temp (low, medium, high) and the time. It worked.
 
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It was crazy how life changed so quickly. Ironically COVID brought my family closer, even though we lived in different cities. We made a point to Facetime several times a week to combat the isolation. My wife's job went remote, so she was also home more. Of course, I couldn't work remotely and I was a nervous wreck until the vaccine came out. I was working two jobs at the time, full-time for a municipal fire department and part-time for a large hospital. Both involved extensive contact with COVID patients. I remember working several cardiac arrests of COVID+ patients pre-vaccine and praying that my N95 and stupid gown would keep me safe. Turns out they did. It was nerve-wracking but at the same time I felt like I was doing something important and stepping up to my generation's fight, the same way people did when society faced l threats in generations past. When the vaccines finally became available, the sense of relief was hard to describe.

What sucked then and still sucks now was seeing firsthand the death and sadness caused by the virus and then seeing idiots on social media, some of whom you know, talking about how the virus is/was "fake", how no one was really dying, how it was all made up, etc. Lost a few friendships over it. Good riddance.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
It was crazy how life changed so quickly. Ironically COVID brought my family closer, even though we lived in different cities. We made a point to Facetime several times a week to combat the isolation. My wife's job went remote, so she was also home more. Of course, I couldn't work remotely and I was a nervous wreck until the vaccine came out. I was working two jobs at the time, full-time for a municipal fire department and part-time for a large hospital. Both involved extensive contact with COVID patients. I remember working several cardiac arrests of COVID+ patients pre-vaccine and praying that my N95 and stupid gown would keep me safe. Turns out they did. It was nerve-wracking but at the same time I felt like I was doing something important and stepping up to my generation's fight, the same way people did when society faced l threats in generations past. When the vaccines finally became available, the sense of relief was hard to describe.

What sucked then and still sucks now was seeing firsthand the death and sadness caused by the virus and then seeing idiots on social media, some of whom you know, talking about how the virus is/was "fake", how no one was really dying, how it was all made up, etc. Lost a few friendships over it. Good riddance.
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Hey, I just want to say, I know we don't agree about everything on here but I have the utmost respect for those of you who were on the front lines in those months. I was fortunate enough to be able to stay away from it, at least physically. Those of you who were actively working to save lives will always be heroes. I really hope we don't forget the sacrifices so many people made in those days, including those EMTs and healthcare workers who contracted Covid themselves while doing their jobs and either died or are still feeling the impacts of it to this day.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
It was crazy how life changed so quickly. Ironically COVID brought my family closer, even though we lived in different cities. We made a point to Facetime several times a week to combat the isolation. My wife's job went remote, so she was also home more. Of course, I couldn't work remotely and I was a nervous wreck until the vaccine came out. I was working two jobs at the time, full-time for a municipal fire department and part-time for a large hospital. Both involved extensive contact with COVID patients. I remember working several cardiac arrests of COVID+ patients pre-vaccine and praying that my N95 and stupid gown would keep me safe. Turns out they did. It was nerve-wracking but at the same time I felt like I was doing something important and stepping up to my generation's fight, the same way people did when society faced l threats in generations past. When the vaccines finally became available, the sense of relief was hard to describe.

What sucked then and still sucks now was seeing firsthand the death and sadness caused by the virus and then seeing idiots on social media, some of whom you know, talking about how the virus is/was "fake", how no one was really dying, how it was all made up, etc. Lost a few friendships over it. Good riddance.
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Echo your feelings about the vaccine. I was involved in the Moderna trial from the pharmacy side and it was cool to see how many doctors volunteered to be a participant. Then I was one of the first to get the vaccine after it was approved since we were doing many other trials that required me to hang out in the ICU frequently. Can only describe the mood in the room as similar to a bar on Franklin after UNC wins a close game. It was very disappointing to see how quickly it became politicized.

It may be cliche to say, but I think everyone who worked in healthcare during that time carries a bit of trauma for them. I’m a pharmacist, so several steps removed from direct patient care. But I have vivid memories of working late during the delta wave to get several patients a day started on study medications and coming in early the next morning to see half had passed away over night. Repeatedly. Such a helpless feeling.
 
Zoo_View said:
The only modern appliance I hate is the dryer. It’s too smart for its own good. It often turns itself off before the stuff in it is dry. I want the Kenmore my parents had in the late, late ‘60’s - set the temp (low, medium, high) and the time. It worked.
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This is an entirely different conversation... but why does my refrigerator need to be giant smart phone? It's completely unnecessary.
 
dukeman92 said:
This is an entirely different conversation... but why does my refrigerator need to be giant smart phone? It's completely unnecessary.
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Recently got a new dishwasher which was highly recommended/reviewed that has the capability to connect to wi-fi. I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to do on wi-fi, because I was immediately annoyed by even reading that and didn’t look into it further.

We’re now in the process of re-doing the kitchen and I’m lobbying hard for an old school, freezer on top fridge. None of that French door BS.
 
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MAGAs Everywhere: "But but vaccines are bad, m'kay? Dear Leader and RFK, Jr. said so!"

And on a side note, I've often wondered if the trauma and fallout from covid (lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine requirements, etc.) helped spur Trumpers on to their new heights of paranoia and excess and played a minor role in Trump's election victory last year. And I'm well aware that the lockdowns and mandates happened on Trump's watch, and that his handling of covid was a disaster in many ways, but given the amnesia many voters seem to have developed about his first term and the ease with which they transferred all blame for the lockdowns, economic disruptions, and everything else covid-related to Biden once he was elected I wonder if the fallout from covid didn't play a role in Trump's political resurrection. And I'm not saying that we shouldn't have had lockdowns and masking mandates and all that, as it likely saved many lives, but only that those necessary government requirements helped feed the already vigorous paranoia, "I hate government" mantras, and conspiracy thinking on the right.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
MAGAs Everywhere: "But but vaccines are bad, m'kay? Dear Leader and RFK, Jr. said so!"

And on a side note, I've often wondered if the trauma and fallout from covid (lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine requirements, etc.) helped spur Trumpers on to their new heights of paranoia and excess and played a minor role in Trump's election victory last year. And I'm well aware that the lockdowns and mandates happened on Trump's watch, and that his handling of covid was a disaster in many ways, but given the amnesia many voters seem to have developed about his first term and the ease with which they transferred all blame for the lockdowns, economic disruptions, and everything else covid-related to Biden once he was elected I wonder if the fallout from covid didn't play a role in Trump's political resurrection. And I'm not saying that we shouldn't have had lockdowns and masking mandates and all that, as it likely saved many lives, but only that those necessary government requirements helped feed the already vigorous paranoia, "I hate government" mantras, and conspiracy thinking on the right.
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One of the greatest tricks Trump ever played was to convince voters that Biden was President in 2020 and to blame for everything that happened that year on Trump’s watch.

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nycfan said:
One of the greatest tricks Trump ever played was to convince voters that Biden was President in 2020 and to blame for everything that happened that year on Trump’s watch.

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He continues now to blame 2020 events on his enemies … and plenty of his cabinet, MAGA Congress members etc to the same regularly.







 
I continue to believe Trump and his fellow MAGAs were astonished to discover how easy it was to get tens of millions of America to believe the most obvious lies. It's somewhat understandable for less educated people who don't have access to much information, but they had to have been ecstatic to see educated people like Ram swallow their bullshit hook, line and sinker.
 
lawtig02 said:
I continue to believe Trump and his fellow MAGAs were astonished to discover how easy it was to get tens of millions of America to believe the most obvious lies. It's somewhat understandable for less educated people who don't have access to much information, but they had to have been ecstatic to see educated people like Ram swallow their bullshit hook, line and sinker.
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I question the idea that Ramrouser is educated.

He’s a lawyer. Yes. That’s true.

A Bachelor’s degree and a JD are evidence of earning certificates. They aren’t proof of becoming educated.
 
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