I got a job interview for an position I applied for back in early May! It would keep me in Arrakis but working for a major American university there.
Congratulations! Always nice to get an interview (and sounds like a better situation).
1: That's great news; hope the interview goes well! Draft people in tonight's meetup into a fake interview panel for groans from all!
I don't mean to stomp on Barry's news, but I have two job interviews this afternoon. Either position would be a good next step and an improvement from my current job, so I'm excited to see how the interviews go.
I'm on vacation! We're at the beach on the Texas coast with friends. We've been going on these beach trips together for 15 years now.
Congrats and good luck to Barry and teo!
Have fun, Sir Kraab!
hooray for all!
It's just me and Rascal this week. The rest of the kids are at camp, and Jammies is in New Mexico.
It's calm and quiet, but I'm not as productive as I thought I'd be, due to Rascal not havinf anyone besides me to talk to.
Thanks all
Congrats and good luck teo!
1 and 4 seem like great steps forward.
Report from my daughter's high school graduation: Smooth sailing. She was disappointed that no one gave here any trouble about her new identity. Boys wear blue graduation gowns and girls wear yellow gowns here, and she was given a yellow gown. When her turn to receive the diploma came she was announced by her chosen name, which isn't legal and has nothing in common with the name she used until a few months ago (the printed diploma and transcript have her legal name). Other than that, a high school graduation with six speeches and reading over 400 names is quite dull. Italian-Americans in this area all seem to have two middle names and 10-12 syllables. And every third girl was named Hallie. Was there a famous Hailie in 2003?
Evidence that the kids today are inexplicable: The salutatorian's speech was mainly about "That's Life," a Frank Sinatra song released 40 years before she was born.
There were about two months of "regular" non-zoom school this year, and she had no problems from other kids or faculty. Glad we're past that.
Congratulations on the graduation. I was salutatorian, but I can't remember what I said. I remember not being allowed to say even one "fuck".
I had thought graduations were PG13 and you could have one "fuck ".
First interview never called me, and hadn't sent any information about whether to call them or if we were doing this a different way. I called and left a message to see what's up. Not an auspicious start! Second interview is in about an hour. They did send call-in information so I'm more confident the interview will at least happen.
11.1.last: Famous Haillie in 2003 has gotta be Eminem's daughter.
I had a screening interview today, and another tomorrow. Interviews all around! (I don't want to work for the gigantic for-profit insurance and healthcare services conglomerate that is acquiring my company, so I'm going to take my time and find the right next job--which is a nice change from just being desperate as with 2015-2019.)
Also, I'm kinda crazy in love, the kind where you don't tell your friends and family how intense and fast it's moving because you don't want to freak them out. It's awesome! It's life-changing! She is literally unlike anyone I have ever been with and happens to think I'm amazing too!
Everything's coming up Chopper!
Second interview did happen and went well.
I just got contacted by a headhunter from a company named Arrakis. Not interested though.
19: AJ, too. They're either on a hiring spree or have no idea what skill set they are looking for.
My sister left a bottle of Jameson in my room, which is nice.
And I got a call for yet another job interview! Scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
Today was my one-year anniversary at the new job. I got laid off from my previous one at the beginning of the pandemic after 18 years. But then I ended up in a entirely more interesting (and lucrative) job where I get to work entirely from home for as long as I want to. Which would be for as far into the future as I can see right now. And I never would have gotten off my ass to look for another job (or for that matter realized how much more I could be getting paid) had I not been part of the cull. So no hard feelings!
I have to stop drinking tonight or I'd drink to that.
I've now read five Martin Beck books and feel like an expert on late 60s Sweden.
I had my second vaccination on Monday.
I've also been out drinking a LOT this week. My usual Friday night dad's drinking group (rule of six) had a night out with all of our wives/partners in tow, as it was one guy's birthday. Then we went out for Father's day (with all of the kids and families) and the dads stayed out drinking until they threw us out of the pub. Then was out yesterday evening again for the football.
After a few months where I've been doing a TON of cycling and also started hitting the gym and doing some strength training again that my fitness has slightly plateaued and I need to mix things up a bit, but overall, I'm pretty happy with how I'm doing (individually).
Work is fine, I have some interesting projects for some high profile clients coming up, although I'm in a bit of a depressing phase through June and early July where I'm mopping up a load of quotations, responses to tenders, little bitty annoying two or three day bits of consultancy, and so on, which is difficult, time consuming, and boring. Quite a bit of it is also, officially, my boss's (our MD) job but he's out of his depth on some of it, so he says "I'll take responsibility for X, so you get some of the load taken off you, ttaM.", when I know fine well that the reality is that at some point, it'll come back to me via the back door but without any time being officially allocated for it.
On the downside, it's pretty clear that infection rates are rising again in the UK. Even just personally, I know several kids in my son's immediate circle who are isolating because of exposure to an infected person via the school. That's the first time in months, and it's more than one kid, too.
28: Why is the UK so opposed to kids wearing masks in schools?
And, how is your wife doing career- wise? I recall that she was laid off from her job at one point.
re: 29
Secondary schools have been using masks, I believe. My son is only 8, though, and some of the exposed kids were exposed via a sports coaching thing associated with the school, rather than in school classrooms. I suspect none of the kids will actually get COVID. The coaches/staff were wearing masks, and there's a fair bit of social distancing.
My wife is still not working. She's been doing some college courses, preparatory to another college course. She is hoping to become a teacher, but the government introduced a requirement that you have some lower high school level qualifications (that kids normally do at 15 or 16) which she doesn't have. As per a previous discussion, those aren't a minimum standard, they are a fixed requirement. So, even though my wife has a university degree, earned in the UK, she has had to do those before she can even apply for a postgraduate teaching qualification. She has now done 2 of the 3 and is planning to do the 3rd over the summer. Then we'll see. It's probably too late to get onto the appropriate postgraduate course this autumn, so she'll be looking for a job in September, and applying for next year, I guess. It has been a hard year.
30: Secondary school kids here are getting vaccinated, but elementary/primary schools Kept the requirement through the end of the school year. Seeing 8 and 9 year olds without masks in schools seemed so odd.
We went so fast though. Within a week we went from dropping the silly requirement for masks at inter scholastic outdoor sports - including no contact ones, like track - to no mask requirements in the community.
30: having to take preparatory courses which normally serve as prerequisites to more advanced work would be infuriating. Sympathies. I wish her luck.
For Ogged and the greater community:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-girl-stem-cell-donor-1.6073995
Ontario girl of Persian-European background needs a bone marrow transplant from a donor of a similar background.
Congrats on the second jab, ttaM!
Caseload is back where it was in February. Nine London boroughs are blue on this map (above 100 cases/100k/week), when they were all yellowish (below 10 cases/1000k/week) a month ago. We took a long walk over the weekend--wanted to see if we'd be ok with living in a different, cheaper neighborhood--that involved a pitstop and dinner outside at a pub. Regretting it since then I've been under the weather in ways that could be any of hundreds of things (including just pandemic fatigue) but are also specifically associated with the delta variant, so my hypochondria has not been helping.
Extremely asinine that your wife has to take high school requirements, but on the other hand, some of the best worst comedies are premised on that.
The good news is that though cases are rising it isn't translating into more hospital admissions or deaths - or at least not very many more.
Also the Selkie is on the mend!
35: agreed. Clearly points to the success of the vaccination effort--I haven't checked the age stats but I'm assuming a much higher proportion of hospitalizations now are among young adults. And yay for the Selkie!
27. There's a big reveal in the last one.
I'm assuming Beck shoots Olaf Palme.
"I'm assuming a much higher proportion of hospitalizations now are among young adults"
They are. And, possibly connected, they also seem to be shorter - looks like 6-7 days before discharge when last year it was 10-12.
Here's another interesting view: case fatality rate, taken over cases in the previous month. It's going down to nothing in the UK, after a peak in the winter. Currently around 0.25%. But in the US, it's rising everywhere except the West (2% there, 3-4% elsewhere). In the US Northeast it's the highest it's ever been after the initial peak, when cases were under-reported.
The divergence with the US is interesting. Anti-vax efforts in the UK have been much less successful. The vast majority of old folks have been vaccinated. In the US, most people can get the vaccine but a significant minority choose not to. I guess this implies that that minority skews older/poorer? Another possibility would be differences in reporting: it's very easy to get tested in the UK. Every few weeks I'll get two boxes of lateral flow tests from the chemist for free (not the most accurate if done by a non-specialist, but better than nothing), and it's trivial to report the results to the government via a website. Semi-routine testing of asymptomatic people is at least encouraged here (no idea how many people actually do it), while my impression is that it's rare in the US.
42.2: A telling (and awful) thing in the US is people who have not gotten the vaccine because they are worried about missing work if they have side effects.
43: I would expect that to be a bit less of an issue due to the pretty good additional federal unemployment insurance available, but of course that isn't available every state because assholes. And why would it be getting worse now?
Eyeballing the Kevin Drum charts, even as the UK's death rate is rising and the US's is falling, the US still has something like 5 times the deaths per capita that the UK does. I assume this is a function of the demographics of Fox News viewers.
44: My employer just dropped our COVID sick pay. They weren't eligible for Support from the Feds, because they are large. They are switching us to the new state program
MA just instituted a benefit covering 40 hours up to a maximum of $850, inclusive of benefits. So,8f you make $20/hr and your benefits cost $8.33/ hour, you are eligible for 30 hours of paid time off and eligible to take 10 hours unpaid to get a vaccine, recover from/quarantine due to covid or care for a family member with COVID. This program lasts until September or the money runs out.
45: I haven't viewed Drum's new blog before. Is it me, or are his charts weirdly badly designed? Text mostly too small to read, y-axes not scaled to peaks with the one exception of Argentina, US bigger image than the rest making eyeball comparisons difficult, etc.
Following his raw data link, I put the US and UK on the same graph and confirmed that the US death rate has been well over UK's for some months now - but interestingly, the UK's peaks in April 2020 and then January 2021 featured much more daily death than the US ever got, and the overall effect is a wash, with UK cumulative deaths per 100,000 being 191 vs. US's 182.
I suppose that could partially be better reporting in the UK. And the difference in intensity could be geographic, peaks in the UK coming all at once rather than in patchwork across regions.
47: The chopped off tops in the charts is intentional (from a post last week, where he changed to the new topless charts); because the rates had declined so much from the peaks, you couldn't see trends in the post-January period because they Y-axis made it difficult to see the variation.
43: Is there really a significant number of virtuous non-vaxxed people? I have been assuming that 99% of them were just jerks.
49: I don't know if I'd call them virtuous exactly, but Lawrence, MA a low-income city which is majority Latin-x has really poor rates of coverage, and they are much worse for the Latin-x than others. Since they've suffered pretty badly, I'm not inclined to think they're jerks.
I think we overestimate how much time working people have to think about pros and cons of vaccination.
Also almost no clinics will confirm if asked that there will be no fee for the vaccine, even though it's the case!
48: Helpful context, thanks. An easier route, if the goal is looking at recent trends, would have been to stop graphing all 15 months of the pandemic and switch to the past 2-3 months. (This also helps the eye by de-scrunching the graph horizontally - I can barely make out any recent trends in the LA Times's county graphs these days, because they still go back to March.)
50 & 51 are correct I believe. The populations I saw referenced re: 45 were undocumented, rural ag workers in general, and people on the margins in general.
In addition to the time off thing (both for booking and side effects) a lot of people don't know that vaccination is free.
Also there's a huge number of needle phobic people (10%-20% depending on severity). Obviously cowardice is still a vice, but it's a different vice than being Republican.
51: May state says no insurance or ID required, but the clinics both Tim and I went to required ID.
Here they don't require insurance and they don't bill to insurance, but they make you put in your insurance info anyway just to make it look like they might secretly bill you later? It's very strange and counterproductive.
(Here they require proof of age, so a foreign passport should be fine, but you do need some form of ID.)
They can't stop themselves. It's like a farmer trying to not ask about the weather where you are from.
Except that the second button on the suit trousers can't be closed anymore, men's clothing is exactly the same as in 1996.
"topless charts"
The graphed countries are mostly European.
Here they don't require insurance and they don't bill to insurance, but they make you put in your insurance info anyway just to make it look like they might secretly bill you later?
Are you sure they don't bill to insurance? The drug is free, but there's an administration fee that public and private insurers are required to pay, no copay.
the geographic variance of percent vaxxed in sf seems to show a positive effect from some community outreach (bayview among the most vaxxed) and distressing pockets of low vax (treasure island). there are roving teams of people with j&j doses out in the tenderloin most days, i believe. would looooooove to flood the city with them, also strongly endorse multiple multiple j&j stands at sfo arrivals. as for needle phobia, i have never seen a better opportunity to give folks a whacking great dose of valium, sublingually or whatever. get 'em hella high and get 'em vaxxed.
They do bill insurance $90 fir administestion if 2 shots , but there should be no balance billing, and the state is supposed to pay the admin fee if you go somewhere else.
BMC had wdd as ok-in clinics. The pharmacies are supposed to be able to bill the state, but when they required you to schedule online and that required putting in an insurance Number that was a hard stop. And if you have no ID? Pop up clinics?
roving bands of valium dispensing j&j vaxxers, the jobs program we need!
That's what I mean when I say no co-pay - broadly, no balance billing or other way it would come out of the patient's pocket. But the health care industry hasn't covered itself in glory in this area, so you can see why bill-sensitive patients are dissuaded, especially when places collect insurance information and often won't give a straight answer on whether the patient will receive a bill later.
65: Boston Medical Center is our major safety net hospital (merger of BU and Boston City). They've had a lot of walk-in clinics, some J&J, some Pfizer, since they vaccinate kids. I've seen some in churches, and I bet they are good about not asking. When we had mass sites, and they opened up to walk-ins, I bet that was easy enough.
They do get paid even if you don't have insurance.
Career question, but not for me: a person who worked for me many years ago asked me to be a reference, so I said sure. And today I just had the 8th and 9th reference calls for them as well as a request for grad school admission recommendation. First, I thought reference checks only happen when they're down to the last 1-3 candidates, so have there been full interviews at that many places? I know there have been at least two offers. And second, how do I politely say fuck off I'm not doing this any more?
62- given where he died, I don't expect there will be an inquisition into what happened.
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Any lawyers read the Cedarpoint Nursery case? This sounds bad, bad. Separate post?
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67: "I wanted to let you know that since it's been so many years since we've worked together, I'm not your strongest reference at this point. It might be best for you to find someone else who can speak to your more recent work."
"Were you the one with the Valium addiction or the shoplifting habit?"
I still don't have cancer. I had to get a blood draw & two MRIs today though because I'm anemic and am having disruptive spine-injury symptoms. My dog weighs 151 pounds.
Hooray for no cancer! Good luck with the rest.
Hooray. Also, how do you pick up poop that big?
The poop isn't really bigger than the other dogs'. And I hire a friend's teenager to deal with it anyway
(Thanks!)
66: I'm aware most safety-net providers deliberately make the process easy, and that they don't charge even the uninsured. I'm specifically pointing to practices in how/whether they advertise this.
76: So, I'm not completely sure if this. My general sense is that people (particularly the large population of African Americans they serve) know they won't face a bill there.
I'm less sure that, say, the population in Everett believes that Cambridge Health Alliance won't charge. I don't have a good sense of the ethnic dynamics. Meaning, I'm not sure whether our local rates are worse for LatinX than for Blacks of tgdd we other way around, and whether that might be due to straight language barriers, cultural acceptance of vaccines, or different experiences with bills.
And they all bill insurance here -commercial, Medicare or Medicaid, if you have it. If you don't they bill the state.
My sister's dog was 8 pounds, so I extrapolated by 20 when thinking about the problem.
65: Yeah, I mean I read up on this enough to know it's actually free, but you really can't trust the medical industry not to give you super-secret surprise bills, and why are they asking for your insurance info if that's not their plan? It's extremely sketchy behavior, and I was honestly worried that I'd somehow missed some small print somewhere.
...and now I, unsurprisingly, have COVID as well. But not particularly severe. Slept 12 hours last night and that seemed to do the trick.
Still take it easy if you can. People I know who got it where sick, got better, then got much worse. Of course, that was before vaccines.
79: That's about the size of Nacho, and the most that comes out of her in one session is like two marbles and a Lincoln log.
Other big dogs probably eat & poop more, but it seems like the body weight:turd measurement ratio maxes out at 70-80 lb dogs.
This would be an excellent science fair project for somebody's kid
Yeah, you need to recover completely so that you can fulfill your destiny as an ekranoplan racer.
I suppose the quantity pooped is related to the quantity eaten and since larger dogs would be better able to hold their body heat, they consume less per pound.
Also she spends 90% of her time sleeping
Or to poop on the grass in front of the neighbour's house.
Anyway, I'm well overdosed on everyone in my family except my siblings.
This week with Rascal has been discouragingly busy. We haven't really lined up any childcare yet, with regards to the waning pandemic, and so it was just the two of us 24-7. Except I'm still going to work and meeting with students, so I was spending a lot of his tolerance for being by himself having him occupy himself then, which meant that the rest of the time we were more interactive, and I just never had enough downtime to get all my shit done.
Could he do some of the student meetings? I'm sure some of them are basically on top of the material but seeking reassurance. And some are probably past help.
Biden-Harris aren't kidding about full employment.
There's also a funny stage around 6-8 years old where kids master their imitation of teenager sass. I remember it from ~1st grade, the feeling that I was capable of generating sentences that sounded like the kinds of things teenagers say on sitcoms. Maybe it's not universal. But Rascal is thick into it and argumentative and generally not able to find his way to a conversation that's fun for both of us very often. It's making the week feel extra long.
|| So, let's take a minute to think about Justice Sotomayor's and Justice Gorsuch's different theories of cerviche. At issue is how to interpret a seemingly incongruous list in a statute. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.
Majority
Consider an example with the same syntax as the "Indian tribe" definition. A restaurant advertises "50% off any meat, vegetable, or seafood dish, including ceviche, which is cooked." Say a customer orders ceviche, a Peruvian specialty of raw fish marinated in citrus juice. Would she expect it to be cooked? No. Would she expect to pay full price for it? Again, no. Under the reading recommended by the series-qualifier canon, however, the ceviche was a red herring. Even though the 50%-off sale specifically named ceviche (and no other dish), it costs full price because it is not cooked. That conclusion would make no sense to a reasonable customer.
Dissent
To support its implausibility argument, the Court proposes a hypothetical advertisement for "'50% off any meat, vegetable, or seafood dish, including ceviche, which is cooked.'" Ante, at 20. The Court posits that any reasonable customer would expect a discount even on uncooked ceviche. It's a colorful example, but one far afield from Indian law and the technical statutory definitions before us. Even taken on its own terms, too, the example is a bit underdone. A reasonable customer might notice some tension in the advertisement, but there are many plausible takeaways. Maybe the restaurant uses heat to cook its ceviche--many chefs "lightly poach lobster, shrimp, octopus or mussels before using them in ceviche." See Cordle, No-Cook Dishes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 17, 2013, p. L4. Maybe the restaurant meant to speak of ceviche as "cooked" in the sense of "fish . . . 'cooked' by marinating it in an acidic dressing" like lime juice. See Bittman, Ceviche Without Fear, N. Y. Times, Aug. 14, 2002, p. F3. Or maybe the restaurant simply listed every dish it makes, understanding some dishes would be excluded by the concluding "cooked" proviso. Even in the Court's own hypothetical it is not "implausible" to apply the modifier across the board.
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The analogy ban is the best.
The supreme court has been offered several faculty positions, but their puppy will die in five years if the ceviche is raw.
Messily, glad you don't have cancer. That sounds like a very large dog.
105 is funny.
99: Is the ceviche the subject of the case, or an analogy being discussed in the opinions, or an analogy you're superimposing?
107 An analogy chosen by the Court. The case is about whether Alaska native corporations qualify for CARES Act money set aside for local and tribal governments.
The Transunion case will probably have the bigger impact on the law. It's about standing, and 5-4 Kavanaugh against Thomas, they went narrower than Congress wanted for standing to sue credit reporting companies. Over 6,000 people were erroneously listed by Transunion as possible matches to the terrorist/drug dealer watch list. Only a fraction of those people -- close to a quarter (from memory) -- had their credit reports with this info actually given to third parties, so only they can sue, and the people by sheer luck didn't get fucked by this have to wait until they do.
Lead plaintiff went to buy a Nissan in Dublin CA. Dealer guy comes back after the credit check, sorry, says here you're a terrorist, so we can't sell you the car. We can sell it to your wife, though . . .
69. It's not unexpected, but very bad. It makes it effectively impossible to organize ag workers.
110: I thought the NJ Supreme Court had ruled the opposite way at one point, but I don't remember the facts. How does this affect people who are living in dormitories? Do they have the right to have visits from health professionals or social workers who might inform them of their rights to safe conditions?
111. I don't think so -- people who live in dormitories presumably are permitted to receive visitors, so requiring those dormitories to permit health professionals or social workers wouldn't constitute a "taking" under the Court's reasoning.
112 was poorly phrased. I meant, I don't think Cedarpoint would affect the ability of health care professionals or social workers to access people who live in dormitories.
112 and 113: I just remember this Conservative Activist who would argue that any requirement to allow people on to your land which could in any way harm the land owner economically was a taking. He just repeated that again and again. That was 20 years ago.
I think the argument was that the people in baracks didn't have a lease, do they had no right to visitors or something.
Ceviche aside, the decision in that case was unsurprising and consistent with past practice. ANCs have typically been treated as equivalent to tribes for purposes like this.
116 Absolutely. I'm surprised Gorsuch got Kagan to sign on to his dissent.
Flying home. Airports are weird now. For the price of a whiskey, I get space and masklessness and a way to eat without balancing food on my lap.
Three whiskeys gets you that plus a slight buzz.
I used to think having to go to Denver was the worst, but it turns out not being able to go to Denver is worse.
I'm still in Omaha and basically sober again. Not recommended.
The flight attendants are talking about getting triple time.
Let's all list our SAT scores and how long we've sat on the ground in Omaha.
I guess the real victims are the young people sitting next to me suffering because I'm past caring about how bad my feet smell when I take off my shoes.
110: How does the decision make it impossible to organize agricultural workers? If a law requiring farm owners to let union organizers onto their land is a taking, then it simply requires that the landowners be given just compensation, right? So the state should be able to pay the landowners some nominal amount, whatever is the fair market value of letting someone take a walk on a farm, and continue requiring them to let union organizers in. What, if anything, am I missing here?
125: Even if it were as simple as that, which I doubt, what state is prepared to pay money for union organizing?
The amount of money should be pocket change. The unions themselves shouldn't have trouble paying it if the state legislature won't cover it. Maybe it is more complicated than that; if so, I'm hoping someone here can explain.
Presumably the state could set up a fund to cover the cost of union organizers visiting farm workers, paid for through a tax on agricultural land.
I feel like the court is going to decide that "taking" includes any involuntary lease regardless of the compensation.
At least society has progressed to the point where I'm not in Omaha.
Yes, but there is still a little Omaha in all of us.
It's not the cost of paying owners, it's the politics. Even states with pro-union majorities are sensitive enough to business concerns that they would be wary of being perceived as putting their thumb on the scale towards organizers to that extent. Like, I can't imagine California taking that step.
I guess the California independence groups got into some long-running slapfights or something, because I just saw a promoted post from the California Independence Movement slamming the debate conduct of a Calexit-associated gubernatorial candidate.
125: Someone would argue that just compensation had to equal the increase in labor costs attributable to the organizing. Neither the state nor the union could pay that.
One of the California independence groups is just a Russian front, right?
Ok, yes. The California National Party is the good one, and Yes California is the KGB front.
Doesn't that overlap with the Republicans?
The heat wave hitting the Northwest is hitting its stride locally (peak temperatures lasting until Monday evening, but overnight temperatures don't come down until Tuesday night).
I really don't like feeling envious of people with AC. This is the sort of climate where I should be able to think of AC as frivolous and unnecessary.
I really love central air conditioning. It's my favorite appliance.
Yes, but I live in a place where all the weather stereotypes are about rain.
OMFG.
https://twitter.com/TimDotChoi/status/1409123218787426307?s=20
The kit will still be half a metre long.
So perfect for apartment dwellers.
I need to revise my comment in 89. I guess you only have to live long enough to put that kit together.
Got our second jabs. So relieved. Pop-up clinics all over London are letting people get the second jab early--so long as it's more than three weeks--despite official central NHS guidance against doing so. Went to our local giant stadium and had no trouble.
149: Pfizer--we're just under the age cutoff that they didn't want to give us AZ, and I think they're mostly using Pfizer for younger adults. But I did find a Moderna pop-up.
That's what all the cool people got.
150: I just wondered if they were doing Moderna at 3 weeks too. Pfizer is probably best at 4-6 weeks rather than 3, but of course everyone would be eager to be fully vaccinated ASAP 2 weeks until your immunity date.
They wanted us back three weeks to the day.
The official guidelines are 8 weeks if you're 40+, 12 weeks if you're under 40 for all vaccines. I think that was based on what their research on Astrazeneca showed but then they used it for other vaccines due to supply issues and the first-doses-first policy. I got it at precisely five weeks today; my official second jab booking was August 8. I admit that I'm basing that "at least 3 weeks" partially on hearsay--I could've asked the administrators but I didn't want to linger on a point where we were skirting the rules. On the other hand, last weekend we saw an advertisement for an NHS pop-up clinic in another borough that explicitly said "Yes, we'll give you your second jab at four weeks!" (Decided not to go to that since it was slightly out of our area, and more to the point it was clearly targeted at low-SES communities that have had poor vaccine uptake. This weekend was different, there were clinics not following the rules all over the city and we were able to go to one locally.)
Anyway, there's a good chance that they're going to close or modify this route soon. The quite scary rise in delta cases (but not deaths!) over the past month might be driving local NHS administrators to go mildly rogue, or maybe central management is intentionally turning a blind eye. I don't know. Add to that that the health minister was sacked yesterday--well, resigned, but the timing was not his decision even if the precipitating event was a hilarious own goal. I imagine it happened now for a reason, but he could've been easily let go any time in the past year so I don't have a clue why they'd choose now. The new guy also sucks, but in different ways. (If 100k people die due to his decisions, it will be intentional.)
153: yeah but cdc said up to 6 weeks for Pfizer or Moderna. They tested it at 3 weeks as the earliest that would work. If it wasn't a raging pandemic, it would make sense to do longer. I got Pfizer cause that's what was on offer, and Tim knew that Moderna was the only one at the clinic he went to.
Tim's Mom looks like she will be 12 weeks after rather than the 16. She got Pfizer, but they are using Moderna and Pfizer interchangeably.
Nova Scotia, I know, is doing 35 days for all MRNA vaccines.
155: I think it's longer than that in NS. Got our first 20 May and second isn't scheduled until beginning of Sept. But they just offered us shots if we can find a slot so it'll be moved up some amount.
Over 70% in NS have their first shot! My mother is still not among them. I'm def going to snidely 'you're welcome' her this weekend and mention how we're all kindly taking on the risk so she can benefit.
My husband is trying to decide whether to go to Idaho for a conference in Oct. We'll be fully vaccinated, except hydrobaby who is too young, but Idaho sounds like it won't be. Go and not worry, mask everywhere (esp given the nature of conferences), or skip?
Idaho is beautiful. Just don't talk to the people with guns.
Conference in Idaho and you're vaccinated? Go, for goodness sake!
Utah and Idaho have decided the pandemic is over, but case counts are low and if you're vaccinated, go for it.
Go now because by 2022 restaurant owners in red states are going to declare that requirements for employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom are unconstitutional.
I'm going to be spending some time next month in Pocatello for depositions. I am not looking forward to it. Obviously, though, a visit to Pocatello where one is dealing, eg, with scientists at Idaho State is way different from enduring the antics of showboating lawyers in small windowless conference rooms.
Does anyone else see jacked up comment counts like this:
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156: I was going off of this which said they are accelerating 2nd doses.
164: Not as bad as that but not a normal scientific conference. Right-wing folks (including donors) will be there. Also international colleagues. In Boise (~4 cases/100,000)
His group have been having in person meetings and not masking for months (so probably already had covid I guess).
Just a very different culture but probably not actively dangerous.
Canadians are international colleagues.
I mean, not in the kind of way that makes them interestingly different. But still, technically "international."
International in that 'bore you with visa talk' way. Not in the sexy accent way.
OH, WE'RE TALKING ABOOT WHO GETS TO SAY IF AN ACCENT IS SEXY, EH?
Just had my interview and it went as well as it possibly good. Probably the best I've ever felt after an interview.
168 Boise! It's not Sun Valley, but it's not Pocatello either. I always try to go eat at least once in that little Basque area downtown, and the little museum there is worth a moment's stroll. I made it to nearly 60 without understanding that Guernica is a Basque city, and so the Civil War thing there was ethnic cleansing. Assholes killing innocent civilians I had got. It's the extra bit that everyone in the Basque diaspora takes as the first point of the narrative that had somehow eluded me.
Did you know that if you join the AARP, you get a free insulated trunk organizer? It's bad enough to get the "You're old enough that we think you're a likely mark" letter, but that I might be swayed by that kind of junk makes it so much worse.
I'm guessing butt-cam will be worse, but at least that requires my health insurance company to suffer.