Things I didn’t know I needed today:
- The Gloryhammer wiki, here to answer all my questions about the multigenerational conflict between Angus McFife and the evil wizard Zargothrax.
- Gloryhammer memes
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Adorably accented Euros reviewing Gloryhammer songs, starting with “The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee”
Tamiflu is incredible, frankly. Some equivalent to that would go a long way towards shutting this thing down.
CraigM
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I don’t even like Gloryhammer all that much, they’re firmly in the ‘they’re alright’ band of power metal, but this is good stuff.
Have you seen the Nanowar of Steel video Angus guest stars in?
It involves Ikea and Odin.
This is a thing that will happen soon.
Gloryhammer is right in my wheelhouse. Not a huge surprise; I’m all-in on Alestorm, Tyr, etc as well.
CraigM
1589
Speaking of Alestorm and Tyr, when I guest appeared on the local radio station (a friend from X-wing has a radio show there) Keelhauled and Sinklars Visa made an appearance.
CraigM
1590
Also all of the Nanowar of Steel stuff is Bonkers.
Fabio Lione guests on Barbie MILF Princess of the Twilight. Which…
You know what? Have fun Adam. Maybe a stiff beverage or other legal mind altering substance (recreational is legal in MN right?) and let the crazy wash over you.
Dude we just legalized Sunday sales of alcohol like last year.
Tamiflu is far from incredible, but it does help. It looks like Remdesivir probably works similarly for COVID-19. However it may have liver toxicity issues (which is serious) and needs to be infused via IV, it isn’t a pill or nasal spray you can pick up at the drugstore and take at home.
Like Tamiflu it works best when taken early-on, but most people deal with COVID-19 perfectly fine on their own, so the question becomes whether it’s worth giving frail patients like 85 year old nursing home residents a drug that may harm their liver. Docs are working on it.
All I know is that in my case, at least, it shuts down flu symptoms with surprising efficacy. Considering how long we went without anything that meaningfully impacted the severity of the illness, I’m sticking with “incredible” but as with any medication YMMV.
Yeah, Remdesivir (in addition to being hard to pronounce) is definitely a mixed bag, and figuring out when it should and shouldn’t be administered is a job I’m glad I don’t have.
I was told there was lots of corn present.
Quaro
1595
They discussed this on This Week In Virology. Patients are not admitted to the hospital at the stage in infection where remdesivir might help, because at that stage they would only have mild symptoms and not even told to come in. So it would take a pretty aggressive policy change to proactively seek out high risk people and give them in IV drug that is hard to get, at the point where they just feel a little under the weather. And needs much faster and available testing.
I figured they just forgot a tub of pomade or a magazine in the stall.
Right, if it didn’t have any potentially very bad side effects you could treat all the seriously at risk people as soon as the infection was detected. And if it didn’t need to be infused they could pick it up at the drugstore. But given those two things, remdesivir doesn’t seem like the best answer ever.
So, just got back from my weekly grocery shopping - still do that, and I go early on Friday or Saturday to stay away from crowds - and they no longer allow reusable shopping bags. And I don’t get it.
I mean, when they said if you wanted to use them you had to bag things yourself? I got that. Makes perfect sense. But not to use them at all, and introduce another potential source of germs (store bags) and another person to potentially infect your stuff (bagger)? I just don’t get it. I ended up going with the ‘no bags at all’ option, then bagged them myself into my reusables at the car.
I believe the idea is that it’s to protect the grocery store workers. They don’t know if your bag is clean or not, so they’d rather not touch it.
Right - which is why I said I understood when they said you had to bag your own groceries if you used reusable bags. No one at the store (the few weeks this policy was in place) every touched my bags. I just got to put stuff in them inside instead of at my car.
I suppose there is the risk of your bags transferring virus to their work surface and then them.
Menzo
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I think some of our collective reactions are going to end up being unnecessary and, in retrospect, silly. Perhaps this bag thing is one of those, but right now I’m not gonna sweat it.
That person who uses a plastic bag for their gym gear? and leaves it festering? Then uses it for their lunch? and then leaves the leftovers in it all day in a hot car before emptying and then bringing to the supermarket? Yeah those people were around long before coronavirus.
Matt_W
1604
Why is cheese still out of stock at my local grocery store? Cheese. It’s been two months. Cheese is perishable. There’s no reason to stock up on it. That worries me more than anything else.
