StrangeSox

Got some bad news about one of the main symptoms of COVID e: more directly, the incidence rate of blood clots from the vaccines is much, much lower than with just getting COVID. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/27/covid-not-vaccinations-presents-biggest-blood-clot-risk-study.html

Just thinking about how we had to keep trash on the roster and couldn't keep Fuller.

NFC North going 0-4 to open the season Will we see a 6-win divisional winner?

Lol

Rams haven't done much outside of a couple of insanely busted coverages

Kimbrels dumb stance is annoying if he's pitching well but it's insufferable to watch when he can't find the zone and not blow saves

There we go, just like we all knew would happen. Garcia the hero, kimbrel with the win. Perfection again.

Why would you pick up the option? He's been terrible

If you need a lead blown, kimbrel is there for you

Aren't the monoclonal antibodies still under EUA, anyway? That would make them more "experimental" than the Pfizer vaccine at this point.

Hospitals aren't being overwhelmed with strep, and strep doesn't kill hundreds of thousands of people.

Losing her sense of smell was the worst of it. And she first confirmed it how you described. She couldn't smell our kids' shampoo at bath time, so she tried some perfume and a burnt match. When she couldn't smell anything from those, she knew something was up and took one of the rapid tests we got as part of our "back to school" supplies. It's already started coming back but in strange ways--she could smell the olive oil we were cooking with, but not the very fragrant garlic sautéing in it for example. Mainly, "earthy" smells like that or beans are coming back. We can't run the counterfactual in real life to know, but there's a pretty good chance that my wife's vaccination both made this an incredibly mild infection for her and reduced her transmissibility.

My wife got a breakthrough infection earlier this week. Lost her sense of smell after dinner Monday night, took an at-home rapid test, positive almost immediately. We masked up quickly but had been sitting and talking, even shared a water bottle a couple hours earlier. We were both vaxxed with Pfizer back in the spring. She had a PCR test on Tuesday to confirm, yep, positive. We also have a 2 and a 4 year old. Not exactly easy to isolate at that age. We're doing the best we can but there's definitely interactions. The weather turning so nice has helped as we've basically lived outside this week, but still. On top of it, my 2yo was already symptomatic on Monday with bad congestion and a cough. He woke up overnight with a fever. We presumed he had it, but brought him to the doctors to test for confirmation. Negative. Yesterday, our 4yo started coughing. Woke up this morning with a fever, bad runny/congested nose all day. Took her to the doctor. Negative. I've been negative this whole time as well. This virus is baffling.

So literally twice as worse and we're already seeing ICU's and PICU's filling up in hotspots, and add to that complete burnout in emergency medicine that's going to take years to recove from.

kinda wondering how Goodwin didn't get home on that slow, long hit with 2 outs

Lazy, routine DP turns into a run

try to run try to hide break on through to the other side

I think kimbrel has been pretty bad on the Sox and hope he instead starts being good.

Take a seat please

How on earth did that swing get that ball over the fence

Cy Lopez

This storm is coming in so quickly they don't have time for full evacuation measures and converting the counterflow highway lanes. Anybody there needs to get out ASAP

Flu last year was largely stamped out by what non-pharmaceutical interventions we were doing, whether they were official policies or just people taking more precautionary measures. Masking, distancing, remote learning/working, fewer people having big parties and gathering, etc. kept flu cases and deaths down to record lows. Some NPI's are coming back again now with mask mandates or at least "guidance," but a lot of the closure/remote NPI's won't be. I'd expect flu season to be higher than last year for sure. I'd get whatever the typical recommended schedule is, so flu, covid booster, shingles (age-dependent), and pneumonia if you fit the risk profile. Getting multiple vaccines in a year or closely together is pretty common. Here's the recommended vaccination schedule for young children:

gotta let them blow the save, to build confidence

Sox bullpen: bad, or worst in MLB?