It was a month ago when I found this broken eagle while cleaning the Capitol after the insurrection. I kept it as a tender reminder of the enormous work ahead to heal. This is one of several symbols I want to share with you as we think what comes next for our nation (THREAD) pic.twitter.com/u4SRgA8lxX
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
Been waiting for the right time to share this…
SYMBOL OF THREAT: This shattered window on the center doors of the Capitol is the last remaining major damage I saw left as I walked around the Capitol last night. It remains as a symbol of the hate that penetrated our democracy and flooded inside. pic.twitter.com/9DM0ffWM7V
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
SYMBOL OF UNCERTAINTY: I now have to pass through two layers of razor wire fencing to get to work at the Capitol. I walked the perimeter this week with the National Guard and they said they have no idea how long this protection will be necessary.
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
SYMBOL OF RESILIENCE: I saw this quote over a door in the Capitol. It reminded me that healing is more than about accountability of the President and others that participated that day. “Oppressions and injustice and hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization” pic.twitter.com/wdGs3uHIqD
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
SYMBOL OF HOPE: When I arrived at my office this week, there were hundreds of cards from all over the country expressing hope from the image of me cleaning the rotunda. One woman said the actions reminded her of her immigrant mother and father who taught her humility. pic.twitter.com/dMujD2jgOA
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
We cannot, for a moment, treat the attack of 1/6 as something normal that happened. It was a truly dark day in our nation's history and it deserves a response of that magnitude.
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
We must also work to strengthen the very institutions placed under attack. Our democracy is far too fragile if a demagog with a social media account and a megaphone can incite an insurrection.
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
And finally, we need to recognize that this is the job of all of us – not just those at the Capitol. We are part of a singular American story. I am working on some ideas to do just this and I hope to work with all of you. I hope that is the true legacy of Jan 6. (end)
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) February 6, 2021
featheredsprite
Very, very nice. Thank you.
Just Some Fuckhead
My arm fucking hurts. I can’t believe in the 21st century we’re using something as primitive as a needle to administer medicine.
Baud
Nice. Thanks, AK and AL.
HypersphericalCow
I’m agnostic as to whether the Dems should have called witnesses, but the evidence that they’ve already laid out, and the sub-Hutz level performance of the defense, makes me think they don’t have to.
SiubhanDuinne
Reposting from the dead thread downstairs, just because I find it very funny!
HypersphericalCow
@Just Some Fuckhead: When I was in college back in 2002, my mom made me get a meningitis vaccine, because one kid at University of Michigan (several hundred miles away) died from it. My left arm was useless for three days.
Ascap_scab
Steve Schmidt quits Lincoln Project.
https://www.axios.com/lincoln-project-co-founder-resigns-ad554687-f2d1-4b7c-ac0c-5aa555fb312f.html
What would you expect when it is revealed that of the $90 million raised, $50 million went into leadership pockets. Still toxic Republican grifters. NRA, anyone?
Baud
@Ascap_scab:
Glad for their help. Glad they ain’t us and we ain’t them.
VeniceRiley
@Just Some Fuckhead: They trialled one oral. Didn’t pan out. Hope microneedle patches develop on , erm, point.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Ascap_scab: cf. Sinking Ship, Rats
sab
@Just Some Fuckhead: Which one did you have?
Elizabelle
What a great post. Thank you, Anne Laurie.
@HypersphericalCow: I still wish they’d call witnesses. The GOP Senators may be hopeless, but the managers’ audience is Americans and future historians.
At the very least, I hope we hear from the police and other witnesses in hearings as to how this was allowed to happen by the Capitol police leadership and whichever
trumpunderlings and existing flunkies at the Department of Defense were installed to prevent an effective and coordinated defense. The threat was known.Just Some Fuckhead
@sab: Moderna was the only one available. The registration form said choose which vaccination you want and there was only one choice, the satan hellfire arm pain one.
Elizabelle
@Ascap_scab: Le sigh. Steve Schmidt sure knows how to pick ’em.
dmsilev
@HypersphericalCow: I don’t think witnesses would add anything. There’s no witness that could possibly change any R minds, not even T**** going full Captain Queeg or Colonel Jessup on the stand, and for the public and for history the case that the House made is already very strong and compelling.
That said, if the House team decides that they do want to request witnesses, I think they’ve earned the right to have their judgement trusted.
satby
@Just Some Fuckhead: Well next time ask for it to be administered via suppository.
SiubhanDuinne
I had seen an image of the broken eagle earlier — I think Andy Kim posted it as a stand-alone tweet — but hadn’t seen the rest of the thread until now. Very moving. I love all the hand-lettered messages of thanks from Congressional staffers to the Capitol Police in that bleak tunnel.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Elizabelle: You can’t really expect good judgment calls from a guy who pushed McCain to put Palin on the presidential ticket.
Honus
Had my vaccine Wednesday. Barely felt the needle. No side effects. Not complaining.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I studied this for the longest time wondering why you were thanking Alaska and Alabama.
Just Some Fuckhead
@satby: You mean ass candy.
The Thin Black Duke
What the Republicans are doing right now remind me of a bad comedian who’s shouting insults and lousy jokes at a silent audience that gets angrier the longer he’s on stage. Worse, the bad comedian doesn’t know it, thinks he’s doing great, so he cranks it up. The GOP isn’t reading the room clearly at all, because if they did, they would realize that not convicting Trump is the stupidest thing they could do, but they’re going to do it anyway.
debbie
@Ascap_scab:
Bit of a stretch to compare LP with NRA.
Minstrel Michael
Going forward, I commend to our legislators the same sort of tactics that nursery school teachers use on unruly kids. “Is my esteemed colleague from Missouri ready to put on his big boy pants and address this bill on the merits? Or does he need a time-out?”
James E Powell
Why do we care what John Dean thinks? Why is he a person to whom CNN turns? It doesn’t matter if he says something I agree with. I just don’t want to hear from him anymore.
Martin
Dear FPers.
Katie Porter is live tweeting the mark up of the Covid relief bill, and if you want to better understand how this process works, it’s a great civics lesson. It started about 7-8 hours ago and is still going. I imagine at the end there’ll be a rollup.
sab
@HypersphericalCow: Neighbor kid did of meningitis when I was in high school 1970. Your mom was right.
randy khan
That’s a fantastic thread. The photos of him helping to clean up after January 6 were really moving, and it’s clear he’s been thinking a lot about what needs to come next.
Honus
@Just Some Fuckhead: quit whining. Your arm hurting is better than being on a ventilator. Trust me.
Just Some Fuckhead
@The Thin Black Duke: Agree. They think if they don’t convict Trump that makes him not guilty, ergo everyone is absolved.
Martin
@HypersphericalCow: The vaccine was mandatory at my university. We had loads of students returning from asia with it.
The Thin Black Duke
@Just Some Fuckhead: Exactly. Profiles in courage, all of them.
satby
@sab: My oldest kid got it when he was 8 months old, the vaccine was in development but hadn’t been released. He was seriously ill for several days, came close to losing him the first night at the hospital. In isolation (with me) for two weeks, and needed follow up monitoring for potential deafness and aplastic anemia from the drugs they had to give him until he was five.
Younger people really don’t understand what miracles vaccines are.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Honus: Yeah, except those aren’t the only two choices.
debbie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
If they don’t convict Trump, they’ve assured the destruction of their party. Everything Trump touches, dies.
Arclite
Just a Goddamn decent human being.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I was talking to the woman who runs activities here, and she told me she once worked for Louis Lamour. I don’t have a point to make about that. I was just tickled by it.
Martin
@Just Some Fuckhead: Covid vaccines are being tested for needleless injectors now. Maybe if you were younger life wouldn’t be so unfair.
Elizabelle
@satby: Speaking of which, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been thrown off Instagram for his antivaxxing disinformation.
Still on Facebook, which has pledged to crack down on vaccine falsehoods.
debbie
@Martin:
Maybe I’ll hold off then…. ?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Just Some Fuckhead:
It’s certainly not a Star Trek hypospray
tom
@Ascap_scab: It gets worse.
Just Some Fuckhead
@debbie: I dunno. Seven million more people voted for Trump after a disastrous four year term capped off by killing 400,000 Americans through a criminally deranged Covid response. I don’t share your optimism.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: You should get a screen capture. You know how to do that on your phone, yes?
ColoradoGuy
Arm pain … apparently it’s OK to take a NSAID after the vaccine, but not 24 hours before. I was avoiding the NSAID, so I took a hot bath and drank a lot of water. The arm pain lasted about 36 hours, then went away pretty quickly. The “out-of-it” feeling and muscle pain is actually activation of the immune system, as antibodies flood into the area and then into the rest of the body.
satby
@Elizabelle: yeah,don’t hold your breath ?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Right? I want 23rd century technology NOW.
Dan B
@Ascap_scab: A good friend sent glowing reports of the Lincoln Project and implied we should donate money since he was. I replied that the LP should take money from wealthy moderate GOP’ers. “Take money”, not “raise money” – grifting implied.
LP did what any sharp Madison Ave team does: Find your target’s weakness and exploit it with imagery and words that insinuate the worst. Go simple, the minimum number of words, mine the mythos, etc.
debbie
@ColoradoGuy:
It was the same with the pneumonia vaccine. The first shot was nothing; the second shot was a real bitch, arm-painwise.
Just Some Fuckhead
@debbie: Don’t listen to him. He’s stupid.
LurkerNoLonger
@debbie: From your lips to the voters ears.
WaterGirl
@Martin: Give me a shout once there is a rollup. We paid for the software that lets us create a .pdf from those now.
Just Some Fuckhead
@James E Powell: I thought he died in a car crash.
WaterGirl
@Honus: That’s not whining, that’s venting. I’m pretty sure JSF knows that a sore arm, even a really fucking sore one, beats getting covid.
LurkerNoLonger
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Some people choose to be miserable.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Very low-level venting, more like grousing. ?
Immanentize
@satby: yes. Death? Or sore arm?
Waaaah! My God I hate these shit stains.
satby
@Just Some Fuckhead: You do know it’s not the needle that’s making your arm ache, don’t you? It’s the introduction of a foreign object (the vaccine) into the muscle, which wasn’t designed with pockets to put extra fluid in, so that irritates the muscle and causes inflammation, which attracts the cells of the immune system, which…
The needle doesn’t make your arm sore. And my point is, it would still ache even with an air injection of some magical kind.
debbie
@LurkerNoLonger:
Nah, it’s just karma.
CaseyL
Very sore arm v. not sore arm – It depends on the needle as well as on the viscousness of the vaccine.
My first shot was with the smallest needle they could use, and I hardly felt it. Then they ran out of that size needle and had to go to a bigger one – and it hurt as much as a regular flu shot (which is to say, it hurt.) Arm was more sore afterwards, too.
ETA: Contradicting satby. Not to be argumentative, but size does matter.
Just Some Fuckhead
@LurkerNoLonger: Mrs. Fuckhead says I don’t have the ability to imagine anything good happening, ever.
mali muso
@Just Some Fuckhead: next time, have the injection in your hip?
Martin
@debbie: I don’t think it’ll matter. I think the GOP is fucked regardless.
This election and BLM and the changes to social media acceptance (so-called cancel culture) is the anti-racists getting the upper hand politically (at the national level, at least). Racism is generally a ratchet – it goes one way.
GOP orthodoxy is a losing political position that will only be more of a losing position over time. But what’s unique about it is that orthodoxy prevents change. It has no ability to coexist with the elements needed to save it, and that inability is only getting more intense. So as we move forward, the need to destroy the GOP only intensifies as the way to save it.
I think convicting Trump accelerates that timeline, but doesn’t avoid it.
Benw
Andy Kim seems like a good dude. Would elect
WaterGirl
@debbie: Grousing is the perfect word! thank you
debbie
@satby:
I don’t know if it applies to administering a shot in the arm, but there are phlebotomists who really suck at their job. I’ve walked away with some really appalling bruises.
Martin
@Ascap_scab: Yeah, Lincoln Project is dead. Oh well. They were useful and now they’re not.
Brachiator
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Glad you got your jab. I am still waiting in line to get into some other line.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Back in the beforetime, I was often accused of grousing at work. I like it!
Ksmiami
@The Thin Black Duke: Rt – to quote The Crow movie: “They’re all dead- they just don’t know it yet.”
Just Some Fuckhead
@satby: I never said the needle caused me pain. I’m quite aware of the mechanics of fluid being pushed into a muscle, being a sentient adult on the planet for veritable decades. If you will look at my first comment, I said a “.. needle to administer medicine.”
In fact, the actual shot was surprisingly painless.
Martin
@WaterGirl: Will do. Not sure how many more hours she’s in there for.
Dan B
@Elizabelle: I’m with you on witnesses, especially police who were injured – just a couple so it’s not “statistics”. Having “partisan” politicians doing all the talking diminishes the message. It hamstrings the message and raises a wall between the Democrats and Republicans who are not completely on the crazy train. The officer who lost an eye would be devastating to the T*#×% creeps.
satby
@CaseyL: Size matters ?. Yes, to a degree, but so does skill in giving an injection (i.e. how deep into the muscle, contents of the shot, etc). The pain from the needle is momentary, your pain sensing nerves are mostly near the surface of your skin. That deep muscle ache is from the vaccine itself.
Argiope
@mali muso: Pfizer & Moderna both require upper deltoid muscles. Which I’m cool with because I don’t want to see a whole vaccine clinic’s worth of people dropping trou when I’m volunteering. Though it could have comic potential..
Brachiator
@debbie:
If the are sucking the blood out, they are doing it wrong.
ETA: One Halloween, a lab receptionist was dressed as a vampire. I could not resist the easy joke, as to whether they were going to bite patients.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
So what’s the deal with Cuomo and “covering up” nursing home deaths in NY? NYS Republicans are clamoring to impeach him and I’ve read there were major shakeups at the State Health Department
satby
@Just Some Fuckhead: whatever. you just negged your own comnent.
Geminid
Representative Andy Kim is another member of the stellar Democratic class of 2018. He beat the incumbent NJ 3rd Congressman by 4,000 votes in a district running from the Philly suburbs to the coast. Last November Kim won by 30,000 votes. Kim was born in Boston to Korean immigrants. He got a degree from the U. of Chicago, studied at Oxford alongside Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and went on to serve in the Obama administration. Andy Kim is 38 years old.
cain
It would be outrageous to post a youtube video of John Ashcroft’s “Might Eagles Soar” – just outrageous!
But I did think about it…
I’m a bad man.
Dan B
@dmsilev: If only politicians are speaking then the message options are:
1. On my team. -or-
2. Partisan / slimey politician.
Let non-politicians voices be elevated.
Spanky
@debbie:
Those are called “vampires”
ETA Dammit Brachiator!
Immanentize
@Just Some Fuckhead: Then what the hell is your complaint? It seems to be shifting…. Because you did reveal yourself.
Immanentize
@satby: ?
Matt
What does he mean “comes next”, like the insurrection is OVER? The instigator of the insurrection is actively conspiring, in public, with the jurors in his impeachment trial – it’s still happening.
L85NJGT
@debbie:
Healthcare workers with piercings do the best needle work.
Anne Laurie
@Just Some Fuckhead: Humblebrag!
(Congratulations on getting your Fauci ouchie.)
Gvg
@Just Some Fuckhead: I just had 2 teeth extracted. Bad genes and an infection. Hydrocodone is not touching it. Needles and pliers in this day and age….I want to fall asleep. Usually hydro puts me out.
John Revolta
@The Thin Black Duke: Lenny Bruce used to have a routine about a cheesy American comic who, against all advice, had his agent book him into one of the oldest most respected theaters in London. When the crowd doesn’t go for his schtick he gets ugly with them and ends up inciting a riot that nearly wrecks the place. At the end of the bit we see him going “I think I gotta feel for the room now. I’ll kill ’em at the late show!”
That’s our GOP!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Brachiator: I signed up for the 1b group (underlying condition) in my city about a month ago and never heard from anyone. My employer in the neighboring city put the entire agency in as frontline workers (after receiving guidance from the health department to do so) and I think it was less than a week later we got notified?
Dan B
@Honus: My partner and my best friend had the Pfizer jab and had very minor soreness.
Today’s needles are much finer than they were 20 years ago. I barely feel a tiny prick. And it helps a lot to move the arm like flapping to spread the vaccine around so it’s not causing strong inflammation in one small area.
Overall aches and fatigue may be a sign of strong immune response. And won’t be ameliorate by “flapping”.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Immanentize: What the fuck is wrong with you?
Just Some Fuckhead
@satby: What is wrong with you people? Seriously. Are you broken in some way?
Geminid
@Just Some Fuckhead: No need to be sore.
CaseyL
@satby: Huh. Maybe the nurse was just bad at it, and deflected blame. (She’s the one who told me about the different needle sizes, which made sense so I accepted it.)
I have had my share of not-great phlebotomists, mostly when they’re trying to do a blood draw. Didn’t realize a lack of technique could affect something as seemingly straightforward as an IM injection.
Brachiator
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Very cool. I am hoping that things will quickly get better as more vaccine becomes available.
Immanentize
@Just Some Fuckhead: Watch out, I’m “armed.”
satby
on a different subject, in my quest to make the perfect rice pudding, I tried using a can of sweetened, condensed milk for 1/2 the milk in my recipe. Tasted great, like a carmel rice pudding; the bad part was that the condensed milk-regular milk combo took a L-O-N-G time to cook.
I started in the oven at 325° for 45 minutes (the recipe): rice still uncooked. Switched to the instant pot on low pressure for 10 minutes in a water bath and covered: still uncooked. Added some water (1/2 cup) to thin the liquid, stirred and back into the Instant Pot, covered and high pressure for 20 minutes: woo-hoo! half cooked rice! Stirred it all up again, added another 1/2 cup water, high pressure 20 more minutes (probably a little long), and finally! A little thick now, but delicious. When I make it again I’ll do one cup water, milk, 3/4 cup rice, and a 14 oz can of condensed milk all stirred together and then into the dish to cook on high pressure in the instant pot for 30 minutes.
This is why I just make soap.
Just Some Fuckhead
This is wild and seems completely out of character for Kevin McCarthy.
satby
@Geminid: I saw that.
satby
@Just Some Fuckhead: Whoa, so the Republican reps are a bit pissed at their counterparts in the Senate.
I shoulda just made popcorn instead.
opiejeanne
@satby: It could be both the foreign object being injected making JSF’s arm hurt as well as the needle, if administered poorly. My BIL is in physical therapy for right now for a flu shot that hit something in his arm 6+ months ago. I have no idea how you do that, but damn!
Looked it up, the nurse missed his deltoid, injected it too high.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@satby:
It sheds an even more pathetic light on McCarthy’s visit to Trump, doesn’t it?
Brachiator
@satby:
I hope you never confuse your soap with your rice pudding.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Brachiator: I was very impressed with the vaccination setup. Inside a closed department store, spaced out well, orderly as hell, no wait. The guy who gave me the vaccination looked like a carpenter or something. I heard from a co-worker there were firemen giving vaccines at another table so maybe he was a fireman. After the vaccination, they write a time on a yellow sticky note and send you over to sit in chairs spaced well apart. When they call the time on your sticky note, you put the note on your chair and leave through a different door than you came in. Then they walk over and pull up your sticky note and disinfect the chair.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I do know how, but sadly I didn’t think of grabbing a screenshot in time. And of course, some busybody nosey parker of an editor came along in the meantime and changed it to something anodyne. Sigh.
opiejeanne
@Immanentize: That seems more than a bit harsh.
opiejeanne
@mali muso: Do they still give injections in the butt?
satby
@Brachiator: Nah gunna happen! But soap is possibly less forgiving of wild experimentation than food is, considering the chemical reaction is going to continue whether you’re ready or not.
debbie
@satby:
Whole milk, long grain white rice, salt. Three and a quarter hours @ 300 degrees. Stir every 30 minutes for the first 2 hours, then add vanilla and nutmeg. Let stand for 4 to 6 hours (allows starch to thicken the pudding.
Geminid
@satby: Is there a particular kind of soap that is best for poison ivy exposure?
opiejeanne
@Brachiator: The lab in the health center at one of the big Hollywood Studios has a lovely portrait of Bela Lugosi in the waiting room.
Brachiator
@satby:
This reminds me of an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies where granny was rustling up a pot of vittles on one part of the stove and boiling clothes or making a batch of soap on another burner.
Hilarity ensues as Jethro gobbles up the wrong concoction.
Brachiator
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Very smooth operation.
.
The Thin Black Duke
opiejeanne
@Just Some Fuckhead: That sounds like a good setup. I’m signed up as 1b, have been eligible for 3 weeks, and have heard nothing. I haven’t been able to find an appointment, but now I know why. They were showing a couple of months on the “choose your appointment” calendar, but they were only booking for a week at a time because that’s all they knew they would have vaccine for here. Now they’ll be getting weekly notifications of how much vaccine for 3 weeks at a stretch, so they can ,make more appointments available.
Also, my state WA is in the midst of a favoritism scandal regarding who gets the vaccine. Donors of $10k or more to at least one hospital went to the front of the line.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: darn it! maybe someone will change it again. keep an eye out? :-)
M31
@Geminid:
Fels-Naptha was the tradition out in the country when I was growing up.
Origuy
@Geminid: There’s a product called Tecnu that is a soap that binds with urushiol, the active compound in poison oak/ivy/sumac and Japanese lacquer plants. You have to use it fairly soon after exposure.
Miss Bianca
@satby: My younger brother, at eight weeks old, caught spinal meningitis. We had moved to the Detroit area around that time, (this would have 1964-65) and my parents took him to Henry Ford Hospital. My mother always said that there was one Filipina intern there who took one look at G. and immediately began treating him – didn’t even wait for tests. She had seen enough of it in the Philippines to know exactly what it was. My mother always fervently blessed this intern for saving my brother’s life.
Anne Laurie
Spousal Unit is super-sensitive to poison ivy, and can attest to the value of Tecnu (which is available as a lotion as well as a soap).
Ruckus
@Honus:
I’d also bet it is better than dying but the people that have make lousy witnesses.
I’ve had reactions to vaccine shots before in my life, once 9 days in a hospital, 7 of them with a fever of 105. I took the shot – gleefully, almost giddy. I have an Epipen to attempt being able to avoid going to the hospital if I get stung by a bee. And I have to give myself that shot. I’d take both shots of this vaccine, also gleefully.
Just Some Fuckhead
@opiejeanne: I speculated that my city might be prioritizing all the 1b senior citizens over the 1b “underlying condition” folks but honestly, we probably fucked up the sign up or there was a technology issue on the back end. But we also called my doc and they never returned our call.
J R in WV
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Well, really, you could have just not allowed them to stick the needle into your arm. Wouldn’t that have been so much better?
Pie safe FOREVER, you total dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!
My wife was on a vent for nearly 4 weeks in 2011.Her lung was necrotic — look that up, shithead.
I would pay any amount of money for the vaccine, for my wife.
Ruckus
@tom:
Trash is still trash, even if you can make art out of it.
The Lincoln Project folks didn’t want trump, and I’d bet it was because they thought the conservative prospects would falter. They want to continue that conservatives could be in charge and create the behind the scene takeover of the country, banishing liberals forever in a political purgatory for attempting to have an actual democracy. But shitforbrains never, ever does things in any way quietly or smart or with any view other than his. They didn’t do the Lincoln Project because they flipped to the liberal side, they did it to get the guy who has all the subtlety and intelligence of a lanced boil out of the way.
The Pale Scot
@Gvg:
Toss back a couple Aleves with a wee nip of the cruel
Those 5mg generics suck, I think they’re adulterated or placebos. I always ask my surgeon/dentist for 10mg and half the pills, definitely makes a difference
Rob
@tom:
Indeed. It looks like LP is finished.
Ruckus
@satby:
I’ve had several air gun shots, all at the same time, but as far as I know they only do sub q, not inter-muscular. The air gun shots, several in a space of about 20-30 seconds didn’t hurt at all. Then we got inter-muscular shots with needles. And done properly those don’t hurt either.
The Pale Scot
@CaseyL:
I have narrow veins that tend to “jump”. Blood samples or donations are an exercise in watching the needlelist work back and forth trying to pierce the vein. The last visit to Quest the torturer was a young guy who’s a local DJ, we’re talking about music and I telling him this is going to a mess. He looked up at me and said no it’s not, next think I know the needle’s in. I’m pretty sure he didn’t even look down.
“Dude, I need your DJ business card, you’re hired, I’m never coming to anyone else to get stabbed”
Just Some Fuckhead
@J R in WV: I maintain the right to complain about a very sore arm and the desire for better medical technology despite all the covid horrors in the world. I maintain the right to rue my thyroid disease despite some people having inoperable thyroid cancer. I maintain the right to complain about being worn out all the time from diabetes despite some people having pancreatic cancer. I maintain the right to curse my arthralgia despite some people having missing limbs. I maintain the right to curse my vitiligo despite some people having devastating skin disorders. I maintain the right to hate my keratoconus despite some people being blind. I maintain the right to throw away my leftovers despite some people going hungry somewhere. You are way out of line.
Geminid
@Dan B: Lincoln Project principal Rick Wilson will be trying his negative ad skills on Benjamin Netanyahu during this Israeli election. Gideon Saar hired Wilson to help with messaging for Saar’s New Hope Party. Saar had been a Likud Party rival of Netanyahu, and when he broke away he brought several veteran Likudniks with him. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has hired a former Steve Bannon associate to craft his messaging. The election will be March 23, and polls show that, as in the last three, Netanyahu and those parties that can stand him will get just under 60 out of 120 Knesset members.
different-church-lady
@Just Some Fuckhead:
FIRST WORLD PROBLEM.
different-church-lady
JESUS FUCKIN’ CHRIST I CAN’T WAIT FOR MY ARM TO HURT!!!
different-church-lady
GODDAMMIT I’M SIGNING UP FOR ALL NINE NEEDLES AND I’LL HOLD THE FUCKIN’ DRY ICE IN MY TEETH IF I HAVE TO!!!
different-church-lady
@Just Some Fuckhead:
YOU MAINTAIN THE RIGHT TO KISS MY ASS!
(ETA: I probably ought to read the rest of this thread before I go any further, no?)
WaterGirl
I would not have predicted vaccine fights.
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: THE WHINING ALWAYS GETS AS BIG AS ITS TANK!
Bill Arnold
@Geminid:
This is interesting and potentially fun, thanks. I very much want Netanyahu to go down (for his interference in American politics and general arrogance, among other reasons) but don’t know much about Saar. (Seems toxic as well.)
Just Some Fuckhead
@different-church-lady: Nah, you do you. I imagine you can be a delightful person when you’re sober. We’ve just never seen that.
different-church-lady
@Just Some Fuckhead:
NEITHER HAVE I!
different-church-lady
The really great thing about me being me is that nobody else has to do it.
DropKicker1
Also: for all the grim comedy to be found in the notion of “economically distressed” Trump cultists forking over serious coin for the privilege of seeing him…hang out in Marred a Lago, anything to do with that festering hemorrhoid on the body politic leaves a bad taste
A while ago, I started to call it Merry Lego. Don’t know why, but it made me happy
Unlike Trump
Mike
Geminid
@Bill Arnold: Policy wise, Saar is very similar to Netanyahu. Right now his party is projected to win 10-12 seats, so Saar will likely just be a senior minister in a coalition led perhaps by Mr. Lapid, whose centrist Yesh Atid party is on track to win 16+ seats. Likud is projected to win high 20s. The Israeli electoral system has parties run slates nationwide. If a party receives 10%, the top 12 candidates on it’s slate get seats in the 120 member Knesset. A party getting 3.25% wins four seats, but if it falls below that threashold it gets none. This system, compounded by the fact that almost every party leader who has ever served in coalition with Netanyahu hates his guts, has led to inconclusive results the last three elections.
I’ve gotten sucked into Israeli news and politics, and follow them through the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post. Haaretz is better, but it is paywalled.
Jean
Here, in Chesterfield VA, I am beyond frustrated about the vaccine supply and the vaccinations. I’m in 1B, which according to the county site, includes 65+ with underlying conditions. The “conditions” part was added, I’ve been told, because we are short on supply and are still vaccinating those in 1A. I registered at the county and signed up at CVS and Walgreens. Beginning Monday, the 15th, county registrations are being migrated to a central state site where we can verify that our registrations transferred and keep our spot in the queue.
I don’t have “underlying conditions,” and while I’m happy about that, I’m not happy about exclusion when everywhere else I’ve looked, it’s just 65+ in 1B The county tells me I’m registered, but it could be “weeks or months” before I’m contacted. A friend grabbed an open slot (CVS) in Danville, which is a 5-hour drive from here. WTH? Oh, and because of the ice/snow here, all appts have been cancelled this weekend, so those people have to be rescheduled.
At this point, instead of constantly checking on availability, I’d rather just know WHEN AND WHERE, even if it’s two months away or more.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Jean: Pretty sure 1b is multiple groups; senior citizens, underlying conditions and essential frontline workers.
TomatoQueen
@different-church-lady: Nahh, the really great thing about you is that nobody else is even remotely capable of doing it. (Heart emoji)
satby
@Geminid: @M31: @Origuy: Sorry, I wandered off to watch Harlots on Hulu. I sell a jewelweed soap, I get oil infused with it from a local wildcrafter. Jewelweed was, according to old wives tales, the Native American remedy for poison ivy and people around here swear by it. It does the same as Tecnu, bonds with the irritant and washes it away. I have repeat buyers every year, but I can’t vouch for it personally because I avoid poisonous plants religiously.
different-church-lady
@TomatoQueen: Well, lucky for everyone I guess…
satby
@satby: And holy sh*t, these are the ingredients in Tecnu:
Ingredients:
deodorized mineral spirits, water, propylene glycol, octylphenoxy-polyethoxyethanol, mixed fatty acid soap, fragrance
If I need something, I’ll stick with the jewelweed. YMMV
Geminid
@satby: Thanks. There is jewelweed where I live in Virginia. I used to be only lightly susceptible to P.I., but I had a bad reaction to some last year, so now I want to be prepared. And thanks to the other helpful commenters as well.
vigilhorn
Interesting that it’s the right wing of the eagle that’s broken off from the body.
SteverinoCT
@HypersphericalCow: meningitis vaccine: I’ve seen scare commercials where the kid leaves home “for the first time” for college, and (cue ominous music) never returns. Dum dum dah! Get that vaccine, from PharmaCo!
I’m not anti-vaccine, just anti-scare tactics.
SteverinoCT
I saw a cartoon once, dentist saying to his patient, “That’s not pain you feel, merely the pressure of my needle on your nerve!”