Coming from the hill district to bigelow….right to Bloomfield? No, Oakland. Right-ish polish hill, left, downtown. Left-ish also polish hill but the strip? What fuckery.

You can tell how old a rabbit is by the number of pellets it leaves behind. This one is clearly 54.

My brother in Christ, how much do you think rabbits poop?

Dookie!

Possibly rabbit poop. Depends on the size. Deer scat is bigger. Herbivore poop generally doesn’t smell that bad. Carnivore poop, on the other hand, ugh!

Fake as shit!

I don't really know the science of it all. I've never really noticed it being blue, usually just really dark brown to my eye.

I think he does his own billing

It’s the Shadyside medical building next to upmc shadyside

In. Millvale.

Right.

There’s one in Aspinwall?

What makes it blue? Just the lighting like the gold or blue dress?

let the poor woman live

Deer crap.

Nightlock?

Ask them what they taste like

Hmm, okay. I'll be sure to do a little research into them. Thanks!

I just have “airport” embedded in my mind for that transition at this point ;(

Does he do his own billing or is it through UPMC?

Ha!

Does this count?

This 5 way intersection in Bellevue on the way to Avalon. I had to ride through it whenever I would try to get to my grandfather's by bike, and no matter what I did, no matter how closely I studied Google Map, no matter how many times I recounted my way around thr circle, no matter HOW MANY TIMES I rode that way, I could NEVER pick the right road on the first try! Never!

Celli's is incredible and you'd be hard pressed to find a better trainer in town than Ryan. Plus it's actually air-conditioned unlike Exercise Warehouse!

Yep people did largely step up to the plate in my experience. We could reasonably handle things without, say, forcing bars and restaurants to close or limit capacity when both the patrons and employees want to be there and are willing to take their own risk. Lost a bunch of local businesses. One friend had to sell their house just to keep the business going.

Finally, someone gave me the W. We’re going to run with that for as long as possible

> Sure I should have said resistance not immunity.

Once again, what kind of resistance actually exists if you're just going to catch it over and over at all? Which infection will infer 'resistance'? The fifth? The tenth?

 
> CA has about half the mortality after all their absurd COVID policies

 
What absurd policies?

 
> The long term consequences of how we and the majority of the western world reacted to COVID are still being felt and will be for a long time.

 
You are assigning the negative outcomes of the pandemic to the reaction to the pandemic and not to the disease that we've permitted to run wild. You are implying that had we done nothing at all and just pretended there wasn't a pandemic raging, things would have turned out better. That is an utterly insane idea.

Sure I should have said resistance not immunity.

My main point is that our reaction to COVID was poor. No matter what we did, many people were going to die. Look at California vs. the worst state in the USA for COVID deaths per capita. CA has about half the mortality after all their absurd COVID policies. Meanwhile some states did almost nothing and probably had a lot of old and at risk people avoiding vaccines, but the end result wasn't much different. While this was impossible to predict in early 2020, we didn't amend our approach to be commensurate with the actual risk as we knew more even later that same year.

The long term consequences of how we and the majority of the western world reacted to COVID are still being felt and will be for a long time. It's not just economic loss. Excess deaths are still elevated, but those attributed to COVID cannot explain all of the excess.