I suspect, in reality, Henrico is a lot closer to Richmond's number than the number Henrico is reporting. Maybe lower income areas of Richmond are more likely to get tested at health department where numbers are tracked, where everybody in Henrico is self testing?

I’m sorry, I don’t know of any. Have you tried antidepressants or other similar medications for your dog? If not, maybe that could help you keep your buddy with you.

Yeah I’m a member and have no affiliation to the school and you just pay the community price. It’s worth it imo. I go at 6am and the pools usually have like 1-2 people in them. Prob more busy in the evening. I know they have tennis court signups to reserve them, they might have the same for lanes?

I can confirm this there is a community membership that costs a bit more but I think it’s very worth it. I shoot hoops as a warmup, do spin classes and use the power racks several times a week. Worth every penny. Everything you need really. As I lose more weight they even have a rock wall I am interested in messing around on. I can’t recommend the gym enough, but I also go at like 6am when there’s basically nobody there so it might get really busy during the peak hours.

It's just sort of odd it changed up in the last couple of weeks. On Wednesday, Richmond was #3 in the state for new COVID cases.

Chesterfield is running about half of what Richmond is producing, and Henrico was always there big time but seems to be taking a small break.

This data is only for the past week or so, but when I saw Richmond three times came in #2 in the state for new cases (population about 230,000), I was surprised. It was only beat by a county with a population of about 880,000 (Fairfax County), which just seemed weird.

Edit: left out some words

it's probably because nobody wears masks anymore? not to mention it's the holiday season so people are unmasked in close quarters more often than any other time of the year. we also have a travel hub here with the train and the airport

we're also a college town? and college kids spread disease like it's their job

VCU Qatar Contract

It’s a campus of the largest public university in Virginia

> I’m not sure if membership to the VCU gym is limited to students and faculty.

It’s not, it’s just $10-$15/mo more expensive as a member of the public I think.

Thanks! Yeah, I’m talking about the Franklin St. YMCA, edited to clarify. My understanding is that the VCU gym on Cary is open to “community” memberships for a higher price.

Thanks for the information!

It’s been a couple of years, but the VCU Cary St gym had a much better pool than the YMCA on Franklin (if those are the ones you’re talking about). I joined for the swimming, as well. I think Cary St occasionally had some classes that took up a majority of the lanes, but the YMCA gym had a smaller pool.

I’m not sure if membership to the VCU gym is limited to students and faculty.

You should check them out, though. My preference was for Cary St.

What silence? Prison labor happens all the time here in the states. I don't think the US has the space to point the finger at any other nations, because its happened here since the beginning of time.

What do you consider "reasonably priced"? Most photographers would be fine with what you described

Oh, and once you wrap up training sessions Edie includes free follow-up via phone for life. It's remarkable.

Sorry you hate your job, dude.

> OEF veteran

Thank you for your service.

I'm an OEF veteran, try again if you expect that first responder guilt trip to take. And again, bigger problems existing doesn't make smaller problems not exist.

You win - I get it. I thought this was the stark comparison between laborers in Qatar being run-over & killed by bulldozers on construction sites as "normal" and the minor whining of people having their WFH yanked or curtailed. No apologies, I don't really care about pleasing anyone on Reddit. Get back to me after you've watched a few people commit suicide or die over the holidays and then you can complain about your job. Over & Out.

I have been thinking about vacuum sealing a bunch of it to freeze and have a couple of months from now. That may be a good solution.

No punishment at all from Edie! No yelling, no shock collars, nothing scary, nothing to make our dog fearful. Our dog was a stray who was picked up when he was 10. He bit. He didn't even growl. With Edie's help, we went from him biting us to him LOVING to have us scratch his face.

She taught us how to teach our pup that we were (gently and compassionately!) in control and he was safe. Our dog had major resource guarding issues, so one of the first things we worked on was "leave it" and "take it" with his food.

It took a lot of work to get that poor pup into a good place mentally but it was one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. He had been abused for a decade, but his final 3 years were happy and safe. He even learned how to play.

Which is why First Responders would never have been put on WFH in the first place, and therefore wouldn't be those "spoilt brats" you're talking about that are complaining about it going away. You can dodge around and try to selectively identify "Most US Citizens" in your first statement down to one entitled worker in LA with no obligations who once tweeted about being mad she had to put pants on to go back into the office, but your original statement stands on it's own and you're not going to carve demographics off until you're back to being right about it.

WFH is great for some industries & professions, for others not so much. Did I say all WFH is bad? No -- if there was a way to WFH 911, I'd love that too. There's still no way to remotely cut the roof off a car.

That’s really terrible. Sorry she’s your MIL

And I was literally calling out that stance as bullshit. I don't work from home, never have. It's impossible in my industry. My wife does however, since Covid. You're acting like telework is just "haha I can wear my sweatpants to work now." That aint it. Telework has had, in her industry, zero effect on the companies bottom line. None. ie: There's zero reason to undo it. What it has done, is given my wife 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week, 40 hours a month, 500 hours a year of her life back that she would have spent commuting. That's 20 days, if you want to do the math. 20 straight days in the car, for no fucking reason. It let us pull our kids out of daycare, and saved us around $1000/mo in childcare expenses, because our son can come straight home after school, and our daughter can stay at home all day with her mom instead of being pawned off on strangers. It means one of us doesn't have to take the day off if a kid is sick, because my wife is already home. It means I can work overtime if needed, because I don't have to cut and run exactly at 5 o'clock to get to the daycare on time. We were literally able to buy a house because of the extra income available after they confirmed WFH isn't going anywhere.

So quit your reductive bullshit. WFH isn't just a casual benefit, it's been the single biggest monetary and quality of life change our household has ever gotten, and it cost her company the grand total of... being able to lease a smaller office space? So yeah, I'd be pretty irate if they irrationally decided to yank everyone back in the office. It's literally improved every facet of our lives.