That’s how Its going to have to happen

You wore a mask outside and removed it when you got inside. Hmmmm....

I'm just not ready to join an indoor crowd at a popular restaurant yet but today I had a very pleasant lunch in the "parklet" (outdoor curb lane dining structure) of a great new San Francisco place: Dumpling Home.

There was a non-distanced line of maybe 6 people at the counter ordering their superb dumplings to go and it looked like maybe ⅔ of the indoor tables were occupied (and they didn't seem that far apart).

Meanwhile, my companion and I had a really excellent totally mask-free lunch al fresco of xiao long bao, dandan noodles, cucumber salad and pork bao.

The place is a gem and I'm glad business was so good.

It's also bedside manner and the comfort zone of the patient and if that patient were me, I might ask them to put on a mask (just to remind them whose room they were in). I realize it's something the average patient probably wouldn't do but I would and I think they should recognize that mask wearing these days is like many things: I'd enter the room wearing a mask and ask the patient if they minded my taking it off in the interest of better communication.

But some doctors, especially the "top money making surgeons" are arrogant.

Not being able to use the gym for a year is a much bigger health risk to most people under 40 than Covid.

None of us are going to die sooner from not being able to lift weights. Anyone who didn't care about Covid enough to go to a gym also won't mind running or biking outside during lockdown. I'm 6'5" and avoid running to save my knees, but my cardio's in as good a shape as it's ever been. Covid was more of a burden on my wallet as I went in 50% on a Peloton with my parents while I've been staying at their place for large swaths of time over the last year.

I miss the lap pool at my condo though.

All I know is that seeing how we handled this pandemic, the next time some swine flu mutates on a pig farm in Arkansas and starts spreading with a 50% fatality rate or some such, we're all fucking doomed.

I had to scope the vibe out first. There were many other maskless there so I took it off

But most patients aren’t Howard Hughes like you are, so...

No because such a deadly virus would quickly extinguish itself. There would just be a town with a bunch of dead people in Arkansas.

Obesity is a far bigger killer than Covid. We’ve got pretty shitty weather here half the year, so closing gyms would have certainly had adverse health consequences for many people.

Not having a gym is not an excuse to be fat.

Most of weight control involves diet. Exercise helps, but diet is WAY more important.

Same thought, lol.

We're definitely going to need a Corona Commission after this, similar to what happened after 9/11.

An interesting case study of the Bronx Bombers.


https://sports.yahoo.com/how-surpris...rc=fp_deeplink

I think America needs a well thought out pandemic protocol, yes, which I've stated before.

But the focus should be on stopping the spread of disease AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. We cannot have another year like this again, I swear I will jump off of a bridge.

If we have decided that it's ok for Government to tear up the Constitution and throw it away every time they declare an emergency, then my proposal is to do so with minimal impact. And the best way to accomplish that is enforced quarantine of early cases. Yes, it probably is unconstitutional to do that, but to hell with it--we've already crossed that threshold.

So next time around, gather up the earliest cases and force them to live in some warehouse for 2 weeks. Treat them humanely, of course.

I think that's the best way to go.

Being into COVID is starting to become noticeably "non-Swedish". English and Irish expats will talk at length of caseloads and vaccines, but not Swedes. This is at nearly 5,000 cases/day in a population of 10 million, which is a bit surprising for a Canadian.

The campaign just didn't pierce the membrane here, it seems. It's at a kind of perma-"oh there's something going around" status.

This sounds like a good thing.

And if it does break out, just accept that it’s out instead of pretending we’re in some Matt Damon disaster movie. It’s going to kill who it’s going to kill. A quick conflagration would have been preferable to this slow burn.

My understanding of infectious disease doesn't have much to do with this issue. My recognition that doctors aren't gods and that they owe their patients respect for the patients' comfort--mental and physical--is. When doctor and patient interact, its the patient's comfort zone that should be respected whenever possible. If you don't recognize that, you are a problem for the profession.