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That was a ballsy call.

David wrote:just got my mom (80 y.o.) registered for her area's vaccine queue. hopefully hear something soon about when she'll be able to go.

My 80 year old grandpa just got covid after going to the hospital to address an infection in his spine. Really hoping he makes it...

So are we seeing a Christmas bump in new cases or is this still catching up on the backlog from Christmas and New Years? Or is it too early to know yet? The 7 day rolling average had leveled off the couple weeks before Christmas but it’s been climbing the past few days. We definitely had a Christma...

UMFan83 wrote:Illini dropping a tough one at home to Maryland. They seems like a team that might take their occasional lumps in the regular season but have the talent to dominate in the tourney

I'm about ready to take a break from sports for a while.

They are just sitting on every short pass and stuffing the box. Gotta start shooting for some 10-15 yard passes.

If you're not symptomatic, probably not. Correct. You can certainly transmit it being asymptomatic (as high as 59% of cases may be transmitted from an asymptomatic person) but the current guidelines state you can end quarantine 10 days after your positive test if there have been no symptoms. So you...

Quite the second half so far from the illini

I thought for sure that the robbie missed extra point and/or missed field goal was going to be what let arizona win the game and ultimately keep the bears out of the playoffs.

Playing in the finals this week. I assembled a record breaking team. My opponent in the semifinal didn't know what hit him. Darren Waller went off on Thursday night, Josh Allen went crazy on Saturday afternoon and Aaron Jones went berzerk on Saturday night. I was up 187-24 (3 players each) before t...

Fingers crossed. But either way, the end is in sight.

Hairyducked Idiot wrote:The worldometer 7-day running case average for the US has dropped two days in a row. We *might* be seeing the peak.

I'm thinking we will see a bump after Christmas, and will start to drop for good mid January.

A flagrant 1?! Just an unbelievably bad call.

Proven Veteran wrote:I bought myself a fridge just for beer. I've been ordering a bunch from Tavour and it was hard to fit 30 cans in the regular fridge. One shelf is just bourbon county.

Full size or mini? My beer fridge is about waist height and can hold roughly 24 bottles, 36 12 ounce cans, and 24 pint cans at once.

I also wonder if all of this will change how people handle sickness and work. What should happen is that it becomes more normalized to actually take time off work if you are sick. What may happen is people will still come to work sick, but hopefully will wear a mask. Probably wishful thinking; peopl...

I don't think that once all this calms down I'm going to be wearing masks out all the time, but I am going to seriously consider wearing one when I go to germ factories like a children's museum. Particularly during flu season. I haven't been sick for 9 months and its been fantastic. same. i might j...

I don't think that once all this calms down I'm going to be wearing masks out all the time, but I am going to seriously consider wearing one when I go to germ factories like a children's museum. Particularly during flu season. I haven't been sick for 9 months and its been fantastic.

squally1313 wrote:Anyone get roped into watching Happiest Season on Hulu? It got enough buzz that my wife is insisting we watch it at some point this week, just wondering if it's genuinely enjoyable or just on the upper half of standard rom coms.

It was fine. Nothing mind blowing, but I wasn't upset I watched it.

I got my wife one of those myx fitness bikes (think peloton but not *as* outrageously expensive.) With two kids, two full-time jobs and her taking night classes, the gym time for both of us has decreased quite a bit. there was a black friday sale that was like $500 off so I just went for it, horsef...

SouthSideRyan wrote:My local boutique grocery store had it all sitting front display untouched yesterday. Still has the unboxed variants as of this evening, picked up an extra bottle of each

Including the proprietor, birthday and anniversary? That'd be quite the find.

I wonder if I hate wheat beers because they are impossible to make, or because they just taste bad naturally. I suppose it depends on what kind of wheat beers you are drinking. Hefewizens use a distinctive yeast that I find soapy and dislike. But more american type wheat beers that use different ye...

I think a big part of the problem is that recipes don't scale up linearly. A good example of this is Oberon. When it was small batch, it was amazing. Then bells ramped up production, and it lost that potent orange flavor, tasting more like a horsefeathers macro brew. It took a while, but it would a...

Won the raffle for jewel and got to pick up all 7 variants. The store I went to (jewel on 75th in woodridge) also allowed for unlimited purchase of the standard, kentucky fog, carmella, and the coffee one, and had a decent supply. So if you are in the area and want some, stop by.

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
I really wish the biden administration would recognize and actually do something about this.

It's probably too soon to say anything, but it looks like Illinois may have leveled off. The positivity rate more than tripled over the course of a month starting in early October, but it has held steady at ~12.5% for the last week. IMO it looks like closing indoor dining stopped the bleeding, but ...

I am so tired of the "We want all LEGAL votes counted" talking point. Take a simple statement that nobody can disagree with and use it over and over to imply that there is reason to believe that it is not the case. Whenever someone tries to counter the statement, the response is "Wha...