PhineasC

It doesn’t seem to make much sense to have a place be packed (with many not wearing masks while sitting down or eating) but then to still have ordinances on the books requiring masks when walking down the street. Crazy town.

Nope, stuck in Norfolk. Wish I was stuck somewhere else. This airport blows. The one bar in the terminal just closed.

They call it “virtue signaling” and it is driving a lot of behaviors right now.

And now I’m stuck in Norfolk. Ugh.

We are already basically living in a techno-corporatist/oligarchic state and it is just getting worse. Congress has exactly zero power over the tech monopolies. Too scared to even touch them.

I mean, that's fine, but can we go just a little further and get rid of the masks and silly hygiene theater restrictions everywhere before we declare things "back to normal"? Also, open all the schools?

Airports and restaurants packed, FL and TX wide open and partying. CDC/Fauci and WH still telling people to stay home and stay safe. States all over the place with different rules. Vaccine demand dropping off long before herd immunity is reached. Something has to give here soon. It's total chaos out there. And summer riot season hasn't even started yet! But hey, at least the mean tweets have stopped.

Meanwhile, billionaires added 4 trillion dollars to their net worth globally. Nice society we have here! Glad the mean tweets are gone, at least.

Well, that didn't take long. The new normal is awesome! Add "escaping from a volcano" to the list of things you will need get the vaccine to be allowed to do.

Finally made it on the plane. Sheesh. It's a complete zoo here. Don't these people know a global pandemic is on? LOL I need to buy a fractional share of a private corporate jet.

An inch of uplsope will cover that right up.

Imagine spiking the football because some rando on the Internet was too optimistic about when the pandemic fear-mongering would end. Yikes. You are loving the 2020 vibe, aren't you?

Gonna be so interesting to see the studies that come out in a few years with scrubbed/adjusted case, hospitalization, and death numbers. You will need to search for them because they will be buried and not reported by the MSM.

I'm spending the time getting hammered and watching the weirdos walk by, one of my favorite pastimes.

We are stuck at BWI airport in cancellation hell trying to get to FL.

LOL no. It’s mid-June in NNE. No turning back now.

LOL BWI airport is absolutely packed today. Zero social distancing. Long lines everywhere. What exactly are the masks doing at this point? It’s a joke.

54 and sunny in Randolph.

Surprised they made it this long. They had a bad season weather wise. 96” of snow is pathetic.

I miss skiing already.

I am kinda perplexed that the guy is 80. They have a compound up there and the dude I interacted with who I thought was doing the obs was definitely not 80 unless he is like Aragorn from Lord of the Rings or something. I suspect it’s a typo.

Yeah, that was a line from a recent report on CoCoRaHS from my neighbor, I wasn't even tracking that he was 80+ years old. LOL The guy I have spoken to up there must have been his grandson or something... TBH I'm kind of confused now. It may have been a typo. https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ViewDailyPrecipReport.aspx?DailyPrecipReportID=dd25acd7-f6ed-4e59-84a4-54e2ddf445a1 It's just a datapoint, hard to know more without context, and as you pointed out the formal record only goes back 10 years or so, so who knows what really happened in the prior 70 years. Either way, this season was on the earlier side for melt-out no matter how you slice it. It may have been a more noticeably poor season here given the climo of my site being 1,000' higher than your spot and probably better for retention overall. We would tend to always melt out later than your spot, assuming roughy normal snowfall. I also noticed the peaks of Adams and Madison are rapidly melting out. That's probably pretty anomalous too.

I can see some of the drought concern considering this is normally a wet time in New England, no? You need the rain now to build up a buffer for when it really dries out in August and September. It's more concern over the conditions 3-4 months from now versus a concern for today.

Anecdotal reports must always be approached with caution. I'm sure you dealt with that a lot as a medical professional. Something like an anxiety disorder, for example, can mimic the effects of a real issue such as COVID or a pending heart attack: fatigue, feeling flushed/warm, chest tightness, chest pain, rapid heart rate, aches, and perceived difficulty breathing. More time will be needed to get a better idea of how many of these vaccine reaction stories are dealing with issues like the above, where someone was so concerned about the vaccine side effects and COVID in general that they were hyper-attuned to every little issue as being related to the vaccine somehow. Obviously, some people have had major, clear reactions to the vaccine, but that is rare. I think this actually explains a decent number of the "weird" symptoms for COVID and the vaccine that are routinely repeated by the media. They are not actually related to the vaccine or the virus at all, but people made that connection in their minds, and then others who read or hear about it then make the connection for their own symptoms. And this may be another of my unpopular opinions, but I am little suspicious of the long-haul symptom talk right now. We need more time and diligence to study that before making a ruling. At one time in the very recent past, for example, experts were sure that asymptomatic carriers were silently spreading COVID all over the place, but recent research is starting to show that isn't the case, making COVID more like basically every other respiratory virus we know about. Those with symptoms are by far the biggest spreaders.

Have we confirmed that Prince Phillip was not DMX? I’m sure no one has ever seen them together.