New CoVid shot

Check out the Jardiance commercial.

 

Cosmopolitan magazine's recent cover:

 

I agree with you, but I think it's okay to ease back on the fat-shaming in a country where we have dark ages grade mental health care.

 

We also just finally did the Shingrex x 2 shots sequence. No big reaction but arm pain, tiredness.
My wife thinks it's unfair I get the same shot but I am bigger person so she gets a 1.6x dose compared to my body weight.

hmm...actually closer to 1.7x

 

I wonder how others are reacting to the shot. Im having a nice healthy reaction, quite strong, relaxed, tired, which is what I want. Since I did get a mild to moderate case of covid in 2022 I must be receptive to the virus. This reaction is what the doctor ordered to lessen another exposure so to speak.

 

It is so bad that when the 'mini-marts' don't brew coffee, the only coffee is sweet and loaded with cream.

So now I carry COSTCO, canned black coffee in the trunk. No more 'sugar' with a touch of coffee.

Bob Wilson

 

^ cookie in a cup.

Most of these places make and serve coffee for and to people who do not like coffee.
I must admit that after the first breath of fall, I enjoy some creme and sugar in my first cup of coffee.
After that?
Black and bitter.

Most of the fat-shaming in this nation is done by peers.
You cannot fix stupid, but one should not encourage it either.
At least we might wind up somewhere in the middle once the perturbations cease.

Not that many years ago, 'beautiful women' resembled prepubescent males.
I personally think that we over-corrected and that 'body positivity and negativity' is more influenced by the females in the herd than the males....but I'm married and too old to wander off the porch - so I really don't have a dog in that fight.

 

beautiful and healthy can be two different things

 

I’m likely getting a flu shot earlier than normal considering some cross immunity

apparently ~90% of Covid deaths are still amongst the unvaccinated despite the numbers being lower

Who is dying from COVID now? This group represented 90% of deaths

 

I've found Medicare. AARP, Pharmacies and Doctors are all doing a great job of informing us over 65 people of the vaccines we need and resources to access the vaccines.

 

We got our Covid shot at our grocery - Krogers.

Made the appointment online - filled out all the paperwork online - showed up at the store 10 minutes early went to the counter and told them I was here for my scheduled Covid shot - took my name and birthdate looked at my drivers license and told me to take a seat and a Pharmacy Tech would be right there - 5 minutes later got my shot and the Tech told me to stick around the store for 10 to 15 minutes and gave me my shot paperwork.

I hope your appointment at the grocery goes as smooth..

 

Women:

. . . women tend to live longer than men. The average American man will live to age 76, according to the latest CDC figures, while the average woman in America will live to age 81. And a woman's extra years tend to be healthy ones.

Source: Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? | Time​

After 43 years with my late wife, there were times I wondered if she was planning my demise. Now I know, all women are planning it.

Waiting rooms, another clever trap to accelerate gender selection. Fortunately, adult pacifiers (i.e. smart phones) killed not only lobby magazines but lets the clever ones survive.

Bob Wilson

 

Looking back at old figures to see how the gap has changed over time, I see the male-female difference was 2.0 years in 1900, widened to 7.8 years by 1975, then shrank to 5.3 by 2003, where this table ends. Over that time, White life expectancies gained 30 years, while Blacks gained 40 years, though still trail. Another source shows a m-f gap of 5.1 just before the Pandemic.

There are other significant racial disparities too. Another source shows the (pre-Pandemic) m-f gap at 4.8 years for Whites, 7.6 years for Blacks. Others still show Asian-Americans having the highest life expectancies, followed by Hispanics, then Whites, then Blacks, then American Indian / Alaska Natives with the lowest.

Separately (from memory), I have seen U.S. mortality tables showing that from birth, Blacks actually have a better chance of reaching age 100 than Whites. Black survival is lower than White for all ages from infancy to around 90, but somewhere in the early 90s, they finally pull ahead. It seems as if a greater portion of them have some excellent longevity genes, which eventually make up for their many disadvantages in our country. For the few still alive at that age.

There must be many variables mixed in to all this, and they have changed over time.

 

My doctor once told me he would have few male patients if it weren't for nagging wives -- actually, I don't think he used the "nagging" part.

 

I received the shingles vax last December/Jan. at Costco -- waited the bare minimum time before the second dose (a month?). No significant reaction. Wife had shingles when she was 26. It was horrible, but she suffered through it pretty well....I think I would have broken down crying for the couple of weeks it lasted.....thinking about what it looked like still makes me cringe. It also left some mild scarring.

 

being the new covid shot thread ... segway'ing to lobby magazines ...
it seems the 'science' indicates how long the virus can live on varying surfaces ...

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-suggests-new-coronavirus-may-remain-surfaces-days

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That’s what they said in the beginning too, but it never panned out, fortunately

 

Like I said six months ago, I'm going to fix it.

Bob Wilson