The Pfizer delay is such a bummer for young parents 
Good news here, self test is negative today and my sniffyness was already gone yesterday, so I guess Iām good to go out again. Will obviously stay carefull and mask for the next couple days, but it would be nice to walk outside or go to the supermarket. I think Iāll resume ānormal lifeā in a few days.
Could you smarties help me understand the CDC isolation rules? I donāt want to do anything irresponsible.
My wife and I are both vaxed and boosted. Sheās had a sore throat for a few days, and just got a positive COVID test. I feel fine and got a negative test.
We have enough space that we can genuinely isolate from each other (very lucky!). Iām confused about what her positive result means for me. As long as I donāt test positive or develop symptoms, I can do things, right? It would be things like take a Lyft to Costco to get prescriptions, not to party. I guess I can take a test every day to be sure?
The complicating factor is that weāre supposed to leave for a trip in 12 days, so while my preference is obviously not to get sick, I reallllly donāt want to get negatives for, say, a week and then suddenly get one.
You are not required to isolate, just wear your mask and donāt take it off around people. Like donāt eat at the Costco. When my kids were sick I went to work but ate my lunch in a private room.
Do you have plenty of rapid tests? I tested a few times just to be on the safe side.
That makes sense, thanks! And, thanks for asking: luckily we have a stash of tests now.
Shoutout to everyone working service, front facing jobs of any type right now. Just had an aggressive couple walk maskless into a store and demand a phone charger from a bike shop. Likeā¦ He doesnāt sell them, but sure, be awful and entitled.
Local store, lovely helpful guy, overwhelmed. I bought the bike. I sent a text thanking them for their helpful and calm serviceā¦Iāll be emailing them something along the same lines, and talking them up everywhere.
Um. Did the jerky people want to buy a charger? Or like borrow the worker guys personal one to get some charge on their phone?
And on a Monday morning too. Harsh.
OH JFC
ETA: honestly, though, Iāve got a TON more gray hair than I did 2 years ago.
From that article: āThere are plenty of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s who lead active lives, he told me, and they havenāt allowed the pandemic to dampen their spirits or keep them from exercising.ā
OH OK THEN I AM JUST A SLACKER
OH, so a population that a significant portion of is retired and not chained to a desk all day???
Also, way to flatter/pander to the age group the majority of their subscribers fall into << my mostly uniformed option.
Regardless, fuck you NYT
ETA - I fully admit to not having read the article. Am really just feeling full of cranky hot takes today.
I actually feel like the doctor pushed back well against the narrative that this is aging by saying essentially the āagingā many feel is actually just depression and as we get through the depression caused and/or aided by this collective trauma, those feelings will lift. And that while getting back into the swing of exercise can be hard, your body will likely remember.
I struggled a lot to get into an exercise routine without a rink, and once I was able to do so, I found it did wonders for my mental health. Did it solve my pandemic trauma and fatigue and decision stress? Absolutely not. Did my body and brain feel better? Yes. Was it way more complicated to do without access to a gym or a rink or a regular bike commute? Absolutely.
I donāt think not exercising during a global fucking pandemic makes anyone ālazyā (I also hate that term), but I do think the doctor was making good points about getting back into exercise can help slough off some of that exhaustion after your body readjusts, and that it is possible to restart at any age.
He was also trying to say that equating exhaustion and depression and lack of physical conditioning merely with age is ageist. I agree. Those are conditions that can occur at any age and have less to do with aging than say, a collective pandemic we all just lived through.
The article disproves the lede.
This is a very good point. Thank you for reading it to tell me it wasnāt as bad as I feared. I had the same experienceāonce I started working out regularly again, my brain/body does feel better. Annoying but true.
Iām sure the article has merits, but to send a headline like that after our third variant 2 days b4 valentineās is excellent marketing and also just cruel. They can bugger off with that.
Right click download to memes folder
oh definitely, the lede was crap. Also the premise of the article was disproven by the main interview making me wonder why they published it at all 
Click bait?
